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Electromagnetic channel capacity for practical purposes
We give analytic upper bounds to the channel capacity C for transmission of
classical information in electromagnetic channels (bosonic channels with
thermal noise). In the practically relevant regimes of high noise and low
transmissivity, by comparison with know lower bounds on C, our inequalities
determine the value of the capacity up to corrections which are irrelevant for
all practical purposes. Examples of such channels are radio communication,
infrared or visible-wavelength free space channels. We also provide bounds to
active channels that include amplification.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures. NB: the capacity bounds are constructed by
generalizing to the multi-mode case the minimum-output entropy bounds of
arXiv:quant-ph/0404005 [Phys. Rev. A 70, 032315 (2004)
High fidelity state transfer in binary tree spin networks
Quantum state propagation over binary tree configurations is studied in the
context of quantum spin networks. For binary tree of order two a simple
protocol is presented which allows to achieve arbitrary high transfer fidelity.
It does not require fine tuning of local fields and two-nodes coupling of the
intermediate spins. Instead it assumes simple local operations on the intended
receiving node: their role is to brake the transverse symmetry of the network
that induces an effective refocusing of the propagating signals. Some ideas on
how to scale up these effect to binary tree of arbitrary order are discussed.Comment: 6 pages, 2 figure
Toward computability of trace distance discord
It is known that a reliable geometric quantifier of discord-like correlations
can be built by employing the so-called trace distance. This is used to measure
how far the state under investigation is from the closest "classical-quantum"
one. To date, the explicit calculation of this indicator for two qubits was
accomplished only for states such that the reduced density matrix of the
measured party is maximally mixed, a class that includes Bell-diagonal states.
Here, we first reduce the required optimization for a general two-qubit state
to the minimization of an explicit two-variable function. Using this framework,
we show next that the minimum can be analytically worked out in a number of
relevant cases including quantum-classical and X states. This provides an
explicit and compact expression for the trace distance discord of an arbitrary
state belonging to either of these important classes of density matrices.Comment: 24 pages, 2 figures. Added a new section featuring an applicatio
Generating Entangled Two-Photon States with Coincident Frequencies
It is shown that parametric downconversion, with a short-duration pump pulse
and a long nonlinear crystal that is appropriately phase matched, can produce a
frequency-entangled biphoton state whose individual photons are coincident in
frequency. Quantum interference experiments which distinguish this state from
the familiar time-coincident biphoton state are described.Comment: Revised version (a typo was corrected) as published on PR
Design of an Eye Limiting Resolution Visual System Using Commercial-Off-the-Shelf Equipment
A feasibility study was conducted to determine if a flight simulator with an eye-limiting resolution out-the-window (OTW) visual system could be built using commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) technology and used to evaluate the visual performance of Air Force pilots in an operations context. Results of this study demonstrate that an eye limiting OTW visual system can be built using COTS technology. Further, a series of operationally-based tasks linked to clinical vision tests can be used within the synthetic environment to demonstrate a correlation and quantify the level of correlation between vision and operational aviation performance
Evidence for the formation of a Mott state in potassium-intercalated pentacene
We investigate electronic transport through pentacene thin-films intercalated
with potassium. From temperature-dependent conductivity measurements we find
that potassium-intercalated pentacene shows metallic behavior in a broad range
of potassium concentrations. Surprisingly, the conductivity exhibits a
re-entrance into an insulating state when the potassium concentration is
increased past one atom per molecule. We analyze our observations theoretically
by means of electronic structure calculations, and we conclude that the
phenomenon originates from a Mott metal-insulator transition, driven by
electron-electron interactions.Comment: 8 pages, 6 figure
Information-capacity description of spin-chain correlations
Information capacities achievable in the multi-parallel-use scenarios are
employed to characterize the quantum correlations in unmodulated spin chains.
By studying the qubit amplitude damping channel, we calculate the quantum
capacity , the entanglement assisted capacity , and the classical
capacity of a spin chain with ferromagnetic Heisenberg interactions.Comment: 12 pages, 3 figures; typos corrected (to appear in PRA
Monolithic zirconia and digital impression: case report
The aim of this study is to present a clinical case of a full arch prosthetic rehabilitation on natural teeth, combining both digital work-flow and monolithic zirconi
Coherent Superposition States as Quantum Rulers
We explore the sensitivity of an interferometer based on a quantum circuit
for coherent states. We show that its sensitivity is at the Heisenberg limit.
Moreover we show that this arrangement can measure very small length intervals
Classical capacity of bosonic broadcast communication and a new minimum output entropy conjecture
Previous work on the classical information capacities of bosonic channels has
established the capacity of the single-user pure-loss channel, bounded the
capacity of the single-user thermal-noise channel, and bounded the capacity
region of the multiple-access channel. The latter is a multi-user scenario in
which several transmitters seek to simultaneously and independently communicate
to a single receiver. We study the capacity region of the bosonic broadcast
channel, in which a single transmitter seeks to simultaneously and
independently communicate to two different receivers. It is known that the
tightest available lower bound on the capacity of the single-user thermal-noise
channel is that channel's capacity if, as conjectured, the minimum von Neumann
entropy at the output of a bosonic channel with additive thermal noise occurs
for coherent-state inputs. Evidence in support of this minimum output entropy
conjecture has been accumulated, but a rigorous proof has not been obtained. In
this paper, we propose a new minimum output entropy conjecture that, if proved
to be correct, will establish that the capacity region of the bosonic broadcast
channel equals the inner bound achieved using a coherent-state encoding and
optimum detection. We provide some evidence that supports this new conjecture,
but again a full proof is not available.Comment: 13 pages, 7 figure
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