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1. Using quantum states of light to probe the retinal network

Author

A. Pedram, Ö. E. Müstecaplıoğlu, and I. K. Kominis

Subjects
Physics, QC1-999
Abstract

The minimum number of photons necessary for activating the sense of vision has been a topic of research for over a century. The ability of rod cells to sense a few photons has implications for understanding the fundamental capabilities of the human visual and nervous system and creating new vision technologies based on photonics. We investigate the fundamental metrological capabilities of different quantum states of light to probe the retina, which is modeled using a simple neural network. Stimulating the rod cells by Fock, coherent, and thermal states of light, and calculating the Cramer-Rao lower bound and Fisher information matrix for the signal produced by the ganglion cells in various conditions, we determine the volume of minimum error ellipsoid. Comparing the resulting ellipsoid volumes, we determine the metrological performance of different states of light for probing the retinal network. The results indicate that the thermal state yields the largest error ellipsoid volume and hence the worst metrological performance, and the Fock state yields the best performance for all parameters. This advantage persists even if another layer is added to the network or optical losses are considered in the calculations.

Published
2022
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2. High-order harmonics measured by the photon statistics of the infrared driving-field exiting the atomic medium

Author

N. Tsatrafyllis, I. K. Kominis, I. A. Gonoskov, and P. Tzallas

Subjects
Science
Abstract

Describing the properties of high harmonic photons is challenging due to the complexity of XUV spectroscopy. Here the authors use the photon statistics of the transmitted infrared laser photons to characterize the XUV photon flux without the need of XUV spectrometers.

Published
2017
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3. Quantum relative entropy shows singlet-triplet coherence is a resource in the radical-pair mechanism of biological magnetic sensing

Author

I. K. Kominis

Subjects
Physics, QC1-999
Abstract

Radical-pair reactions pertinent to biological magnetic field sensing are an ideal system for demonstrating the paradigm of quantum biology, the exploration of quantum coherence effects in complex biological systems. We here provide yet another fundamental connection between this biochemical spin system and quantum information science. We introduce and explore a formal measure quantifying the singlet-triplet coherence of radical pairs using the concept of quantum relative entropy. The ability to quantify singlet-triplet coherence opens up a number of possibilities in the study of magnetic sensing with radical pairs. We first use the explicit quantification of singlet-triplet coherence to affirmatively address the major premise of quantum biology, namely, that quantum coherence provides an operational advantage to magnetoreception. Second, we use the concept of incoherent operations to show that incoherent manipulations of nuclear spins can have a dire effect on singlet-triplet coherence when the radical pair exhibits electronic-nuclear entanglement. Finally, we unravel subtle effects related to exchange interactions and their role in promoting quantum coherence.

Published
2020
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4. Quantum trajectories in spin-exchange collisions reveal the nature of spin-noise correlations in multispecies alkali-metal vapors

Author

K. Mouloudakis, M. Loulakis, and I. K. Kominis

Subjects
Physics, QC1-999
Abstract

Spin-exchange collisions in alkali-metal vapors underlie several fundamental and applied investigations such as nuclear structure studies and tests of fundamental symmetries, ultrasensitive atomic magnetometers, magnetic resonance, and biomagnetic imaging. Spin-exchange collisions cause a loss of spin coherence and concomitantly produce spin noise, both phenomena being central to quantum metrology. We develop here the quantum-trajectory picture of spin-exchange collisions, consistent with their long-standing ensemble description using density matrices. We then use quantum trajectories to reveal the nature of spin-noise correlations that spontaneously build up in multispecies atomic vapors, frequently utilized in the most sensitive spin measurements.

Published
2019
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7. Effects of Spin-Exchange Collisions on the Fluctuation Spectra of Hot Alkali Vapors

Author

K. Mouloudakis, G. Vasilakis, V. G. Lucivero, J. Kong, I. K. Kominis, and M. W. Mitchell

Subjects
Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph), FOS: Physical sciences, Physics - Atomic Physics
Abstract

We present a first-principles analysis of the noise spectra of alkali-metal-metal vapors in and out of the spin-exchange-relaxation-free (SERF) regime, and we predict non-intuitive features with a potential to further improve the sensitivity of SERF media, and which must be taken into account in their use in quantum optical applications. Studying the process of spin-noise spectroscopy (SNS), we derive analytic formulas for the observable noise spectra, and for the correlation functions among different hyperfine components, which give additional insight into the spin dynamics. The analytic results indicate a variety of distortions of the spin-noise spectrum relative to simpler models, including a broad spectral background that mimics optical shot noise, interference of noise contributions from the two ground-state hyperfine levels, noise reduction at the spin-precession frequency, and ``hiding'' of spin-noise power that can introduce a systematic error in noise-based calibrations, e.g., for spin-squeezing experiments.

Published
2022
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8. Quantum trajectories in spin-exchange collisions reveal the nature of spin-noise correlations in multi-species alkali vapors

Author

I. K. Kominis, Michail Loulakis, and K. Mouloudakis

Subjects
Physics, Quantum Physics, Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph), FOS: Physical sciences, Alkali metal, Physics - Atomic Physics, Condensed Matter::Strongly Correlated Electrons, Physics::Atomic Physics, Atomic physics, Spectroscopy, Quantum Physics (quant-ph), Quantum, Noise (radio), Spin-½
Abstract

Spin-exchange collisions in alkali vapors have been at the basis of several fundamental and applied investigations, like nuclear structure studies and tests of fundamental symmetries, ultra-sensitive atomic magnetometers, magnetic resonance and bio-magnetic imaging. Spin-exchange collisions cause loss of spin coherence, and concomittantly produce spin noise, both phenomena being central to quantum metrology. We here develop the quantum trajectory picture of spin-exchange collisions, consistent with their long-standing ensemble description using density matrices. We then use quantum trajectories to reveal the nature of spin-noise correlations that spontaneously build up in multi-species atomic vapors, frequently utilized in the most sensitive spin measurements., 6 pages, 3 figures

Published
2019

9. Spatially-selective and quantum-statistics-limited light stimulus for retina biometrics and pupillometry

Author

I. K. Kominis, A. Margaritakis, K. Mouloudakis, Aikaterini Gratsea, and G. Anyfantaki

Subjects
Photon, Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), Biometrics, Computer science, General Physics and Astronomy, FOS: Physical sciences, Applied Physics (physics.app-ph), 01 natural sciences, 010309 optics, 0103 physical sciences, Computer vision, Physics - Biological Physics, 010306 general physics, Quantum, Quantum optics, Quantum Physics, Pixel, business.industry, General Engineering, Physics - Applied Physics, Physics - Medical Physics, Photon counting, Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph), Human visual system model, Artificial intelligence, Medical Physics (physics.med-ph), business, Quantum Physics (quant-ph), Pupillometry
Abstract

Quantum vision is currently emerging as an interdisciplinary field synthesizing the physiology of human vision with modern quantum optics. We recently proposed a biometric scheme based on the human visual system's ability to perform photon counting. We here present a light stimulus source that can provide for the requirements of this biometric scheme, namely a laser light beam having a cross section consisting of discrete pixels, allowing for an arbitrary pattern of illuminated pixels, each having a photon number per unit time obeying a Poisson distribution around the mean. Both the illumination pattern and the photon number per pixel per unit time are computer controlled, offering simple and unsupervised scanning of these parameters. Moreover, infrared light exactly superimposed on the stimulus pattern can be used for acquiring exact information on the illumination geometry on the pupil. The same light stimulus source can be used to advance pupillometry to a higher level of control and precision, as current pupillometers lack spatial selectivity in illumination. We present pupillometry measurements demonstrating the potential of this source to offer a wealth of information on vision and brain function., 12 pages, 11 figures

Published
2019

10. Reply to the comment on 'Quantum trajectory tests of radical-pair quantum dynamics in CIDNP measurements of photosynthetic reaction centers' by G. Jeschke

Author

I. K. Kominis

Subjects
Physics, CIDNP, Quantum dynamics, Monte Carlo method, General Physics and Astronomy, 01 natural sciences, 010305 fluids & plasmas, Classical mechanics, Quantum state, Quantum mechanics, 0103 physical sciences, Master equation, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Algebraic number, 010306 general physics, Quantum, Trajectory (fluid mechanics)
Abstract

We recently unraveled a major inconsistency in the traditional description of radical-pair quantum dynamics by studying single-molecule quantum trajectories and comparing their prediction with Haberkorn's master equation. A comment by Jeschke claimed that the inconsistency arises because we did not properly include quantum state projections in the traditional approach. We here show that Jeschke stipulates quantum trajectories involving unphysical quantum states with negative populations. Moreover, the author's Monte Carlo simulation and its agreement with Haberkorn's master equation is a demonstration of an algebraic tautology, establishing the consistency of an unphysical master equation with circularly defined unphysical trajectories.

Published
2016
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11. Algorithmic quantum heat engines

Author

Selçuk Çakmak, I. K. Kominis, Özgür E. Müstecaplıoğlu, Emre Köse, Azmi Gençten, Ondokuz Mayıs Üniversitesi, Müstecaplıoğlu, Özgür Esat (ORCID 0000-0002-9134-3951 & YÖK ID 1674), Köse, Emre, Çakmak, Selçuk, Gençten, Azmi, Kominis, Iannis K., College of Sciences, Graduate School of Sciences and Engineering, and Department of Physics

Subjects
Physics, Entropy (classical thermodynamics), Thermal efficiency, Isochoric process, Pairing, Bath, Quantum computation, Quantum gates, Mechanics, Adiabatic process, Quantum, Physics, fluids and plasmas, Physics, mathematical, Heat engine, Quantum computer
Abstract

We suggest alternative quantum Otto engines, using heat bath algorithmic cooling with a partner pairing algorithm instead of isochoric cooling and using quantum SWAP operations instead of quantum adiabatic processes. Liquid state nuclear magnetic resonance systems in a single entropy sink are treated as working fluids. The extractable work and thermal efficiency are analyzed in detail for four-stroke and two-stroke types of alternative quantum Otto engines. The role of the heat bath algorithmic cooling in these cycles is to use a single entropy sink instead of two so that a single incoherent energy resource can be harvested and processed using an algorithmic quantum heat engine. Our results indicate a path to programmable quantum heat engines as analogs of quantum computers beyond traditional heat engine cycles. We find that for our NMR system example implementation of quantum algorithmic heat engine stages yields more power due to increased cycle speeds., NA

Published
2019

12. Quantum-limited biochemical magnetometers designed using the Fisher information and quantum reaction control

Author

I. K. Kominis and K. M. Vitalis

Subjects
Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph), Physics, Quantum Physics, Quantum dynamics, Quantum limit, FOS: Physical sciences, Quantum simulator, 02 engineering and technology, 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology, 01 natural sciences, Quantum technology, Open quantum system, Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph), Quantum error correction, Physics - Chemical Physics, Quantum mechanics, 0103 physical sciences, Quantum metrology, Physics - Biological Physics, Quantum Physics (quant-ph), 010306 general physics, 0210 nano-technology, Quantum information science
Abstract

