231 research outputs found
Generating a Schr\"odinger-cat-like state via a coherent superposition of photonic operations
We propose an optical scheme to generate a superposition of coherent states
with enhanced size adopting an interferometric setting at the single-photon
level currently available in the laboratory. Our scheme employs a nondegenerate
optical parametric amplifier together with two beam splitters so that the
detection of single photons at the output conditionally implements the desired
superposition of second-order photonic operations. We analyze our proposed
scheme by considering realistic on-off photodetectors with nonideal efficiency
in heralding the success of conditional events. A high-quality performance of
our scheme is demonstrated in view of various criteria such as quantum
fidelity, mean output energy, and measure of quantum interference
Transition times in the Landau-Zener model
This paper presents analytic formulas for various transition times in the
Landau-Zener model. Considerable differences are found between the transition
times in the diabatic and adiabatic bases, and between the jump time (the time
for which the transition probability rises to the region of its asymptotic
value) and the relaxation time (the characteristic damping time of the
oscillations which appear in the transition probability after the crossing).
These transition times have been calculated by using the exact values of the
transition probabilities and their derivatives at the crossing point and
approximations to the time evolutions of the transition probabilities in the
diabatic basis, derived earlier \protect{[}N. V. Vitanov and B. M. Garraway,
Phys. Rev. A {\bf 53}, 4288 (1996)\protect{]}, and similar results in the
adiabatic basis, derived in the present paper.Comment: 7 pages, two-column revtex style, 5 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev.
A (Feb 1999
Sequence and Structural Convergence of Broad and Potent HIV Antibodies That Mimic CD4 Binding
Passive transfer of broadly neutralizing HIV antibodies can prevent infection, which suggests that vaccines that elicit such antibodies would be protective. Thus far, however, few broadly neutralizing HIV antibodies that occur naturally have been characterized. To determine whether these antibodies are part of a larger group of related molecules, we cloned 576 new HIV antibodies from four unrelated individuals. All four individuals produced expanded clones of potent broadly neutralizing CD4-binding-site antibodies that mimic binding to CD4. Despite extensive hypermutation, the new antibodies shared a consensus sequence of 68 immunoglobulin H (IgH) chain amino acids and arise independently from two related IgH genes. Comparison of the crystal structure of one of the antibodies to the broadly neutralizing antibody VRC01 revealed conservation of the contacts to the HIV spike
Heteroskedasticity of Unknown Form in Spatial Autoregressive Models with Moving Average Disturbance Term
In this study, I investigate the necessary condition for the consistency of the maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) of spatial models with a spatial moving average process in the disturbance term. I show that the MLE of spatial autoregressive and spatial moving average parameters is generally inconsistent when heteroskedasticity is not considered in the estimation. I also show that the MLE of parameters of exogenous variables is inconsistent and determine its asymptotic bias. I provide simulation results to evaluate the performance of the MLE. The simulation results indicate that the MLE imposes a substantial amount of bias on both autoregressive and moving average parameters
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