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A comparison of two neural network schemes for navigation
Neural networks have been applied to tasks in several areas of artificial intelligence, including vision, speech, and language. Relatively little work has been done in the area of problem solving. Two approaches to path-finding are presented, both using neural network techniques. Both techniques require a training period. Training under the back propagation (BPL) method was accomplished by presenting representations of (current position, goal position) pairs as input and appropriate actions as output. The Hebbian/interactive activation (HIA) method uses the Hebbian rule to associate points that are nearby. A path to a goal is found by activating a representation of the goal in the network and processing until the current position is activated above some threshold level. BPL, using back-propagation learning, failed to learn, except in a very trivial fashion, that is equivalent to table lookup techniques. HIA, performed much better, and required storage of fewer weights. In drawing a comparison, it is important to note that back propagation techniques depend critically upon the forms of representation used, and can be sensitive to parameters in the simulations; hence the BPL technique may yet yield strong results
Quantum copying can increase the practically available information
While it is known that copying a quantum system does not increase the amount
of information obtainable about the originals, it may increase the amount
available in practice, when one is restricted to imperfect measurements. We
present a detection scheme which using imperfect detectors, and possibly noisy
quantum copying machines (that entangle the copies), allows one to extract more
information from an incoming signal, than with the imperfect detectors alone.
The case of single-photon detection with noisy, inefficient detectors and
copiers (single controlled-NOT gates in this case) is investigated in detail.
The improvement in distinguishability between a photon and vacuum is found to
occur for a wide range of parameters, and to be quite robust to random noise.
The properties that a quantum copying device must have to be useful in this
scheme are investigated.Comment: 10 pages, 6 figures, accepted PR
Entanglement Manipulation and Concentration
We introduce a simple, experimentally realisable, entanglement manipulation
protocol for exploring mixed state entanglement. We show that for both
non-maximally entangled pure, and mixed polarisation-entangled two qubit
states, an increase in the degree of entanglement and purity, which we define
as concentration, is achievable.Comment: Accepted as Rapid Communication PR
A near deterministic linear optical CNOT gate
We show how to construct a near deterministic CNOT using several single
photons sources, linear optics, photon number resolving quantum non-demolition
detectors and feed-forward. This gate does not require the use of massively
entangled states common to other implementations and is very efficient on
resources with only one ancilla photon required. The key element of this gate
are non-demolition detectors that use a weak cross-Kerr nonlinearity effect to
conditionally generate a phase shift on a coherent probe, if a photon is
present in the signal mode. These potential phase shifts can then be measured
using highly efficient homodyne detection.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure
Signatures of the Pair-Coherent State
We explore in detail the possibility of generating a pair-coherent state in
the non-degenerate parametric oscillator when decoherence is included. Such
states are predicted in the transient regime in parametric oscillation where
the pump mode is adiabatically eliminated. Two specific signatures are examined
to indicate whether the state of interest has been generated, the Schrodinger
cat state - like signatures, and the fidelity. Solutions in a transient regime
reveal interference fringes which are indicative of the formation of a
Schrodinger cat state. The fidelity indicates the purity of our prepared state
compared to the ideal pair-coherent state.Comment: Figures hacked down to size for serve
Disagreement between correlations of quantum mechanics and stochastic electrodynamics in the damped parametric oscillator
Intracavity and external third order correlations in the damped nondegenerate
parametric oscillator are calculated for quantum mechanics and stochastic
electrodynamics (SED), a semiclassical theory. The two theories yield greatly
different results, with the correlations of quantum mechanics being cubic in
the system's nonlinear coupling constant and those of SED being linear in the
same constant. In particular, differences between the two theories are present
in at least a mesoscopic regime. They also exist when realistic damping is
included. Such differences illustrate distinctions between quantum mechanics
and a hidden variable theory for continuous variables.Comment: accepted by PR
Teleportation using coupled oscillator states
We analyse the fidelity of teleportation protocols, as a function of resource
entanglement, for three kinds of two mode oscillator states: states with fixed
total photon number, number states entangled at a beam splitter, and the
two-mode squeezed vacuum state. We define corresponding teleportation protocols
for each case including phase noise to model degraded entanglement of each
resource.Comment: 21 pages REVTeX, manuscript format, 7 figures postscript, many
changes to pape
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