1,444 research outputs found
Notes on Canadian Units and Formations Engaged: Battles of the Somme, March-April 1918
Although the Canadian Corps did not participate directly in the German Spring Offensives that began on 21 March 1918, detached Canadian cavalry, artillery, and motor machine gun units serving with British divisions played important roles at various points in the battles. In one of the better known instances, Canadian cavalry were instrumental in delaying a German drive on 30 March south of Amiens at Moreuil Wood where, in one of the most dramatic cavalry actions of the war, Lieutenant Gordon Flowerdew led a mounted charge with sabres drawn. For that action, he was awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross.
Le Corps canadien n’a pas participé directement aux batailles durant l’offensive du printemps des Allemands qui a commencé le 21 mars 1918, mais des unités de cavalerie, d’artillerie et de mitrailleuses du pays ayant servi au sein de divisions britanniques ont joué un rôle important à différents moments. Dans l’un de ces épisodes les mieux connus, la cavalerie canadienne a joué un rôle déterminant en retardant l’avance des Allemands, le 30 mars, au sud d’Amiens, au bois de Moreuil. Dans une des charges de cavalerie les plus mémorables de la Première Guerre mondiale, le lieutenant Gordon Flowerdew a dirigé ses hommes, armés d’épées déployées. Pour cet exploit, la Croix de Victoria lui a été attribuée à titre posthume
Inefficiency and classical communication bounds for conversion between partially entangled pure bipartite states
We derive lower limits on the inefficiency and classical communication costs
of dilution between two-term bipartite pure states that are partially
entangled. We first calculate explicit relations between the allowable error
and classical communication costs of entanglement dilution using the protocol
of Lo-Popescu and then consider a two-stage dilution from singlets with this
protocol followed by some unknown protocol for conversion between partially
entangled states. Applying the lower bounds on classical communication and
inefficiency of Harrow-Lo and Hayden-Winter to this two-stage protocol, we
derive bounds for the unknown protocol. In addition we derive analogous (but
looser) bounds for general pure states.Comment: Revised version: 8 pages, 3 figures, two-column. Have added bounds
for general pure states, corrected typos and updated format to PRA versio
Random bipartite entanglement from W and W-like states
We describe a protocol for distilling maximally entangled bipartite states
between random pairs of parties from those sharing a tripartite W state, and
show that, rather surprisingly, the total distillation rate (the total number
of EPR pairs distilled per W, irrespective of who shares them) may be done at a
higher rate than distillation of bipartite entanglement between specified pairs
of parties. Specifically, the optimal distillation rate for specified
entanglement for the W has been previously shown to be the asymptotic
entanglement of assistance of 0.92 EPR pairs per W, while our protocol can
asymptotically distill 1 EPR pair per W between random pairs of parties, which
we conjecture to be optimal. We thus demonstrate a tradeoff between the overall
asymptotic rate of EPR distillation and the distribution of final EPR pairs
between parties. We further show that by increasing the number of parties in
the protocol that there exist states with fixed lower-bounded distillable
entanglement for random parties but arbitrarily small distillable entanglement
for specified parties.Comment: 5 pages, 1 figure, RevTeX. v2 - upper bound on random distillation is
expressed more generally and corollaries to the bound added. Minor notation
changes. v3 - further notation changes (Ernd now designated Et), discussion
of finite distillation rounds and single-copy bound on Et added. Theorem
added - relative entropy is shown to be an upper bound to Et for all pure
states. Discussion of W formation from EPRs (previously shown in others'
work) removed. Some addition, removal and reordering of reference
- …