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Analysis of measurement errors for a superconducting phase qubit
We analyze several mechanisms leading to errors in a course of measurement of
a superconducting flux-biased phase qubit. Insufficiently long measurement
pulse may lead to nonadiabatic transitions between qubit states and
, before tunneling through a reduced barrier is supposed to distinguish
the qubit states. Finite (though large) ratio of tunneling rates for these
states leads to incomplete discrimination between and .
Insufficiently fast energy relaxation after the tunneling of state may
cause the repopulation of the quantum well in which only the state is
supposed to remain. We analyze these types of measurement errors using
analytical approaches as well as numerical solution of the time-dependent
Schr\"{o}dinger equation.Comment: 14 pages, 14 figure
Radiative and Collisional Energy Loss, and Photon-Tagged Jets at RHIC
The suppression of single jets at high transverse momenta in a quark-gluon
plasma is studied at RHIC energies, and the additional information provided by
a photon tag is included. The energy loss of hard jets traversing through the
medium is evaluated in the AMY formalism, by consistently taking into account
the contributions from radiative events and from elastic collisions at leading
order in the coupling. The strongly-interacting medium in these collisions is
modelled with (3+1)-dimensional ideal relativistic hydrodynamics. Putting these
ingredients together with a complete set of photon-production processes, we
present a calculation of the nuclear modification of single jets and
photon-tagged jets at RHIC.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, contributed to the 3rd International Conference
on Hard and Electro-Magnetic Probes of High-Energy Nuclear Collisions (Hard
Probes 2008), typos corrected, published versio
Chaotic to ordered state transition of cathode-sheath instabilities in DC glow discharge plasmas
Transition from chaotic to ordered state has been observed during the initial
stage of a discharge in a cylindrical dc glow discharge plasma. Initially it
shows a chaotic behavior but increasing the discharge voltage changes the
characteristics of the discharge glow and shows a period substraction of order
7 period 5 period 3 period 1 period i.e. the system goes to
single mode through odd cycle subtraction. On further increasing the discharge
voltage, the system goes through period doubling, like 1 period 2 period
4 period. On further increasing the voltage, the system goes to stable
state without having any oscillations.Comment: chathode-sheath, instabilities, chaos, period-subtraction,
bifurcation, dc-discharg
Practical decoy state method in quantum key distribution with heralded single photon source
We propose a practical decoy state method with heralded single photon source
for quantum key distribution (QKD). In the protocol, 3 intensities are used and
one can estimate the fraction of single-photon counts. The final key rate over
transmission distance is simulated under various parameter sets. Due to the
lower dark count than that of a coherent state, it is shown that a 3-intensity
decoy-state QKD with a heralded source can work for a longer distance than that
of a coherent state.Comment: 10 pages, 4 Postscript figure
Dependence of the flux creep activation energy on current density and magnetic field for MgB2 superconductor
Systematic ac susceptibility measurements have been performed on a MgB
bulk sample. We demonstrate that the flux creep activation energy is a
nonlinear function of the current density , indicating a
nonlogarithmic relaxation of the current density in this material. The
dependence of the activation energy on the magnetic field is determined to be a
power law , showing a steep decline in the activation
energy with the magnetic field, which accounts for the steep drop in the
critical current density with magnetic field that is observed in MgB. The
irreversibility field is also found to be rather low, therefore, the pinning
properties of this new material will need to be enhanced for practical
applications.Comment: 11 pages, 6 figures, Revtex forma
Approximate Semantic Matching Over Linked Data Streams
In the Internet of Things (IoT),data can be generated by all kinds of smart things. In such context, enabling machines to process and understand such data is critical. Semantic Web technologies, such as Linked Data, provide an effective and machine-understandable way to represent IoT data for further processing. It is a challenging issue to match Linked Data streams semantically based on text similarity as text similarity computation is time consuming. In this paper, we present a hashing-based approximate approach to efficiently match Linked Data streams with users’ needs. We use the Resource Description Framework (RDF) to represent IoT data and adopt triple patterns as user queries to describe users’ data needs. We then apply locality-sensitive hashing techniques to transform semantic data into numerical values to support efficient matching between data and user queries. We design a modified k nearest neighbors (kNN) algorithm to speedup the matching process. The experimental results show that our approach is up to five times faster than the traditional methods and can achieve high precisions and recalls
Heme and blood-feeding parasites: friends or foes?