Radical-ion pairs and their reactions have triggered the study of quantum effects in biological systems. This is because they exhibit a number of effects best understood within quantum information science, and at the same time are central in understanding the avian magnetic compass and the spin transport dynamics in photosynthetic reaction centers. Here we address radical-pair reactions from the perspective of quantum metrology. Since the coherent spin motion of radical-pairs is effected by an external magnetic field, these spin-dependent reactions essentially realize a biochemical magnetometer. Using the quantum Fisher information, we find the fundamental quantum limits to the magnetic sensitivity of radical-pair magnetometers. We then explore how well the usual measurement scheme considered in radical-pair reactions, the measurement of reaction yields, approaches the fundamental limits. In doing so, we find the optimal hyperfine interaction Hamiltonian that leads to the best magnetic sensitivity as obtained from reaction yields. This is still an order of magnitude smaller than the absolute quantum limit. Finally, we demonstrate that with a realistic quantum reaction control reminding of Ramsey interferometry, here presented as a quantum circuit involving the spin-exchange interaction and a recently proposed molecular switch, we can approach the fundamental quantum limit within a factor of 2. This work opens the application of well-advanced quantum metrology methods to biological systems., 16 pages, 6 figures

Published
2017
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13. Quantum Biometrics with Retinal Photon Counting

Author

Charikleia Vrettou, Michail Loulakis, I. K. Kominis, and G. Blatsios

Subjects
0301 basic medicine, Biometrics, media_common.quotation_subject, ComputingMethodologies_IMAGEPROCESSINGANDCOMPUTERVISION, General Physics and Astronomy, Quantum measurement, FOS: Physical sciences, 01 natural sciences, 03 medical and health sciences, Perception, 0103 physical sciences, FOS: Mathematics, Computer vision, Physics - Biological Physics, 010306 general physics, Quantum, media_common, Quantum Physics, Photon statistics, business.industry, Probability (math.PR), Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph), Photon counting, 030104 developmental biology, Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph), Artificial intelligence, business, Quantum Physics (quant-ph), Physics - Computational Physics, Mathematics - Probability, Physics - Optics, Optics (physics.optics)
Abstract

It is known that the eye's scotopic photodetectors, rhodopsin molecules and their associated phototransduction mechanism leading to light perception, are efficient single photon counters. We here use the photon counting principles of human rod vision to propose a secure quantum biometric identification based on the quantum-statistical properties of retinal photon detection. The photon path along the human eye until its detection by rod cells is modeled as a filter having a specific transmission coefficient. Precisely determining its value from the photodetection statistics registered by the conscious observer is a quantum parameter estimation problem that leads to a quantum secure identification method. The probabilities for false positive and false negative identification of this biometric technique can readily approach $10^{-10}$ and $10^{-4}$, respectively. The security of the biometric method can be further quantified by the physics of quantum measurements. An impostor must be able to perform quantum thermometry and quantum magnetometry with energy resolution better than $10^{-9}\hbar$, in order to foil the device by non-invasively monitoring the biometric activity of a user., Comment: 16 pages, 4 figures

Published
2017
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14. Quantum Information Processing in the Radical-Pair Mechanism: Haberkorn theory violates the Ozawa entropy bound

Author

I. K. Kominis and K. Mouloudakis

Subjects
Physics, Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph), Quantum discord, Quantum Physics, FOS: Physical sciences, 02 engineering and technology, Quantum channel, Quantum capacity, 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology, 16. Peace & justice, 01 natural sciences, Quantum relative entropy, Open quantum system, Theoretical physics, Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph), Quantum mechanics, Quantum process, Physics - Chemical Physics, 0103 physical sciences, Physics - Biological Physics, Quantum information, 010306 general physics, 0210 nano-technology, Quantum information science, Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
Abstract

Radical-ion-pair reactions, central for understanding the avian magnetic compass and spin transport in photosynthetic reaction centers, were recently shown to be a fruitful paradigm of the new synthesis of quantum information science with biological processes. We show here that the master equation so far constituting the theoretical foundation of spin chemistry violates fundamental bounds for the entropy of quantum systems, in particular the Ozawa bound. In contrast, a recently developed theory based on quantum measurements, quantum coherence measures, and quantum retrodiction, thus exemplifying the paradigm of quantum biology, satisfies the Ozawa bound as well as the Lanford-Robinson bound on information extraction. By considering Groenewold information, the quantum information extracted during the reaction, we reproduce the known and unravel other magnetic-field effects not conveyed by reaction yields., 8 pages, 3 figures

Published
2016

15. Quantum trajectory tests of radical-pair quantum dynamics in CIDNP measurements of photosynthetic reaction centers

Author

I. K. Kominis and K. Tsampourakis

Subjects
Photosynthetic reaction centre, Quantum dynamics, General Physics and Astronomy, FOS: Physical sciences, 02 engineering and technology, 010402 general chemistry, 01 natural sciences, Quantum mechanics, Physics - Chemical Physics, Master equation, Physics - Biological Physics, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Quantum, Physics, Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph), Quantum Physics, CIDNP, Time evolution, Observable, 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology, Polarization (waves), 0104 chemical sciences, 3. Good health, Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph), 0210 nano-technology, Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
Abstract

Chemically induced dynamic nuclear polarization is a ubiquitous phenomenon in photosynthetic reaction centers. The relevant nuclear spin observables are a direct manifestation of the radical-pair mechanism. We here use quantum trajectories to describe the time evolution of radical-pairs, and compare their prediction of nuclear spin observables to the one derived from the radical-pair master equation. While our approach provides a consistent description, we unravel a major inconsistency within the conven- tional theory, thus challenging the theoretical interpretation of numerous CIDNP experiments sensitive to radical-pair reaction kinetics., 7 pages, 3 figures

Published
2015

16. Detecting shake-off electron-ion coincidences to measure β-decay correlations in laser trapped 21Na

Author

I. K. Kominis, B. K. Fujikawa, N.D. Scielzo, Jeffrey R. Vieregg, Paul Vetter, Stuart Freedman, and Reina H. Maruyama

Subjects
Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Isotope, Electron, Atomic physics, Charged particle, Coincidence, Order of magnitude, Radioactive decay, Lepton, Ion
Abstract

The properties of a neutral atom trap are nearly ideal for precise measurements of nuclear β -decay correlation coefficients. Following a radioactive decay, all particles emerge from the trap volume unperturbed and are available for study. However, for measurements online at existing accelerators, sufficient statistics will be difficult to acquire if precision significantly better than 0.01 in the correlation coefficients is desired. We have investigated the feasibility of detecting shake-off electrons in coincidence with the recoiling ions to decrease the statistical uncertainty of some measurements by nearly an order of magnitude.

Published
2004
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17. A subfemtotesla multichannel atomic magnetometer

Author

Michael Romalis, I. K. Kominis, Joel C. Allred, and T. W. Kornack

Subjects
Superconductivity, Multidisciplinary, medicine.diagnostic_test, Magnetometer, Chemistry, business.industry, Detector, Magnetoencephalography, Sensitivity and Specificity, law.invention, Magnetic field, Magnetics, Optics, Nuclear magnetic resonance, law, medicine, business, Spin (physics), Image resolution, Sensitivity (electronics)
Abstract

The magnetic field is one of the most fundamental and ubiquitous physical observables, carrying information about all electromagnetic phenomena. For the past 30 years, superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs) operating at 4 K have been unchallenged as ultrahigh-sensitivity magnetic field detectors, with a sensitivity reaching down to 1 fT Hz(-1/2) (1 fT = 10(-15) T). They have enabled, for example, mapping of the magnetic fields produced by the brain, and localization of the underlying electrical activity (magnetoencephalography). Atomic magnetometers, based on detection of Larmor spin precession of optically pumped atoms, have approached similar levels of sensitivity using large measurement volumes, but have much lower sensitivity in the more compact designs required for magnetic imaging applications. Higher sensitivity and spatial resolution combined with non-cryogenic operation of atomic magnetometers would enable new applications, including the possibility of mapping non-invasively the cortical modules in the brain. Here we describe a new spin-exchange relaxation-free (SERF) atomic magnetometer, and demonstrate magnetic field sensitivity of 0.54 fT Hz(-1/2) with a measurement volume of only 0.3 cm3. Theoretical analysis shows that fundamental sensitivity limits of this device are below 0.01 fT Hz(-1/2). We also demonstrate simple multichannel operation of the magnetometer, and localization of magnetic field sources with a resolution of 2 mm.

Published
2003
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18. The radical-pair mechanism as a paradigm for the emerging science of quantum biology

Author

I. K. Kominis

Subjects
Field (physics), Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph), FOS: Physical sciences, 02 engineering and technology, Electron, 01 natural sciences, Physics - Atomic Physics, law.invention, Quantum biology, Spin chemistry, law, Physics - Chemical Physics, 0103 physical sciences, Physics - Biological Physics, Quantum information, 010306 general physics, Electron paramagnetic resonance, Physics, Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph), Quantum Physics, Spins, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology, Condensed Matter Physics, Chemical physics, Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph), 0210 nano-technology, Quantum Physics (quant-ph), Mechanism (sociology)
Abstract

The radical-pair mechanism was introduced in the 1960's to explain anomalously large EPR and NMR signals in chemical reactions of organic molecules. It has evolved to the cornerstone of spin chemistry, the study of the effect electron and nuclear spins have on chemical reactions, with the avian magnetic compass mechanism and the photosynthetic reaction center dynamics being prominent biophysical manifestations of such effects. In recent years the radical-pair mechanism was shown to be an ideal biological system where the conceptual tools of quantum information science can be fruitfully applied. We will here review recent work making the case that the radical-pair mechanism is indeed a major driving force of the emerging field of quantum biology., Comment: 22 pages, 13 figures

Published
2015
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19. Transverse AsymmetryAT′from the Quasielastic3He→(e→,e′)Process and the Neutron Magnetic Form Factor

