497 research outputs found
Predicting solar cycle 24 with a solar dynamo model
Whether the upcoming cycle 24 of solar activity will be strong or not is
being hotly debated. The solar cycle is produced by a complex dynamo mechanism.
We model the last few solar cycles by `feeding' observational data of the Sun's
polar magnetic field into our solar dynamo model. Our results fit the observed
sunspot numbers of cycles 21-23 extremely well and predict that cycle~24 will
be about 35% weaker than cycle~23.Comment: 10 pages 1 table 3 figure
Magnetic field observations near Mercury: Preliminary results from Mariner 10
Results are presented from a preliminary analysis of data obtained near Mercury by the NASA/GSFC Magnetic Field Experiment on Mariner 10. A very well developed, detached bow shock wave, which developed as the super-Alfvenic solar wind interacted with the planet Mercury was observed. A magnetosphere-like region, with maximum field strength of 98 gamma at closest approach (704 km altitude) was also observed, and was contained within boundaries similar to the terrestrial magnetopause. The obstacle deflecting the solar wind flow was global in size, but the origin of the enhanced magnetic field was not established. The most plausible explanation, considering the complete body of data, favored the conclusion that Mercury has an intrinsic magnetic field
A separability criterion for density operators
We give a necessary and sufficient condition for a mixed quantum mechanical
state to be separable. The criterion is formulated as a boundedness condition
in terms of the greatest cross norm on the tensor product of trace class
operators.Comment: REVTeX, 5 page
Acrosome components after intracytoplasmic sperm injection: the decondensation frontier
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6T6K-43CBFGC-14/1/c122d3f8e7188ef9ec4a133a8068995
Lazy states: sufficient and necessary condition for zero quantum entropy rates under any coupling to the environment
We find the necessary and sufficient conditions for the entropy rate of the
system to be zero under any system-environment Hamiltonian interaction. We call
the class of system-environment states that satisfy this condition lazy states.
They are a generalization of classically correlated states defined by quantum
discord, but based on projective measurements of any rank. The concept of lazy
states permits the construction of a protocol for detecting global quantum
correlations using only local dynamical information. We show how quantum
correlations to the environment provide bounds to the entropy rate, and how to
estimate dissipation rates for general non-Markovian open quantum systems.Comment: 4 page
Trap Target Studies
This research was sponsored by the National Science Foundation Grant NSF PHY-931478
How to detect a possible correlation from the information of a sub-system in quantum mechanical systems
A possibility to detect correlations between two quantum mechanical systems
only from the information of a subsystem is investigated. For generic cases, we
prove that there exist correlations between two quantum systems if the
time-derivative of the reduced purity is not zero. Therefore, an
experimentalist can conclude non-zero correlations between his/her system and
some environment if he/she finds the time-derivative of the reduced purity is
not zero. A quantitative estimation of a time-derivative of the reduced purity
with respect to correlations is also given. This clarifies the role of
correlations in the mechanism of decoherence in open quantum systems.Comment: 7 pages, 1 figur
Non-local Correlations are Generic in Infinite-Dimensional Bipartite Systems
It was recently shown that the nonseparable density operators for a bipartite
system are trace norm dense if either factor space has infinite dimension. We
show here that non-local states -- i.e., states whose correlations cannot be
reproduced by any local hidden variable model -- are also dense. Our
constructions distinguish between the cases where both factor spaces are
infinite-dimensional, where we show that states violating the CHSH inequality
are dense, and the case where only one factor space is infinite-dimensional,
where we identify open neighborhoods of nonseparable states that do not violate
the CHSH inequality but show that states with a subtler form of non-locality
(often called "hidden" non-locality) remain dense.Comment: 8 pages, RevTe
Alternative fidelity measure for quantum states
We propose an alternative fidelity measure (namely, a measure of the degree
of similarity) between quantum states and benchmark it against a number of
properties of the standard Uhlmann-Jozsa fidelity. This measure is a simple
function of the linear entropy and the Hilbert-Schmidt inner product between
the given states and is thus, in comparison, not as computationally demanding.
It also features several remarkable properties such as being jointly concave
and satisfying all of "Jozsa's axioms". The trade-off, however, is that it is
supermultiplicative and does not behave monotonically under quantum operations.
In addition, new metrics for the space of density matrices are identified and
the joint concavity of the Uhlmann-Jozsa fidelity for qubit states is
established.Comment: 12 pages, 3 figures. v2 includes minor changes, new references and
new numerical results (Sec. IV
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