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Aspects of Neutrino Mass Matrices
After an Introduction briefly describing the rise and fall of the three-zero
texture of the Zee model, we discuss still-allowed two-zero textures for the
Majorana three-neutrino mass matrix. Finally, a model with two right-handed
neutrinos and two Dirac texture zeros is described (FGY model) which can relate
CP violation in leptogenesis to CP violation in long-baseline neutrino
oscillations.Comment: 9 pages latex. Talk at Coral Gables 2003. Added reference
Quantum Bit Commitment with a Composite Evidence
Entanglement-based attacks, which are subtle and powerful, are usually
believed to render quantum bit commitment insecure. We point out that the no-go
argument leading to this view implicitly assumes the evidence-of-commitment to
be a monolithic quantum system. We argue that more general evidence structures,
allowing for a composite, hybrid (classical-quantum) evidence, conduce to
improved security. In particular, we present and prove the security of the
following protocol: Bob sends Alice an anonymous state. She inscribes her
commitment by measuring part of it in the + (for ) or (for
) basis. She then communicates to him the (classical) measurement outcome
and the part-measured anonymous state interpolated into other, randomly
prepared qubits as her evidence-of-commitment.Comment: 6 pages, minor changes, journal reference adde
A Monte Carlo study of critical properties of strongly diluted magnetic semiconductor (Ga,Mn)As
Within a Monte Carlo technique we examine critical properties of diluted bulk
magnetic semiconductor (Ga,Mn)As modeled by a strongly diluted ferromagnetic
Heisenberg spin- system on a face centered cubic lattice. We
assumed that 5\% of Ga atoms is substituted by Mn atoms and the interaction
between them is of the RKKY-type. The considered system is randomly quenched
and a double average was performed: firstly, over the Boltzmann probability
distribution and secondly - over 2048 configurations related to the quenched
disorder. We estimated the critical temperature: K, which is in
agreement with the experiment. The calculated high value of critical exponent
seems to point to a possibility of non-universal critical behavior.Comment: 4 pages, 6 figure
Superdeformed Bands of Odd Nuclei in A=190 Region in the Quasiparticle Picture
We study the properties of the superdeformed (SD) bands of 195Pb and 193Hg by
the cranked Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov method. Our calculations reproduce the flat
behavior of the dynamical moment of inertia of two of the SD bands of 195Pb
measured recently. We discuss possible configuration assignments for the
observed bands 3 and 4 of 195Pb. We also calculate the two interacting SD bands
of 193Hg. Our analysis confirms the superiority of a density-dependent pairing
force over a seniority pairing interaction.Comment: 12 pages, 5 Postscript figures, submitted to Phys.Rev.
Electro-Coalescence Fireworks
Electro-coalescence is the application of an electric field onto coalescing
fluid bodies. The following fluid dynamics videos show a droplet coalescing
into a fluid bath while embedded into a viscous medium and subject to a very
high electric field. The concentration of electric stresses at the apex of the
droplet cause it to break apart. The droplet is glycerol and the viscous medium
is silicone oil
Control of conditional pattern with polarization entanglement
Conditional interference patterns can be obtained with twin photons from
spontaneous parametric down-conversion and the phase of the pattern can be
controlled by the relative transverse position of the signal and idler
detectors. Using a configuration that produces entangled photons in both
polarization and transverse momentum we report on the control of the
conditional patterns by acting on the polarization degree of freedom.Comment: Submitted for publication in Optics Communication
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