Quantum Physics

Authors and titles for April 2013

[1] arXiv:1304.0011 [pdf, other]

Title: Controlling and measuring quantum transport of heat in trapped-ion crystals

A. Bermudez, M. Bruderer, M. B. Plenio

Comments: closer to published version

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 040601 (2013)

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

[2] arXiv:1304.0025 [pdf, other]

Title: Dependence on state preparation of noise induced effects in multiqubit systems

A.C. Tzemos, D.P.K. Ghikas

Comments: 23 pages, 16 figures

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[3] arXiv:1304.0029 [pdf, other]

Title: Weak Values Technique for Velocity Measurements

Gerardo I. Viza, Julián Martínez-Rincón, Gregory A. Howland, Hadas Frostig, Itay Shomroni, Barak Dayan, John C. Howell

Comments: 4 pages, 3 figures

Journal-ref: Optics Letters, Vol. 38, Issue 16, pp. 2949-2952 (2013)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[4] arXiv:1304.0036 [pdf, other]

Title: Tight bound on relative entropy by entropy difference

David Reeb, Michael M. Wolf

Comments: v2: 27 pages, 1 figure, gap in proof of Theorem 1 fixed, other minor changes, references updated; v3: 27 pages, 1 figure, small changes and improvements, one-column version of published paper

Journal-ref: IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory 61, 1458-1473 (2015)

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

[5] arXiv:1304.0042 [pdf, other]

Title: Towards Efficient Computation of Functional Determinants in QM and QFT

Musa Maharramov

Comments: 10 pages

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[6] arXiv:1304.0054 [pdf, other]

Title: L\"{u}ders Theorem for Unsharp Quantum Measurements

Paul Busch, Javed Singh

Journal-ref: Physics Letters A 249 10-12 (1998)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[7] arXiv:1304.0058 [pdf, other]

Title: Inversion of moments to retrieve joint probabilities in quantum sequential measurements

H. S. Karthik, Hemant Katiyar, Abhishek Shukla, T. S. Mahesh, A. R. Usha Devi, A. K. Rajagopal

Comments: 7 pages, 5 figures, RevTeX

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. A, 87, 052118 (2013)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[8] arXiv:1304.0060 [pdf, other]

Title: Reachability Probabilities of Quantum Markov Chains

Shenggang Ying, Yuan Feng, Nengkun Yu, Mingsheng Ying

Comments: Accepted by Concur 2013. Comments are welcome

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[9] arXiv:1304.0115 [pdf, other]

Title: Excitation of an Atom by Twisted Photons

Andrei Afanasev, Carl E. Carlson, Asmita Mukherjee

Comments: 9 pages, 6 figures

Journal-ref: Int. J. Mod. Phys.: Conf. Ser. Vol. 25 (2014) 1460048

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph); Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph); Optics (physics.optics)

[10] arXiv:1304.0128 [pdf, other]

Title: Factoring 51 and 85 with 8 qubits

Michael R. Geller, Zhongyuan Zhou

Journal-ref: Scientific Reports 3, 3023 (2013)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[11] arXiv:1304.0155 [pdf, other]

Title: A mathematical model for measurement

Akitaka Kishimoto

Comments: Introduction revised

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[12] arXiv:1304.0186 [pdf, other]

Title: Entanglement distillation for continuous-variables under a thermal environment: Effectiveness of a non-Gaussian operation

Jaehak Lee, Hyunchul Nha

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. A 87, 032307 (2013)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[13] arXiv:1304.0253 [pdf, other]

Title: Theoretical formulation of finite-dimensional discrete phase spaces: II. On the uncertainty principle for Schwinger unitary operators

Marcelo A. Marchiolli, Paulo E. M. F. Mendonca

Comments: 31 pages, 3 figures, comments welcome

Journal-ref: Annals of Physics 336 (2013) 76 - 97

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[14] arXiv:1304.0261 [pdf, other]

Title: Adiabatic quantum simulation with a segmented ion trap: Application to long-distance entanglement in quantum spin systems

