Quantum Physics

Authors and titles for July 2007

[101] arXiv:0707.1883 [pdf, other]

Title: Quantum Optimal Control Theory

J. Werschnik, E.K.U. Gross

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[102] arXiv:0707.1887 [pdf, other]

Title: The Hahn polynomials in the nonrelativistic and relativistic Coulomb problems

Sergei K. Suslov, Benjamin Trey

Comments: 53 pages, no figures

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[103] arXiv:0707.1894 [pdf, other]

Title: Polynomial-time algorithm for simulation of weakly interacting quantum spin systems

Sergey Bravyi, David DiVincenzo, Daniel Loss

Comments: 27 pages

Journal-ref: Commun. Math. Phys. 284, pp. 481-507 (2008)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[104] arXiv:0707.1935 [pdf, other]

Title: On the distillation and purification of phase-diffused squeezed states

B. Hage, A. Franzen, J. DiGuglielmo, P. Marek, J. Fiurášek, R. Schnabel

Journal-ref: New J. Phys. 9 (2007) 227

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[105] arXiv:0707.1947 [pdf, other]

Title: Conditions for entanglement transformation between a class of multipartite pure states with generalized Schmidt decompositions

Yu Xin, Runyao Duan

Comments: 3 pages (Revetex 4), no figures. A brief note on entanglement transformation. Comments are welcome

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.A 76, 044301 (2007)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[106] arXiv:0707.1969 [pdf, other]

Title: Doppler cooling of calcium ions using a dipole-forbidden transition

R. J. Hendricks, J. L. Sørensen, C. Champenois, M. Knoop, M. Drewsen

Comments: 4 pages, 4 figures, minor changes to commentary and references

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[107] arXiv:0707.1971 [pdf, other]

Title: Observation of Electromagnetically Induced Transparency for a Squeezed Vacuum with the Time Domain Method

M. Arikawa, K. Honda, D. Akamatsu, Y. Yokoi, K. Akiba, S. Nagatsuka, A. Furusawa, M. Kozuma

Journal-ref: Optics Express, Vol. 15, Issue 19, pp. 11849-11854 (2007)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[108] arXiv:0707.1985 [pdf, other]

Title: Intensity correlations, entanglement properties and ghost imaging in multimode thermal-seeded parametric downconversion: Theory

Ivo P. Degiovanni, Maria Bondani, Emiliano Puddu, Alessandra Andreoni, Matteo G. A. Paris

Comments: 9 pages, 3 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. A 76, 062309 (2007)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[109] arXiv:0707.2020 [pdf, other]

Title: Error exponents in hypothesis testing for correlated states on a spin chain

Fumio Hiai, Milan Mosonyi, Tomohiro Ogawa

Comments: 26 pages; discussions extended, 2 figures added

Journal-ref: J. Math. Phys. 49 032112 (2008)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[110] arXiv:0707.2035 [pdf, other]

Title: Effect of Minimal lengths on Electron Magnetism

Khireddine Nouicer

Comments: 14 pages, 1 figure

Journal-ref: J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 40 No 9 (2 March 2007) 2125-2135

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[111] arXiv:0707.2037 [pdf, other]

Title: Single photon absorption by a single quantum emitter

D. Pinotsi, A. Imamoglu

Comments: 4 pages, 4 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 9, 093603 (2008)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[112] arXiv:0707.2038 [pdf, other]

Title: Self-cooling of a movable mirror to the ground state using radiation pressure

Aurelien Dantan (University of Aarhus), Claudiu Genes (Universita Di Camerino), David Vitali (Universita Di Camerino), Michel Pinard (LKB - Jussieu)

Comments: 4 pages, 3 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. A 77, 011804 (2008)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[113] arXiv:0707.2043 [pdf, other]

Title: Coulomb potential in one dimension with minimal length: A path integral approach

Khireddine Nouicer

Journal-ref: J. Math. Phys 48, 112104 (2007)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[114] arXiv:0707.2051 [pdf, other]

Title: Quantum Auctions using Adiabatic Evolution: The Corrupt Auctioneer and Circuit Implementations

Saikat Guha, Tad Hogg, David Fattal, Timothy Spiller, Raymond G. Beausoleil

Comments: 26 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication by International Journal of Quantum Information (IJQI)

Journal-ref: Int. J. of Quantum Information, Vol. 6, No. 4, August 2008

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[115] arXiv:0707.2060 [pdf, other]

Title: Decoherence of a Single Qubit from Quantum Anomaly

W. F. Chen, R. Kobes, G. Kunstatter

Comments: 8 pages, no figures, RevTex 4. We have shortened the paper and corrected some misprints

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[116] arXiv:0707.2071 [pdf, other]

Title: Symmetric Informationally-Complete Quantum States as Analogues to Orthonormal Bases and Minimum-Uncertainty States

D. M. Appleby, Hoan Bui Dang, Christopher A. Fuchs

Comments: 4 pages, no figures, revtex. Version 2: new title, result in Section 1 strengthened, otherwise minor changes only