Author

J. Yeh, B. W. Filippone, William Bertozzi, Wolfgang Korsch, K. McIlhany, K. McCormick, M. Schnee, K. Kramer, L. Todor, T. Pavlin, R. I. Pomatsalyuk, L. Cardman, Jacek Golak, Nilanga Liyanage, F. W. Hersman, Branislav Vlahovic, R. Suleiman, A. Deur, Steffen Strauch, R. D. McKeown, J. O. Hansen, D. J. Margaziotis, J. Gomez, Bogdan Wojtsekhowski, Jian-Ping Chen, T. Averett, Charles Glashausser, de Jager Cw, Y. Roblin, D. Pripstein, W. Xu, J. S. Jensen, M. Sutter, I. K. Kominis, M. Liang, C. Crawford, Hiroyuki Kamada, Dipanwita Dutta, W. Glöckle, A. V. Glamazdin, Z. Chai, M. Viviani, Sebastien Incerti, C. F. Williamson, Gordon D. Cates, E. Lakuriqi, F. Xiong, B. Humensky, E. W. Hughes, Henryk Witała, G. G. Petratos, R. Michaels, B. D. Anderson, E. Pace, J. W. Watson, D. S. Dale, Jones Ce, Z. E. Meziani, B. Tipton, Ronald Ransome, G. S. Corrado, L. Auberbach, J. J. LeRose, A. Kievsky, V. Gorbenko, T. Black, Xin Jiang, R. Holmes, R. Kahl, D. W. Higinbotham, G. Salme, S. Churchwell, P. A. Zolnierczuk, J. M. Finn, G. Kumbartzki, C. R. Howell, J. R. Calarco, E. Chudakov, P. Djawotho, Karl Slifer, Haiyan Gao, Paul Souder, T. Shin, M. Rvachev, J. W. Martin, Seonho Choi, S. Malov, Ronald Gilman, M. K. Jones, A. Saha, G. W. Miller, M. Kuss, and David L. Prout

Subjects
Nuclear physics, Physics, Transverse plane, Quasielastic scattering, Experimental uncertainty analysis, media_common.quotation_subject, Magnetic form factor, General Physics and Astronomy, Neutron, Asymmetry, Polarized target, media_common
Abstract

We have measured the transverse asymmetry A_T′ in ^3He(e,e′) quasielastic scattering in Hall A at Jefferson Laboratory with high precision for Q^2 values from 0.1 to 0.6 (GeV/c)^2. The neutron magnetic form factor GMn was extracted based on Faddeev calculations for Q^2 = 0.1 and 0.2 (GeV/c)^2 with an experimental uncertainty of less than 2%.

Published
2000
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20. Retrodictive derivation of the radical-ion-pair master equation and Monte-Carlo simulation with single-molecule quantum trajectories

Author

Michail Kritsotakis and I. K. Kominis

Subjects
Ions, Models, Molecular, Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph), Quantum Physics, Quantum simulator, FOS: Physical sciences, Open quantum system, Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph), Physics - Chemical Physics, Quantum master equation, Quantum process, Master equation, Quantum operation, Quantum Theory, Quantum algorithm, Computer Simulation, Physics - Biological Physics, Statistical physics, Quantum information science, Quantum Physics (quant-ph), Monte Carlo Method, Mathematics
Abstract

Radical-ion-pair reactions, central in photosynthesis and the avian magnetic compass mechanism, have recently shown to be a paradigm system for applying quantum information science in a biochemical setting. The fundamental quantum master equation describing radical-ion-pair reactions is still under debate. We here use quantum retrodiction to produce a rigorous refinement of the theory put forward in Phys. Rev. E {\bf 83}, 056118 (2011). We also provide a rigorous analysis of the measure of singlet-triplet coherence required for deriving the radical-pair master equation. A Monte-Carlo simulation with single-molecule quantum trajectories supports the self-consistency of our approach., Comment: 12 pages, 8 figures

Published
2014
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21. Revealing the properties of the radical-pair magnetoreceptor using pulsed photo-excitation timed with pulsed rf

Author

I. K. Kominis and K. Mouloudakis

Subjects
0301 basic medicine, Statistics and Probability, Pulsed laser, Sensory Receptor Cells, FOS: Physical sciences, Models, Biological, General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, law.invention, Birds, 03 medical and health sciences, Nuclear magnetic resonance, law, Orientation, Animals, Computer Simulation, Physics - Biological Physics, Resonance effect, Physics, Quantum Physics, Applied Mathematics, Lasers, Resonance, General Medicine, Laser, Magnetic field, 030104 developmental biology, Magnetic Fields, Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph), Modeling and Simulation, Light excitation, Atomic physics, Quantum Physics (quant-ph), Excitation, Algorithms, Delay time, Spatial Navigation
Abstract

The radical-pair mechanism is understood to underlie the magnetic navigation capability of birds and possibly other species. Experiments with birds have provided indirect and in cases conflicting evidence on the actual existence of this mechanism. We here propose a new experiment that can unambiguously identify the presence of the radical-pair magnetoreceptor in birds and unravel some of its basic properties. The proposed experiment is based on modulated light excitation with a pulsed laser, combined with delayed radio-frequency magnetic field pulses. We predict a resonance effect in the birds' magnetic orientation versus the rf-pulse delay time. The resonance's position reflects the singlet-triplet mixing time of the magnetoreceptor., Comment: 5 pages, 5 figures

Published
2014
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22. RETrap – a cryogenic Penning ion trap system

Author

S. Toleikis, I. K. Kominis, Paul Vetter, David A. Church, D. H. Schneider, R. Maruyama, and S.J. Freedman

Subjects
Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Chemistry, Electron cyclotron resonance, Ion source, Ion, Nuclear physics, Ion beam deposition, Physics::Plasma Physics, Laser cooling, Physics::Accelerator Physics, Physics::Atomic Physics, Ion trap, Atomic physics, National laboratory, Instrumentation, Electron beam ion trap
Abstract

RETrap is a cryogenic Penning ion trap system, capable of the capture and cooling of highest charge high Z ions from external low-energy ion sources such as the Electron Beam Ion Trap (EBIT) or Electron Cyclotron Resonance Ion Sources (ECRIS). Recently RETrap has been moved from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) to Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), where its operation for sophisticated research is currently being re-established.

Published
2005
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23. Spin-noise correlations and spin-noise exchange driven by low-field spin-exchange collisions

Author

A. T. Dellis, I. K. Kominis, and Michail Loulakis

Subjects
Physics, Quantum Physics, Quantum decoherence, Field (physics), Condensed Matter - Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics, Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph), Probability (math.PR), FOS: Physical sciences, Atomic species, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Magnetic field, Physics - Atomic Physics, Nuclear physics, Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall), Fundamental physics, FOS: Mathematics, Condensed Matter::Strongly Correlated Electrons, Scattering theory, Quantum Physics (quant-ph), Noise (radio), Mathematics - Probability, Spin-½
Abstract

The physics of spin exchange collisions have fueled several discoveries in fundamental physics and numerous applications in medical imaging and nuclear magnetic resonance. We here report on the experimental observation and theoretical justification of spin-noise exchange, the transfer of spin-noise from one atomic species to another. The signature of spin-noise exchange is an increase of the total spin-noise power at low magnetic fields, on the order of 1 mG, where the two-species spin-noise resonances overlap. The underlying physical mechanism is the two-species spin-noise correlation induced by spin-exchange collisions., 7 pages, 5 figures

