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Protecting entanglement from correlated amplitude damping channel using weak measurement and quantum measurement reversal
Based on the quantum technique of weak measurement, we propose a scheme to
protect the entanglement from correlated amplitude damping decoherence. In
contrast to the results of memoryless amplitude damping channel, we show that
the memory effects play a significant role in the suppression of entanglement
sudden death and protection of entanglement under severe decoherence. Moreover,
we find that the initial entanglement could be drastically amplified by the
combination of weak measurement and quantum measurement reversal even under the
correlated amplitude damping channel. The underlying mechanism can be
attributed to the probabilistic nature of weak measurements.Comment: 11 pages, 5 figures, accepted by Quantum Information Processin
Enhanced quantum teleportation in the background of Schwarzschild spacetime by weak measurements
It is commonly believed that the fidelity of quantum teleportation in the
gravitational field would be degraded due to the heat up by the Hawking
radiation. In this paper, we point out that the Hawking effect could be
eliminated by the combined action of pre- and post-weak measurements, and thus
the teleportation fidelity is almost completely protected. It is intriguing to
notice that the enhancement of fidelity could not be attributed to the
improvement of entanglement, but rather to the probabilistic nature of weak
measurements. Our work extends the ability of weak measurements as a quantum
technique to battle against gravitational decoherence in relativistic quantum
information.Comment: 9 pages, 5 figures, comments are welcom
Robust Spin Squeezing Preservation in Photonic Crystal Cavities
We show that the robust spin squeezing preservation can be achieved by
utilizing detuning modification for an ensemble of N separate two-level atoms
embedded in photonic crystal cavities (PCC). In particular, we explore the
different dynamical behaviors of spin squeezing between isotropic and
anisotropic PCC cases when the atomic frequency is inside the band gap. In both
cases, it is shown that the robust preservation of spin squeezing is completely
determined by the formation of bound states. Intriguingly, we find that unlike
the isotropic case where steady-state spin squeezing varies smoothly when the
atomic frequency moves from the inside to the outside band edge, a sudden
transition occurs for the anisotropic case. The present results may be of
direct importance for, e.g., quantum metrology in open quantum systems.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figures, accepted by Laser Physics Letter
Enhancing teleportation of quantum Fisher information by partial measurements
The purport of quantum teleportation is to completely transfer information
from one party to another distant partner. However, from the perspective of
parameter estimation, it is the information carried by a particular parameter,
not the information of total quantum state that needs to be teleported. Due to
the inevitable noise in environment, we propose two schemes to enhance quantum
Fisher information (QFI) teleportation under amplitude damping noise with the
technique of partial measurements. We find that post partial measurement can
greatly enhance the teleported QFI, while the combination of prior partial
measurement and post partial measurement reversal could completely eliminate
the effect of decoherence. We show that, somewhat consequentially, enhancing
QFI teleportation is more economic than that of improving fidelity
teleportation. Our work extends the ability of partial measurements as a
quantum technique to battle decoherence in quantum information processing.Comment: Revised version, minor changes, accepted by Phys. Rev.
Positive-partial-transpose distinguishability for lattice-type maximally entangled states
We study the distinguishability of a particular type of maximally entangled
states -- the "lattice states" using a new approach of semidefinite program.
With this, we successfully construct all sets of four ququad-ququad orthogonal
maximally entangled states that are locally indistinguishable and find some
curious sets of six states having interesting property of distinguishability.
