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Experimental Realization of Optimal Noise Estimation for a General Pauli Channel
We present the experimental realization of the optimal estimation protocol
for a Pauli noisy channel. The method is based on the generation of 2-qubit
Bell states and the introduction of quantum noise in a controlled way on one of
the state subsystems. The efficiency of the optimal estimation, achieved by a
Bell measurement, is shown to outperform quantum process tomography
Variational approach to a class of nonlinear oscillators with several limit cycles
We study limit cycles of nonlinear oscillators described by the equation
. Depending on the nonlinearity this equation
may exhibit different number of limit cycles.
We show that limit cycles correspond to relative extrema of a certain
functional. Analytical results in the limits and are
in agreement with previously known criteria. For intermediate numerical
determination of the limit cycles can be obtained.Comment: 12 pages, 3 figure
Efeito da combinação de calcário de xisto e calcário dolomÃtico sobre a produtividade de grãos de dois sistemas de rotação de culturas.
Convergence of nonlocal threshold dynamics approximations to front propagation
In this note we prove that appropriately scaled threshold dynamics-type
algorithms corresponding to the fractional Laplacian of order converge to moving fronts. When the resulting interface
moves by weighted mean curvature, while for the normal velocity is
nonlocal of ``fractional-type.'' The results easily extend to general nonlocal
anisotropic threshold dynamics schemes.Comment: 19 page
Frustration Effects in Antiferromagnetic FCC Heisenberg Films
We study the effects of frustration in an antiferromagnetic film of FCC
lattice with Heisenberg spin model including an Ising-like anisotropy. Monte
Carlo (MC) simulations have been used to study thermodynamic properties of the
film. We show that the presence of the surface reduces the ground state (GS)
degeneracy found in the bulk. The GS is shown to depend on the surface in-plane
interaction with a critical value at which ordering of type I coexists
with ordering of type II. Near this value a reentrant phase is found. Various
physical quantities such as layer magnetizations and layer susceptibilities are
shown and discussed. The nature of the phase transition is also studied by
histogram technique. We have also used the Green's function (GF) method for the
quantum counterpart model. The results at low- show interesting effects of
quantum fluctuations. Results obtained by the GF method at high are
compared to those of MC simulations. A good agreement is observed.Comment: 11 pages, 19 figures, submitted to J. Phys.: Condensed Matte
On the nonexistence of Liouvillian first integrals for generalized Liénard polynomial differential systems
International audienceWe consider generalized Liénard polynomial differential systems. In their work, Llibre and Valls have shown that, except in some particular cases, such systems have no Liouvillian first integral. In this letter, we give a direct and shorter proof of this result
Long-range interactions and non-extensivity in ferromagnetic spin models
The Ising model with ferromagnetic interactions that decay as is
analyzed in the non-extensive regime , where the
thermodynamic limit is not defined. In order to study the asymptotic properties
of the model in the limit ( being the number of spins)
we propose a generalization of the Curie-Weiss model, for which the
limit is well defined for all . We
conjecture that mean field theory is {\it exact} in the last model for all
. This conjecture is supported by Monte Carlo heat bath
simulations in the case. Moreover, we confirm a recently conjectured
scaling (Tsallis\cite{Tsallis}) which allows for a unification of extensive
() and non-extensive () regimes.Comment: RevTex, 12 pages, 1 eps figur
Thermal Correlators in Holographic Models with Lifshitz scaling
We study finite temperature effects in two distinct holographic models that
exhibit Lifshitz scaling, looking to identify model independent features in the
dual strong coupling physics. We consider the thermodynamics of black branes
and find different low-temperature behavior of the specific heat. Deformation
away from criticality leads to non-trivial temperature dependence of
correlation functions and we study how the characteristic length scale in the
two point function of scalar operators varies as a function of temperature and
deformation parameters.Comment: 28 pages, 8 figures; typos corrected, references added, published
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Development and tests of a new prototype detector for the XAFS beamline at Elettra Synchrotron in Trieste
The XAFS beamline at Elettra Synchrotron in Trieste combines X-ray absorption
spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction to provide chemically specific structural
information of materials. It operates in the energy range 2.4-27 keV by using a
silicon double reflection Bragg monochromator. The fluorescence measurement is
performed in place of the absorption spectroscopy when the sample transparency
is too low for transmission measurements or the element to study is too diluted
in the sample. We report on the development and on the preliminary tests of a
new prototype detector based on Silicon Drift Detectors technology and the
SIRIO ultra low noise front-end ASIC. The new system will be able to reduce
drastically the time needed to perform fluorescence measurements, while keeping
a short dead time and maintaining an adequate energy resolution to perform
spectroscopy. The custom-made silicon sensor and the electronics are designed
specifically for the beamline requirements.Comment: Proceeding of the 6YRM 12th-14th Oct 2015 - L'Aquila (Italy).
Accepted for publication on Journal of Physics: Conference Serie
A new cubic theory of gravity in five dimensions: Black hole, Birkhoff's theorem and C-function
We present a new cubic theory of gravity in five dimensions which has second
order traced field equations, analogous to BHT new massive gravity in three
dimensions. Moreover, for static spherically symmetric spacetimes all the field
equations are of second order, and the theory admits a new asymptotically
locally flat black hole. Furthermore, we prove the uniqueness of this solution,
study its thermodynamical properties, and show the existence of a C-function
for the theory following the arguments of Anber and Kastor (arXiv:0802.1290
[hep-th]) in pure Lovelock theories. Finally, we include the
Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet and cosmological terms and we find new asymptotically AdS
black holes at the point where the three maximally symmetric solutions of the
theory coincide. These black holes may also possess a Cauchy horizon.Comment: 21 pages, no figures, V2: two appendices and some references added,
V3: New section on the generalization to arbitrary higher order. Analogy with
BHT new massive gravity Lagrangian made more precise, V4: Typos corrected. To
appear in CQ
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