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[117] arXiv:0707.2096 [pdf, other]

Title: Non-Markovian dynamics of a qubit coupled to an Ising spin bath

Hari Krovi, Ognyan Oreshkov, Mikhail Ryazanov, Daniel A. Lidar (USC)

Comments: 17 pages, 16 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. A 76, 052117 (2007)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[118] arXiv:0707.2137 [pdf, other]

Title: A classical model for a photodetector in the presence of electromagnetic vacuum fluctuations

Trevor W. Marshall, Emilio Santos

Comments: 14 pages, no figures

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[119] arXiv:0707.2155 [pdf, other]

Title: The modular multiplication operator and the quantized bakers maps

Arul Lakshminarayan

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. A 76, 042330 (2007)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)

[120] arXiv:0707.2195 [pdf, other]

Title: Generalized information theoretic measure to discern the quantumness of correlations

A. R. Usha Devi, A. K. Rajagopal

Comments: 5 pages, no figures, Revtex, Minor changes; Accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 140502 (2008)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[121] arXiv:0707.2215 [pdf, other]

Title: Detection of massive multi-particle beams by two-particle ionization

Pedro Sancho

Comments: Accepted in PLA

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[122] arXiv:0707.2223 [pdf, other]

Title: "Disproof of Bell's Theorem" : more critics

Philippe Grangier

Comments: 2 pages, no figure - in v2 some remarks and one simple example are added - in v3 a more explicit conclusion is added

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[123] arXiv:0707.2260 [pdf, other]

Title: PEPS as unique ground states of local Hamiltonians

David Perez-Garcia, Frank Verstraete, J. Ignacio Cirac, Michael M. Wolf

Comments: 8 pages

Journal-ref: Quant. Inf. Comp. 8, 0650-0663 (2008).

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); Mathematical Physics (math-ph)

[124] arXiv:0707.2271 [pdf, other]

Title: Entanglement magnification induced by local manipulations

Raffaele Romano

Comments: 4 pages

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. A 76, 042315 (2007)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[125] arXiv:0707.2278 [pdf, other]

Title: Non-Markovian entanglement dynamics of noisy continuous variable quantum channels

Jun-Hong An, Wei-Min Zhang

Comments: The final version

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. A 76, 042127 (2007)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[126] arXiv:0707.2319 [pdf, other]

Title: Classical mechanics as nonlinear quantum mechanics

H. Nikolic

Comments: 7 pages, invited talk given at conference Quantum Theory: Reconsideration of Foundations 4, Vaxjo, Sweden, June 11-16, 2007

Journal-ref: AIP Conf.Proc.962:162-167,2007

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[127] arXiv:0707.2325 [pdf, other]

Title: SiPM used as fast Photon-Counting Module and for Multiphoton Detection

P. Eraerds, M. Legre, A. Rochas, H. Zbinden, N. Gisin

Comments: 11 pages, 13 figures

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Astrophysics (astro-ph); Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph); Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)

[128] arXiv:0707.2398 [pdf, other]

Title: Production of mesoscopic superpositions with ultracold atoms

H. T. Ng

Comments: 4 pages, 2 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. A 77, 033617 (2008)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[129] arXiv:0707.2420 [pdf, other]

Title: Noise-Induced Sampling of Alternative Hamiltonian Paths in Quantum Adiabatic Search

Frank Gaitan

Comments: 16 pages; 5 figures; 4 tables; to appear in Complexity

Journal-ref: Complexity vol. 14, 21 (2009)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[130] arXiv:0707.2445 [pdf, other]

Title: The Wigner-Fokker-Planck equation: Stationary states and large time behavior

Anton Arnold, Irene M. Gamba, Maria Pia Gualdani, Christof Sparber

Comments: This paper has been withdrawn by the authors due to a crucial error in the proof of the main result. In a new manuscript (with two new authors) available at arXiv:1010.2791v1 this problem has been resolved

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); Mathematical Physics (math-ph); Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)

[131] arXiv:0707.2473 [pdf, other]

Title: Coulomb analogy for nonhermitian degeneracies near quantum phase transitions

P. Cejnar, S. Heinze, M. Macek

Comments: 4 pages

Journal-ref: Phys.Rev.Lett.99:100601,2007

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Mathematical Physics (math-ph); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)

[132] arXiv:0707.2528 [pdf, other]

Title: On the Feigel Effect: Extraction of Momentum from Vacuum?

