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Dark Entangled Steady States of Interacting Rydberg Atoms
We propose a scheme for rapid generation of high fidelity steady state
entanglement between a pair of atoms. A two-photon excitation process towards
long-lived Rydberg states with finite pairwise interaction, a dark state
interference effect in the individual atoms, and spontaneous emission from
their short-lived excited states lead to rapid, dissipative formation of an
entangled steady state. We show that for a wide range of physical parameters,
this entangled state is formed on a time scale given by the strengths of
coherent Raman and Rabi fields applied to the atoms, while it is only weakly
dependent on the Rydberg interaction strength.Comment: 4 Pages, 3 figures + Supplementary Information [Phys. Rev. Lett. 111,
033606
Robust Rydberg interaction gates with adiabatic passage
We show that with adiabatic passage, one can reliably drive two-photon
optical transitions between the ground states and interacting Rydberg states in
a pair of atoms. For finite Rydberg interaction strengths a new adiabatic
pathway towards the doubly Rydberg excited state is identified when a constant
detuning is applied with respect to an intermediate optically excited level.
The Rydberg interaction among the excited atoms provides a phase that may be
used to implement quantum gate operations on atomic ground state qubits.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figure
Dynamics of magnetic single domain particles embedded in a viscous liquid
Kinetic equations for magnetic nano particles dispersed in a viscous liquid
are developed and analyzed numerically. Depending on the amplitude of an
applied oscillatory magnetic field the particles orient their time averaged
anisotropy axis perpendicular to the applied field for low magnetic field
amplitudes and nearly parallel to the direction of the field for high
amplitudes. The transition between these regions takes place in a narrow field
interval. In the low field region the magnetic moment is locked to some crystal
axis and the energy absorption in an oscillatory driving field is dominated by
viscous losses associated with particle rotation in the liquid. In the opposite
limit the magnetic moment rotates within the particle while its easy axis being
nearly parallel to the external field direction oscillates. The kinetic
equations are generalized to include thermal fluctuations. This leads to a
significant increase of the power absorption in the low and intermediate field
region with a pronounced absorption peak as function of particle size. In the
high field region, on the other hand, the inclusion of thermal fluctuations
reduces the power absorption. The illustrative numerical calculations presented
are performed for magnetic parameters typical for iron oxide
Process Characterisation with Monte-Carlo Wave-Functions
We present a numerically efficient method for the characterisation of a
quantum process subject to dissipation and noise. The master equation evolution
of a maximally entangled state of the quantum system and a non-evolving ancilla
system is simulated by Monte-Carlo wave-functions. We show how each stochastic
state vectors provides quantities that are readily combined into an average
process \chi-matrix. Our method significantly reduces the computational
complexity in comparison with standard characterisation methods. It also
readily provides an upper bound on the trace distance between the ideal and
simulated process based on the evolution of only a single wave function of the
entangled system.Comment: 8 pages, 5 figure
Filtering single atoms from Rydberg blockaded mesoscopic ensembles
We propose an efficient method to filter out single atoms from trapped
ensembles with unknown number of atoms. The method employs stimulated adiabatic
passage to reversibly transfer a single atom to the Rydberg state which blocks
subsequent Rydberg excitation of all the other atoms within the ensemble. This
triggers the excitation of Rydberg blockaded atoms to short lived intermediate
states and their subsequent decay to untrapped states. Using an auxiliary
microwave field to carefully engineer the dissipation, we obtain a nearly
deterministic single-atom source. Our method is applicable to small atomic
ensembles in individual microtraps and in lattice arrays
Exploring Integral Image Word Length Reduction Techniques for SURF Detector
Speeded Up Robust Features (SURF) is a state of the art computer vision
algorithm that relies on integral image representation for performing fast
detection and description of image features that are scale and rotation
invariant. Integral image representation, however, has major draw back of large
binary word length that leads to substantial increase in memory size. When
designing a dedicated hardware to achieve real-time performance for the SURF
algorithm, it is imperative to consider the adverse effects of integral image
on memory size, bus width and computational resources. With the objective of
minimizing hardware resources, this paper presents a novel implementation
concept of a reduced word length integral image based SURF detector. It
evaluates two existing word length reduction techniques for the particular case
of SURF detector and extends one of these to achieve more reduction in word
length. This paper also introduces a novel method to achieve integral image
word length reduction for SURF detector.Comment: ICCEE 200
On-Board Vision Processing For Small UAVs: Time to Rethink Strategy
The ultimate research goal for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is to
facilitate autonomy of operation. Research in the last decade has highlighted
the potential of vision sensing in this regard. Although vital for
accomplishment of missions assigned to any type of unmanned aerial vehicles,
vision sensing is more critical for small aerial vehicles due to lack of high
precision inertial sensors. In addition, uncertainty of GPS signal in indoor
and urban environments calls for more reliance on vision sensing for such small
vehicles. With off-line processing does not offer an attractive option in terms
of autonomy, these vehicles have been challenging platforms to implement vision
processing onboard due to their strict payload capacity and power budget. The
strict constraints drive the need for new vision processing architectures for
small unmanned aerial vehicles. Recent research has shown encouraging results
with FPGA based hardware architectures. This paper reviews the bottle necks
involved in implementing vision processing on-board, advocates the potential of
hardware based solutions to tackle strict constraints of small unmanned aerial
vehicles and finally analyzes feasibility of ASICs, Structured ASICs and FPGAs
for use on future systems.Comment: 2009 NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and System
Lagrangean Approach to Gauge Symmetries for Mixed Constrained Systems and the Dirac Conjecture
The gauge symmetries of a general dynamical system can be systematically
obtained following either a Hamiltonean or a Lagrangean approach. In the former
case, these symmetries are generated, according to Dirac's conjecture, by the
first class constraints. In the latter approach such local symmetries are
reflected in the existence of so called gauge identities. The connection
between the two becomes apparent, if one works with a first order Lagrangean
formulation. We thereby confirm Dirac's conjecture. Our analysis applies to
arbitrary constrained systems with first and second class constraints, and thus
extends a previous analysis by one of the authors to such general systems. We
illustrate our general results in terms of several examples.Comment: 28 pages, LaTe
From the BRST invariant Hamiltonian to the Field-Antifield Formalism
We study the relation between the lagrangian field-antifield formalism and
the BRST invariant phase space formulation of gauge theories. Starting from the
Batalin-Fradkin-Vilkovisky unitarized action, we demonstrate in a deductive way
the equivalence of the phase space, and the lagrangian field-antifield
partition functions for the case of irreducible first rank theories.Comment: 14 page
On Quantile Risk Measures and Their Domain
In the present paper we study quantile risk measures and their domain. Our
starting point is that, for a probability measure on the open unit
interval and a wide class of random variables, we define the
quantile risk measure as the map which integrates the quantile
function of a random variable in with respect to . The
definition of ensures that cannot attain the
value and cannot be extended beyond without
losing this property. The notion of a quantile risk measure is a natural
generalization of that of a spectral risk measure and provides another view at
the distortion risk measures generated by a distribution function on the unit
interval. In this general setting, we prove several results on quantile or
spectral risk measures and their domain with special consideration of the
expected shortfall
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