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Can apparent superluminal neutrino speeds be explained as a quantum weak measurement?
Probably not.Comment: 10 pages, 1 figur
Nonclassical correlations in damped quantum solitons
Using cumulant expansion in Gaussian approximation, the internal quantum
statistics of damped soliton-like pulses in Kerr media are studied numerically,
considering both narrow and finite bandwidth spectral pulse components. It is
shown that the sub-Poissonian statistics can be enhanced, under certain
circumstances, by absorption, which damps out some destructive interferences.
Further, it is shown that both the photon-number correlation and the
correlation of the photon-number variance between different pulse components
can be highly nonclassical even for an absorbing fiber. Optimum frequency
windows are determined in order to realize strong nonclassical behavior, which
offers novel possibilities of using solitons in optical fibers as a source of
nonclassically correlated light beams.Comment: 15 pages, 11 PS figures (color
Grotta Romanelli (Southern Italy, Apulia). Legacies and issues in excavating a key site for the Pleistocene of the Mediterranean
Grotta Romanelli, located on the Adriatic coast of southern Apulia (Italy), is considered a key site for the Mediterranean Pleistocene for its archaeological and palaeontological contents. The site, discovered in 1874, was re-evaluated only in 1900, when P. E. Stasi realised that it contained the first evidence of the Palaeolithic in Italy. Starting in 1914, G. A. Blanc led a pioneering excavation campaign, for the first-time using scientific methods applied to systematic palaeontological and stratigraphical studies. Blanc proposed a stratigraphic framework for the cave. Different dating methods (C-14 and U/Th) were used to temporally constrain the deposits. The extensive studies of the cave and its contents were mostly published in journals with limited distribution and access, until the end of the 1970s, when the site became forgotten. In 2015, with the permission of the authorities, a new excavation campaign began, led by a team from Sapienza University of Rome in collaboration with IGAG CNR and other research institutions. The research team had to deal with the consequences of more than 40 years of inactivity in the field and the combined effect of erosion and legal, as well as illegal, excavations. In this paper, we provide a database of all the information published during the first 70 years of excavations and highlight the outstanding problems and contradictions between the chronological and geomorphological evidence, the features of the faunal assemblages and the limestone artefacts
Generation and manipulation of squeezed states of light in optical networks for quantum communication and computation
We analyze a fiber-optic component which could find multiple uses in novel
information-processing systems utilizing squeezed states of light. Our approach
is based on the phenomenon of photon-number squeezing of soliton noise after
the soliton has propagated through a nonlinear optical fiber. Applications of
this component in optical networks for quantum computation and quantum
cryptography are discussed.Comment: 12 pages, 2 figures; submitted to Journal of Optics
Reduction of the phase jitter in differential phase-shift-keying soliton transmission systems by in-line Butterworth filters
We examine reduction of phase jitter by use of in-line Butterworth filters in soliton systems in the context of differential phase-shift-keying coding. We also demonstrate numerically that the use of a Butterworth filter in a return-to-zero differential phase-shift-keying system can reduce continuum background radiation
Statistics of soliton-bearing systems with additive noise
We present a consistent method to calculate the probability distribution of
soliton parameters in systems with additive noise. Even though a weak noise is
considered, we are interested in probabilities of large fluctuations (generally
non-Gaussian) which are beyond perturbation theory. Our method is a further
development of the instanton formalism (method of optimal fluctuation) based on
a saddle-point approximation in the path integral. We first solve a fundamental
problem of soliton statistics governing by noisy Nonlinear Schr\"odinger
Equation (NSE). We then apply our method to optical soliton transmission
systems using signal control elements (filters, amplitude and phase
modulators).Comment: 4 pages. Submitted to PR
The Gordon-Haus effect for modified NLS solitons
Random jitter in the soliton arrival time (the Gordon-Haus effect) is
analyzed for solitons being solutions of the integrable modified nonlinear
Schroedinger equation. It is shown that the mean square fluctuation of the
soliton position depends on the soliton parameters which can be properly
adjusted to suppress the Gordon-Haus jitter.Comment: LaTeX, 7 pages, 3 figures, to be published in Europhys. Let
Theory of quantum fluctuations of optical dissipative structures and its application to the squeezing properties of bright cavity solitons
We present a method for the study of quantum fluctuations of dissipative
structures forming in nonlinear optical cavities, which we illustrate in the
case of a degenerate, type I optical parametric oscillator. The method consists
in (i) taking into account explicitly, through a collective variable
description, the drift of the dissipative structure caused by the quantum
noise, and (ii) expanding the remaining -internal- fluctuations in the
biorthonormal basis associated to the linear operator governing the evolution
of fluctuations in the linearized Langevin equations. We obtain general
expressions for the squeezing and intensity fluctuations spectra. Then we
theoretically study the squeezing properties of a special dissipative
structure, namely, the bright cavity soliton. After reviewing our previous
result that in the linear approximation there is a perfectly squeezed mode
irrespectively of the values of the system parameters, we consider squeezing at
the bifurcation points, and the squeezing detection with a plane--wave local
oscillator field, taking also into account the effect of the detector size on
the level of detectable squeezing.Comment: 10 figure
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Use of radioactive tracers for selection of rare earth precipitants and ignition temperatures
Variations have been found in the specific activity of ignited radioactive-labeled rare earth oxide samples. The variations appear to depend on the precipitating agents and temperatures. Using various precipitating agents and different ignition temperatures, samples of /sup 88/Y-, /sup 168/Tm-, and /sup 173/ /sup 174/Lu-labeled oxides were produced from stock solutions. Observed specific activities were compared to the known specific activities of the starting solutions. At 800/sup 0/C ignition temperatures, errors of 6% to 7% can be obtained for yttrium precipitated with 8-hydroxyquinoline or ammonia. Thulium and lutetium quinolates and cupferrates ignited at 800/sup 0/C are in error by 3 to 5%. Results show that temperatures in excess of 1000/sup 0/C are required for complete ignition of rare earth quinolates, cupferrates, hydroxides, and chlorides
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