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Transmittivity measurements by means of squeezed vacuum light
A method for measuring the transmittivity of optical samples by using
squeezed--vacuum radiation is illustrated. A squeezed vacuum field generated by
a below--threshold optical parametric oscillator is propagated through a
nondispersive medium and detected by a homodyne apparatus. The variance of the
detected quadrature is used for measuring the transmittivity. With this method
it is drastically reduced the number of photons passing through the sample
during the measurement interval. The results of some tests are reported.Comment: 14 pages, 8 figure
Gauged extended supergravity without cosmological constant: no-scale structure and supersymmetry breaking
We consider the interplay of duality symmetries and gauged isometries of
supergravity models giving N-extended, spontaneously broken supergravity with a
no-scale structure. Some examples, motivated by superstring and M-theory
compactifications are described.Comment: AMS-LaTeX, 16 pages. Invited paper to appear in the review section of
the IJMP
Homodyne extimation of quantum states purity by exploiting covariant uncertainty relation
We experimentally verify uncertainty relations for mixed states in the
tomographic representation by measuring the radiation field tomograms, i.e.
homodyne distributions. Thermal states of single-mode radiation field are
discussed in details as paradigm of mixed quantum state. By considering the
connection between generalised uncertainty relations and optical tomograms is
seen that the purity of the states can be retrieved by statistical analysis of
the homodyne data. The purity parameter assumes a relevant role in quantum
information where the effective fidelities of protocols depend critically on
the purity of the information carrier states. In this contest the homodyne
detector becomes an easy to handle purity-meter for the state on-line with a
running quantum information protocol.Comment: accepted for publication into Physica Script
N=4 gauged supergravity and a IIB orientifold with fluxes
We analyze the properties of a spontaneously broken D=4, N=4 supergravity
without cosmological constant, obtained by gauging translational isometries of
its classical scalar manifold. This theory offers a suitable low energy
description of the super-Higgs phases of certain Type-IIB orientifold
compactifications with 3-form fluxes turned on. We study its N=3,2,1,0 phases
and their classical moduli spaces and we show that this theory is an example of
no-scale extended supergravity.Comment: Misprints corrected. Version appeared on NJP 4 (2002)7
Superconformal field theories from IIB spectroscopy on
We report on tests of the AdS/CFT correspondence that are made possible by
complete knowledge of the Kaluza-Klein mass spectrum of type IIB supergravity
on with T^{11}=SU(2)^2/U(1). After briefly discussing
general multiplet shortening conditions in SU(2,2|1) and PSU(2,2|4), we compare
various types of short SU(2,2|1) supermultiplets on AdS_5 and different
families of boundary operators with protected dimensions. The supergravity
analysis predicts the occurrence in the SCFT at leading order in N and g_s N,
of extra towers of long multiplets whose dimensions are rational but not
protected by supersymmetry.Comment: 11 pages, To appear in the proceedings of the STRINGS '99 conference,
Potsdam (Germany), 19-25 July 199
Off-shell N=2 tensor supermultiplets
A multiplet calculus is presented for an arbitrary number n of N=2 tensor
supermultiplets. For rigid supersymmetry the known couplings are reproduced. In
the superconformal case the target spaces parametrized by the scalar fields are
cones over (3n-1)-dimensional spaces encoded in homogeneous SU(2) invariant
potentials, subject to certain constraints. The coupling to conformal
supergravity enables the derivation of a large class of supergravity
Lagrangians with vector and tensor multiplets and hypermultiplets. Dualizing
the tensor fields into scalars leads to hypermultiplets with hyperkahler or
quaternion-Kahler target spaces with at least n abelian isometries. It is
demonstrated how to use the calculus for the construction of Lagrangians
containing higher-derivative couplings of tensor multiplets. For the
application of the c-map between vector and tensor supermultiplets to
Lagrangians with higher-order derivatives, an off-shell version of this map is
proposed. Various other implications of the results are discussed. As an
example an elegant derivation of the classification of 4-dimensional
quaternion-Kahler manifolds with two commuting isometries is given.Comment: 36 page
Polarization entangled photon-pair source based on quantum nonlinear photonics and interferometry
We present a versatile, high-brightness, guided-wave source of polarization
entangled photons, emitted at a telecom wavelength. Photon-pairs are generated
using an integrated type-0 nonlinear waveguide, and subsequently prepared in a
