Heralded high-efficiency quantum repeater with atomic ensembles assisted by faithful single-photon transmission

Quantum repeater is one of the important building blocks for long distance quantum communication network. The previous quantum repeaters based on atomic ensembles and linear optical elements can only be performed with a maximal success probability of 1/2 during the entanglement creation and entanglement swapping procedures. Meanwhile, the polarization noise during the entanglement distribution process is harmful to the entangled channel created. Here we introduce a general interface between a polarized photon and an atomic ensemble trapped in a single-sided optical cavity, and with which we propose a high-efficiency quantum repeater protocol in which the robust entanglement distribution is accomplished by the stable spatial-temporal entanglement and it can in principle create the deterministic entanglement between neighboring atomic ensembles in a heralded way as a result of cavity quantum electrodynamics. Meanwhile, the simplified parity check gate makes the entanglement swapping be completed with unity efficiency, other than 1/2 with linear optics. We detail the performance of our protocol with current experimental parameters and show its robustness to the imperfections, i.e., detuning and coupling variation, involved in the reflection process. These good features make it a useful building block in long distance quantum communication.Comment: 11 pages, 10 figure

Error-rejecting quantum computing with solid-state spins assisted by low-Q optical microcavities

We present an efficient proposal for error-rejecting quantum computing with quantum dots (QD) embedded in single-sided optical microcavities based on the interface between the circularly polarized photon and QDs. An almost unity fidelity of the quantum entangling gate (EG) can be implemented with a detectable error that leads to a recycling EG procedure, which improves further the efficiency of our proposal along with the robustness to the errors involved in imperfect input-output processes. Meanwhile, we discuss the performance of our proposal for the EG on two solid-state spins with currently achieved experiment parameters, showing that it is feasible with current experimental technology. It provides a promising building block for solid-state quantum computing and quantum networks.Comment: 8 pages, 3 figure

Heralded quantum repeater for a quantum communication network based on quantum dots embedded in optical microcavities

We propose a heralded quantum repeater protocol based on the general interface between the circularly polarized photon and the quantum dot embedded in a double-sided optical microcavity. Our effective time-bin encoding on photons results in the deterministic faithful entanglement distribution with one optical fiber for the transmission of each photon in our protocol, not two or more. Our efficient parity-check detector implemented with only one input-output process of a single photon as a result of cavity quantum electrodynamics makes the entanglement channel extension and entanglement purification in quantum repeater far more efficient than others, and it has the potential application in fault-tolerant quantum computation as well. Meanwhile, the deviation from a collective-noise channel leads to some phase-flip errors on the nonlocal electron spins shared by the parties and these errors can be depressed by our simplified entanglement purification process. Finally, we discuss the performance of our proposal, concluding that it is feasible with current technology.Comment: 15 pages, 5 figure

Efficient Discriminative Nonorthogonal Binary Subspace with its Application to Visual Tracking

One of the crucial problems in visual tracking is how the object is represented. Conventional appearance-based trackers are using increasingly more complex features in order to be robust. However, complex representations typically not only require more computation for feature extraction, but also make the state inference complicated. We show that with a careful feature selection scheme, extremely simple yet discriminative features can be used for robust object tracking. The central component of the proposed method is a succinct and discriminative representation of the object using discriminative non-orthogonal binary subspace (DNBS) which is spanned by Haar-like features. The DNBS representation inherits the merits of the original NBS in that it efficiently describes the object. It also incorporates the discriminative information to distinguish foreground from background. However, the problem of finding the DNBS bases from an over-complete dictionary is NP-hard. We propose a greedy algorithm called discriminative optimized orthogonal matching pursuit (D-OOMP) to solve this problem. An iterative formulation named iterative D-OOMP is further developed to drastically reduce the redundant computation between iterations and a hierarchical selection strategy is integrated for reducing the search space of features. The proposed DNBS representation is applied to object tracking through SSD-based template matching. We validate the effectiveness of our method through extensive experiments on challenging videos with comparisons against several state-of-the-art trackers and demonstrate its capability to track objects in clutter and moving background.Comment: 15 page

Quantum simulation of Kibble-Zurek mechanism with a semiconductor electron charge qubit

The Kibble-Zurek mechanism provides a description of the topological structure occurring in the symmetry breaking phase transitions, which may manifest as the cosmological strings in the early universe or vortex lines in the superfulid. A particularly intriguing analogy between Kibble-Zurek mechanism and a text book quantum phenomenon, Landau-Zener transition has been discovered, but is difficult to observe up to now. In recent years, there has been broad interest in quantum simulations using different well-controlled physical setups, in which full tunability allows access to unexplored parameter regimes. Here we demonstrate a proof-of-principle quantum simulation of Kibble-Zurek mechanism using a single electron charge qubit in double quantum dot, set to behave as Landau-Zener dynamics. We measure the qubit states as a function of driven pulse velocity and successfully reproduce Kibble-Zurek like dependence of topological defect density on the quench rate. The high-level controllability of semiconductor two-level system make it a platform to test the key elements of topological defect formation process and shed a new insight on the aspect of non-equilibrium phase transitions.Comment: 14 pages, 4 figure

