Lower Bound of Concurrence Based on Generalized Positive Maps

We study the concurrence of arbitrary dimensional bipartite quantum systems. By using a positive but not completely positive map, we present an anaJytical lower bound of concurrence. Detailed examples are used to show that our bound can detect entanglement better and can improve the well known existing lower bounds.     

Lower Bound of Concurrence Based on Generalized Positive Maps

We study the concurrence of arbitrary dimensional bipartite quantum systems. By using a positive but not completely positive map, we present an analytical lower bound of concurrence. Detailed examples are used to show that our bound can detect entanglement better and can improve the well known existing lower bounds.     

On Quantum Correlations and Positive Maps

We present a discussion on local quantum correlations and their relations with entanglement. We prove that a vanishing coefficient of quantum correlations implies separability. The new results on locally decomposable maps which we obtain in the course of the proof also seem to be of independent interest.     

A Characterization of Maximally Entangled Two-Qubit States

As already known by Rana’s result, all eigenvalues of any partial-transposed bipartite state fall within the closed interval [−12,1]. In this note, we study a family of bipartite quantum states where the minimal eigenvalues of partial-transposed states are −12. For a two-qubit system, we find that the minimal eigenvalue of its partial-transposed state is −12 if and only if such a two-qubit state is maximally entangled. However this result does not hold in general for a two-qudit system when the dimensions of the underlying space are larger than two.     

Probabilistic Teleportation of an Arbitrary Unknown Two-Qubit State via Positive Operator-Valued Measure and Two Non-maximally Entangled States

We present a scheme for probabilistically teleporting an arbitrary unknown two-qubit state through a quantum channel made up of two nonidentical non-maximally entangled states. In this scheme, the probabilistic teleportation is realized by using a proper positive operator-valued measure instead of usual projective measurement.     

Probabilistic Teleportation of an Arbitrary Unknown Two-Qubit State via Positive Operator-Valued Measure and Two Non-maximally Entangled States

We present a scheme for probabilistically teleporting an arbitrary unknown two-qubit state through a quantum channel made up of two nonidentical non-maximally entangled states. In this scheme, the probabilistic teleportation is realized by using a proper positive operator-valued measure instead of usual projective measurement.     

Non-locality of Entangled Coherent States and Its Evolution in a Thermal Reservoir

Regarding the necessary and sufficient condition violating Bell-CHSH's inequality as criterion for non-locality of entangled states, we present a perturbative calculation determining non-locality of evolving entangled states. Furthermore, by means of the perturbative calculation, the non-locality and its evolution of two kinds of entangled coherent states in a thermal reservoir are discussed.     

Preparation and Analysis of Two-Dimensional Four-Qubit Entangled States with Photon Polarization and Spatial Path

Entanglement states serve as the central resource for a number of important applications in quantum information science, including quantum key distribution, quantum precision measurement, and quantum computing. In pursuit of more promising applications, efforts have been made to generate entangled states with more qubits. However, the efficient creation of a high-fidelity multiparticle entanglement remains an outstanding challenge due to the difficulty that increases exponentially with the number of particles. We design an interferometer that is capable of coupling the polarization and spatial paths of photons and prepare 2-D four-qubit GHZ entanglement states. Using quantum state tomography, entanglement witness, and the violation of Ardehali inequality against local realism, the properties of the prepared 2-D four-qubit entangled state are analyzed. The experimental results show that the prepared four-photon system is an entangled state with high fidelity.     

A review of chemical diffusion: Criticism and limits of simplified methods for diffusion coefficient calculation

A review of the physics and modelling of mass diffusion involving different gaseous chemical species is firstly proposed. Both accurate and simplified models for mass diffusion involve the calculation of individual species diffusion coefficients. Since these are computationally expensive, in CFD they are commonly estimated by assuming constant Lewis or Schmidt numbers for each chemical species. The constant Lewis number assumption is particularly used. As a matter of fact, these assumptions have never been theoretically justified nor verified in practical flames. The only published information are the first observations by Smooke and Giovangigli about the Lewis number against temperature distributions in methane–air premixed and counterflow diffusion one-dimensional flames. The aim of this work is to verify these assumptions. Functional dependences of molecular properties appearing in these numbers are made explicit to show that while Sc _i depends only on composition, Le _i depends also on temperature and therefore it certainly cannot be assumed constant in a flame. Then, accurately calculating molecular properties, distributions of these characteristic numbers against temperature are obtained a posteriori from numerical simulations of different flames, premixed and non-premixed, and burning different fuels. For non-premixed flames, individual species Lewis number distributions are broad for most of the species considered in this article, whilst they are tight for premixed flames. Some attention is focused on the particular shape of Lewis distributions in non-premixed flames: they are characterized by four or five (when extinction is experienced) branches associated to precise regions in the flame (basically, lean, rich and stoichiometric combusting zones). Instead, the Schmidt distributions are always tighter, also when extinctions take place: for many species they can be approximatively assumed constant. Finally, a simplified procedure to estimate individual species diffusion coefficients is suggested, assuming the median of non-premixed flame Schmidt distributions has a constant value for each chemical species.     