S. Zippilli, M. Johanning, S. M. Giampaolo, Ch. Wunderlich, F. Illuminati

Comments: 14 pages, 10 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. A 89, 042308 (2014)

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

[15] arXiv:1304.0264 [pdf, other]

Title: An alternative power spectrum of the resonance fluorescence of atomic systems

Adam Stokes, Almut Beige

Comments: 9 pages, 3 figures, revised version, details added

Journal-ref: Eur. Phys. J. D (2015) 69: 131

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[16] arXiv:1304.0271 [pdf, other]

Title: Realization of Geometric Landau-Zener-St\"{u}ckelberg Interferometry

Junhua Zhang, Jingning Zhang, Xiang Zhang, Kihwan Kim

Comments: 5 pages, 4 figures

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[17] arXiv:1304.0273 [pdf, other]

Title: Second order tunneling of two interacting bosons in a driven triple well

Zheng Zhou, Wenhua Hai, Qiongtao Xie, Jintao Tan

Comments: 11 pages, 8 figures

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[18] arXiv:1304.0283 [pdf, other]

Title: Fidelity of remote state preparation can be enhanced by local operation

Congyi Hua, Sheng-Wen Li, Yi-Xin Chen

Comments: 7 pages

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[19] arXiv:1304.0297 [pdf, other]

Title: Sensitivity to thermal noise of atomic Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen entanglement

R. J. Lewis-Swan, K. V. Kheruntsyan

Comments: 7 pages, 4 figures. Modifications to Figs. 2, 3 and 4 and text

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. A 87, 063635 (2013)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)

[20] arXiv:1304.0301 [pdf, other]

Title: Limitations on the quantum non-Gaussian characteristic of Schr\"{o}dinger kitten state generation

Hongbin Song, Katanya B. Kuntz, Elanor H. Huntington

Comments: Copyright belongs to IOP Publishing ltd. This is an author-created, un-copyedited version of an article accepted for publication in New Journal of Phyiscis. IOP Publishing Ltd is not responsible for any errors or omissions in this version of the manuscript or any version derived from it. The Version of Record is available online at doi:https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/15/2/023042

Journal-ref: New J. Phys. 15 (2013) 023042 Online at http://stacks.iop.org/1367-2630/15/023042

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[21] arXiv:1304.0304 [pdf, other]

Title: Non-classical two-photon interference between independent telecom light pulses converted by difference-frequency generation

Rikizo Ikuta, Toshiki Kobayashi, Hiroshi Kato, Shigehito Miki, Taro Yamashita, Hirotaka Terai, Mikio Fujiwara, Takashi Yamamoto, Masato Koashi, Masahide Sasaki, Zhen Wang, Nobuyuki Imoto

Comments: 4 pages, 4 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. A 88, 042317 (2013)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[22] arXiv:1304.0307 [pdf, other]

Title: On two classes of perturbations: Role of signs of second-order Rayleigh-Schr\"odinger energy corrections

Kamal Bhattacharyya

Comments: 7 pages

Journal-ref: J. Math. Chem. 52 (2014) 1639

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[23] arXiv:1304.0319 [pdf, other]

Title: Quantum Teleportation of Dynamics and Effective Interactions Between Remote Systems

Christine A. Muschik, Klemens Hammerer, Eugene S. Polzik, Ignacio J. Cirac

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 020501 (2013)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[24] arXiv:1304.0358 [pdf, other]

Title: Probing non-Abelian anyonic statistics with cold atoms in an optical lattice

Sheng Liu, Zheng-Yuan Xue

Comments: v1, firstly submitted on Dec, 2012; v2: accepted version of JOSAB; v3: published version

Journal-ref: J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 30, 1720 (2013)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)

[25] arXiv:1304.0364 [pdf, other]

Title: Producing GHZ state of nitrogen-vacancy centers in cavity QED

Zheng-Yuan Xue, Sheng Liu

Comments: 4 pages, 2 figures, v1: accepted by JMO on March 2013; v2 published version

