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Experimental demonstration of entanglement assisted coding using a two-mode squeezed vacuum state
We have experimentally realized the scheme initially proposed as quantum
dense coding with continuous variables [Ban, J. Opt. B \textbf{1}, L9 (1999),
and Braunstein and Kimble, \pra\textbf{61}, 042302 (2000)]. In our experiment,
a pair of EPR (Einstein-Podolski-Rosen) beams is generated from two independent
squeezed vacua. After adding two-quadrature signal to one of the EPR beams, two
squeezed beams that contain the signal were recovered. Although our squeezing
level is not sufficient to demonstrate the channel capacity gain over the
Holevo limit of a single-mode channel without entanglement, our channel is
superior to conventional channels such as coherent and squeezing channels. In
addition, optical addition and subtraction processes demonstrated are
elementary operations of universal quantum information processing on continuous
variables.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev.
Teleportation of Nonclassical Wave Packets of light
We report on the experimental quantum teleportation of strongly nonclassical
wave packets of light. To perform this full quantum operation while preserving
and retrieving the fragile non-classicality of the input state, we have
developed a broadband, zero-dispersion teleportation apparatus that works in
conjunction with time-resolved state preparation equipment. Our approach brings
within experimental reach a whole new set of hybrid protocols involving
discrete- and continuous-variable techniques in quantum information processing
for optical sciences
The Subaru/XMM-Newton Deep Survey (SXDS) -VII. Clustering Segregation with Ultraviolet and Optical Luminosities of Lyman-Break Galaxies at z~3
We investigate clustering properties of Lyman-break galaxies (LBGs) at z~3
based on deep multi-waveband imaging data from optical to near-infrared
wavelengths in the Subaru/XMM-Newton Deep Field. The LBGs are selected by U-V
and V-z' colors in one contiguous area of 561 arcmin^2 down to z'=25.5. We
study the dependence of the clustering strength on rest-frame UV and optical
magnitudes, which can be indicators of star formation rate and stellar mass,
respectively. The correlation length is found to be a strong function of both
UV and optical magnitudes with brighter galaxies being more clustered than
faint ones in both cases. Furthermore, the correlation length is dependent on a
combination of UV and optical magnitudes in the sense that galaxies bright in
optical magnitude have large correlation lengths irrespective of UV magnitude,
while galaxies faint in optical magnitude have correlation lengths decreasing
with decreasing UV brightness. These results suggest that galaxies with large
stellar masses always belong to massive halos in which they can have various
star formation rates, while galaxies with small stellar masses reside in less
massive halos only if they have low star formation rates. There appears to be
an upper limit to the stellar mass and the star formation rate which is
determined by the mass of hosting dark halos.Comment: 16 pages, 15 figures, accepted for publication in Ap
Generation and Eight-port Homodyne Characterization of Time-bin Qubits for Continuous-variable Quantum Information Processing
We experimentally generate arbitrary time-bin qubits using continuous-wave
light. The advantage unique to our qubit is its compatibility with
deterministic continuous-variable quantum information processing. This
compatibility comes from its optical coherence with continuous waves,
well-defined spatio-temporal mode, and frequency spectrum within the
operational bandwidth of the current continuous-variable technology. We also
demonstrate an efficient scheme to characterize time-bin qubits via eight-port
homodyne measurement. This enables the complete characterization of the qubits
as two-mode states, as well as a flexible analysis equivalent to the
conventional scheme based on a Mach-Zehnder interferometer and
photon-detection
Causality in quantum teleportation: information extraction and noise effects in entanglement distribution
Quantum teleportation is possible because entanglement allows a definition of
precise correlations between the non-commuting properties of a local system and
corresponding non-commuting properties of a remote system. In this paper, the
exact causality achieved by maximal entanglement is analyzed and the results
are applied to the transfer of effects acting on the entanglement distribution
channels to the teleported output state. In particular, it is shown how
measurements performed on the entangled system distributed to the sender
provide information on the teleported state while transferring the
corresponding back-action to the teleported quantum state.Comment: 14 pages, including three figures, discussion of fidelity adde
The non-Abelian gauge theory of matrix big bangs
We study at the classical and quantum mechanical level the time-dependent
Yang-Mills theory that one obtains via the generalisation of discrete
light-cone quantisation to singular homogeneous plane waves. The non-Abelian
nature of this theory is known to be important for physics near the
singularity, at least as far as the number of degrees of freedom is concerned.
We will show that the quartic interaction is always subleading as one
approaches the singularity and that close enough to t=0 the evolution is driven
by the diverging tachyonic mass term. The evolution towards asymptotically flat
space-time also reveals some surprising features.Comment: 29 pages, 8 eps figures, v2: minor changes, references added: v3
small typographical changes
Teleportation of a state in view of the quantum theory of measurement
We give a description of the teleportation of an unknown quantum state which
takes into account the action of the measuring device and manifestly avoids any
reference to the postulate of the state vector collapse.Comment: 4 pages, in Revtex, ver. 3.
Recursiveness, Switching, and Fluctuations in a Replicating Catalytic Network
A protocell model consisting of mutually catalyzing molecules is studied in
order to investigate how chemical compositions are transferred recursively
through cell divisions under replication errors. Depending on the path rate,
the numbers of molecules and species, three phases are found: fast switching
state without recursive production, recursive production, and itinerancy
between the above two states. The number distributions of the molecules in the
recursive states are shown to be log-normal except for those species that form
a core hypercycle, and are explained with the help of a heuristic argument.Comment: 4 pages (with 7 figures (6 color)), submitted to PR
Adaptive Optical Phase Estimation Using Time-Symmetric Quantum Smoothing
Quantum parameter estimation has many applications, from gravitational wave
detection to quantum key distribution. We present the first experimental
demonstration of the time-symmetric technique of quantum smoothing. We consider
both adaptive and non-adaptive quantum smoothing, and show that both are better
than their well-known time-asymmetric counterparts (quantum filtering). For the
problem of estimating a stochastically varying phase shift on a coherent beam,
our theory predicts that adaptive quantum smoothing (the best scheme) gives an
estimate with a mean-square error up to times smaller than that
from non-adaptive quantum filtering (the standard quantum limit). The
experimentally measured improvement is
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