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Sur les flavonoïdes du Fagara Laurentii De Wild. : isolement d'une flavanone identifiée à l'hespéridoside
Continuous variable entanglement dynamics in structured reservoirs
We address the evolution of entanglement in bimodal continuous variable
quantum systems interacting with two independent structured reservoirs. We
derive an analytic expression for the entanglement of formation without
performing the Markov and the secular approximations and study in details the
entanglement dynamics for various types of structured reservoirs and for
different reservoir temperatures, assuming the two modes initially excited in a
twin-beam state. Our analytic solution allows us to identify three dynamical
regimes characterized by different behaviors of the entanglement: the
entanglement sudden death, the non-Markovian revival and the non-secular
revival regimes. Remarkably, we find that, contrarily to the Markovian case,
the short-time system-reservoir correlations in some cases destroy quickly the
initial entanglement even at zero temperature.Comment: 12 pages, 8 figure
Discording power of quantum evolutions
We introduce the discording power of a unitary transformation, which assesses
its capability to produce quantum discord, and analyze in detail the generation
of discord by relevant classes of two-qubit gates. Our measure is based on the
Cartan decomposition of two-qubit unitaries and on evaluating the maximum
discord achievable by a unitary upon acting on classical-classical states at
fixed purity. We found that there exist gates which are perfect discorders for
any value of purity, and that they belong to a class of operators that includes
the $\sqrt{{SWAP}}. Other gates, even those universal for quantum computation,
do not posses the same property: the CNOT, for example, is a perfect discorder
only for states with low or unit purity, but not for intermediate values. The
discording power of a two-qubit unitary also provides a generalization of the
corresponding measure defined for entanglement to any value of the purity.Comment: accepted for publication in Physical Review Letter
Elliptical instability of a rapidly rotating, strongly stratified fluid
The elliptical instability of a rotating stratified fluid is examined in the
regime of small Rossby number and order-one Burger number corresponding to
rapid rotation and strong stratification. The Floquet problem describing the
linear growth of disturbances to an unbounded, uniform-vorticity elliptical
flow is solved using exponential asymptotics. The results demonstrate that the
flow is unstable for arbitrarily strong rotation and stratification; in
particular, both cyclonic and anticyclonic flows are unstable. The instability
is weak, however, with growth rates that are exponentially small in the Rossby
number. The analytic expression obtained for the growth rate elucidates its
dependence on the Burger number and on the eccentricity of the elliptical flow.
It explains in particular the weakness of the instability of cyclonic flows,
with growth rates that are only a small fraction of those obtained for the
corresponding anticyclonic flows. The asymptotic results are confirmed by
numerical solutions of Floquet problem.Comment: 17 page
Toward a unified description of hadro- and photoproduction amplitudes
The near-term objectives of the research program at the Data Analysis Center
are established within the context of the existing partial wave analyses
available through the online suite of analysis and database codes accessible
through SAID, the Scattering Analysis Interactive Database. This presentation
reviews the efforts to determine a model independent method to obtain sets of
partial wave amplitudes for strong and electromagnetic reactions, the
interpretation of the amplitudes in terms of the excited states of the nucleon,
the role of new precision unpolarized and polarized data, and new developments
aimed at determining the photoproduction mulitpoles in a unitary,
coupled-channel approach. The Chew-Mandelstam technique is discussed and
applied to the problem of the S-wave pion- and eta-photoproduction amplitudes.
The resulting eta production amplitudes exhibit the expected resonant behavior
near the eta production threshold. Application of this method to a unified
description of the hadro- and photoproduction amplitudes is discussed.Comment: 4 pages, 1 figure, invited talk for the 12th International Conference
on Meson-Nucleon Physics and the Structure of the Nucleon (MENU 2010),
Williamsburg, Virginia, 31 May - 4 Jun 201
Effect of Sigma-beam Asymmetry Data on Fits to Single Pion Photoproduction off Neutron
We investigate the influence of new GRAAL Sigma-beam asymmetry measurements
on the neutron in multipole fits to the single-pion photoproduction database.
Results are compared to those found with the addition of a double-polarization
quantity associated with the sum rule.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, 1 table; v2/v3: minor corrections; Presented at
the 8th Workshop on the Physics of Excited Nucleons (NSTAR2011), Newport
News, USA, May 201
A two-step MaxLik-MaxEnt strategy to infer photon distribution from on/off measurement at low quantum efficiency
A method based on Maximum-Entropy (ME) principle to infer photon distribution
from on/off measurements performed with few and low values of quantum
efficiency is addressed. The method consists of two steps: at first some
moments of the photon distribution are retrieved from on/off statistics using
Maximum-Likelihood estimation, then ME principle is applied to infer the
quantum state and, in turn, the photon distribution. Results from simulated
experiments on coherent and number states are presented.Comment: 4 figures, to appear in EPJ
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