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We describe a technique to measure the position of a dipolar scatterer based on self-homodyne detection of the scattered light. The method can theoretically reach the Heisenberg limit, at which information gained about the position is constrained only by the back-action of the scattered light. The technique has applications in the fields of levitated optomechanics and trapped ions and is generally applicable to the position determination of confined light scatterers., Comment: 11 pages, 5 figures

We demonstrate a surface-electrode ion trap fabricated using techniques transferred from the manufacture of photonic-crystal fibres. This provides a relatively straightforward route for realizing traps with an electrode structure on the 100 micron scale with high optical access. We demonstrate the basic functionality of the trap by cooling a single ion to the quantum ground state, allowing us to measure a heating rate from the ground state of 787(24) quanta/s. Variation of the fabrication procedure used here may provide access to traps in this geometry with trap scales between 100 um and 10 um., Comment: 6 pages, 4 figures

We set up a general scheme to resum ladder diagrams for the quark-anti-quark potential in N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory, and do explicit calculations at the next-to-leading order. The results perfectly agree with string theory in AdS(5)xS(5) when continued to strong coupling, in spite of a potential order-of-limits problem., Comment: 18 pages, 5 figures

The WKB equations for dynamics of the surface plasmon polariton (SPP) wavepacket are studied. The dispersion law for the SPP in the metal-dielectric heterostructure with varying thickness of a perforated dielectric layer is rigorously calculated and investigated using the scattering matrix method. Two channels of the SPP wavepacket optical losses related to the absorption in a metal and to the SPP leakage are analyzed. It is shown that change of the dielectric layer thickness acts on the SPP as an external force leading to evolution of its quasimomentum and to the wavepacket reversal or even to the optical Bloch oscillations (BO). Properties of these phenomena are investigated and discussed. Typical values of the BO amplitude are about tens of microns and the period is around tens or hundreds of femtoseconds., Comment: 12 pages, 5 figures

In this paper we consider matrix and vector models in the large N limit ($N \times N$ matrices and vectors with N^{2} components). For the case of zero-dimensional model (D=0) it is proved that in the strong coupling limit $g \to \infty$ statistical sums of both models coincide up to a coefficient. This is also true for D=1., Comment: 8 pages

It is shown that gauge invariance of the operator \int dx tr(A_{\mu}^{2}-\frac{2}{g \xi} x^{\nu} \theta_{\mu\nu} A^{\mu}) in noncommutative gauge theory does not lead to gauge independence of its vacuum condensate. Generalized Ward identities are obtained for Green's functions involving operator \underset{\Omega \to \infty}{lim}\frac{1}{\Omega} \int\limits_{\Omega} dx tr(A_{\mu}^{2}) in noncommutative and commutative gauge theories., Comment: 7 pages, 1 figure

Gauge dependence of the dimension two condensate in Abelian and non-Abelian Yang-Mills theory is investigated., Comment: 10 pages