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Geometric Decompositions of Bell Polytopes with Practical Applications

April 20, 2016
Author(s)
Peter L. Bierhorst
In the well-studied (2,2,2) Bell experiment consisting of two parties, two measurement settings per party, and two possible outcomes per setting, it is known that if the experiment obeys no- signaling constraints, then the set of admissible experimental

A New Regime of Pauli-Spin Blockade

April 7, 2016
Author(s)
Justin K. Perron, Michael D. Stewart, Neil M. Zimmerman
Pauli-spin blockade is a phenomenon that allows for a type of spin to charge conversion often used to probe fundamental physics such as spin relaxation and singlet-triplet coupling. In this paper we theoretically explore Pauli-spin blockade as a function

Athermal avalanche in bilayer superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors

March 28, 2016
Author(s)
Varun B. Verma, Martin J. Stevens, Richard P. Mirin, Sae Woo Nam
We demonstrate that two superconducting nanowires separated by a thin insulating barrier can undergo a thermal avalanche process. In this process, Joule heating caused by a photodetection event in one nanowire and the associated production of athermal

Anomalous broadening in driven dissipative Rydberg systems

March 16, 2016
Author(s)
Elizabeth A. Goldschmidt, Thomas L. Boulier, Roger C. Brown, Silvio B. Koller, Jeremy T. Young, Alexey V. Gorshkov, S L. Rolston, James V. Porto
We observe interaction-induced broadening of the two-photon 5s-18s transition in 87Rb atoms trapped in a 3D optical lattice. The measured linewidth increases by nearly two orders of magnitude with increasing atomic density and excitation strength, with

Mechanically mediated microwave frequency conversion

January 26, 2016
Author(s)
Florent Q. Lecocq, Jeremy B. Clark, Raymond W. Simmonds, Jose A. Aumentado, John D. Teufel
We report the observation of efficient and low-noise frequency conversion between two microwave modes, mediated by the motion of a mechanical resonator subjected to radiation pressure. We achieve the coherent conversion of more than 10^{12} photons/s with

Yang-Baxter operators need quantum entanglement to distinguish knots

January 12, 2016
Author(s)
Stephen P. Jordan, Gorjan Alagic, Michael Jarret
Solutions to the Yang-Baxter equation yield representations of braid groups. Under certain conditions, identified by Turaev, traces of these representations yield link invariants. The matrices satisfying the Yang-Baxter equation, if unitary, can be

Algorithms for Identification of Nearly-Coincident Events in Calorimetric Sensors

December 29, 2015
Author(s)
Bradley K. Alpert, Elena Ferri, Douglas A. Bennett, Marco Faverzani, Joseph W. Fowler, Andrea Giachero, James P. Hays-Wehle, Angelo Nucciotti, Daniel S. Swetz, Joel N. Ullom
For experiments with high arrival rates, reliable identification of nearly-coincident events can be crucial. For calorimetric measurements to directly measure the neutrino mass such as HOLMES, unidentified pulse pile-ups are expected to comprise a leading

High-efficiency superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors fabricated from MoSi thin-films

December 22, 2015
Author(s)
Varun B. Verma, Boris Korzh, Felix Bussieres, Robert D. Horansky, Shellee D. Dyer, Adriana E. Lita, Igor Vayshenker, Francesco Marsili, Matthew D. Shaw, Hugo Zbinden, Richard P. Mirin, Sae Woo Nam
We report on MoSi SNSPDs which achieved high system detection efficiency (87.1 ± 0.5% at 1542 nm) at 0.7 K and we demonstrate that these detectors can also be operated with saturated internal efficiency at a temperature of 2.3 K in a Gifford-McMahon

A significant-loophole-free test of Bell's theorem with entangled photons

December 16, 2015
Author(s)
Marissa Giustina, Marijn Versteegh, Soren Wengerowsky, Johannes Handsteiner, Armin Hochrainer, Kevin Phelan, Fabian Steinlechner, Johannes Koffler, Larsson Jan-Ake, Carlos Abellan, Waldimar Amaya, Valerio Pruneri, Morgan Mitchell, Joern Beyer, Thomas Gerrits, Adriana Lita, Krister Shalm, Sae Woo Nam, Thomas Scheidl, Rupert Ursin, Bernhard Wittmann, Anton Zeilinger
Local realism is the worldview in which physical properties of objects exist independently of measurement and where physical influences cannot travel faster than the speed of light. Bell's theorem states that this worldview is incompatible with the
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