polarization entangled state via a stabilized fiber interferometer. We show
that the single photon emission wavelength can be tuned over more than 50 nm,
whereas the single photon spectral bandwidth can be chosen at will over more
than five orders of magnitude (from 25 MHz to 4 THz). Moreover, by performing
entanglement analysis, we demonstrate a high degree of control of the quantum
state via the violation of the Bell inequalities by more than 40 standard
deviations. This makes this scheme suitable for a wide range of quantum optics
experiments, ranging from fundamental research to quantum information
applications. We report on details of the setup, as well as on the
characterization of all included components, previously outlined in F. Kaiser
et al. (2013 Laser Phys. Lett. 10, 045202).Comment: 16 pages, 7 figure
Thermal modification and alkyl ketene dimer effects on the surface protection of deodar cedar (Cedrus deodara Roxb.) wood
The aim of this research was to evaluate the multiple effects of both thermal modification and alkyl ketene dimer (AKD) on the deodar cedar (Cedrus deodara Roxb.) wood surface, before and after an irradiation test. The physical and chemical changes that occurred on the cedar wood samples due to the combined effect of these modifications were evaluated by measuring their wettability and colour and using attenuated total reflection Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (ATR-FTIR) and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) analyses. The surface analysis by XPS showed the expected variability among the sampled layers for unmodified and thermally modified cedar wood samples and a uniform composition after the AKD coverage, regardless of their pre-treatments. The FTIR spectra before the irradiation test showed that the hydrophobicity of the samples was ensured by the formation of carbonyl groups originating from the reaction between the AKD and hydroxyl groups of cellulose, which is related to the presence of the absorption band between 1700 cm−1 and 1750 cm−1. Markedly, after the irradiation test, a degradation of the amorphous cellulose component occurred, showing that photoisomerisation to the enolic form took place. Overall, although uniform AKD coverage was derived from the surface analysis and wetting test, the combined ATR-FTIR results and colour measurements showed that it could not provide permanent protection to the underlying wood structure due to its own tendency to degrade mainly in colour over time, under the action of UV rays and atmospheric agents
Invariant Differential Operators and Characters of the AdS_4 Algebra
The aim of this paper is to apply systematically to AdS_4 some modern tools
in the representation theory of Lie algebras which are easily generalised to
the supersymmetric and quantum group settings and necessary for applications to
string theory and integrable models. Here we introduce the necessary
representations of the AdS_4 algebra and group. We give explicitly all singular
(null) vectors of the reducible AdS_4 Verma modules. These are used to obtain
the AdS_4 invariant differential operators. Using this we display a new
structure - a diagram involving four partially equivalent reducible
representations one of which contains all finite-dimensional irreps of the
AdS_4 algebra. We study in more detail the cases involving UIRs, in particular,
the Di and the Rac singletons, and the massless UIRs. In the massless case we
discover the structure of sets of 2s_0-1 conserved currents for each spin s_0
UIR, s_0=1,3/2,... All massless cases are contained in a one-parameter
subfamily of the quartet diagrams mentioned above, the parameter being the spin
s_0. Further we give the classification of the so(5,C) irreps presented in a
diagramatic way which makes easy the derivation of all character formulae. The
paper concludes with a speculation on the possible applications of the
character formulae to integrable models.Comment: 30 pages, 4 figures, TEX-harvmac with input files: amssym.def,
amssym.tex, epsf.tex; version 2 1 reference added; v3: minor corrections;
v.4: minor corrections, v.5: minor corrections to conform with version in J.
Phys. A: Math. Gen; v.6.: small correction and addition in subsections 4.1 &
4.
Lectures on Gauged Supergravity and Flux Compactifications
The low-energy effective theories describing string compactifications in the
presence of fluxes are so-called gauged supergravities: deformations of the
standard abelian supergravity theories. The deformation parameters can be
identified with the various possible (geometric and non-geometric) flux
components. In these lecture notes we review the construction of gauged
supergravities in a manifestly duality covariant way and illustrate the
construction in several examples.Comment: 48 pages, lectures given at the RTN Winter School on Strings,
Supergravity and Gauge Theories, CERN, January 200
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