Quantum Physics

Authors and titles for January 2016

[1] arXiv:1601.00046 [pdf, other]

Title: Line of magnetic monopoles and an extension of the Aharonov-Bohm effect

J. Chee, W. Lu

Comments: 12 pages, 1 figure, remarks and two references added about relations with some recent experiments, minor changes and corrections

Journal-ref: Ann. Phys. (N.Y.) 373 (2016) 87

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[2] arXiv:1601.00104 [pdf, other]

Title: Quantum States as Objective Informational Bridges

Richard Healey

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[3] arXiv:1601.00106 [pdf, other]

Title: Local Causality, Probability and Explanation

Richard A. Healey

Comments: Forthcoming in Shan Gao and Mary Bell (eds.) Quantum Nonlocality and Reality -- 50 Years of Bell's Theorem (Cambridge University Press). 5 figures

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)

[4] arXiv:1601.00113 [pdf, other]

Title: Steering Bell-diagonal states

Quan Quan, Huangjun Zhu, Si-Yuan Liu, Shao-Ming Fei, Heng Fan, Wen-Li Yang

Comments: 12 pages, 5 figures, published in Scientific Reports

Journal-ref: Sci. Rep. 6, 22025 (2016)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[5] arXiv:1601.00121 [pdf, other]

Title: Quantum Interference between Transverse Spatial Waveguide Modes

Aseema Mohanty, Mian Zhang, Avik Dutt, Sven Ramelow, Paulo Nussenzveig, Michal Lipson

Comments: 11 pages, 6 figures

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Optics (physics.optics)

[6] arXiv:1601.00143 [pdf, other]

Title: One-Mode Wigner Quasi-probability Distribution Function for Entangled Coherent States Generated by Beam Splitter and Cavity QED

G. Najarbashi, S. Mirzaei

Comments: 22 pages, 9 figures. New title. Improved version. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1511.03799

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[7] arXiv:1601.00150 [pdf, other]

Title: Tight bounds of quantum speed limit for noisy dynamics via maximal rotation angles

Zihao Hu, Lingna Wang, Hongzhen Chen, Haidong Yuan, Chi-Hang Fred Fung, Jing Liu, Zibo Miao

Comments: 11 pages

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[8] arXiv:1601.00157 [pdf, other]

Title: Theory of noise suppression in {\Lambda}-type quantum memories by means of a cavity

J. Nunn, S. Thomas, J.H.D. Munns, K.T. Kaczmarek, C. Qiu, A. Feizpour, E. Poem, B. Brecht, D.J. Saunders, P.M. Ledingham, Dileep V. Reddy, M.G. Raymer, I.A. Walmsley

Comments: 10 pages, 3 figures. This paper provides the theoretical background to our recent experimental demonstration of noise suppression in a cavity-enhanced Raman-type memory ( arXiv:1510.04625 ). See also the related paper arXiv:1511.05448, which describes numerical modelling of an atom-filled cavity. Comments welcome

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. A 96, 012338 (2017)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[9] arXiv:1601.00173 [pdf, other]

Title: Quantum plasmonic sensing: beyond the shot-noise and diffraction limit

Changhyoup Lee, Frederik Dieleman, Jinhyoung Lee, Carsten Rockstuhl, Stefan A. Maier, Mark Tame

Comments: 9 pages, 5 figures, ACS Photonics, 2016

Journal-ref: ACS Photonics 3, 992 (2016)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Optics (physics.optics)

[10] arXiv:1601.00185 [pdf, other]

Title: Asymptotic Analysis of a Three State Quantum Cryptographic Protocol

Walter O. Krawec

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[11] arXiv:1601.00234 [pdf, other]

Title: Ancilla Assisted Quantum Information Processing: General protocols and NMR implementations

Abhishek Shukla

Comments: 157 pages, PhD thesis, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune, Dec 2015

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[12] arXiv:1601.00273 [pdf, other]

Title: Tripartite Entanglement Dynamics in the presence of Non-Markovian Environment

DaeKil Park

Comments: 19pages, 7 pdf figures V2: 24 pages, 11 figures, will appear in QIP

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[13] arXiv:1601.00279 [pdf, other]

