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Beautiful mirrors for a pNGB Higgs
We consider one of the most significant deviations from the Standard Model:
the forward-backward asymmetry of the b-quark measured at leptonic colliders.
We investigate the possibility to solve this discrepancy by introducing new
physics at the TeV scale. We focus on models where the Higgs is a pseudo
Nambu-Goldstone boson of a new strongly coupled sector with a global SO(5)
symmetry broken spontaneously to SO(4). Besides the usual top partners, we
introduce bottom partners in the representations 16 and 4 of SO(5) and show
that they can improve significantly the fit by correcting the Zbb couplings. We
also estimate the corrections to the couplings at one-loop and obtain that the
tree-level ones dominate and can give a reliable estimation. We find that the
large shift required for Zb_Rb_R leads to light custodians associated to the
b-quark, similar to the top partners, as well as a rich phenomenology involving
neutral interactions in the bottom-sector.Comment: 31 pages, 2 figure
Quantum to classical transition in a system with a mixed classical dynamics
We study how decoherence rules the quantum-classical transition of the Kicked
Harmonic Oscillator (KHO). When the amplitude of the kick is changed the system
presents a classical dynamics that range from regular to a strong chaotic
behavior. We show that for regular and mixed classical dynamics, and in the
presence of noise, the distance between the classical and the quantum phase
space distributions is proportional to a single parameter which relates the effective Planck constant
, the kick amplitude and the diffusion constant . This
is valid when , a case that is always attainable in the semiclassical
regime independently of the value of the strength of noise given by . Our
results extend a recent study performed in the chaotic regime.Comment: 10 pages, 7 figure
Decoherence, pointer engineering and quantum state protection
We present a proposal for protecting states against decoherence, based on the
engineering of pointer states. We apply this procedure to the vibrational
motion of a trapped ion, and show how to protect qubits, squeezed states,
approximate phase eigenstates and superpositions of coherent states.Comment: 1 figur
Robustness of Entanglement as a Resource
The robustness of multipartite entanglement of systems undergoing decoherence
is of central importance to the area of quantum information. Its
characterization depends however on the measure used to quantify entanglement
and on how one partitions the system. Here we show that the unambiguous
assessment of the robustness of multipartite entanglement is obtained by
considering the loss of functionality in terms of two communication tasks,
namely the splitting of information between many parties and the teleportation
of states.Comment: 11 pages, 5 figure
Scaling laws for the decay of multiqubit entanglement
We investigate the decay of entanglement of generalized N-particle
Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) states interacting with independent
reservoirs. Scaling laws for the decay of entanglement and for its finite-time
extinction (sudden death) are derived for different types of reservoirs. The
latter is found to increase with the number of particles. However, entanglement
becomes arbitrarily small, and therefore useless as a resource, much before it
completely disappears, around a time which is inversely proportional to the
number of particles. We also show that the decay of multi-particle GHZ states
can generate bound entangled states.Comment: Minor mistakes correcte
Quantum Non-Demolition Test of Bipartite Complementarity
We present a quantum circuit that implements a non-demolition measurement of
complementary single- and bi-partite properties of a two-qubit system:
entanglement and single-partite visibility and predictability. The system must
be in a pure state with real coefficients in the computational basis, which
allows a direct operational interpretation of those properties. The circuit can
be realized in many systems of interest to quantum information.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figure
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