Published
2013

24. Introducing the CTA concept

Author

A. Mathieu, R. G. Wagner, K. Panagiotidis, S Rosier Lees, Julien Rousselle, M. Gómez Berisso, Michela Uslenghi, Stephen Maxfield, R. C. Shellard, Ivica Puljak, T. Le Flour, Thomas Schanz, Tobias C. Walther, Juanan Aguilar, Pierre Colin, M. Chikawa, N. Fouque, Mosè Mariotti, G. Fontaine, Merja Tornikoski, V. Diez-Blanco, Enrico Giro, A. Krepps, G. Koss, J. M. Martin, Sergio Billotta, E. de Oña Wilhelmi, Keitaro Takahashi, S. Buson, P. Brook, S. Steiner, M. Dyrda, Joseph Silk, Sera Markoff, P. Lubinski, U. Schwanke, Sauvik Bhattacharyya, J. Ripken, T. Haubold, C. Zurbach, H. Wetteskind, R. Hermel, J. Darling, J. Nicolau-Kukliński, Konstancja Satalecka, M. Videla, Stefan Funk, P. Conconi, S. Bajtlik, Lukasz Stawarz, J. M. Paredes, K. Reitberger, Stefan Wagner, Teresa Mineo, David Kieda, G. Pareschi, Shigeto Kabuki, Makoto Sawada, Antonio Stamerra, Rodolfo Canestrari, N. Baby, G. Crimi, P. Kostka, J. Grube, R. Zanin, I. K. Kominis, L. Mc Comb, R. Sternberger, M. Fesquet, M. Tokarz, David Fink, Daniela Dorner, N. Hamer Heras, A. Moralejo Olaizola, M. de Naurois, Diego F. Torres, Claes Fransson, K. Nishijima, Yutaka Fujita, L. Fresnillo, B. García, R. Kossakowski, A. Masserot, H. von Gunten, Alkiviadis F. Bais, Ciro Bigongiari, A. Saggion, G. Papyan, I. Mrusek, K. Farakos, J. Michałowski, A. Franckowiak, Fernando Martinez, M. Doert, R. Wawrzaszek, Michele Doro, L. Sapozhnikov, Claudia Lavalley, D. Thuermann, A.A. Zdziarski, Cristina Knapic, Karen Byrum, N. Neyroud, Petr Schovanek, W. Domainko, D. Kastana, E. Birsin, Adrian Biland, F. Sánchez, Alexandre Marcowith, M. Errando, R. L. C. Starling, J. Schultze, A. Weinstein, B. B. Singh, Yassir Moudden, Jelena Aleksić, C. L. Naumann, V. Waegebaert, M. Shayduk, U. F. Katz, Gianpiero Tagliaferri, M. Schroedter, A. Vollhardt, O. Reimann, Hideyuki Ohoka, Vincenzo Testa, C. Jablonski, Tsuguya Naito, J. Schäfer, Stavros Maltezos, A. Wierzcholska, P. Wawer, L. Nellen, F. Mirabel, Tatsuo Yoshida, P. H. Carton, Nina Nowak, L. Platos, Riccardo Rando, P. P. Krueger, R. Wischnewski, W. Romaszkan, E. Fede, Martino Marisaldi, Markus Gaug, Richard Willingale, J. H. Buckley, U. De AlmeidaBarres, J. Knapp, Saverio Lombardi, D. della Volpe, A. Herrero, A. Bottani, E. Delagnes, Martin J. Hardcastle, C. Morello, Anna Lipniacka, T. Greenshaw, M. Renaud, Giancarlo Cusumano, Jonathan Biteau, M. Sowiński, J. R. T. de Mello Neto, T. B. Humensky, Michael G. Richer, G. Parks, G. Grasseau, H. Baba, Gino Tosti, Damir Lelas, H. Krawzcynski, David Paneque, M. Barcelo, R. Dickherber, P. Ferrando, Shinji Hara, D. Florin, Hideaki Katagiri, T. Shibata, Fuyuki Tokanai, N. A. McCubbin, J. Gomez-Ortega, D. Nakajima, A. Liolios, P. Laporte, Orjan Dale, A. Sillanpää, Dainis Dravins, Timothée Grégoire, Nu. Komin, A. Mihailidis, L. Sidoli, Shiu-Hang Lee, A. W. Chen, J. M. Illa, A. Kuznetsov, P. Munar-Adrover, D. Dominis Prester, Marcos Daniel Actis, Abraham D. Falcone, L. Journet, D. Hadasch, N. Galante, A. Murphy, C. J. Todero Peixoto, S. Wiesand, A. Aravantinos, A. C. Rovero, J. L. Dournaux, P. Romano, M. Hrabovsky, R. de los Reyes Lopez, M. Ostrowski, J. Pallota, Geza Gyuk, Petar Temnikov, R. Dubois, Jan Ebr, R. Koul, David J. Smith, S. Schwarzburg, P. Manigot, Chad Finley, Tarek M. Hassan, Giuseppe Sottile, Evgeni Ovcharov, P. J. Rajda, F. Krennrich, Peter L. Moore, W. B. Focke, W. Bednarek, Elena Amato, Kazunori Kohri, J. Gamez-Garcia, I. Oya, A. Shibuya, German Hermann, William H. Lee, Dorota Sobczyńska, X. Zhou, C. Balkowski, G. Vallejo, M. Hayashida, M. Bitossi, Loukas Vlahos, H. Lockart, N. Geffroy, L. Tibaldo, Marek Jamrozy, Luke O'c. Drury, Pratik Majumdar, P. Sutcliffe, S. Schlenstedt, M. Palatka, Christophe Champion, H. Ueno, M. Rupiński, P. Giommi, J. Schwarz, G. Pühlhofer, Takashi Saito, W. van Driel, C. van Eldik, Q. Xiong, Yasuo Fukui, A. Donat, A. Ibarra, R. S. Warwick, Michiko Ohishi, A. W. Smith, J.-P. Lenain, Aion Viana, Terry Ashton, Guillaume Dubus, Jacek Niemiec, K. Kodani, Luis Ángel Tejedor, A. Wörnlein, Takanori Yoshikoshi, Masahiro Teshima, W. Gäbele, Ll. Font, Olaf Reimer, J. F. Valdés-Galicia, Lucy Fortson, J. P. Osborne, Mattia Fornasa, Keith Bechtol, Masayuki Tanaka, Shigehiro Nagataki, M. Rataj, M. Ribordy, Emmanuel Moulin, I. de la Calle, K. Winiarski, C. Jeanney, I. Mognet, I. Vegas, C. Juffroy, Yutaka Ohira, A. Jacholkowska, Matthew Wood, A. E. Suárez, J. Bähr, K. M. Schure, J. Maya, M. Dafonseca, J. Tasan, R. Sugawara, M. Bourgeat, A. Mancilla, D. Pelat, Olga Botner, D. Nedbal, G. Depaola, Robert Wagner, T. Okuda, H. Arnaldi, Josep Martí, P. Corona, T. Bonev, D. Yelos, J. Sieiro, V. Scalzotto, Jacco Vink, D. Languignon, Marco Ajello, J. Vandenbrouke, Philipp Mertsch, M. Mordalska, P. Wegner, P. Ziółkowski, P. T. O'Brien, A. Nozato, Robert D. Preece, B. Huber, Matteo Balbo, J.R. Bogart, R. Kankanyan, K. Mori, T. Jogler, Seth Digel, Claudio Vuerli, Hiromitsu Takahashi, Thomas Lohse, K. Saito, A. W. Borgland, Elisa Prandini, Helene Sol, Ryan Heller, M. Bogdan, D. Dumas, M. Stodulski, Y. Awane, Piercarlo Bonifacio, Pedro L. Luque-Escamilla, Judith H. Croston, Fabio Pizzolato, P. M. Chadwick, M. K. Daniel, Riccardo Paoletti, Reiko Orito, Katsuaki Asano, R. Frei, G. Disset, Valerie Connaughton, Juhani Huovelin, Hiroyasu Tajima, S. Vercellone, F. Feinstein, G. Decerprit, Riccardo Smareglia, S. Spyrou, Gustavo E. Romero, J. Shi, J. Carr, N. Girard, Dirk L. Hoffmann, Andreas Zech, Markus Boettcher, Osvaldo Catalano, Akira Okumura, M. Dohmke, C. Föhr, Sabrina Casanova, R. A. Cameron, Jan Conrad, K. Umehara, K. K. Yadav, A. Paizis, John L. Quinn, L. Pogosyan, C. Farnier, William J. Potter, Domenico Impiombato, Tadashi Kifune, Jonathan Granot, Gernot Maier, M. Cieślar, S. Palanque, G.W. Fraser, J. Prast, R. Bose, Heidi Sandaker, G. Lamanna, Dusan Mandat, J.F. Glicenstein, J. Harris, D. Naumann, J. Ziolkowski, Michał Szanecki, C. Delgado, J. Kocot, W. Lustermann, Sabine Elles, J. Schmoll, L. Gérard, M. López, Norita Kawanaka, V. Gika, B. Lieunard, A. Pichel, Martin Pohl, Mariusz Sterzel, S. Vincent, Paolo De Coppi, J. Lande, O. Blanch Bigas, Gianluca Giavitto, Yusuke Konno, Julian Sitarek, M. Panter, P.-O. Petrucci, F. Henault, M. Prouza, Philip Kaaret, Josep Colomé, Luciano Nicastro, German Martinez, L. Gebremedhin, J. M. Yebras, Apostolos Mastichiadis, A. S. Madhavan, Thomas J. Maccarone, K. Berger, R. Buehler, P. Jean, N. Sartore, F. Toussenel, Aris Karastergiou, W. Kluźniak, A. Djannati-Ataï, S. J. Fegan, Louis Antonelli, A. González Muñoz, J. Berdugo, S. S. Upadhya, M. Sidz, F. Mottez, Patrick Vogler, F. Di Pierro, Wystan Benbow, B. Sacco, L. Chiappetti, J. Dumm, R. Firpo Curcoll, David Gascon, V. Boccone, J. Krause, J. P. Avernet, B. Peyaud, B. De Lotto, Ana Babić, T. O. B. Schmidt, I. M. McHardy, T. Schweizer, S. P. Wakely, Daniel Gall, Frank M. Rieger, E. Sant'Ambrogio, M. Kagaya, P. Vincent, R. C. Rannot, Sandro Mereghetti, A. De Angelis, M. Scarcioffolo, R. White, G. H. Sembroski, Takeshi Nakamori, C. Medina, M. A. De Oliveira Leigui, Subir Sarkar, A. Marszałek, Reshmi Mukherjee, K. Nakayama, A. Fiasson, S. Giarrusso, T. Bernardino, J. P. Finley, D. Neise, L. O. Takalo, F. Grañena, Nikola Godinovic, H. Sasaki, P. Zychowski, Francesco Dazzi, B. Courty, A. Basili, Vitaly Neustroev, B. Khélifi, T. Glanzman, M. Trifoglio, Regis Terrier, R. A. Ong, E. M. Santos, M. Minuti, Thomas Bretz, R. Moderski, J. Kushida, S. Royer, Emilio Molinari, Etienne Lyard, J. Houles, Juan Abel Barrio, T. Lerch, S. Rivoire, T. Kishimoto, M. Cailles, M. Casiraghi, Nikolaos Stergioulas, J. Gaweda, S. Koyama, Ingomar Allekotte, E. Ismailova, Elina Giannakaki, S. Schwemmer, Ryo Yamazaki, G. Fasola, Christoph Deil, Jose Luis Contreras, T. Bird, Miguel A. Sánchez-Conde, J. Dick, E. Edy, D. Parsons, R. Pyzioł, R. Mirzoyan, Manjuli R. Sharma, J. Borkowski, Jonathan S. Lapington, Cameron B Rulten, Rino Bandiera, Volker Beckmann, Jun Kakuwa, Dimitris Balis, Kenji Toma, Anna Barnacka, Andrea Santangelo, L. Padilla, Peter Eger, G. Decock, Karol Seweryn, N. Sakaki, Darko Veberič, Andrea Bulgarelli, B. Rudak, M. Pérez, H. Koppel, Felix Spanier, M. I. Martínez, D. Horville, Marco Molinaro, R. Walter, P. Ramon, S. Brau-Nogue, J. Camprecios, K. Kärcher, John H. Seiradakis, S. Criswell, D. J. Leopold, V. J. Guarino, R. Gredig, S. Vorobiov, Viktor Gruev, Gareth Hughes, Daniele Spiga, Quirin Weitzel, N. Håkansson, Susumu Inoue, U. Straumann, Juan Cortina, B. Behera, Jürgen Knödlseder, Daniel Nieto, Tomasz Szepieniec, H. Prokoph, Jerzy Grygorczuk, G. De La Vega, Jim Hinton, E. Chabanne, M. Mahabir, R. Krobot, M. Capalbi, Miroslav Pech, C. Díaz, J. Ludwin, F. Gianotti, Garret Cotter, Claudio Melioli, Hiroaki Yamamoto, C. Veyssiere, Kunihito Ioka, S. Sun, J. M. Parraud, L. Rob, Felix Aharonian, G. Maneva, D. Melkumyan, T. Schwab, J. Kasperek, J. M. Huet, E. Lorenz, S. Tanaka, Y. A. Gallant, S. Couturier, B.W. Favill, J. Boix Gargallo, Andrea Tiengo, Leszek Bogacz, Andreu Sanuy, Christian Fruck, J. Sykes, C. Martens, A. Yoshida, Marek Sikora, E. Racero, G. Rouaix, N. Bhat, A. Salini, A. S. Barber, Mauro Ghigo, Jan Ridky, K. Kosack, Konrad Bernlöhr, C. Tenzer, Alice Allafort, M. Torres, Catherine Boisson, Grzegorz Kowal, M. Karczewski, G. Agnetta, Victor Stamatescu, Anthony H. Gonzalez, S. Rousselle, Giovanni Bonanno, A. Zajczyk, A. Gadola, P. Martin, V. Zitelli, I. Manthos, N. Maragos, A. Dettlaff, F. Profeti, S. Colonges, S. Gunji, S. Cazaux, S. Colafrancesco, M. Paz Arribas, Rika Hagiwara, Darell Engelhaupt, Nestor Mirabal, Johann Cohen-Tanugi, S. Grunewald, Abby M. Green, I. D. Davids, D. Nosek, T. Yamamoto, Gagik Tovmassian, R. Sakonaka, Miguel Alcubierre, C. Baixeras, T. L. Usher, Kazufumi Torii, H. Lüdecke, L. Wiśniewski, B. Kellner-Leidel, P. Demange, F. Gonzalez, B. Moal, V. De Caprio, V. Golev, K. Katarzyński, V. Bugaev, A. Reimer, J. Koziol, G. Pojmanski, Alessandro Carosi, J. Bolmont, A. Nikolaidis, R. J. García López, V. A. Kudryavtsev, C. Stegmann, J.-P. Ernenwein, M. Fiorini, Ivone F. M. Albuquerque, Marco Tavani, P. Korohoda, A. Giuliani, E. Carmona, C. Bauer, Kostas D. Kokkotas, O. Tibolla, G. Deleglise, Pierre Brun, Dinko Dimitrov, I. Jung, R. Steenkamp, Marc Ribó, Kathrin Egberts, P. Reardon, Adriano Ghedina, Stefan Rosén, N. Hidaka, Trygve Buanes, A. Segreto, H. Huan, Juri Poutanen, Ruben Lopez-Coto, S. Cavazzani, Massimiliano Belluso, A. Kretzschmann, F. De Frondat, A. Riviere, J. F. Olive, Tsunefumi Mizuno, Serena Mattiazzo, M. González, D. Fantinel, Matteo Cerruti, S. Vergani, Sabrina Einecke, N. La Palombara, Reinhard Schlickeiser, P. Antoranz, Pol Bordas, D. Paillot, V. de Souza, Yasushi Fukazawa, Phil Evans, Werner Hofmann, Hugh Dickinson, F. Roy, Yvonne Becherini, E. O. Angüner, D. Corti, T. C. Arlen, Francesco Russo, V. R. Chitnis, D. Ross, R. Gabriele, Massimo Persic, E. Fokitis, A. Bonardi, D. Garrido, A. Niedźwiecki, L. Cossio, Hidetoshi Kubo, Y. de Oliveira, F. Mattana, Anna Szostek, M. Compin, S. Blake, F. Lucarelli, Petter Hofverberg, Felix Ryde, M. Gougerot, C. Boutonnet, Dimitrios Emmanoulopoulos, A. Mangano, P. Vallania, Jose Miguel Miranda, A. Manalaysay, M. Raue, A. Bouvier, Shohei Yanagita, Nektarios Vlahakis, Joni Tammi, M. Naumann-Godo, Kohta Murase, E. Fillin-Martino, Jiri Chudoba, K. Hatanaka, A. Lopatin, N. Otte, G. Rojas, Tomonori Totani, K. S. Gothe, J. P. Vialle, D. Kolitzus, K. Warda, Hironori Matsumoto, J. Rico, P. Ringegni, James Chiang, R. McKay, A. Bobkov, Aya Bamba, H. Takami, B. Giebels, O. Grimm, S. Basso, F. Dubois, Victor Zabalza, A. Förster, Pasquale Blasi, Alexandros Papayannis, A. G. Akhperjanian, Eckhard Kendziorra, James A. Anderson, Giuseppe Malaguti, R. Welsing, S. Pita, A. Ozieblo, Heide Costantini, D. Tezier, J.-H. Köhne, M. Tluczykont, Ll. Garrido, Alexander Varón Sandoval, Matthew R. Orr, Dominique Durand, F. Chollet, O. Luz, E. O. Saemann, Jun Kataoka, M. Proyetti, C. Barbier, Jürgen Barnstedt, L. Bouchet, Hiroshi Muraishi, Anton N. Baushev, L. A. Otero, Denis Bastieri, S. Incorvaia, Tihomir Surić, V. La Parola, Nathan Smith, Karl-Heinz Sulanke, F. Bernard, Luca Stringhetti, S. Paiano, S. Federici, Hector Flores, Karl Mannheim, Michael S. Briggs, Giovanna Pedaletti, E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino, J. D. Smith, G. La Rosa, Alicia López-Oramas, M. Janiak, Gary Drake, G. Talbot, Petr Travnicek, Elisabetta Bissaldi, Mario Meucci, R. Northrop, V. Scapin, Vito Conforti, J. D. Ponz, T. Aghajani, J. J. Jimenez, A. D. Supanitsky, Hernán Asorey, M. Werner, Brian Reville, A. Haupt, C. Skole, Gilles Henri, Daniele Gardiol, V. Vassiliev, R. Platzer, Y. Saito, A. La Barbera, Allan Hallgren, C. Eleftheriadis, S. Cantu, G. Maurin, K. Lacombe, A. Le Padellec, F. Stinzing, T. Hayakawa, A. Cillis, M. Suchenek, I. Monteiro, V. Sahakian, A. Di Paola, Grzegorz Madejski, A. De Luca, Andreas Quirrenbach, P. A. Caraveo, N. A. Webb, Michael Zacharias, J. Vanderwalt, Dario Hrupec, K. Ziȩtara, T. Armstrong, A. Lorca, T. Krähenbühl, A. Etchegoyen, Stefano Covino, C. Kalkuhl, K. Kitamoto, Tomasz Bulik, R. Rohlfs, D. Allan, A. Zhao, Luisa Arrabito, B. S. Acharya, T. Johnson, C. Schultz, G. Vasileiadis, Eleen Shum, Daniel Ferenc, Paola Grandi, Maria Concetta Maccarone, E. Strazzeri, H. Kelly, E. J. Quel, H. Vankov, Ruben Alfaro, I. Telezhinsky, J. Becker Tjus, C. Dufour, F. Köck, Ilana M. Braun, Jamie Holder, Ryoji Enomoto, Luigi Lessio, Michael Punch, Stefano Gabici, I. Puerto-Gimenez, S. Karkar, P. Nayman, M. Grudzińska, E. Aliu, Yoshiyuki Inoue, Elina Lindfors, J. Becerra, Daniel Mazin, Yukikatsu Terada, André Schulz, Teresa Montaruli, G. Bonnoli, S. Renner, Dieter Horns, J. Dyks, V. Pelassa, Mark I. Wilkinson, Ricardo Graciani, I. Troyano, P. Ristori, Thomas Kihm, P. Micolon, S. J. Nolan, Torsten Bringmann, David A. Williams, Joachim Hahn, L. Brunetti, U. 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Phys (API, FNWI)

