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Ultracold molecules: vehicles to scalable quantum information processing
We describe a novel scheme to implement scalable quantum information
processing using Li-Cs molecular state to entangle Li and Cs
ultracold atoms held in independent optical lattices. The Li atoms will
act as quantum bits to store information, and Cs atoms will serve as
messenger bits that aid in quantum gate operations and mediate entanglement
between distant qubit atoms. Each atomic species is held in a separate optical
lattice and the atoms can be overlapped by translating the lattices with
respect to each other. When the messenger and qubit atoms are overlapped,
targeted single spin operations and entangling operations can be performed by
coupling the atomic states to a molecular state with radio-frequency pulses. By
controlling the frequency and duration of the radio-frequency pulses,
entanglement can either be created or swapped between a qubit messenger pair.
We estimate operation fidelities for entangling two distant qubits and discuss
scalability of this scheme and constraints on the optical lattice lasers
From Cosmology to Cold Atoms: Observation of Sakharov Oscillations in Quenched Atomic Superfluids
Sakharov oscillations, conventionally discussed in the context of early
universe evolution and the anisotropy of cosmic microwave background radiation,
is the manifestation of interfering acoustic waves synchronously generated in
an ideal fluid. Here we report the laboratory demonstration of Sakharov
oscillations in a quenched atomic superfluid. We quench the sample by Feshbach
tuning and monitor the subsequent density fluctuations at different time and
length scales by in situ imaging. Sakharov oscillations are identified as the
multi-peak structure in the atomic density power spectrum, resembling that of
the cosmic microwave background. We also observe Sakharov oscillations in the
time domain, from which we extract the energy dispersion of the superfluid, and
determine the sonic horizon of the excitations
Doppler cooling of gallium atoms: 2. Simulation in complex multilevel systems
This paper derives a general procedure for the numerical solution of the
Lindblad equations that govern the coherences arising from multicoloured light
interacting with a multilevel system. A systematic approach to finding the
conservative and dissipative terms is derived and applied to the laser cooling
of gallium. An improved numerical method is developed to solve the
time-dependent master equation and results are presented for transient cooling
processes. The method is significantly more robust, efficient and accurate than
the standard method and can be applied to a broad range of atomic and molecular
systems. Radiation pressure forces and the formation of dynamic dark-states are
studied in the gallium isotope 66Ga.Comment: 15 pages, 8 figure
Replicators in Fine-grained Environment: Adaptation and Polymorphism
Selection in a time-periodic environment is modeled via the two-player
replicator dynamics. For sufficiently fast environmental changes, this is
reduced to a multi-player replicator dynamics in a constant environment. The
two-player terms correspond to the time-averaged payoffs, while the three and
four-player terms arise from the adaptation of the morphs to their varying
environment. Such multi-player (adaptive) terms can induce a stable
polymorphism. The establishment of the polymorphism in partnership games
[genetic selection] is accompanied by decreasing mean fitness of the
population.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figure
GEODYN programmer's guide, volume 2, part 2
A computer program for executive control routine for orbit integration of artificial satellites is presented. At the beginning of each arc, the program initiates required constants as well as the variational partials at epoch. If epoch needs to be reset to a previous time, the program negates the stepsize, and calls for integration backward to the desired time. After backward integration is completed, the program resets the stepsize to the proper positive quantity
Quantum dynamics in photonic crystals
Employing a recently developed method that is numerically accurate within a
model space simulating the real-time dynamics of few-body systems interacting
with macroscopic environmental quantum fields, we analyze the full dynamics of
an atomic system coupled to a continuum light-field with a gapped spectral
density. This is a situation encountered, for example, in the radiation field
in a photonic crystal, whose analysis has been so far been confined to limiting