Also, some of the problems arose from \cite{CosentinoR14} about the
PPT-distinguishability of "lattice" maximally entangled states can be answered.Comment: It's rewritten. We deleted the original section II about
PPT-distinguishability of three ququad-ququad MESs. Moreover, we have joined
new section V which discuss PPT-distinguishability of lattice MESs for cases
and . As a result, the sequence of the theorems in our article
has been changed. And we revised the title of our articl
Asymmetric Supercapacitors With Dominant Pseudocapacitance Based on Manganese Oxide Nanoflowers in a Neutral Aqueous Electrolyte
Unique MnO2 nanoflowers (∼25 nm) composed of ultrathin K0.26MnO2 nanoflake assemblies were synthesized by a facile and green procedure. Prototype MnO2-NFs//KCl//CNTs asymmetric supercapacitors in a neutral aqueous electrolyte demonstrated pseudocapacitive dominance for the first time in addition to outstanding energy and power densities and superior cycling performance
Distinguishability-based genuine nonlocality with genuine multipartite entanglement
A set of orthogonal multipartite quantum states is said to be
distinguishability-based genuinely nonlocal (also genuinely nonlocal, for
abbreviation) if the states are locally indistinguishable across any
bipartition of the subsystems. This form of multipartite nonlocality, although
more naturally arising than the recently popular "strong nonlocality" in the
context of local distinguishability, receives much less attention. In this
work, we study the distinguishability-based genuine nonlocality of a special
type of genuinely multipartite entangled states -- the
Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ)-like states. We first show that any 5 states
of the three-qubit GHZ basis are genuinely nonlocal, while any 4 states of them
are not. Then for more general tripartite systems, we present a universal bound
about the cardinality for an arbitrary set of GHZ-like states to be genuinely
nonlocal. Although not necessary, entanglement is believed to raise difficulty
in state discrimination in many situations. In the literature, there has been
lots of studies in favor of this perspective, including the efforts seeking for
small nonlocal sets consisting of maximally entangled states in bipartite
systems. Here in the tripartite case, where GHZ-like states are studied, we
also find the existence of some small genuinely nonlocal sets: we show that the
cardinality can scale down to linear in the local dimension d. This result not
only substantiates the aforemention perspective in multipartite scenario, but
also suggests that there might exist substantial difference between strong
nonlocality and the normal distinguishability-based multipartite nonlocality.Comment: 13 pages, 1 figure, submitted to "New journal of physics" in Sep,
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TiO 2 Fibers: Tunable Polymorphic Phase Transformation and Electrochemical Properties
A series of one-dimensional (1D) nanoparticle-assembled TiO2 fibers with tunable polymorphs were prepared via a novel and large scale ForceSpinning® process of titanium tetraisopropoxide (TTIP)/polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) precursor fibers followed with a thermal treatment at various calcinations temperatures. The thermal and structural transformations were characterized by thermogravimetric analysis/differential scanning calorimetry, scanning electron microscopy, and X-ray diffraction. The influence of polymorphic phase of the TiO2 fibers on the electrochemical performance in neutral aqueous 1 M Na2SO4 electrolyte was investigated. The polymorphic amorphous/anatase/rutile TiO2 fibers prepared at 450 °C achieved a highest capacitance of 21.2 F g−1 (6.61 mF cm−2) at a current density of 200 mA g−1, for which the improved electronic conductivity and activated pseudo-capacitance mechanism may be responsible. This work helps bridge the gap between nanoscience and manufacturing. It also makes polymorphism control of functional materials a potential strategy for further improving supercapacitive output of metal oxides
Families of superhard crystalline carbon allotropes induced via cold-compressed graphite and nanotubes
We report a general scheme to systematically construct two classes of
structural families of superhard sp3 carbon allotropes of cold compressed
graphite through the topological analysis of odd 5+7 or even 4+8 membered
carbon rings stemmed from the stacking of zigzag and armchair chains. Our
results show that the previously proposed M, bct-C4, W and Z allotropes belong
to our currently proposed families and that depending on the topological
arrangement of the native carbon rings numerous other members are found that
can help us understand the structural phase transformation of cold-compressed
graphite and carbon nanotubes (CNTs). In particular, we predict the existence
of two simple allotropes, R- and P-carbon, which match well the experimental
X-ray diffraction patterns of cold-compressed graphite and CNTs, respectively,
display a transparent wide-gap insulator ground state and possess a large
Vickers hardness comparable to diamond.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures, accepted by Phys. Rev. Let
Stabilization of hybrid stochastic differential equations by delay feedback control based on discrete-time observations
Response lags are necessary for most physical systems. For the sake of saving time and costs, the main aim of this paper is to design the feedback control term based on the response lags varying in a certain interval and the discrete-time observations of both the system states and the Markovian states to stabilize the controlled hybrid systems. The control principles are established, which permit the control function only depends on the partial information of the states and the modes. The upper bound on the sum of the upper bound Τ̅ of response lags, and the duration Ƭ between two consecutive observations is obtained. Some examples and numerical experiments are given to illustrate our theory
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