Subjects
Next generation Cherenkov telescopes, Ciencias Físicas, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, TeV GAMMA-RAY ASTRONOMY, Observatory, Air showers, HESS, Cherenkov Telescopes, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, MISSION, SUPERNOVA REMNANT W44, TELESCOPE, ASTRONOMY, EMISSION, Physics, ta213, [SDU.ASTR.HE]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena [astro-ph.HE], Settore FIS/01 - Fisica Sperimentale, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, TeV gamma-ray astronomy, ddc:540, CIENCIAS NATURALES Y EXACTAS, [PHYS.ASTR.HE]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena [astro-ph.HE], [PHYS.ASTR.IM]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM], Air shower, AIR SHOWERS, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, 0103 physical sciences, Preparatory phase, ta115, TeV gamma-ray astronomy Air showers Cherenkov Telescopes, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, business.industry, CHERENKOV TELESCOPES, Física, Astronomy, Institut für Physik und Astronomie, Astronomy and Astrophysics, ASTROFÍSICA, Cherenkov Telescope Array, [SDU.ASTR.IM]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM], Astronomía, Design study, Telecommunications, business
Abstract

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is a new observatory for very high-energy (VHE) gamma rays. CTA has ambitions science goals, for which it is necessary to achieve full-sky coverage, to improve the sensitivity by about an order of magnitude, to span about four decades of energy, from a few tens of GeV to above 100 TeV with enhanced angular and energy resolutions over existing VHE gamma-ray observatories. An international collaboration has formed with more than 1000 members from 27 countries in Europe, Asia, Africa and North and South America. In 2010 the CTA Consortium completed a Design Study and started a three-year Preparatory Phase which leads to production readiness of CTA in 2014. In this paper we introduce the science goals and the concept of CTA, and provide an overview of the project., La lista completa de autores puede consultarse en el documento o en la página web de la revista., Facultad de Ingeniería

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2013
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25. Collision Kernels from Velocity-Selective Optical Pumping with Magnetic Depolarization

Author

I. K. Kominis, William Happer, Bart H. McGuyer, Robert Marsland, and Tejal Bhamre

Subjects
Cusp (singularity), Physics, business.industry, Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph), chemistry.chemical_element, FOS: Physical sciences, Physics::Optics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Computational physics, Physics - Atomic Physics, Optical pumping, Transverse plane, Earth's magnetic field, Optics, chemistry, Precession, business, Adaptive optics, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), Helium, Spin-½
Abstract

We experimentally demonstrate how magnetic depolarization of velocity-selective optical pumping can be used to single out the collisional cusp kernel best describing spin and velocity relaxing collisions between potassium atoms and low pressure helium. The range of pressures and transverse fields used simulate the novel optical pumping regime pertinent to sodium guidestars employed in adaptive optics. We measure the precession of spin-velocity modes under the application of transverse magnetic fields, simulating the natural configuration of mesospheric sodium optical pumping in the geomagnetic field. We also provide a full theoretical account of the experimental data using the recently developed cusp kernels, which realistically quantify velocity damping collisions in this novel optical pumping regime. A single cusp kernel with a sharpness $s=13\pm 2$ provides a global fit to the K-He data., 5 pages, 3 figures

Published
2013

26. Quantum measurement corrections to CIDNP in photosynthetic reaction centers

Author

I. K. Kominis

Subjects
Thermal equilibrium, Photosynthetic reaction centre, Physics, Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph), Quantum Physics, Quantum decoherence, CIDNP, Quantum dynamics, General Physics and Astronomy, FOS: Physical sciences, Polarization (waves), Magnetic field, Chemical physics, Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph), Physics - Chemical Physics, Physics - Biological Physics, Spin (physics), Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
Abstract

Chemically induced dynamic nuclear polarization is a signature of spin order appearing in many photosynthetic reaction centers. Such polarization, significantly enhanced above thermal equilibrium, is known to result from the nuclear spin sorting inherent in the radical pair mechanism underlying long-lived charge-separated states in photosynthetic reaction centers. We will here show that the recently understood fundamental quantum dynamics of radical-ion-pair reactions open up a new and completely unexpected venue towards obtaining CIDNP signals. The fundamental decoherence mechanism inherent in the recombination process of radical pairs is shown to produce nuclear spin polarizations on the order of $10^4$ times or more higher than the thermal equilibrium value at earth's magnetic field relevant to natural photosynthesis. This opens up the possibility of a fundamentally new exploration of the biological significance of high nuclear polarizations in photosynthesis., Comment: 7 pages, 4 figures

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2013
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27. Lamb shift in radical-ion pairs produces a singlet-triplet energy splitting in photosynthetic reaction centers

