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Quasi-two-dimensional complex plasma containing spherical particles and their binary agglomerates
A new type of quasi-two-dimensional complex plasma system was observed which
consisted of monodisperse microspheres and their binary agglomerations
(dimers). The particles and their dimers levitated in a plasma sheath at
slightly different heights and formed two distinct sublayers. The sys- tem did
not crystallize and may be characterized as disordered solid. The dimers were
identified based on their characteristic appearance in defocused images, i.e.,
rotating interference fringe pat- terns. The in-plane and inter-plane particle
separations exhibit nonmonotonic dependence on the discharge pressure which
agrees well with theoretical predictions
Nonclassicality of noisy quantum states
Nonclassicality conditions for an oscillator-like system interacting with a
hot thermal bath are considered. Nonclassical properties of quantum states can
be conserved up to a certain temperature threshold only. In this case,
affection of the thermal noise can be compensated via transformation of an
observable, which tests the nonclassicality (witness function). Possibilities
for experimental implementations based on unbalanced homodyning are discussed.
At the same time, we demonstrate that the scheme based on balanced homodyning
cannot be improved for noisy states with proposed technique and should be
applied directly.Comment: 15 pages, 3 figure
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