Hemoparasites, like malaria and schistosomes, are constantly faced with the challenges of storing and detoxifying large quantities of heme, released from their catabolism of host erythrocytes. Heme is an essential prosthetic group that forms the reactive core of numerous hemoproteins with diverse biological functions. However, due to its reactive nature, it is also a potentially toxic molecule. Thus, the acquisition and detoxification of heme is likely to be paramount for the survival and establishment of parasitism. Understanding the underlying mechanism involved in this interaction could possibly provide potential novel targets for drug and vaccine development, and disease treatment. However, there remains a wide gap in our understanding of these mechanisms. This review summarizes the biological importance of heme for hemoparasite, and the adaptations utilized in its sequestration and detoxification
Undetermined states: how to find them and their applications
We investigate the undetermined sets consisting of two-level, multi-partite
pure quantum states, whose reduced density matrices give absolutely no
information of their original states. Two approached of finding these quantum
states are proposed. One is to establish the relation between codewords of the
stabilizer quantum error correction codes (SQECCs) and the undetermined states.
The other is to study the local complementation rules of the graph states. As
an application, the undetermined states can be exploited in the quantum secret
sharing scheme. The security is guaranteed by their undetermineness.Comment: 6 pages, no figur
Orthogonality catastrophe in a one-dimensional system of correlated electrons
We present a detailed numerical study of the orthogonality catastrophe
exponent for a one-dimensional lattice model of spinless fermions with nearest
neighbor interaction using the density matrix remormalization group algorithm.
Keeping up to 1200 states per block we achieve a very great accuracy for the
overlap which is needed to extract the orthogonality exponent reliably. We
discuss the behavior of the exponent for three different kinds of a localized
impurity. For comparison we also discuss the non-interacting case. In the weak
impurity limit our results for the overlap confirm scaling behavior expected
from perturbation theory and renormalization group calculations. In particular
we find that a weak backward scattering component of the orthogonality exponent
scales to zero for attractive interaction. In the strong impurity limit and for
repulsive interaction we demonstrate that the orthogonality exponent cannot be
extracted from the overlap for systems with up to 100 sites, due to finite size
effects. This is in contradiction to an earlier interpretation given by Qin et
al. based on numerical data for much smaller system sizes. Neverthless we find
indirect evidence that the backward scattering contribution to the exponent
scales to 1/16 based on predictions of boundary conformal field theory.Comment: 16 pages, Latex, 8 eps figures, submitted to Phys. Rev.
Transition from band insulator to Mott insulator in one dimension: Critical behavior and phase diagram
We report a systematic study of the transition from a band insulator (BI) to
a Mott insulator (MI) in a one-dimensional Hubbard model at half-filling with
an on-site Coulomb interaction U and an alternating periodic site potential V.
We employ both the zero-temperature density matrix renormalization group (DMRG)
method to determine the gap and critical behavior of the system and the
finite-temperature transfer matrix renormalization group method to evaluate the
thermodynamic properties. We find two critical points at U = and U =
that separate the BI and MI phases for a given V. A charge-neutral
spin-singlet exciton band develops in the BI phase (U<) and drops below
the band gap when U exceeds a special point Ue. The exciton gap closes at the
first critical point while the charge and spin gaps persist and coincide
between <U< where the system is dimerized. Both the charge and spin
gaps collapse at U = when the transition to the MI phase occurs. In the
MI phase (U>) the charge gap increases almost linearly with U while the
spin gap remains zero. These findings clarify earlier published results on the
same model, and offer insights into several important issues regarding an
appropriate scaling analysis of DMRG data and a full physical picture of the
delicate nature of the phase transitions driven by electron correlation. The
present work provides a comprehensive understanding for the critical behavior
and phase diagram for the transition from BI to MI in one-dimensional
correlated electron systems with a periodic alternating site potential.Comment: long version, 10 figure
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