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Generation of Bright Two-Color Continuous Variable Entanglement
We present the first measurement of squeezed-state entanglement between the
twin beams produced in an Optical Parametric Oscillator (OPO) operating above
threshold. Besides the usual squeezing in the intensity difference between the
twin beams, we have measured squeezing in the sum of phase quadratures. Our
scheme enables us to measure such phase anti-correlations between fields of
different frequencies. In the present measurements, wavelengths differ by ~1
nm. Entanglement is demonstrated according to the Duan et al. criterion [Phys.
Rev. Lett. 84, 2722 (2000)] .
This experiment opens the way for new potential applications such as the
transfer of quantum information between different parts of the electromagnetic
spectrum.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. Let
Evolution of Cluster Ellipticals at 0.2 < z < 1.2 from Hubble Space Telescope Imaging
Two-dimensional surface photometry derived from Hubble Space Telescope
imaging is presented for a sample of 225 early-type galaxies (assumed to be
cluster members) in the fields of 9 clusters at redshifts .
The 94 luminous ellipticals (; selected by morphology alone with
no reference to color) form tight sequences in the size-luminosity plane. The
position of these sequences shifts, on average, with redshift so that an object
of a given size at z=0.55 is brighter by mag than
its counterpart (measured with the same techniques) in nearby clusters. At
z=0.9 the shift is mag. If the relation between
size and luminosity is universal so that the local cluster galaxies represent
the evolutionary endpoints of those at high redshift, and if the
size-luminosity relation is not modified by dynamical processes then this
population of galaxies has undergone significant luminosity evolution since z=1
consistent with expectations based on models of passively evolving, old stellar
populations.Comment: 7 pages, 3 figures, and 1 Tabl
Pattern formation on the surface of cationic-anionic cylindrical aggregates
Charged pattern formation on the surfaces of self--assembled cylindrical
micelles formed from oppositely charged heterogeneous molecules such as
cationic and anionic peptide amphiphiles is investigated. The net
incompatibility among different components results in the formation of
segregated domains, whose growth is inhibited by electrostatics. The transition
to striped phases proceeds through an intermediate structure governed by
fluctuations, followed by states with various lamellar orientations, which
depend on cylinder radius and . We analyze the specific heat,
susceptibility , domain size and morphology as a
function of and .Comment: Sent to PRL 11Jan05 Transferred from PRL to PRE 10Jun0
Electrostatic attraction between cationic-anionic assemblies with surface compositional heterogeneities
Electrostatics plays a key role in biomolecular assembly. Oppositely charged
biomolecules, for instance, can co-assembled into functional units, such as DNA
and histone proteins into nucleosomes and actin-binding protein complexes into
cytoskeleton components, at appropriate ionic conditions. These
cationic-anionic co-assemblies often have surface charge heterogeneities that
result from the delicate balance between electrostatics and packing
constraints. Despite their importance, the precise role of surface charge
heterogeneities in the organization of cationic-anionic co-assemblies is not
well understood. We show here that co-assemblies with charge heterogeneities
strongly interact through polarization of the domains. We find that this leads
to symmetry breaking, which is important for functional capabilities, and
structural changes, which is crucial in the organization of co-assemblies. We
determine the range and strength of the attraction as a function of the
competition between the steric and hydrophobic constraints and electrostatic
interactions.Comment: JCP June/200
Super-poissonian photon statistics and correlations between pump and probe fields in Electromagnetically Induced Transparency
We have measured the photon statistics of pump and probe beams after
interaction with Rb atoms in a situation of Electromagnetically Induced
Transparency. Both fields present super-poissonian statistics and their
intensities become correlated, in good qualitative agreement with theoretical
predictions in which both fields are treated quantum-mechanically. The
intensity correlations measured are a first step towards the observation of
entanglement between the fields.Comment: 4 pages, two-column, 4 figures, first submitted to PRL on Aug. 6,
200
The dynamics of financial stability in complex networks
We address the problem of banking system resilience by applying
off-equilibrium statistical physics to a system of particles, representing the
economic agents, modelled according to the theoretical foundation of the
current banking regulation, the so called Merton-Vasicek model. Economic agents
are attracted to each other to exchange `economic energy', forming a network of
trades. When the capital level of one economic agent drops below a minimum, the
economic agent becomes insolvent. The insolvency of one single economic agent
affects the economic energy of all its neighbours which thus become susceptible
to insolvency, being able to trigger a chain of insolvencies (avalanche). We
show that the distribution of avalanche sizes follows a power-law whose
exponent depends on the minimum capital level. Furthermore, we present evidence
that under an increase in the minimum capital level, large crashes will be
avoided only if one assumes that agents will accept a drop in business levels,
while keeping their trading attitudes and policies unchanged. The alternative
assumption, that agents will try to restore their business levels, may lead to
the unexpected consequence that large crises occur with higher probability
Phantom cosmology with a decaying cosmological function induced from five-dimensional (5D) geometrical vacuum
Introducing a variable cosmological function in a geometrical
manner from a 5D Riemann-flat metric, we investigate the possibility of having
a geometrical criterion to choose a suitable cosmological function for every 4D dynamical hypersurface capable of generate phantom
cosmologies.Comment: final versio
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