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Efficient quantum cryptography network without entanglement and quantum memory
An efficient quantum cryptography network protocol is proposed with
d-dimension polarized photons, without resorting to entanglement and quantum
memory. A server on the network, say Alice, provides the service for preparing
and measuring single photons whose initial state are |0>. The users code the
information on the single photons with some unitary operations. For preventing
the untrustworthy server Alice from eavesdropping the quantum lines, a
nonorthogonal-coding technique (decoy-photon technique) is used in the process
that the quantum signal is transmitted between the users. This protocol does
not require the servers and the users to store the quantum state and almost all
of the single photons can be used for carrying the information, which makes it
more convenient for application than others with present technology. We also
discuss the case with a faint laser pulse.Comment: 4 pages, 1 figures. It also presented a way for preparing decoy
photons without a sinigle-photon sourc
Circular quantum secret sharing
A circular quantum secret sharing protocol is proposed, which is useful and
efficient when one of the parties of secret sharing is remote to the others who
are in adjacent, especially the parties are more than three. We describe the
process of this protocol and discuss its security when the quantum information
carrying is polarized single photons running circularly. It will be shown that
entanglement is not necessary for quantum secret sharing. Moreover, the
theoretic efficiency is improved to approach 100% as almost all the instances
can be used for generating the private key, and each photon can carry one bit
of information without quantum storage. It is straightforwardly to utilize this
topological structure to complete quantum secret sharing with multi-level
two-particle entanglement in high capacity securely.Comment: 7 pages, 2 figure
New Consequences of Induced Transparency in a Double-Lambda scheme: Destructive Interference In Four-wave Mixing
We investigate a four-state system interacting with long and short laser
pulses in a weak probe beam approximation. We show that when all lasers are
tuned to the exact unperturbed resonances, part of the four-wave mixing (FWM)
field is strongly absorbed. The part which is not absorbed has the exact
intensity required to destructively interfere with the excitation pathway
involved in producing the FWM state. We show that with this three-photon
destructive interference, the conversion efficiency can still be as high as
25%. Contrary to common belief,our calculation shows that this process, where
an ideal one-photon electromagnetically induced transparency is established, is
not most suitable for high efficiency conversion. With appropriate
phase-matching and propagation distance, and when the three-photon destructive
interference does not occur, we show that the photon flux conversion efficiency
is independent of probe intensity and can be close to 100%. In addition, we
show clearly that the conversion efficiency is not determined by the maximum
atomic coherence between two lower excited states, as commonly believed. It is
the combination of phase-matching and constructive interference involving the
two terms arising in producing the mixing wave that is the key element for the
optimized FWM generation. Indeed, in this scheme no appreciable excited state
is produced, so that the atomic coherence between states |0> and |2> is always
very small.Comment: Submitted to Phys. Rev. A, 7 pages, 4 figure
De Novo Genome Sequence of "Candidatus Liberibacter solanacearum" from a Single Potato Psyllid in California.
The draft genome sequence of "Candidatus Liberibacter solanacearum" strain RSTM from a potato psyllid (Bactericera cockerelli) in California is reported here. The RSTM strain has a genome size of 1,286,787 bp, a G+C content of 35.1%, 1,211 predicted open reading frames (ORFs), and 43 RNA genes
Generation of N-qubit W state with rf-SQUID qubits by adiabatic passage
A simple scheme is presented to generate n-qubit W state with
rf-superconducting quantum interference devices (rf-SQUIDs) in cavity QED
through adiabatic passage. Because of the achievable strong coupling for
rf-SQUID qubits embedded in cavity QED, we can get the desired state with high
success probability. Furthermore, the scheme is insensitive to position
inaccuracy of the rf-SQUIDs. The numerical simulation shows that, by using
present experimental techniques, we can achieve our scheme with very high
success probability, and the fidelity could be eventually unity with the help
of dissipation.Comment: to appear in Phys. Rev.
Flux rope, hyperbolic flux tube, and late EUV phases in a non-eruptive circular-ribbon flare
We present a detailed study of a confined circular flare dynamics associated
with 3 UV late phases in order to understand more precisely which topological
elements are present and how they constrain the dynamics of the flare. We
perform a non-linear force free field extrapolation of the confined flare
observed with the HMI and AIA instruments onboard SDO. From the 3D magnetic
field we compute the squashing factor and we analyse its distribution.
Conjointly, we analyse the AIA EUV light curves and images in order to identify
the post-flare loops, their temporal and thermal evolution. By combining both
analysis we are able to propose a detailed scenario that explains the dynamics
of the flare. Our topological analysis shows that in addition to a null-point
topology with the fan separatrix, the spine lines and its surrounding
Quasi-Separatix Layers halo (typical for a circular flare), a flux rope and its
hyperbolic flux tube (HFT) are enclosed below the null. By comparing the
magnetic field topology and the EUV post-flare loops we obtain an almost
perfect match 1) between the footpoints of the separatrices and the EUV
1600~\AA{} ribbons and 2) between the HFT's field line footpoints and bright
spots observed inside the circular ribbons. We showed, for the first time in a
confined flare, that magnetic reconnection occured initially at the HFT, below
the flux rope. Reconnection at the null point between the flux rope and the
overlying field is only initiated in a second phase. In addition, we showed
that the EUV late phase observed after the main flare episode are caused by the
cooling loops of different length which have all reconnected at the null point
during the impulsive phase.Comment: Astronomy & Astrophysics, in pres
Luminous Infrared Galaxies in the Local Universe
We study the morphology and star formation properties of 159 local luminous
infrared galaxy (LIRG) using multi-color images from Data Release 2 (DR2) of
the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). The LIRGs are selected from a
cross-correlation analysis between the IRAS survey and SDSS. They are all
brighter than 15.9 mag in the r-band and below redshift ~ 0.1, and so can be
reliably classified morphologically. We find that the fractions of
interacting/merging and spiral galaxies are ~ 48% and ~ 40% respectively. Our
results complement and confirm the decline (increase) in the fraction of spiral
(interacting/merging) galaxies from z ~1 to z ~ 0.1, as found by Melbourne, Koo
& Le Floc'h (2005). About 75% of spiral galaxies in the local LIRGs are barred,
indicating that bars may play an important role in triggering star formation
rates > 20 M_{sun}/yr in the local universe. Compared with high redshift LIRGs,
local LIRGs have lower specific star formation rates, smaller cold gas
fractions and a narrower range of stellar masses. Local LIRGs appear to be
either merging galaxies forming intermediate mass ellipticals or spiral
galaxies undergoing high star formation activities regulated by bars.Comment: 22 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ, title changed,
typos corrected,major revisions following referee's comments,updated
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