Versatile engineering of multimode squeezed states by optimizing the pump spectral profile in spontaneous parametric down-conversion

We study the quantum correlations induced by spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) of a frequency comb. We derive a theoretical method to find the output state corresponding to a pump with an arbitrary spectral profile. After applying it to the relevant example of a spectrally chirped pump, we run an optimization algorithm to numerically find the pump profiles maximizing some target functions. These include the number of independently squeezed modes and the variances of nullifiers defining cluster states used in many continuous-variable quantum information protocols. To assess the advantages of pump-shaping in real experiments we take into account the physical limitations of the pulse shaper.Comment: Updated title, improved presentation and figures, added references, corrected typos. Closer to the version accepted for publicatio

Strichartz Estimates for Water Waves

In this paper we investigate the dispersive properties of the solutions of the two dimensional water-waves system. First we prove Strichartz type estimates with loss of derivatives at the same low level of regularity we were able to construct the solutions in [2]. On the other hand, for smoother initial data, we prove that the solutions enjoy the optimal Strichartz estimates (i.e, without loss of regularity compared to the system linearized at (? = 0, ? = 0)).Comment: 50p

On the Water Waves Equations with Surface Tension

The purpose of this article is to clarify the Cauchy theory of the water waves equations as well in terms of regularity indexes for the initial conditions as for the smoothness of the bottom of the domain (namely no regularity assumption is assumed on the bottom). Our main result is that, following the approach developped by T. Alazard and G. M\'etivier in [1], after suitable paralinearizations, the system can be arranged into an explicit symmetric system of Schr\"odinger type. We then show that the smoothing effect for the (one dimensional) surface tension water waves proved by H. Christianson, V. M. Hur, and G. Staffilani in [9], is in fact a rather direct consequence of this reduction, which allows also to lower the regularity indexes of the initial data, and to obtain the natural weights in the estimates