Title: Demonstrating nonclassicality and non-Gaussianity of single-mode fields: Bell-type tests using generalized phase-space distributions

Jiyong Park, Hyunchul Nha

Comments: published version, 14 pages, 11 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. A 92, 062134 (2015)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[14] arXiv:1601.00284 [pdf, other]

Title: On-Demand Single Photons with High Extraction Efficiency and Near-Unity Indistinguishability from a Resonantly Driven Quantum Dot in a Micropillar

Xing Ding, Yu He, Z.-C. Duan, Niels Gregersen, M.-C. Chen, S. Unsleber, S. Maier, Christian Schneider, Martin Kamp, Sven Höfling, Chao-Yang Lu, Jian-Wei Pan

Comments: submitted to PRL on 29/09/2015, accepted on 01/12/2015, published on 14/01/2016, the first work reporting an "all-around" single-photon source that combines purity, indistinguishability, and efficiency. see this https URL

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 020401 (2016)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)

[15] arXiv:1601.00294 [pdf, other]

Title: Large Block Properties of the Entanglement Entropy of Disordered Fermions

A.Elgart, L.Pastur, M. Shcherbina

Comments: Some explanations are added and typos are corrected

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Mathematical Physics (math-ph)

[16] arXiv:1601.00359 [pdf, other]

Title: A Study on Fast Gates for Large-Scale Quantum Simulation with Trapped Ions

R. L. Taylor, C. D. B. Bentley, J. S. Pedernales, L. Lamata, E. Solano, A. R. R. Carvalho, J. J. Hope

Comments: 10 pages, 4 figures

Journal-ref: Scientific Reports 7, 46197 (2017)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[17] arXiv:1601.00369 [pdf, other]

Title: Non-adiabatic generation of NOON states in a Tonks--Girardeau gas

J. Schloss, A. Benseny, J. Gillet, J. Swain, Th. Busch

Comments: 16 pages, 10 figures

Journal-ref: New J. Phys. 18, 035012 (2016)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[18] arXiv:1601.00378 [pdf, other]

Title: Time-modulated Hamiltonian for interpreting Mach-Zehnder interferometer delayed-choice experiments

Zhi-Yuan Li

Comments: 19 pages, 3 figures

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[19] arXiv:1601.00387 [pdf, other]

Title: Analytical solutions and genuine multipartite entanglement of the three-qubit Dicke model

Yu-Yu Zhang, Xiang-You Chen, Shu He, Qing-Hu Chen

Comments: 9pages,4 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. A 94, 012317 (2016)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[20] arXiv:1601.00423 [pdf, other]

Title: Optical vortex driven charge current loop and optomagnetism in fullerenes

Jonas Wätzel, Yaroslav Pavlyukh, Alexander Schäffer, Jamal Berakdar

Comments: 10 pages, 3 figures

Journal-ref: Carbon 99 (2016) 439-443

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall); Optics (physics.optics)

[21] arXiv:1601.00436 [pdf, other]

Title: Construction and counting of the number of operators included in a normalized vibrational Hamiltonian with n degrees of freedom with a p:q resonance

G. Saget, C. Leroy, H.R. Jauslin

Comments: 26 pages

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[22] arXiv:1601.00469 [pdf, other]

Title: Simultaneous measurement of HOM-like and N00N-like two-photon wavepackets in a Mach-Zehnder interferometer

Heonoh Kim, Sang Min Lee, Han Seb Moon

Comments: superseded by arXiv:1607.03678

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[23] arXiv:1601.00470 [pdf, other]

Title: Matrix product approximations to multipoint functions in two-dimensional conformal field theory

Robert Koenig, Volkher B. Scholz

Comments: 5 pages, 1 figure. See long companion paper arXiv:1509.07414 for full technical details

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 121601 (2016)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el); Mathematical Physics (math-ph)

[24] arXiv:1601.00487 [pdf, other]

Title: Regularized Boltzmann entropy determines macroscopic adiabatic accessibility

Hiroyasu Tajima, Eyuri Wakakuwa

Comments: 10 pages, 1 figures

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall); Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)

[25] arXiv:1601.00498 [pdf, other]