Author

K. M. Vitalis and I. K. Kominis

Subjects
Physics, Photosynthetic reaction centre, Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph), Quantum Physics, Magnetic energy, Exchange interaction, General Physics and Astronomy, FOS: Physical sciences, 3. Good health, Lamb shift, symbols.namesake, Radical ion, Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph), Physics - Chemical Physics, symbols, Physics - Biological Physics, Singlet state, Atomic physics, Hamiltonian (quantum mechanics), Quantum Physics (quant-ph), Quantum
Abstract

Radical-ion pairs, fundamental for understanding photosynthesis and the avian magnetic compass, were recently shown to be biological open quantum systems. We here show that the coupling of the radical-pair's spin degrees of freedom to its decohering vibrational reservoir leads to a shift of the radical-pair's magnetic energy levels. The Lamb shift Hamiltonian is diagonal in the singlet-triplet basis, and results in a singlet-triplet energy splitting physically indistinguishable from an exchange interaction. This could have significant implications for understanding the energy level structure and the dynamics of photosynthetic reaction centers., Comment: 7 pages, 2 figures

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2013
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28. Reactant-Product Quantum Coherence in Electron Transfer Reactions

Author

I. K. Kominis

Subjects
Quantum dynamics, Quantum superposition, FOS: Physical sciences, Electrons, Electron, Electron Transport, symbols.namesake, Quantum mechanics, Physics - Chemical Physics, Feynman diagram, Physics - Biological Physics, Quantum, Physics, Electron transfer reactions, Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph), Quantum Physics, Models, Statistical, Chemistry, Physical, Electron transport chain, Kinetics, Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph), symbols, Quantum Theory, Quantum Physics (quant-ph), Algorithms, Coherence (physics)
Abstract

We investigate the physical meaning of quantum superposition states between reactants and products in electron transfer reactions. We show that such superpositions are strongly suppressed and to leading orders of perturbation theory do not pertain in electron transfer reactions. This is because of the intermediate manifold of states separating the reactants from the products. We provide an intuitive description of these considerations with Feynman diagrams. We also discuss the relation of such quantum coherences to understanding the fundamental quantum dynamics of spin-selective radical-ion-pair reactions., 4 pages, 5 figures

Published
2012

29. Magnetic Sensitivity and Entanglement Dynamics of the Chemical Compass

Author

I. K. Kominis

Subjects
Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph), Physics, Quantum Physics, Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph), Magnetometer, Quantum dynamics, Quantum sensor, FOS: Physical sciences, General Physics and Astronomy, Quantum entanglement, law.invention, Magnetic field, Physics - Atomic Physics, Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph), law, Compass, Quantum mechanics, Physics - Chemical Physics, Physics - Biological Physics, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Quantum Physics (quant-ph), Quantum, Coherence (physics)
Abstract

We present the quantum limits to the magnetic sensitivity of a new kind of magnetometer based on biochemical reactions. Radical-ion-pair reactions, the biochemical system underlying the chemical compass, are shown to offer a new and unique physical realization of a magnetic field sensor competitive to modern atomic or condensed matter magnetometers. We elaborate on the quantum coherence and entanglement dynamics of this sensor, showing that they provide the physical basis for testing our understanding of the fundamental quantum dynamics of radical-ion-pair reactions., 5 pages, 2 figures

Published
2011

30. Second Comment on 'Spin-selective reactions of radical pairs act as quantum measurements' (Chemical Physics Letters 488 (2010) 90-93)

Author

I. K. Kominis

Subjects
Quantum Physics, Chemistry, Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph), Quantum mechanics, Master equation, General Physics and Astronomy, FOS: Physical sciences, Physics - Biological Physics, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Quantum Physics (quant-ph), Quantum, Mathematics::Geometric Topology, Spin-½
Abstract

It is shown that the Jones-Hore theory is either inconsistent or cannot describe single-molecule experiments., 1 page

Published
2011

31. Photon statistics as an experimental test discriminating between theories of spin-selective radical-ion-pair reactions

Author

A. T. Dellis and I. K. Kominis

Subjects
Physics, Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph), Quantum Physics, Quantum decoherence, Quantum dynamics, General Physics and Astronomy, Quantum simulator, FOS: Physical sciences, Open quantum system, Quantum probability, Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph), Physics - Chemical Physics, Quantum mechanics, Quantum process, Master equation, Physics - Biological Physics, Statistical physics, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Quantum dissipation, Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
Abstract

Radical-ion-pair reactions were recently shown to represent a rich biophysical laboratory for the application of quantum measurement theory methods and concepts. We here propose a concrete experimental test that can clearly discriminate among the fundamental master equations currently attempting to describe the quantum dynamics of these reactions. The proposed measurement based on photon statistics of fluorescing radical pairs is shown to be model-independent and capable of elucidating the singlet-triplet decoherence inherent in the radical-ion-pair recombination process., Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures

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2011
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32. Radical-ion-pair reactions are the biochemical equivalent of the optical double-slit experiment

Author

I. K. Kominis

Subjects
Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph), Physics, Quantum Physics, Optical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Degree of coherence, Models, Theoretical, Biochemistry, Quantum technology, Open quantum system, Classical mechanics, Interferometry, Coherence theory, Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph), Physics - Chemical Physics, Quantum mechanics, Master equation, Double-slit experiment, Quantum Theory, Physics - Biological Physics, Quantum Physics (quant-ph), Quantum dissipation, Coherence (physics)
Abstract

Radical-ion-pair reactions were recently shown to represent a rich biophysical laboratory for the application of quantum measurement theory methods and concepts. We here show that radical-ion-pair reactions essentially form a non-linear biochemical double slit interferometer. Quantum coherence effects are visible when "which-path" information is limited, and the incoherent limit is approached when measurement-induced decoherence sets in. Based on this analogy with the optical double slit experiment we derive and elaborate on the fundamental master equation of spin-selective radical-ion-pair reactions that covers the continuous range from complete incoherence to maximum singlet-triplet coherence., 9 pages, 5 figures, published version

Published
2010

34. The Quantum Zeno Effect Immunizes the Avian Compass Against the Deleterious Effects of Exchange and Dipolar Interactions

Author

I. K. Kominis and A. T. Dellis

Subjects
Statistics and Probability, animal structures, Free Radicals, Quantum measurement, FOS: Physical sciences, Models, Biological, General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Birds, Orientation, Compass, Quantum mechanics, Animals, Physics - Biological Physics, Quantum, Quantum Zeno effect, Ions, Physics, Quantum Physics, Condensed matter physics, Applied Mathematics, technology, industry, and agriculture, Magnetoreception, General Medicine, equipment and supplies, Dipole, Magnetic Fields, Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph), Modeling and Simulation, Quantum Theory, Animal Migration, Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
Abstract

Magnetic-sensitive radical-ion-pair reactions are understood to underlie the biochemical magnetic compass used by avian species for navigation. Recent experiments have provided growing evidence for the radical-ion-pair magnetoreception mechanism, while recent theoretical advances have unravelled the quantum nature of radical-ion-pair reactions, which were shown to manifest a host of quantum-information-science concepts and effects, like quantum measurement, quantum jumps and the quantum Zeno effect. We here show that the quantum Zeno effect provides for the robustness of the avian compass mechanism, and immunizes it's magnetic and angular sensitivity against the deleterious and molecule-specific exchange and dipolar interactions., Comment: 6 pages, 4 figures

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2009
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35. Quantum Zeno Effect Explains Magnetic-Sensitive Radical-Ion-Pair Reactions

Author

I. K. Kominis

Subjects
Time Factors, Free Radicals, Quantum dynamics, Biophysics, FOS: Physical sciences, Magnetics, Quantum biology, Open quantum system, Quantum mechanics, Physics - Biological Physics, Photosynthesis, Biology, Quantum, Quantum Zeno effect, Ions, Physics, Quantum Physics, Models, Statistical, Biomolecules (q-bio.BM), Magnetoreception, Quantitative Biology - Biomolecules, Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph), FOS: Biological sciences, Quantum process, Quantum Theory, Quantum Physics (quant-ph), Quantum dissipation, Algorithms
Abstract

Chemical reactions involving radical-ion pairs are ubiquitous in biology, since not only are they at the basis of the photosynthetic reaction chain, but are also assumed to underlie the biochemical magnetic compass used by avian species for navigation. Recent experiments with magnetic-sensitive radical-ion pair reactions provided strong evidence for the radical-ion-pair magnetoreception mechanism, verifying the expected magnetic sensitivities and chemical product yield changes. It is here shown that the theoretical description of radical-ion-pair reactions used since the 70's cannot explain the observed data, because it is based on phenomenological equations masking quantum coherence effects. The fundamental density matrix equation derived here from basic quantum measurement theory considerations naturally incorporates the quantum Zeno effect and readily explains recent experimental observations on low- and high-magnetic-field radical-ion-pair reactions., 10 pages, 5 figures

Published
2008

36. Quantum random number generator based on spin noise

Author

I. K. Kominis, G. E. Katsoprinakis, A. T. Dellis, A. Tavernarakis, and M. Polis

Subjects
Physics, Quantum state, Quantum error correction, Quantum mechanics, Quantum operation, Quantum simulator, Quantum algorithm, Quantum entanglement, Quantum number, Spin quantum number, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Abstract

We present an implementation of a robust quantum random number generator based on the quantum fluctuations of the collective spin of an alkali-metal vapor. The achieved bit rate is limited by the spin relaxation rate of the alkali-metal atoms $1/{T}_{2}$ to about 1 kbit/s. However, the same physical scheme, which is impervious to limitations posed by single-photon detectors used in current implementations and rests solely on threshold detection, can be extended to solid state systems with a bit rate higher than 1 Gbit/s.