Mixed soliton solutions of the defocusing nonlocal nonlinear Schrodinger equation

By using the Darboux transformation, we obtain two new types of exponential-and-rational mixed soliton solutions for the defocusing nonlocal nonlinear Schrodinger equation. We reveal that the first type of solution can display a large variety of interactions among two exponential solitons and two rational solitons, in which the standard elastic interaction properties are preserved and each soliton could be either the dark or antidark type. By developing the asymptotic analysis technique, we also find that the second type of solution can exhibit the elastic interactions among four mixed asymptotic solitons. But in sharp contrast to the common solitons, the asymptotic mixed solitons have the t-dependent velocities and their phase shifts before and after interaction also grow with |t| in the logarithmical manner. In addition, we discuss the degenerate cases for such two types of mixed soliton solutions when the four-soliton interaction reduces to a three-soliton or two-soliton interaction.Comment: 28 pages, 7 figure

Self-error-corrected hyperparallel photonic quantum computation working with both the polarization and the spatial-mode degrees of freedom

Usually, the hyperparallel quantum computation can speed up quantum computing, reduce the quantum resource consumed largely, resist to noise, and simplify the storage of quantum information. Here, we present the first scheme for the self-error-corrected hyperparallel photonic quantum computation working with both the polarization and the spatial-mode degrees of freedom of photon systems simultaneously. It can prevent bit-flip errors from happening with an imperfect nonlinear interaction in the nearly realistic condition. We give the way to design the universal hyperparallel photonic quantum controlled-NOT (CNOT) gate on a two-photon system, resorting to the nonlinear interaction between the circularly polarized photon and the electron spin in the quantum dot in a double-sided microcavity system, by taking the imperfect interaction in the nearly realistic condition into account. Its self-error-corrected pattern prevents the bit-flip errors from happening in the hyperparallel quantum CNOT gate, guarantees the robust fidelity, and relaxes the requirement for its experiment. Meanwhile, this scheme works in a failure-heralded way. Also, we generalize this approach to achieve the self-error-corrected hyperparallel quantum CNOT$^N$ gate working on a multiple-photon system. These good features make this scheme more useful in the photonic quantum computation and quantum communication in the future.Comment: One column, 11 pages, 3 figures. Compared with V2, we give a major revision on this paper in the present versio

QCD inspired relativistic bound state model and meson structures

A QCD inspired relativistic effective Hamiltonian model for the bound states of mesons has been constructed, which integrates the advantages of several QCD effective Hamiltonian models. Based on light-front QCD effective Hamiltonian model, the squared invariant mass operator of meson is used as the effective Hamiltonian. The model has been improved significantly in four major aspects: i)it is proved that in center of mass frame and in internal coordinate Hilbert subspace, the total angular momentum $J$ of meson is conserved and the mass eigen equation can be expressed in total angular momentum representation and in terms of a set of coupled radial eigen equations for each $J$. ii)Based on lattice QCD results, a relativistic confining potential is introduced into the effective interaction and the excited states of mesons can be well described. iii)an SU(3) flavor mixing interaction is introduced phenomenologically to describe the flavor mixing mesons and the mass eigen equations contain the coupling among different flavor components. iv)the mass eigen equations are of relativistic covariance and the coupled radial mass eigen equations take full account of $L-S$ coupling and tensor interactions. The model has been applied to describe the whole meson spectra of about 265 mesons with available data. The agreement of the calculated masses, squared radii, and decay constants with data is quite well. For the mesons whose mass data have large experimental uncertainty, the model produces certain mass values for test. For some mesons whose total angular momenta and parity are not assigned experimentally, the model gives a prediction of the spectroscopic configuration$^{2S+1}L_J$. The connection between our model and the recent low energy QCD issues-the infrared conformal scaling invariance and holographic QCD hadron models is discussed.Comment: 16 page

Unitarity and Entropy Change in Exclusive Quark Combination Models

Entropy change in exclusive quark combination models is not an isolated problem. Contrary to adding and tuning some parameters to the relevant model(s) to fix the entropy, we show that it relates to the most general principles. Unitarity of the combination model is demonstrated to play the central r\^{o}le that guarantees the non-decrease of the entropy in the exclusive combination process.Comment: 4 pages in revtex, 1 figure, a ref. adde

Adaptive Affinity Propagation Clustering

Affinity propagation clustering (AP) has two limitations: it is hard to know what value of parameter 'preference' can yield an optimal clustering solution, and oscillations cannot be eliminated automatically if occur. The adaptive AP method is proposed to overcome these limitations, including adaptive scanning of preferences to search space of the number of clusters for finding the optimal clustering solution, adaptive adjustment of damping factors to eliminate oscillations, and adaptive escaping from oscillations when the damping adjustment technique fails. Experimental results on simulated and real data sets show that the adaptive AP is effective and can outperform AP in quality of clustering results.Comment: an English version of original pape