Ole Jakob Birkeland, Iver Brevik

Comments: 26 pages LaTeX, one figure; discussion expanded, especially in section 6, references added. Version to appear in Phys. Rev. E

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[133] arXiv:0707.2534 [pdf, other]

Title: Renyi Entropy of the XY Spin Chain

F. Franchini, A. R. Its, V. E. Korepin

Comments: 28 Pages, 1 Figure

Journal-ref: J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 41 (2008) 025302

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[134] arXiv:0707.2539 [pdf, other]

Title: Three-dimensional Monte Carlo simulations of the quantum linear Boltzmann equation

Heinz-Peter Breuer, Bassano Vacchini

Comments: 11 pages, revtex, 11 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. E 76 (2007) 036706

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)

[135] arXiv:0707.2579 [pdf, other]

Title: Dynamical invariants and nonadiabatic geometric phases in open quantum systems

M. S. Sarandy, E. I. Duzzioni, M. H. Y. Moussa

Comments: 9 pages, 3 figures. v2: minor corrections and subsection IV.D added. Published version

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. A 76, 052112 (2007)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[136] arXiv:0707.2593 [pdf, other]

Title: Many lives in many worlds

Max Tegmark (MIT)

Comments: Nature version with better graphics at this http URL Everett bio and other links at this http URL

Journal-ref: Nature 448:23,2007

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

[137] arXiv:0707.2611 [pdf, other]

Title: Do all states undergo sudden death of entanglement at finite temperature?

Asma Al-Qasimi, Daniel F. V. James

Comments: 4 pages, 3 figures

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[138] arXiv:0707.2632 [pdf, other]

Title: Coupled quantum electrodynamics in photonic crystal nanocavities

Yun-Feng Xiao, Jie Gao, Xu-Bo Zou, James F. McMillan, Xiaodong Yang, You-Ling Chen, Zheng-Fu Han, Guang-Can Guo, Chee Wei Wong

Comments: 5 pages, 4 figures

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[139] arXiv:0707.2633 [pdf, other]

Title: Winterberg's conjectured breaking of the superluminal quantum correlations over large distances

Eleftherios Gkioulekas

Comments: 7 pages, submitted to Int. J. Theor. Phys

Journal-ref: E. Gkioulekas (2008): Int. J. Theor. Phys. 47, 1195-1205

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[140] arXiv:0707.2710 [pdf, other]

Title: Local cloning of genuine entangled states of three qubit

Sujit K. Choudhary, Guruprasad Kar, Samir Kunkri, Ramij Rahaman, Anirban Roy

Comments: 4 pages

Journal-ref: Physical Review A 76, 062312 (2007)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[141] arXiv:0707.2734 [pdf, other]

Title: Pulsating Casimir force

G. L. Klimchitskaya, U. Mohideen, V. M. Mostepanenko,

Comments: 9 pages, 4 figures, to appear in J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. (Fast Track Communication)

Journal-ref: J. Phys. A: Math. Theor., v. 40, p.F841-F847, 2007.

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[142] arXiv:0707.2736 [pdf, other]

Title: Non-Hermitian Quantum Systems and Time-Optimal Quantum Evolution

Alexander I. Nesterov

Journal-ref: SIGMA 5 (2009), 069, 17 pages

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[143] arXiv:0707.2772 [pdf, other]

Title: Bures metric over thermal state manifolds and quantum criticality

Paolo Zanardi, Lorenzo Campos Venuti, Paolo Giorda

Comments: 9 pages, 4 figures, LaTeX problems fixed, references added

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. A 76, 062318 (2007)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[144] arXiv:0707.2773 [pdf, other]

Title: The dynamical hole in ultrafast photoassociation: analysis of the compression effect

Eliane Luc-Koenig, Françoise Masnou-Seeuws, Ronnie Kosloff

Comments: 31 pages, 11 figures

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[145] arXiv:0707.2779 [pdf, other]

Title: Independent Noise Approximation for Spin-Boson Decoherence

Man-Hong Yung

Comments: 4 pages

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[146] arXiv:0707.2792 [pdf, other]

Title: Distributed Compression and Multiparty Squashed Entanglement

David Avis, Patrick Hayden, Ivan Savov

Comments: 26 pages, 6 figures thanks to jPicEdt. In v2 we fixed some typos and made minor clarifications and updates

Journal-ref: J. Phys. A 41 (2008) 115301

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Information Theory (cs.IT)

[147] arXiv:0707.2807 [pdf, other]

Title: Experimental Realization of Polarization Qutrits from Non-Maximally Entangled States

Giuseppe Vallone, Enrico Pomarico, Paolo Mataloni, Francesco De Martini, Marco Barbieri

Comments: RevTex, 8 pages, 6 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. A 76, 012319 (2007)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[148] arXiv:0707.2809 [pdf, other]

Title: Multipartite positive-partial-transpose inequalities exponentially stronger than local reality inequalities

Koji Nagata

Comments: 4 pages, To appear in Phys. Rev. A

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. A 76, 024101 (2007)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[149] arXiv:0707.2811 [pdf, other]

Title: Operational Quantification of Continuous Variable Correlations

C. Rodó, Gerardo Adesso, A. Sanpera

Comments: 4 pages, 3 figures, improved presentation, a subfigure and some explicit analytical expressions added

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 110505 (2008)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[150] arXiv:0707.2831 [pdf, other]

Title: Estimating Jones polynomials is a complete problem for one clean qubit

Peter W. Shor, Stephen P. Jordan

Comments: 29 pages, 12 figures. Improved presentation and removed typos

Journal-ref: Quantum Information and Computation Vol. 8 pg. 681 (2008)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Geometric Topology (math.GT)