cases due to the lack of suitable numerical techniques. We show that both
atomic population and coherence dynamics can drastically deviate from the
results predicted when using the rotating wave approximation, particularly in
the strong coupling regime. Experimental conditions required to observe these
corrections are also discussed.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figures Updated with published versio
Coupled valence and spin state transition in (Pr0.7Sm0.3)0.7Ca0.3CoO3
The coupled valence and spin state transition (VSST) taking place in
(Pr0.7Sm0.3)0.7Ca0.3CoO3 was investigated by soft x-ray absorption spectroscopy
(XAS) experiments carried out at the Pr-M4,5, Co-L2,3, and O-1s edges. This
VSST is found to be composed of a sharp Pr/Co valence and Co spin state
transition centered at T*=89.3 K, followed by a smoother Co spin-state
evolution at higher temperatures. At T < T*, we found that the praseodymium
displays a mixed valence Pr3+/Pr4+ with about 0.13 Pr4+/f.u., while all the
Co3+ is in the low-spin (LS) state. At T around T*, the sharp valence
transition converts all the Pr4+ to Pr3+ with a corresponding Co3+ to Co4+
compensation. This is accompanied by an equally sharp spin state transition of
the Co3+ from the low to an incoherent mixture of low and high spin (HS)
states. An involvement of the intermediate spin (IS) state can be discarded for
the Co3+. While above T* and at high temperatures the system shares rather
similar properties as Sr-doped LaCoO3, at low temperatures it behaves much more
like EuCoO3 with its highly stable LS configuration for the Co3+. Apparently,
the mechanism responsible for the formation of Pr4+ at low temperatures also
helps to stabilize the Co3+ in the LS configuration despite the presence of
Co4+ ions. We also found out that that the Co4+ is in an IS state over the
entire temperature range investigated in this study (10-290 K). The presence of
Co3+ HS and Co4+ IS at elevated temperatures facilitates the conductivity of
the material.Comment: 19 pages, 7 figures, Accepted in PR
PROSAC: A Submillimeter Array Survey of Low-Mass Protostars. I. Overview of Program: Envelopes, Disks, Outflows and Hot Cores
This paper presents a large spectral line and continuum survey of 8 deeply
embedded, low-mass protostellar cores using the Submillimeter Array. Each
source was observed in high excitation lines of some of the most common
molecular species, CO, HCO+, CS, SO, H2CO, CH3OH and SiO. Line emission from 11
species originating from warm and dense gas have been imaged at high angular
resolution (1-3"; typically 200-600 AU) together with continuum emission at 230
GHz (1.3 mm) and 345 GHz (0.8 mm). Compact continuum emission is observed for
all sources which likely originates in marginally optically thick circumstellar
disks, with typical lower limits to their masses of 0.1 M_sun (1-10% of the
masses of their envelopes) and having a dust opacity law with beta
approximately 1. Prominent outflows are present in CO 2-1 observations in all
sources: the most diffuse outflows are found in the sources with the lowest
ratios of disk-to-envelope mass, and it is suggested that these sources are in
a phase where accretion of matter from the envelope has almost finished and the
remainder of the envelope material is being dispersed by the outflows. Other
characteristic dynamical signatures are found with inverse P Cygni profiles
indicative of infalling motions seen in the 13CO 2-1 lines toward
NGC1333-IRAS4A and -IRAS4B. Outflow-induced shocks are present on all scales in
the protostellar environments and are most clearly traced by the emission of
CH3OH in NGC1333-IRAS4A and -IRAS4B. These observations suggest that the
emission of CH3OH and H2CO from these proposed "hot corinos" are related to the
shocks caused by the protostellar outflows. Only one source, NGC1333-IRAS2A,
has evidence for hot, compact CH3OH emission coincident with the embedded
protostar.Comment: Accepted for publication in ApJ (52 pages; 9 figures). Abstract
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Inversion Symmetry and Critical Exponents of Dissipating Waves in the Sandpile Model
Statistics of waves of topplings in the Sandpile model is analysed both
analytically and numerically. It is shown that the probability distribution of
dissipating waves of topplings that touch the boundary of the system obeys
power-law with critical exponent 5/8. This exponent is not indeendent and is
related to the well-known exponent of the probability distribution of last
waves of topplings by exact inversion symmetry s -> 1/s.Comment: 5 REVTeX pages, 6 figure
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