Title: Effects of oscillatory deformations on the coherent and incoherent quantum transport

Naghi Behzadi, Bahram Ahansaz

Comments: 15 pages, 6 figures

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[26] arXiv:1601.00594 [pdf, other]

Title: Spatial, spectral and temporal coherence of ultra-intense twin beams

Jan Perina Jr

Comments: 12 pages, 14 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. A 93, 013852 (2016)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[27] arXiv:1601.00600 [pdf, other]

Title: Ergodic dynamics and thermalization in an isolated quantum system

C. Neill, P. Roushan, M. Fang, Y. Chen, M. Kolodrubetz, Z. Chen, A. Megrant, R. Barends, B. Campbell, B. Chiaro, A. Dunsworth, E. Jeffrey, J. Kelly, J. Mutus, P. J. J. O'Malley, C. Quintana, D. Sank, A. Vainsencher, J. Wenner, T. C. White, A. Polkovnikov, J. M. Martinis

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[28] arXiv:1601.00654 [pdf, other]

Title: Scalable performance in solid-state single-photon sources

J. C. Loredo, N. A. Zakaria, N. Somaschi, C. Anton, L. De Santis, V. Giesz, T. Grange, M. A. Broome, O. Gazzano, G. Coppola, I. Sagnes, A. Lemaitre, A. Auffeves, P. Senellart, M. P. Almeida, A. G. White

Comments: 11 pages, 8 figures

Journal-ref: Optica 3, 433-440 (2016)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[29] arXiv:1601.00680 [pdf, other]

Title: A strict epistemic approach to physics

Per Östborn

Comments: 553 pages. This is a working document, an elaborate sketchbook that is used as raw material for shorter papers

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)

[30] arXiv:1601.00727 [pdf, other]

Title: Lie transformation method on quantum state evolution of a general time-dependent driven and damped parametric oscillator

Lin Zhang, Weiping Zhang

Comments: 31 pages, 14 figures

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[31] arXiv:1601.00734 [pdf, other]

Title: Resonance fluorescence of strongly driven two-level system coupled to multiple dissipative baths

Yiying Yan, Zhiguo Lü, Hang Zheng

Comments: 22 pages, 13 figures

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[32] arXiv:1601.00739 [pdf, other]

Title: Frequency-domain Hong-Ou-Mandel interference

Toshiki Kobayashi, Rikizo Ikuta, Shuto Yasui, Shigehito Miki, Taro Yamashita, Hirotaka Terai, Takashi Yamamoto, Masato Koashi, Nobuyuki Imoto

Comments: 12 pages, 6 figures

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[33] arXiv:1601.00747 [pdf, other]

Title: Invertibility of the retarded response functions for initial mixed states: application to one-body reduced density matrix functional theory

Klaas J.H. Giesbertz

Comments: 10 pages

Journal-ref: Mol. Phys. 114, 1128-1134 (2016)

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

[34] arXiv:1601.00802 [pdf, other]

Title: Entropy of entanglement in continuous frequency space of the biphoton state from multiplexed cold atomic ensembles

H. H. Jen

Comments: 7 figures, to be published in J. Phys. B

Journal-ref: Journal of Physics B 49, 035503 (2016)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[35] arXiv:1601.00803 [pdf, other]

Title: Quantum revivals and magnetization tunneling in effective spin systems

M. Krizanac, D. Altwein, E. Y. Vedmedenko, R. Wiesendanger

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[36] arXiv:1601.00886 [pdf, other]

Title: A Single Photon Can Simultaneously Excite Two or More Atoms

Luigi Garziano, Roberto Stassi, Vincenzo Macrì, Omar Di Stefano, Franco Nori, Salvatore Savasta

Comments: 16 pages, 5 figures

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[37] arXiv:1601.00902 [pdf, other]

Title: Some studies on quantum equivalents of non-commutative operators via commutating eigenvalue relation: PT-symmetry

Biswanath Rath

Comments: Since new submissions are not allowed, I have replaced my previous article, which may kindly be allowed

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[38] arXiv:1601.00962 [pdf, other]

Title: Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen correlations and Bell correlations in the simplest scenario

