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Efficient Schemes for Reducing Imperfect Collective Decoherences
We propose schemes that are efficient when each pair of qubits undergoes some
imperfect collective decoherence with different baths. In the proposed scheme,
each pair of qubits is first encoded in a decoherence-free subspace composed of
two qubits. Leakage out of the encoding space generated by the imperfection is
reduced by the quantum Zeno effect. Phase errors in the encoded bits generated
by the imperfection are reduced by concatenation of the decoherence-free
subspace with either a three-qubit quantum error correcting code that corrects
only phase errors or a two-qubit quantum error detecting code that detects only
phase errors, connected with the quantum Zeno effect again.Comment: no correction, 3 pages, RevTe
Entanglement transfer from continuous variables to qubits
We show that two qubits can be entangled by local interactions with an
entangled two-mode continuous variable state. This is illustrated by the
evolution of two two-level atoms interacting with a two-mode squeezed state.
Two modes of the squeezed field are injected respectively into two spatially
separate cavities and the atoms are then sent into the cavities to resonantly
interact with the cavity field. We find that the atoms may be entangled even by
a two-mode squeezed state which has been decohered while penetrating into the
cavity.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figure
Perturbing Around A Warped Product Of AdS_4 and Seven-Ellipsoid
We compute the spin-2 Kaluza-Klein modes around a warped product of AdS_4 and
a seven-ellipsoid. This background with global G_2 symmetry is related to a
U(N) x U(N) N=1 superconformal Chern-Simons matter theory with sixth order
superpotential. The mass-squared in AdS_4 is quadratic in G_2 quantum number
and KK excitation number. We determine the dimensions of spin-2 operators using
the AdS/CFT correspondence. The connection to N=2 theory preserving SU(3) x
U(1)_R is also discussed.Comment: 21pp; The second and last paragraphs of section 2, the footnotes 1
and 2 added and to appear in JHE
Uncorrelated and correlated nanoscale lattice distortions in the paramagnetic phase of magnetoresistive manganites
Neutron scattering measurements on a magnetoresistive manganite
La(CaSr)MnO show that uncorrelated
dynamic polaronic lattice distortions are present in both the orthorhombic (O)
and rhombohedral (R) paramagnetic phases. The uncorrelated distortions do not
exhibit any significant anomaly at the O-to-R transition. Thus, both the
paramagnetic phases are inhomogeneous on the nanometer scale, as confirmed
further by strong damping of the acoustic phonons and by the anomalous
Debye-Waller factors in these phases. In contrast, recent x-ray measurements
and our neutron data show that polaronic correlations are present only in the O
phase. In optimally doped manganites, the R phase is metallic, while the O
paramagnetic state is insulating (or semiconducting). These measurements
therefore strongly suggest that the {\it correlated} lattice distortions are
primarily responsible for the insulating character of the paramagnetic state in
magnetoresistive manganites.Comment: 10 pages, 8 figures embedde
Phonons in Nanocrystalline 57Fe
We measured the phonon density of states (DOS) of nanocrystalline Fe by resonant inelastic nuclear Îł-ray scattering. The nanophase material shows large distortions in its phonon DOS. We attribute the high energy distortion to lifetime broadening. A damped harmonic oscillator model for the phonons provides a low quality factor, Qu, averaging about 5, but the longitudinal modes may have been broadened most. The nanocrystalline Fe also shows an enhancement in its phonon DOS at energies below 15 meV. The difference in vibrational entropy of the bulk and nanocrystalline Fe was small, owing to competing changes in the nanocrystalline phonon DOS at low and high energies
Spin-Coupled Local Distortions in Multiferroic Hexagonal HoMnO3
Local structural measurements have been performed on hexagonal HoMnO3 in
order to ascertain the specific changes in bond distances which accompany
magnetic ordering transitions. The transition from paramagnetic to the
antiferromagetic (noncollinear) phase near ~70 K is dominated by changes in the
a-b plane Mn-Mn bond distances. The spin rotation transition near ~40 K
involves both Mn-Mn and nearest neighbor Ho-Mn interactions while the low
temperature transition below 10 K involves all interactions, Mn-Mn, Ho-Mn
(nearest and next nearest) and Ho-Ho correlations. These changes in bond
distances reveal strong spin-lattice coupling. The similarity in magnitude of
the change in J(Mn-Mn) and J(Ho-Mn) enhances the system frustration. The
structural changes are interpreted in terms of a model of competing spin order
and local structural distortions. Density functional calculations are used to
estimate the energies associated with ionic displacements. The calculations
also reveal asymmetric polarization of the charge density of Ho, O3 and O4
sites along the z-axis in the ferroelectric phase. This polarization
facilitates coupling between Ho atoms on neighboring planes normal to the
z-axis.Comment: 8 figure
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