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Reply to 'Comment on "Detuning effects in the one-photon mazer" '
We refute in this Reply the criticisms made by M. Abdel-Aty [Phys. Rev. A 70,
047801 (2004)]. We show that none of them are founded and we demonstrate very
explicitly what is wrong in the arguments developed by this author.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figure
Phase space tweezers for tailoring cavity fields by quantum Zeno dynamics
We discuss an implementation of Quantum Zeno Dynamics in a Cavity Quantum
Electrodynamics experiment. By performing repeated unitary operations on atoms
coupled to the field, we restrict the field evolution in chosen subspaces of
the total Hilbert space. This procedure leads to promising methods for
tailoring non-classical states. We propose to realize `tweezers' picking a
coherent field at a point in phase space and moving it towards an arbitrary
final position without affecting other non-overlapping coherent components.
These effects could be observed with a state-of-the-art apparatus
Generating and Revealing a Quantum Superposition of Electromagnetic Field Binomial States in a Cavity
We introduce the -photon quantum superposition of two orthogonal
generalized binomial states of electromagnetic field. We then propose, using
resonant atom-cavity interactions, non-conditional schemes to generate and
reveal such a quantum superposition for the two-photon case in a single-mode
high- cavity. We finally discuss the implementation of the proposed schemes.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures. Title changed (published version
Mesoscopic ensembles of polar bosons in triple-well potentials
Mesoscopic dipolar Bose gases in triple-well potentials offer a minimal
system for the analysis of the long-range character of the dipole-dipole
interactions. We show that this long-range character may be clearly revealed by
a variety of possible ground-state phases. In addition, an appropriate control
of short-range and dipolar interactions may lead to novel scenarios for the
dynamics of atoms and polar molecules in lattices, including the dynamical
creation of mesoscopic Schr\"odinger cats, which may be employed as a source of
highly-nonclassical states for Heisenberg-limited interferometry.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures. Identical to the published version, including
supplemental material (4 pages, 6 figures)
Continuous monitoring can improve indistinguishability of a single-photon source
A new engineering technique using continuous quantum measurement in
conjunction with feed-forward is proposed to improve indistinguishability of a
single-photon source. The technique involves continuous monitoring of the state
of the emitter, processing the noisy output signal with a simple linear
estimation algorithm, and feed forward to control a variable delay at the
output. In the weak coupling regime, the information gained by monitoring the
state of the emitter is used to reduce the time uncertainty inherent in photon
emission from the source, which improves the indistinguishability of the
emitted photons.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
Qubit-oscillator system under ultrastrong coupling and extreme driving
We introduce an approach to studying a driven qubit-oscillator system in the
ultrastrong coupling regime, where the ratio between coupling
strength and oscillator frequency approaches unity or goes beyond, and
simultaneously for driving strengths much bigger than the qubit energy
splitting (extreme driving). Both qubit-oscillator coupling and external
driving lead to a dressing of the qubit tunneling matrix element of different
nature: the former can be used to suppress selectively certain oscillator modes
in the spectrum, while the latter can bring the qubit's dynamics to a
standstill at short times (coherent destruction of tunneling) even in the case
of ultrastrong coupling.Comment: 4+ pages, 5 figures (published version
A âGeopolitical Commissionâ: Supranationalism Meets Global Power Competition
This article examines the origins and operationalisation of the concept of a âgeopolitical Commissionâ, which has been promoted by President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen since 2019. This concept has been used to guide the stronger co-ordination of the external aspects of the Commissionâs work. It is also symptomatic of the growing role of strategic considerations in the Commissionâs recent initiatives, particularly through the objective of strengthening the EUâs âopen strategic autonomyâ. To explain this phenomenon, I combine three different theoretical perspectives: neorealism, neofunctionalism, and geoeconomics. I conclude that the geopolitical Commission should be understood as the result of the interactions between exogenous factorsâthe intensification of global power competition and the rise of geoeconomic strategiesâand endogenous factors, such as the rivalry between the Commission and the European ExternalAction Service and the functional link between the Commissionâs economic powers and international security issues
Fermionic collective excitations in a lattice gas of Rydberg atoms
We investigate the many-body quantum states of a laser-driven gas of Rydberg
atoms confined to a large spacing ring lattice. If the laser driving is much
stronger than the van-der-Waals interaction among the Rydberg sates, these
many-body states are collective fermionic excitations. The first excited state
is a spin-wave that extends over the entire lattice. We demonstrate that our
system permits to study fermions in the presence of disorder although no
external atomic motion takes place. We analyze how this disorder influences the
excitation properties of the fermionic states. Our work shows a route towards
the creation of complex many-particle states with atoms in lattices
Why the EU needs a wartime investment plan
EU member states moved quickly to provide support to Ukraine following Russiaâs invasion in February. However, with an extended conflict now looking likely, the EU can no longer rely on short-term ad-hoc measures, writes Pierre Haroche. Instead, European leaders should establish a coherent Wartime INvestment (WIN) plan to both support Ukraine and provide coordinated investments in the military capabilities of EU member states
Dynamical Behavior of a Squid Ring Coupled to a Quantized Electromagnetic Field
In this paper we investigate the dynamical behavior of a SQUID ring coupled
to a quantized single-mode electromagnetic field. We have calculated the
eigenstates of the combined fully quantum mechanical SQUID-field system.
Interesting phenomena occur when the energy difference between the usual
symmetric and anti-symmetric SQUID states equals the field energy . We find the
low-energy lying entangled stationary states of the system and demonstrate that
its dynamics is dominated by coherent Rabi oscillations.Comment: 6 pages, 2 figures. to be published on International Journal of
Modern Physics
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