Quan Quan, Huangjun Zhu, Heng Fan, Wen-Li Yang

Comments: New results added, 13 pages, 3 figures; published in Phys. Rev. A

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. A 95, 062111 (2017)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[39] arXiv:1601.00966 [pdf, other]

Title: Capacities of repeater-assisted quantum communications

Stefano Pirandola

Comments: Results largely improved. Now includes the simulation and stretching of quantum networks connected by arbitrary quantum channels. The end-to-end capacities for quantum and private communication cannot beat a single-letter bound in terms of the relative entropy of entanglement

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other); Mathematical Physics (math-ph); Optics (physics.optics)

[40] arXiv:1601.00982 [pdf, other]

Title: The minimum Renyi entropy output of a quantum channel is locally additive

Gilad Gour, Todd Kemp

Comments: 15 pages, no figures, comments are welcome. Few references added. Some typos fixed. Some of the preliminaries of arXiv:1105.6122 have been reused here

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Mathematical Physics (math-ph)

[41] arXiv:1601.00993 [pdf, other]

Title: Testing random-detector-efficiency countermeasure in a commercial system reveals a breakable unrealistic assumption

Anqi Huang, Shihan Sajeed, Poompong Chaiwongkhot, Mathilde Soucarros, Matthieu Legre, Vadim Makarov

Comments: 12 pages, 12 figures

Journal-ref: IEEE J. Quantum Electron. 52, 8000211 (2016)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[42] arXiv:1601.01018 [pdf, other]

Title: Green's function approach for quantum graphs: an overview

Fabiano M. Andrade, A. G. M. Schmidt, E. Vicentini, B. K. Cheng, M. G. E. da Luz

Comments: 54 pages, 24 figures, 1 table. Two sections expanded + minor modifications. One appendix added. References added. To appear in Physics Reports

Journal-ref: Physics Reports 647, 1-46 (2016)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Mathematical Physics (math-ph)

[43] arXiv:1601.01095 [pdf, other]

Title: Transcoder for the spatial and temporal modes of a photon

Shuai Shi, Dong-Sheng Ding, Zhi-Yuan Zhou, Yan Li, Wei Zhang, Bao-Sen Shi, Guang-Can Guo

Comments: 10 pages, 7 figures

Journal-ref: Optics Express 24, 13800-13811 (2016)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Optics (physics.optics)

[44] arXiv:1601.01105 [pdf, other]

Title: Ramsey interference with single photons

Stéphane Clemmen, Alessandro Farsi, Sven Ramelow, Alexander L. Gaeta

Comments: 16 pages

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 223601 (2016)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Optics (physics.optics)

[45] arXiv:1601.01115 [pdf, other]

Title: Robust population transfer in atomic beams induced by Doppler shifts

R. G. Unanyan

Comments: 5 pages, 5 fugures

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[46] arXiv:1601.01154 [pdf, other]

Title: Continuous-Time Quantum Search on Balanced Trees

Pascal Philipp, Luís Tarrataca, Stefan Boettcher

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. A 93, 032305 (2016)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[47] arXiv:1601.01207 [pdf, other]

Title: Approximate reversibility in the context of entropy gain, information gain, and complete positivity

Francesco Buscemi, Siddhartha Das, Mark M. Wilde

Comments: v3: 12 pages, accepted for publication in Physical Review A

Journal-ref: Physical Review A vol. 93, no. 6, page 062314, June 2016

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[48] arXiv:1601.01212 [pdf, other]

Title: Universal Control Induced by Noise

Christian Arenz, Daniel Burgarth, Paolo Facchi, Vittorio Giovannetti, Hiromichi Nakazato, Saverio Pascazio, Kazuya Yuasa

Comments: 11 pages, 2 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. A 93, 062308 (2016)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[49] arXiv:1601.01214 [pdf, other]

Title: Scheme of a Derivation of Collapse from Quantum Dynamics

Roland Omnès

Comments: 30 pages, 1 figure

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[50] arXiv:1601.01236 [pdf, other]

Title: Quantumness and the role of locality on quantum correlations

Guido Bellomo, Angelo Plastino, Angel R. Plastino

Comments: 10 pages, 6 figures

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)