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Critical magnetic field in holographic superconductor in Gauss-Bonnet gravity with Born-Infeld electrodynamics
In the paper using matching method in the probe limit, we investigate some
properties of holographic superconductor in Gauss-Bonnet gravity with
Born-Infeld electrodynamics . We discuss the effects of the Gauss-Bonnet
coupling \a and Born-Infeld parameter on the critical temperature and
condensate. We find that both of \a and make the critical temperature
decrease, which implies the condensate harder to form.
Moreover we study the magnetic effect on holographic superconductor and
obtain that the ratio between the critical magnetic field and the square of the
critical temperature increases from zero as the temperature is lowered below
the critical value , which agrees well with the former results. We also
find the critical magnetic field is indeed affected by Gauss-Bonnet coupling,
but not by Born-Infeld parameter.Comment: 13 pages, 5 figure
Efficient single-photon-assisted entanglement concentration for partially entangled photon pairs
We present two realistic entanglement concentration protocols (ECPs) for pure
partially entangled photons. A partially entangled photon pair can be
concentrated to a maximally entangled pair with only an ancillary single photon
in a certain probability, while the conventional ones require two copies of
partially entangled pairs at least. Our first protocol is implemented with
linear optics and the second one is implemented with cross-Kerr nonlinearities.
Compared with other ECPs, they do not need to know the accurate coefficients of
the initial state. With linear optics, it is feasible with current experiment.
With cross-Kerr nonlinearities, it does not require the sophisticated
single-photon detectors and can be repeated to get a higher success
probability. Moreover, the second protocol can get the higher entanglement
transformation efficiency and it maybe the most economical one by far.
Meanwhile, both of protocols are more suitable for multi-photon system
concentration, because they need less operations and classical communications.
All these advantages make two protocols be useful in current long-distance
quantum communications
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