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2008
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37. Quantum Zeno effect in atomic spin-exchange collisions

Author

I. K. Kominis

Subjects
Physics, Condensed Matter::Quantum Gases, Quantum discord, Quantum Physics, Quantum decoherence, Quantum dynamics, FOS: Physical sciences, General Physics and Astronomy, Quantum entanglement, Quantum technology, Open quantum system, Quantum electrodynamics, Quantum mechanics, Physics::Atomic and Molecular Clusters, Condensed Matter::Strongly Correlated Electrons, Physics::Atomic Physics, Quantum Physics (quant-ph), Quantum dissipation, Quantum Zeno effect
Abstract

The suppression of spin-exchange relaxation in dense alkali-metal vapors discovered in 1973 and governing modern atomic magnetometers is here reformulated in terms of quantum measurement theory and the quantum Zeno effect. This provides a new perspective of understanding decoherence in spin-polarized atomic vapors., 4 pages, 1 figure

Published
2008

38. 3He spin-dependent cross sections and sum rules

Author

M. Liang, E. Goldberg, W. Glöckle, A. V. Glamazdin, Z. Chai, D. S. Brown, A. Gasparian, K. Kramer, G. G. Petratos, Z. E. Meziani, Ronald Ransome, R. Skibiński, D. Rowntree, B. Humensky, Koji Takahashi, Seonho Choi, H. Fonvieille, E. W. Hughes, H. Voskanian, E. J. Brash, L. B. Auerbach, R. Michaels, I. K. Kominis, J. P. Chen, S. Malov, E. Burtin, M. Finn, G. Jones, Andreas Nogga, Hiroyuki Kamada, J. Gomez, S. Scopetta, S. Jensen, J. R. Calarco, Paul Souder, G. M. Urciuoli, Henryk Witała, Nilanga Liyanage, R. DiSalvo, D. Pripstein, M. Rvachev, C. E. Jones, Shalev Gilad, S. Strauch, C. W. de Jager, Kevin Fissum, Ronald Gilman, K. McCormick, J. C. Yang, T. Averett, Wolfgang Korsch, R. Suleiman, Bogdan Wojtsekhowski, T. Black, B. Bertozzi, R. L.J. van der Meer, S. Frullani, B. Hersman, G. M. Huber, F. Garibaldi, J. J. LeRose, D. Prout, P. A. Zolnierczuk, R. Holmes, Z. Papandreou, F. Sabatié, X. Jiang, V. Gorbenko, M. K. Jones, Mauro Iodice, A. Saha, A. Ketikyan, S. Teijiro, G. Salme, Charles Glashausser, T. Saito, Haiyan Gao, M. Amarian, C. Jutier, J. Berthot, Y. Roblin, T. Pavlin, Hiroshi Ueno, Jiansong Gao, G. Laveissière, M. Kuss, K. S. Kumar, Gordon D. Cates, E. Lakuriqi, E. Cisbani, F. Xiong, A. Deur, R. D. McKeown, John C. Mitchell, Jacek Golak, J. Marroncle, E. Pace, C. Ciofi degli Atti, G. Kumbartzki, G. J. Lolos, E. Chudakov, J. O. Hansen, P. Djawotho, Karl Slifer, P.Y. Bertin, W. Xu, Sebastien Incerti, P. Vernin, Baile Zhang, L. Todor, Sonja Dieterich, Hiroaki Tsubota, Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire - Clermont-Ferrand (LPC), Université Blaise Pascal - Clermont-Ferrand 2 (UBP)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires de Bordeaux Gradignan (CENBG), Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1 (UB)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), E94010, and Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Subjects
Nuclear reaction, nuclear spin, sum rules, polarisation in nuclear reactions and scattering, Nuclear Theory, General Physics and Astronomy, FOS: Physical sciences, Impulse (physics), [PHYS.NEXP]Physics [physics]/Nuclear Experiment [nucl-ex], 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, Settore FIS/04 - Fisica Nucleare e Subnucleare, nuclear structure theory, Helium-3, 0103 physical sciences, ddc:550, electron-nucleus scattering, Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex), 010306 general physics, Spin (physics), Nuclear Experiment, Physics, Magnetic moment, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, nuclear resonances, Nuclear structure, Three-body problem, structure functions, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Atomic physics, nulei with mass number 1 to 5, Nucleon
Abstract

We present a measurement of the spin-dependent cross sections for the \vec{^3He}(\vec{e},e')X} reaction in the quasielastic and resonance regions at four-momentum transfer 0.1 < Q^2< 0.9 GeV^2. The spin-structure functions have been extracted and used to evaluate the nuclear Burkhardt--Cottingham and extended GDH sum rules for the first time. Impulse approximation and exact three-body Faddeev calculations are also compared to the data in the quasielastic region., Final version

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2008
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39. Measurement of transverse spin-relaxation rates in a rubidium vapor by use of spin-noise spectroscopy

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I. K. Kominis, G. E. Katsoprinakis, and A. T. Dellis

Subjects
Physics, Optical pumping, Spin polarization, Condensed matter physics, chemistry, Relaxation (NMR), Spin echo, chemistry.chemical_element, Dissipation, Spin (physics), Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Noise (radio), Rubidium
Abstract

Spin noise sets fundamental limits to the attainable precision of measurements using spin-polarized atomic vapors and therefore merits a careful study. On the other hand, it has been recently shown that spin noise contains useful physical information about the atomic system, otherwise accessible via magnetic-resonance-type experiments. We here show in yet another manifestation of the fluctuation-dissipation theorem, that spin noise reveals information on the spin-coherence dissipation properties of the atomic system, described by $1∕{T}_{2}$, the transverse spin-relaxation rate. We present the high-resolution measurements of spin noise at a low magnetic field, leading to an accurate comparison of the extracted relaxation rates with the ones inferred from traditional magnetic-resonance-type measurements in optical pumping experiments.

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2007
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40. Sub-Shot-Noise Magnetometry with a Correlated Spin-Relaxation Dominated Alkali-Metal Vapor

Author

I. K. Kominis

Subjects
Physics, Condensed Matter::Quantum Gases, Condensed matter physics, Spin polarization, Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph), Quantum limit, Shot noise, General Physics and Astronomy, FOS: Physical sciences, Spin engineering, Spin quantum number, Physics - Atomic Physics, Condensed Matter::Strongly Correlated Electrons, Physics::Atomic Physics, Triplet state, Quantum spin liquid, Spin-½
Abstract

Spin noise sets fundamental limits to the precision of measurements using spin-polarized atomic vapors, such as performed with sensitive atomic magnetometers. Spin squeezing offers the possibility to extend the measurement precision beyond the standard quantum limit of uncorrelated atoms. Contrary to the current understanding, we show that even in the presence of spin relaxation, spin squeezing can lead to a significant reduction of spin noise, and hence an increase in magnetometric sensitivity, for a long measurement time. This is the case when correlated spin relaxation due to binary alkali-atom collisions dominates independently acting decoherence processes., Comment: 4 pages, submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett

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2007
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41. High Frequency Atomic Magnetometer by Use of Electromagnetically Induced Transparency

Author

I. K. Kominis, G. E. Katsoprinakis, and David Petrosyan

Subjects
Physics, Spin polarization, Condensed matter physics, Electromagnetically induced transparency, Magnetometer, General Physics and Astronomy, Polarization (waves), law.invention, Optical pumping, symbols.namesake, Paramagnetism, law, Faraday effect, Atom, symbols, Physics::Atomic Physics, Atomic physics
Abstract

p with a measurement volume less than 1c m 3 . These sensitivity levels enable several applications of atomic magnetometers, ranging from biomagnetic measurements [7] to precision tests of fundamental symmetries [8]. For almost all of the magnetometer’s applications, the frequency response is of equal importance. The zero-field pump-probe magnetometer discussed in [6] has a frequency response equivalent to a first order low-pass filter with a cutoff frequency !c on the order of 1=T2, where 1=T2 is the alkali atom transverse spin relaxation rate, proportional to the atom density. To increase the bandwidth it is therefore necessary to operate the magnetometer in the optically very thick regime, necessitating impractically high temperatures and degrading optical pumping. In this Letter we show theoretically that by creating electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) of the probe beam, we can operate the magnetometer closer to the atomic resonance. The enhancement of the magnetometer’s response thus obtained allows its operation at frequencies well beyond the bandwidth, while maintaining a high signal-to-noise ratio. We will first consider an optical pumping pump-probe magnetometer with two-level (spin 1=2) ground and excited state atoms (TLA). In Fig. 1(a) we display the geometry of the optical pumping magnetometer. The atoms are optically pumped along the ^ z direction with a circularly polarized pump laser, producing a spin polarization, Pz ,o f the atomic vapor. A magnetic field along the ^ y axis, By, produces a polarization component Px, proportional to By, which induces a rotation of the polarization plane of a linearly ^-polarized probe beam, that illuminates the vapor along the ^ x axis. This is due to the paramagnetic Faraday effect. The rotation angle, � , is proportional to P x , and thus

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2006
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42. Parity-violating electroweak asymmetry ine⃗pscattering

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J. Jardillier, Baris T. Tonguc, I. Younus, G. Rutledge, V. A. Punjabi, Mauro Iodice, F. Marie, R. Michaels, G. M. Urciuoli, D. J. Margaziotis, T. Pussieux, M. Leuschner, I. K. Kominis, X. Jiang, Justin I. McIntyre, R. De Leo, M. Coman, K. Wijesooriya, J. R. Calarco, P. Mastromarino, Andre Fleck, N. Falletto, T. Averett, B. Frois, Richard Madey, Marcus Spradlin, T. B. Humensky, Paul Souder, W. Xu, Olfred Hansen, T. Teresawa, D. Relyea, J.P. Jorda, Ronald Ransome, Bogdan Wojtsekhowski, James J. Kelly, J. Gao, J. Roche, M. Liang, G. Quéméner, B. D. Milbrath, F. Sabatié, A. Gasparian, J. A. Templon, D. W. Higinbotham, C. C. Chang, Kevin Fissum, M. B. Epstein, K. S. Kumar, J. Thompson, R. J. Woo, L. Todor, Gordon D. Cates, R. I. Pomatsalyuk, D. S. Dale, R. W. Lourie, J. M. Finn, A. Saha, John C. Mitchell, R. Suleiman, G. W. Miller, Daijin Kim, C. Jutier, R. Holmes, Sebastien Incerti, S. Malov, E. Burtin, M. Holtrop, W. Kahl, S. Strauch, P. E. Ulmer, P. Markowitz, S. Frullani, M. J. Kim, P. M. Rutt, Y. Roblin, D. Lhuillier, David L. Prout, G. M. Gerstner, Min Suk Kim, Jian-Ping Chen, F. Garibaldi, D. S. Armstrong, J. J. LeRose, K. Kramer, V. Gorbenko, M. Rvachev, J. Martino, G. G. Petratos, Edgar E. Kooijman, Z. E. Meziani, C. W. de Jager, K. A. Aniol, D. Neyret, Raphael Noel Tieulent, M. Baylac, F. W. Hersman, L. A. Ewell, J. S. Price, C. Cavata, Nilanga Liyanage, A. V. Glamazdin, Z. Chai, Richard Wilson, Branislav Vlahovic, E. Cisbani, J. Gomez, C. Zhang, L. Morand, Ronald Gilman, K. McCormick, E. Chudakov, P. Djawotho, Stephanie Escoffier, M. K. Jones, C. Pedrisat, M. Kuss, and A. Deur

Subjects
Nuclear reaction, Elastic scattering, Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Particle physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, media_common.quotation_subject, Hadron, Elementary particle, 01 natural sciences, Asymmetry, Baryon, 0103 physical sciences, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Nuclear Experiment, 010306 general physics, Nucleon, media_common, Lepton
Abstract

We have measured the parity-violating electroweak asymmetry in the elastic scattering of polarized electrons from protons. Significant contributions to this asymmetry could arise from the contributions of strange form factors in the nucleon. The measured asymmetry is $A=\ensuremath{-}15.05\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.98(\mathrm{stat})\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.56(\mathrm{syst})\phantom{\rule{0.3em}{0ex}}\mathrm{ppm}$ at the kinematic point $⟨{\ensuremath{\theta}}_{\mathrm{lab}}⟩=12.3\ifmmode^\circ\else\textdegree\fi{}$ and $⟨{Q}^{2}⟩=0.477\phantom{\rule{0.3em}{0ex}}{(\mathrm{GeV}∕c)}^{2}$. Based on these data as well as data on electromagnetic form factors, we extract the linear combination of strange form factors ${G}_{E}^{s}+0.392{G}_{M}^{s}=0.014\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.020\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.010$, where the first error arises from this experiment and the second arises from the electromagnetic form factor data. This paper provides a full description of the special experimental techniques employed for precisely measuring the small asymmetry, including the first use of a strained GaAs crystal and a laser-Compton polarimeter in a fixed target parity-violation experiment.