Topological Invariants of Dynamical Systems and Spaces of Holomorphic Maps: I

Departing from the symbolic dynamics, we study natural group action on spaces of holomorphic maps and complex subvarieties.     

EPR Entangled States for Bipartite Kinematics and New Bosonic Representation of SU（2） Algebra

We find that the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) entangled state representation descr/bing bipartite kinematics is closely related to a new Bose operator realization of SU(2) Lie algebra. By virtue of the new realization some ttamiltonian eigenfunction equation can be directly converted to the generalized confluent equation in the EPR entangled state representation and its solution is obtainable. This thus provides a new approach for studying dynamics of angular momentum systems.     

Maps of intervals with indifferent fixed points: Thermodynamic formalism and phase transitions

We develop the thermodynamic formalism for a large class of maps of the interval with indifferent fixed points. For such systems the formalism yields onedimensional systems with many-body infinite-range interactions for which the thermodynamics is well defined but Gibbs states are not. (Piecewise linear systems of this kind yield the soluble, in a sense, Fisher models.) We prove that such systems exhibit phase transitions, the order of which depends on the behavior at the indifferent fixed points. We obtain the critical exponent describing the singularity of the pressure and analyze the decay of correlations of the equilibrium states at all temperatures. Our technique relies on establishing and exploiting a relation between the transfer operators of the original map and its suitable (expanding) induced version. The technique allows one also to obtain a version of the Bowen-Ruelle formula for the Hausdorff dimension of repellers for maps with indifferent fixed points, and to generalize Fisher results to some nonsoluble models.Meyerhoff Visiting Professor, on leave from the Center for Transport Theory and Mathematical Physics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061.     

EPR Entangled States for Bipartite Kinematics and New Bosonic Representation of SU(2) Algebra

We find that the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) entangled state representation describing bipartite kinematics is closely related to a new Bose operator realization of SU(2) Lie algebra. By virtue of the new realization some Hamiltonian eigenfunction equation can be directly converted to the generalized confluent equation in the EPR entangled state representation and its solution is obtainable. This thus provides a new approach for studying dynamics of angular momentum systems.     

A New Kind of Bipartite Entangled State Representation and its Application

We construct four linear composite operators for a two-particle system and give common eigenvectors of those operators. The technique of integration within an ordered product of operators is employed to prove that those common eigenvectors are complete and orthonormal. Therefore, a new intermediate coordinate-momentum representation for a two-particle system is proposed and applied to some two-body dynamic problems.     

A Kind of Three-Mode Entangled States of Continuum Variables Generated by Beam Splitter and Parametric Down-Conversion Amplifier

In three-mode Fock space we find a new tripartite entangled state |α,γ>_λ, which make up a new quantum mechanical representation. The state |α,γ>_λ can be generated by using the setup composing of a beam splitter and a parametric down-conversion amplifier. Application of the state is briefly discussed.     

A Hierarchy of Integrable Lattice Soliton Equations and New Integrable Symplectic Map

Starting from a discrete spectral problem, a hierarchy of integrable lattice soliton equations is derived. It is shown that the hierarchy is completely integrable in the Liouville sense and possesses discrete bi-Hamiltonian structure. A new integrable symplectic map and finite-dimensional integrable systems are given by nonlinearization method. The binary Bargmann constraint gives rise to a Bäcklund transformation for the resulting integrable lattice equations. At last, conservation laws of the hierarchy are presented.     

A Hierarchy of Integrable Nonlinear Lattice Equations and New Integrable Symplectic Map

A discrete spectral problem is discussed, and a hierarchy of integrable nonlinear lattice equations related tothis spectral problem is devised. The new integrable symplectic map and finite-dimensional integrable systems are givenby nonlinearization method. The binary Bargmann constraint gives rise to a Backlund transformation for the resultingintegrable lattice equations.     

Region operators of wigner function: Transformations, realizations and bounds

An integral of the Wigner function of a wave function ψ>, over some region S in classical phase space is identified as a (quasi)-probability measure (QPM) of S, and it can be expressed by the ψ> average of an operator referred to as the region operator (RO). Transformation theory is developed which provides the RO for various phase-space regions such as point, line, segment, disk and rectangle, and where all those ROs are shown to be interconnected by completely positive trace increasing maps. The latter are realized by means of unitary operators in Fock space extended by 2D vector spaces, physically identified with finite-dimensional systems. Bounds on QPMs for regions obtained by tiling with discs and rectangles are obtained by means of majorization theory.     

A New Three-Dimensional Lie Algebra and a Modified AKNS Hierarchy of Soliton Equations

A new three-dimensional Lie algebra and its corresponding loop algebra are constructed, from which a modified AKNS soliton-equation hierarchy is obtained.     

Comment on “A Hierarchy of Integrable Nonlinear Lattice Equations and New Integrable Symplectic Map“

Comment on a recent paper on Commun. Theor. Phys. (Beijing, China) 38 (2002) pp. 523-528.