Journal-ref: J. Mod. Opt. 60, 474 (2013)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[26] arXiv:1304.0385 [pdf, other]

Title: Normal and anti-normal ordered expressions for annihilation and creation operators

J.M. Vargas-Martínez, H. Moya-Cessa

Journal-ref: Rev. Mex. F\'is. E 52, 13-16 (2006)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[27] arXiv:1304.0390 [pdf, other]

Title: Generalized qubits of the vibrational motion of a trapped ion

L.M. Arévalo Aguilar, H. Moya-Cessa

Journal-ref: Phys Rev. A 65, 053413 (2002)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[28] arXiv:1304.0427 [pdf, other]

Title: Correlated Photon Pair Production by Spontaneous Parametric Down Conversion in Quasi-Phase-Matched AlGaAs superlattice Waveguides using a Continuous Wave Pump

Peyman Sarrafi, Eric Zhu, Ksenia Dolgaleva, Barry M. Holmes, David C. Hutchings, Stewart Aitchison, Li Qian

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

[29] arXiv:1304.0432 [pdf, other]

Title: Constant-Factor Optimization of Quantum Adders on 2D Quantum Architectures

Mehdi Saeedi, Alireza Shafaei, Massoud Pedram

Comments: 10 pages, 11 figures, 3 tables, Conference on Reversible Computation (2013)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Emerging Technologies (cs.ET)

[30] arXiv:1304.0439 [pdf, other]

Title: A discrete model of energy-conserved wavefunction collapse

Shan Gao

Comments: 14 pages, no figures

Journal-ref: Proceedings of the Royal Society A 469, 20120526 (2013)

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

[31] arXiv:1304.0492 [pdf, other]

Title: The singular harmonic oscillator revisited

Douglas R. M. Pimentel, Antonio S. de Castro

Comments: 15 pages, 4 figures, in Portuguese

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[32] arXiv:1304.0502 [pdf, other]

Title: Algebraic techniques in designing quantum synchronizable codes

Yuichiro Fujiwara, Vladimir D. Tonchev, Tony W. H. Wong

Comments: 9 pages, no figures. The framework presented in this article supersedes the one given in arXiv:1206.0260 by the first author

Journal-ref: Physical Review A 88, 012318 (2013)

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

[33] arXiv:1304.0504 [pdf, other]

Title: Distributing Entanglement with Separable States

Christian Peuntinger, Vanessa Chille, Ladislav Mišta Jr., Natalia Korolkova, Michael Förtsch, Jan Korger, Christoph Marquardt, Gerd Leuchs

Comments: 21 pages, 4 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 230506 (2013)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[34] arXiv:1304.0508 [pdf, other]

Title: Computational Complexity and the Interpretation of a Quantum State Vector

Arkady Bolotin

Comments: 8 pages

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[35] arXiv:1304.0509 [pdf, other]

Title: Photon Aided and Inhibited Tunneling of Photons

Xuele Liu, G.S. Agarwal

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. A 87, 063841 (2013)

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

[36] arXiv:1304.0510 [pdf, other]

Title: Simulation of the Majorana equation in circuit QED

Sheng Liu, Chuan-Jia Shan, Zhi-Ming Zhang, Zheng-Yuan Xue

Comments: first submitted on March 2012; v2 published version

Journal-ref: Quantum Inf. Process. 13(8), 1813-1823 (2014)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[37] arXiv:1304.0532 [pdf, other]

Title: Strong constraints on models that explain the violation of Bell inequalities with hidden superluminal influences

Valerio Scarani, Jean-Daniel Bancal, Antoine Suarez, Nicolas Gisin

Comments: Proceedings of the conference "Horizons of quantum physics" (Taipei, 14-18 October 2012)

Journal-ref: Found. Phys. 44, 523-531 (2014)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[38] arXiv:1304.0545 [pdf, other]

