Theoretical investigation of moir\'e patterns in quantum images

Moir\'e patterns are produced when two periodic structures with different spatial frequencies are superposed. The transmission of the resulting structure gives rise to spatial beatings which are called moir\'e fringes. In classical optics, the interest in moir\'e fringes comes from the fact that the spatial beating given by the frequency difference gives information about details(high spatial frequency) of a given spatial structure. We show that moir\'e fringes can also arise in the spatial distribution of the coincidence count rate of twin photons from the parametric down-conversion, when spatial structures with different frequencies are placed in the path of each one of the twin beams. In other words,we demonstrate how moir\'e fringes can arise from quantum images

Conservation of Orbital Angular Momentum in Stimulated Down-Conversion

We report on an experiment demonstrating the conservation of orbital angular momentum in stimulated down-conversion. The orbital angular momentum is not transferred to the individual beams of the spontaneous down-conversion, but it is conserved when twin photons are taken individually. We observe the conservation law for an individual beam of the down-conversion through cavity-free stimulated emission.Comment: Submitted for publication in Phys. Rev. Let

Moir\'e patterns in quantum images

We observed moir\'e fringes in spatial quantum correlations between twin photons generated by parametric down-conversion. Spatially periodic structures were nonlocally superposed giving rise to beat frequencies typical of moir\'e patterns. This result brings interesting perspectives regarding metrological applications of such a quantum optical setup.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figure

Emergence of the pointer basis through the dynamics of correlations

We use the classical correlation between a quantum system being measured and its measurement apparatus to analyze the amount of information being retrieved in a quantum measurement process. Accounting for decoherence of the apparatus, we show that these correlations may have a sudden transition from a decay regime to a constant level. This transition characterizes a non-asymptotic emergence of the pointer basis, while the system-apparatus can still be quantum correlated. We provide a formalization of the concept of emergence of a pointer basis in an apparatus subject to decoherence. This contrast of the pointer basis emergence to the quantum to classical transition is demonstrated in an experiment with polarization entangled photon pairs.Comment: 4+2 pgs, 3 figures. Title changed. Revised version to appear on PR

Peletização de sementes de sorgo com calcário e com termofosfato e sua influência na absorção de fósforo e de potássio.

O trabalho foi realizado com o objetivo de avaliar a influencia da peletizacao de sementes de tres cultivares de sorgo (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench), cv. BRS 701, BRS 304 e BRS 601, com calcario e com termofosfato magnesiano, na absorcao de P e de K. Sementes peletizadas e nao peletizadas foram colocadas para germinar, por oito dias, em temperatura ambiente. Apos este periodo, oito plantulas com crescimento uniforme (parte aerea e raiz) foram distribuidas em vasos que continham solucao nutritiva completa de Hoagland. Apos 20 dias, iniciou-se a determinacao da absorcao de fosforo e de potassio por meio da deplecao desses nutrientes na solucao nutritiva. Os resultados permitiram concluir que o tipo de revestimento das sementes influenciou, de modo distinto, o crescimento de cada cultivar de sorgo. A absorcao de P e de K e o total absorvido tambem foram influenciados pelo revestimento das sementes em virtude do aumento no crescimento inicial das plantulas. De modo geral, independentemente do tipo de revestimento das sementes, houve maior absorcao de fosforo e de potassio quando as sementes foram peletizadas. A taxa de absorcao de fosforo aumentou com o peso da materia seca do sistema radicular e com o peso da materia seca da parte aerea, mas, neste caso, ate o limite de 3,5 umol planta-1 h-1 de P. Taxas de absorcao acima deste valor nao estiveram associadas ao aumento do peso da materia seca da parte aerea

Experimental investigation of dynamical invariants in bipartite entanglement

The non-conservation of entanglement, when two or more particles interact, sets it apart from other dynamical quantities like energy and momentum. It does not allow the interpretation of the subtle dynamics of entanglement as a flow of this quantity between the constituents of the system. Here we show that adding a third party to a two-particle system may lead to a conservation law that relates the quantities characterizing the bipartite entanglement between each of the parties and the other two. We provide an experimental demonstration of this idea using entangled photons, and generalize it to N-partite GHZ states