274 research outputs found
Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen correlations in a hybrid system
We calculate the relativistic correlation function for a hybrid system of a
photon and a Dirac-particle. Such a system can be produced in decay of another
spin-1/2 fermion. We show, that the relativistic correlation function, which
depends on particle momenta, may have local extrema for fermion velocity of
order 0.5 c. This influences the degree of violation of CHSH inequality.Comment: 9 pages, 6 figure
Helicity correlations of vector bosons
We calculate the helicity and polarization correlation functions in the
Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen-type experiments with relativistic vector bosons. We
show that the linear polarization correlation function in the appriopriately
chosen state in the massless limit is the same as the correlation function in
the scalar two-photon state. We show also that the polarization correlation
function violate the Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt inequality and that the degree
of this violation can increase with the particle momentum.Comment: 8 pages, 3 figure
Rapid Development of Medical Imaging Tools with Open-Source Libraries
Rapid prototyping is an important element in researching new imaging analysis techniques and developing custom medical applications. In the last ten years, the open source community and the number of open source libraries and freely available frameworks for biomedical research have grown significantly. What they offer are now considered standards in medical image analysis, computer-aided diagnosis, and medical visualization. A cursory review of the peer-reviewed literature in imaging informatics (indeed, in almost any information technology-dependent scientific discipline) indicates the current reliance on open source libraries to accelerate development and validation of processes and techniques. In this survey paper, we review and compare a few of the most successful open source libraries and frameworks for medical application development. Our dual intentions are to provide evidence that these approaches already constitute a vital and essential part of medical image analysis, diagnosis, and visualization and to motivate the reader to use open source libraries and software for rapid prototyping of medical applications and tools
Entanglement and Tensor Product Decomposition for Two Fermions
The problem of the choice of tensor product decomposition in a system of two
fermions with the help of Bogoliubov transformations of creation and
annihilation operators is discussed. The set of physical states of the
composite system is restricted by the superselection rule forbidding the
superposition of fermions and bosons. It is shown that the Wootters concurrence
is not proper entanglement measure in this case. The explicit formula for the
entanglement of formation is found and its dependence on tensor product
decompositions of the Hilbert space is discussed. It is shown that the set of
separable states is narrower than in two-qubit case. Moreover, there exist
states which are separable with respect to all tensor product decompositions of
the Hilbert space.Comment: 8pp, published versio
Unstable particles as open quantum systems
We present the probability preserving description of the decaying particle
within the framework of quantum mechanics of open systems taking into account
the superselection rule prohibiting the superposition of the particle and
vacuum. In our approach the evolution of the system is given by a family of
completely positive trace preserving maps forming one-parameter dynamical
semigroup. We give the Kraus representation for the general evolution of such
systems which allows one to write the evolution for systems with two or more
particles. Moreover, we show that the decay of the particle can be regarded as
a Markov process by finding explicitly the master equation in the Lindblad
form. We also show that there are remarkable restrictions on the possible
strength of decoherence.Comment: 11 pp, 2 figs (published version
Nonlocality and entanglement in a strange system
We show that the relation between nonlocality and entanglement is subtler
than one naively expects. In order to do this we consider the neutral kaon
system--which is oscillating in time (particle--antiparticle mixing) and
decaying--and describe it as an open quantum system. We consider a Bell--CHSH
inequality and show a novel violation for non--maximally entangled states.
Considering the change of purity and entanglement in time we find that, despite
the fact that only two degrees of freedom at a certain time can be measured,
the neutral kaon system does not behave like a bipartite qubit system.Comment: 7 pages, 2 figures, extended versio
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