Title: Quantum particles passing through a matter-wave aperture

Jian-Ping Peng

Comments: 2 figures

Journal-ref: Mod. Phys. Lett. B, 27, 1350188 (2013) [8 pages]

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

[39] arXiv:1304.0555 [pdf, other]

Title: Distributed quantum election scheme

Rui-Rui Zhou, Li Yang

Comments: 23 pages

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)

[40] arXiv:1304.0590 [pdf, other]

Title: Entanglement of one-magnon Schur-Weyl states

Pawel Jakubczyk, Yevgen Kravets, Dorota Jakubczyk

Comments: 6 pages, published in The European Physical Journal D

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[41] arXiv:1304.0642 [pdf, other]

Title: Silicon-on-insulator integrated source of polarization-entangled photons

Laurent Olislager, Jassem Safioui, Stéphane Clemmen, Kien Phan Huy, Wim Bogaerts, Roel Baets, Philippe Emplit, Serge Massar

Comments: 3 pages, 3 figures

Journal-ref: Published in Optics Letters, Vol. 38, No. 11, 1960 (2013)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[42] arXiv:1304.0676 [pdf, other]

Title: New Inequalities in Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics

J. G. Brankov, N. S. Tonchev

Comments: 15 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1112.4184

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

[43] arXiv:1304.0688 [pdf, other]

Title: High precision nano scale temperature sensing using single defects in diamond

Philipp Neumann, Ingmar Jakobi, Florian Dolde, Christian Burk, Rolf Reuter, Gerald Waldherr, Jan Honert, Thomas Wolf, Andreas Brunner, Jeong Hyun Shim, Dieter Suter, H. Sumiya, Junichi Isoya, Jörg Wrachtrup

Comments: 6 pages, 3 figures

Journal-ref: Nano Lett. 13, 2738 (2013)

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

[44] arXiv:1304.0741 [pdf, other]

Title: Faster Phase Estimation

Krysta M. Svore, Matthew B. Hastings, Michael Freedman

Comments: 14 pages, 7 figures

Journal-ref: Quant. Inf. Comp. Vol. 14, No. 3&4, pp. 306-328 (2013)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[45] arXiv:1304.0746 [pdf, other]

Title: Steady state entanglement of two superconducting qubits engineered by dissipation

Florentin Reiter, L. Tornberg, Göran Johansson, Anders S. Sørensen

Comments: 12 pages, 5 figures; close to published version

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. A 88, 032317 (2013)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[46] arXiv:1304.0748 [pdf, other]

Title: Mini-maximizing two qubit quantum computations

Faisal Shah Khan, Simon J.D. Phoenix

Comments: 13 pages, 1 figure. A brief discussion, explicitly stating the insights gained into two qubit quantum computations using min-max, has been added to version 2

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Computer Science and Game Theory (cs.GT)

[47] arXiv:1304.0776 [pdf, other]

Title: A quantum logic gate between a solid-state quantum bit and a photon

Hyochul Kim, Ranojoy Bose, Thomas C. Shen, Glenn S. Solomon, Edo Waks

Journal-ref: Nature Photonics (2013)

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

[48] arXiv:1304.0819 [pdf, other]

Title: Twenty open problems in quantum control

Kurt Jacobs

Comments: 8 pages, 3 png figures. v2: expanded discussion of definitions added in appendix; v3: explanation of loopless definition greatly simplified (many references still to be added)

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

[49] arXiv:1304.0843 [pdf, other]

Title: Slow light enhanced correlated photon pair generation in photonic-crystal coupled-resonator optical waveguides

Nobuyuki Matsuda, Hiroki Takesue, Kaoru Shimizu, Yasuhiro Tokura, Eiichi Kuramochi, Masaya Notomi

Comments: 14 pages, 4 figures

Journal-ref: Opt. Express 21, 8596-8604 (2013)

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

[50] arXiv:1304.0845 [pdf, other]

Title: Adversary Lower Bound for the Orthogonal Array Problem

Robert Spalek (Google)

Comments: 13 pages

Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Computational Complexity (cs.CC)