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The Electronic States of Two Oppositely doped Mott Insulators Bilayers
We study the effect of Coulomb interaction between two oppositely doped
low-dimensional tJ model systems. We exactly show that, in the one-dimensional
case, an arbitrarily weak interaction leads to the formation of charge neutral
electron-hole pairs. We then use two different mean-field theories to address
the two-dimensional case, where inter-layer excitons also form and condense. We
propose that this results in new features which have no analog in single
layers, such as the emergence of an insulating spin liquid phase. Our simple
bilayer model might have relevance to the physics of doped Mott insulator
interfaces and of the new four layer Ba2CaCu4O8 compound.Comment: 4 pages, 1 figur
Control of conditional pattern with polarization entanglement
Conditional interference patterns can be obtained with twin photons from
spontaneous parametric down-conversion and the phase of the pattern can be
controlled by the relative transverse position of the signal and idler
detectors. Using a configuration that produces entangled photons in both
polarization and transverse momentum we report on the control of the
conditional patterns by acting on the polarization degree of freedom.Comment: Submitted for publication in Optics Communication
Vacuum fluctuations of a scalar field near a reflecting boundary and their effects on the motion of a test particle
The contribution from quantum vacuum fluctuations of a real massless scalar
field to the motion of a test particle that interacts with the field in the
presence of a perfectly reflecting flat boundary is here investigated. There is
no quantum induced dispersions on the motion of the particle when it is alone
in the empty space. However, when a reflecting wall is introduced, dispersions
occur with magnitude dependent on how fast the system evolves between the two
scenarios. A possible way of implementing this process would be by means of an
idealized sudden switching, for which the transition occurs instantaneously.
Although the sudden process is a simple and mathematically convenient
idealization it brings some divergences to the results, particularly at a time
corresponding to a round trip of a light signal between the particle and the
wall. It is shown that the use of smooth switching functions, besides
regularizing such divergences, enables us to better understand the behavior of
the quantum dispersions induced on the motion of the particle. Furthermore, the
action of modifying the vacuum state of the system leads to a change in the
particle energy that depends on how fast the transition between these states is
implemented. Possible implications of these results to the similar case of an
electric charge near a perfectly conducting wall are discussed.Comment: 17 pages, 8 figure
Spatial correlations in parametric down-conversion
The transverse spatial effects observed in photon pairs produced by
parametric down-conversion provide a robust and fertile testing ground for
studies of quantum mechanics, non-classical states of light, correlated imaging
and quantum information. Over the last 20 years there has been much progress in
this area, ranging from technical advances and applications such as quantum
imaging to investigations of fundamental aspects of quantum physics such as
complementarity relations, Bell's inequality violation and entanglement. The
field has grown immensely: a quick search shows that there are hundreds of
papers published in this field. The objective of this article is to review the
building blocks and major theoretical and experimental advances in the field,
along with some possible technical applications and connections to other
research areas.Comment: 116 pages, 35 figures. To appear in Physics Report
Experimental determination of multipartite entanglement with incomplete information
Multipartite entanglement is very poorly understood despite all the
theoretical and experimental advances of the last decades. Preparation,
manipulation and identification of this resource is crucial for both practical
and fundamental reasons. However, the difficulty in the practical manipulation
and the complexity of the data generated by measurements on these systems
increase rapidly with the number of parties. Therefore, we would like to
experimentally address the problem of how much information about multipartite
entanglement we can access with incomplete measurements. In particular, it was
shown that some types of pure multipartite entangled states can be witnessed
without measuring the correlations [M. Walter et al., Science 340, 1205 (2013)]
between parties, which is strongly demanding experimentally. We explore this
method using an optical setup that permits the preparation and the complete
tomographic reconstruction of many inequivalent classes of three- and
four-partite entangled states, and compare complete versus incomplete
information. We show that the method is useful in practice, even for non-pure
states or non ideal measurement conditions.Comment: 12 pages, 7 figures. Close to published versio
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