56 research outputs found
Geometrical view of quantum entanglement
Although a precise description of microscopic physical problems requires a
full quantum mechanical treatment, physical quantities are generally discussed
in terms of classical variables. One exception is quantum entanglement which
apparently has no classical counterpart. We demonstrate here how quantum
entanglement may be within the de Broglie-Bohm interpretation of quantum
mechanics visualized in geometrical terms, giving new insight into this
mysterious phenomenon and a language to describe it. On the basis of our
analysis of the dynamics of a pair of qubits, quantum entanglement is linked to
concurrent motion of angular momenta in the Bohmian space of hidden variables
and to the average angle between these momenta
Kondo effect and channel mixing in oscillating molecules
We investigate the electronic transport through a molecule in the Kondo
regime. The tunneling between the electrode and the molecule is asymmetrically
modulated by the oscillations of the molecule, i.e., if the molecule gets
closer to one of the electrodes the tunneling to that electrode will increase
while for the other electrode it will decrease. The system is described by a
two-channel Anderson model with phonon-assisted hybridization, which is solved
with the Wilson numerical renormalization group method. The results for several
functional forms of tunneling modulation are presented. For a linearized
modulation the Kondo screening of the molecular spin is caused by the even or
odd conduction channel. At the critical value of the electron-phonon coupling
an unstable two-channel Kondo fixed point is found. For a realistic modulation
the spin at the molecular orbital is Kondo screened by the even conduction
channel even in the regime of strong coupling. A universal consequence of the
electron-phonon coupling is the softening of the phonon mode and the related
instability to perturbations that break the left-right symmetry. When the
frequency of oscillations decreases below the magnitude of such perturbation,
the molecule is abruptly attracted to one of the electrodes. In this regime,
the Kondo temperature is enhanced and, simultaneously, the conductance through
the molecule is suppressed.Comment: published versio
Spatial Structure of Spin Polarons in the t-J Model
The deformation of the quantum Neel state induced by a spin polaron is
analyzed in a slave fermion approach. Our method is based on the selfconsistent
Born approximation for Green's and the wave function for the quasiparticle. The
results of various spin-correlation functions relative to the position of the
moving hole are discussed and shown to agree with those available from small
cluster calculations. Antiferromagnetic correlations in the direct neighborhood
of the hole are reduced, but they remain antiferromagnetic even for J as small
as 0.1 t. These correlation functions exhibit dipolar distortions in the spin
structure, which sensitively depend on the momentum of the quasiparticle. Their
asymptotic decay with the distance from the hole is governed by power laws, yet
the spectral weight of the quasiparticles does not vanish.Comment: 12 pages, 2 postscipt files with figures; uses REVTeX, to be
published in Phys. Rev. B, Feb. 199
Key rate available from mismatched mesurements in the BB84 protocol and the uncertainty principle
We consider the mismatched measurements in the BB84 quantum key distribution
protocol, in which measuring bases are different from transmitting bases. We
give a lower bound on the amount of a secret key that can be extracted from the
mismatched measurements. Our lower bound shows that we can extract a secret key
from the mismatched measurements with certain quantum channels, such as the
channel over which the Hadamard matrix is applied to each qubit with high
probability. Moreover, the entropic uncertainty principle implies that one
cannot extract the secret key from both matched measurements and mismatched
ones simultaneously, when we use the standard information reconciliation and
privacy amplification procedure.Comment: 5 pages, no figure, ieice.cls. Title was changed from version 1. To
appear in IEICE Trans. Fundamentals (http://ietfec.oxfordjournals.org/), vol.
E91-A, no. 10, Oct. 200
Spectral functions, Fermi surface and pseudogap in the t-J model
Spectral functions within the generalized t-J model as relevant to cuprates
are analyzed using the method of equations of motion for projected fermion
operators. In the evaluation of the self energy the decoupling of spin and
single-particle fluctuations is performed. It is shown that in an undoped
antiferromagnet (AFM) the method reproduces the selfconsistent Born
approximation. For finite doping with short range AFM order the approximation
evolves into a paramagnon contribution which retains large incoherent
contribution in the hole part of the spectral function as well as the
hole-pocket-like Fermi surface at low doping. On the other hand, the
contribution of (longitudinal) spin fluctuations, with the coupling mostly
determined predominantly by J and next-neighbor hopping t', is essential for
the emergence of the pseudogap. The latter shows at low doping in the effective
truncation of the large Fermi surface, reduced electron density of states and
at the same time quasiparticle density of states at the Fermi level.Comment: RevTex, 13 pages, 11 figures (5 color
Coulomb Blockade Resonances in Quantum Wires
The conductance through a quantum wire of cylindrical cross section and a
weak bulge is solved exactly for two electrons within the Landauer-Buettiker
formalism. We show that this 'open' quantum dot exhibits spin-dependent Coulomb
blockade resonances resulting in two anomalous structure on the rising edge to
the first conductance plateau, one near 0.25(2e^2/h), related to a singlet
resonance, and one near 0.7(2e^2/h), related to a triplet resonance. These
resonances are generic and robust, occurring for other types of quantum wire
and surviving to temperatures of a few degrees.Comment: 5 pages, 3 postscript files with figures; uses REVTe
Effect of deconfinement on resonant transport in quantum wires
The effect of deconfinement due to finite band offsets on transport through
quantum wires with two constrictions is investigated. It is shown that the
increase in resonance linewidth becomes increasingly important as the size is
reduced and ultimately places an upper limit on the energy (temperature) scale
for which resonances may be observed.Comment: 6 pages, 6 postscript files with figures; uses REVTe
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