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2004
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43. Measurement of the Generalized Forward Spin Polarizabilities of the Neutron

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G. G. Petratos, Arijit Saha, Z. E. Meziani, John C. Mitchell, W. Xu, M. Liang, Gordon D. Cates, T. Black, E. Lakuriqi, E. J. Brash, C. E. Jones, J. M. Finn, R. Holmes, T. Averett, Shalev Gilad, Baile Zhang, T. Saito, C. W. de Jager, S. Strauch, A. Deur, J. R. Calarco, B. Humensky, Seonho Choi, R. D. McKeown, H. Voskanian, F. Garibaldi, J. O. Hansen, Hiroshi Ueno, I. K. Kominis, L. Todor, Hiroaki Tsubota, D. S. Brown, Y. Roblin, X. Jiang, G. J. Lolos, P. Djawotho, Sonja Dieterich, A. Gasparian, G. J. Kumbartzki, Karl Slifer, A. Ketikyan, J. Berthot, Ronald Gilman, J. C. Yang, S. Malov, E. Burtin, Paul Souder, S. Jensen, Sebastien Incerti, G. Laveissière, G. Jones, Jiansong Gao, Bogdan Wojtsekhowski, Charles Glashausser, L. B. Auerbach, P.Y. Bertin, K. McCormick, S. Frullani, B. Hersman, D. Pripstein, J. J. LeRose, P. Vernin, H. Fonvieille, V. Gorbenko, Jian-Ping Chen, E. W. Hughes, Wolfgang Korsch, S. Teijiro, G. M. Huber, C. Jutier, M. K. Jones, Haiyan Gao, K. Kramer, J. Marroncle, David L. Prout, Nilanga Liyanage, F. Sabatié, R. Michaels, R. L.J. van der Meer, M. Rvachev, A. V. Glamazdin, Z. Chai, M. Kuss, R. DiSalvo, E. Chudakov, Kevin Fissum, R. Suleiman, E. Cisbani, P. A. Zolnierczuk, J. Gomez, M. Amarian, F. Xiong, Ronald Ransome, D. Rowntree, Koji Takahashi, Z. Papandreou, T. Pavlin, K. S. Kumar, Mauro Iodice, G. M. Urciuoli, William Bertozzi, E. Goldberg, Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire - Clermont-Ferrand (LPC), Université Blaise Pascal - Clermont-Ferrand 2 (UBP)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and E94010

Subjects
Quantum chromodynamics, Physics, Chiral perturbation theory, Spin polarization, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, General Physics and Astronomy, 01 natural sciences, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Baryon, Polarizability, Quantum mechanics, Quantum electrodynamics, 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex], Perturbation theory, 010306 general physics, Nucleon, Nuclear Experiment, Spin-½
Abstract

The generalized forward spin polarizabilities $\gamma_0$ and $\delta_{LT}$ of the neutron have been extracted for the first time in a $Q^2$ range from 0.1 to 0.9 GeV$^2$. Since $\gamma_0$ is sensitive to nucleon resonances and $\delta_{LT}$ is insensitive to the $\Delta$ resonance, it is expected that the pair of forward spin polarizabilities should provide benchmark tests of the current understanding of the chiral dynamics of QCD. The new results on $\delta_{LT}$ show significant disagreement with Chiral Perturbation Theory calculations, while the data for $\gamma_0$ at low $Q^2$ are in good agreement with a next-to-lead order Relativistic Baryon Chiral Perturbation theory calculation. The data show good agreement with the phenomenological MAID model., Comment: 5 pages, 2 figures, corrected typo in author name, published in PRL

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2004
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44. Basic instrumentation for Hall A at Jefferson Lab

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T. Pussieux, Paul Souder, J. H. Mitchell, Y. Roblin, O. Ravel, E. Chudakov, K. A. Griffioen, C. Cavata, J. A. Templon, H. F. Ibrahim, J. S. McCarthy, M. A. Stevens, D. P. Watts, B. Frois, W. J. Schneider, Dipangkar Dutta, R. Di Salvo, R. I. Pomatsalyuk, A. Soldi, G. J. Kumbartzki, Arijit Saha, N. Colombel, J. Berthot, Jing Zhao, A. J. Sarty, B. D. Anderson, J. Martine, M. Coman, R. Michaels, M. B. Epstein, R. W. Lourie, J. O. Hansen, N. Degrande, J. Mclntyre, John Arrington, L. Zhu, W. Kahl, Bogdan Wojtsekhowski, P. Djawotho, M. Leuschner, William Bertozzi, K. A. Aniol, A. Gasparian, Karl Slifer, Jrm Annand, C. F. Perdrisat, D. Pripstein, M. Baylac, S. Kox, X. Jiang, K. Kramer, H. Breuer, David Hamilton, Jian-Ping Chen, T. Averett, L. B. Auerbach, G. A. Rutledge, G. Quéméner, Stephanie Escoffier, P.Y. Bertin, R. Suleiman, R. Carr, Pete Markowitz, A. Deur, Z. Papandreou, R. L. Walter, R. D. McKeown, T. P. Gorringe, M. Rvachev, R. Holmes, S. Churchwell, J. Marroncle, S. Platchkov, M. Khandaker, M. Liang, L. Pierangeli, K. Kino, A. Ketikyan, Kevin Fissum, F. W. Hersman, J. LeRose, F. Giuliani, P. E. Ulmer, Roberto Perrino, R. De Leo, J. Gao, L. A. Ewell, S. Jensen, R. Crateri, Shalev Gilad, C. W. de Jager, D. Lhuillier, J.E. Ducret, M. Gricia, R. Iommi, F. Sabatavenere, P. A. Zolnierczuk, K. Wijesooriya, Alan M. Nathan, D. Rowntree, E. Voutier, H. Holmgren, S. K. Nanda, D. G. Meekins, K. S. Egiyan, C. R. Howell, A. Serdarevic-Offermann, Hiroaki Tsubota, D. G. Zainea, J. R. Calarco, S. Esp, T. Terasawa, Vincent Breton, C. C. Chang, J. Domingo, T. Black, A. T. Katramatou, S. Kerhoas, F. Santavenere, J. Y. Mougey, R. Van de Vyver, G. M. Urciuoli, Seigo Kato, G. M. Huber, B. Reitz, E. J. Beise, K. S. Kumar, F. Garibaldi, Pavel Sorokin, G. J. Lolos, M. Lucentini, J. Segal, H. Xiang, D. V. Boykin, W. U. Boeglin, C. Glashausser, E. Cisbani, A. Leone, R. D. Ransomez, Gordon D. Cates, Sonja Dieterich, H. Voskanyan, C. Jutier, R. L.J. van der Meer, Olivier Gayou, James A. Miller, L. Van Hoorebeke, Sebastien Incerti, J. Jardillier, L. Cardman, James J. Kelly, F. Xiong, S. Jaminion, I. K. Kominis, K. McCormick, P. Vernin, P. M. Rutt, A. Petrosyan, David L. Prout, Nilanga Liyanage, L. Lagamba, X. Zheng, S. L. Spiegel, Branislav Vlahovic, Leonid Levchuk, Mauro Iodice, Larry Weinstein, F. Marie, D. G. Ireland, N. S. Chant, David Manley, V. A. Punjabi, C. E. Jones, J. Gomez, Wolfgang Korsch, W. Xu, J. W. Watson, M. Roedelbronn, F. T. Baker, Z. E. Meziani, T. Saito, S. Frullani, H. Ueno, E. J. Brash, R. Roche, E. Hovhannisyan, C. E. Hyde-Wright, N. d'Hose, L. Bimbot, G. Laveissière, R. Madey, Kazushige Maeda, A. Gavalya, W. Miller, D. Neyret, T. P. Smith, B. Diederich, E. Burtin, M. Holtrop, L. Todor, G. Dezern, Z. L. Zhou, K. Livingston, D. S. Dale, V. Zeps, S. Mayilyan, E. Folts, B. D. Milbrath, Haiyan Gao, J. M. Finn, O. Rondon-Aramayo, R. A. Lindgren, V. Gorbenko, A. V. Glamazdin, Z. Chai, E. A.J.M. Offermann, S. Malov, J. Alcorn, S. Strauch, A. Shahinyan, G. Rosner, H. Fonvieille, P. G. Roos, E. W. Hughes, K. Joo, D. S. Brown, P. Brindza, G. G. Petratos, S. van Verst, M. Khayat, S. Colilli, Douglas Higinbotham, M. K. Jones, D. J. Margaziotis, M. Kuss, Seonho Choi, Ronald Gilman, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire - Clermont-Ferrand (LPC), Université Blaise Pascal - Clermont-Ferrand 2 (UBP)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay (IPNO), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (LPSC), Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), HALL A, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11), and Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

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Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Spectrometer, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Cryogenics, Scintillator, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, Particle identification, Magnetic field, Nuclear physics, Cardinal point, 0103 physical sciences, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det], Nuclear Experiment, 010306 general physics, Nucleon, Instrumentation, Cherenkov radiation
Abstract

The instrumentation in Hall A at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility was designed to study electro-and photo-induced reactions at very high luminosity and good momentum and angular resolution for at least one of the reaction products. The central components of Hall A are two identical high resolution spectrometers, which allow the vertical drift chambers in the focal plane to provide a momentum resolution of better than 2 x 10(-4). A variety of Cherenkov counters, scintillators and lead-glass calorimeters provide excellent particle identification. The facility has been operated successfully at a luminosity well in excess of 10(38) CM-2 s(-1). The research program is aimed at a variety of subjects, including nucleon structure functions, nucleon form factors and properties of the nuclear medium. (C) 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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2004
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45. Plane-wave impulse approximation extraction of the neutron magnetic form factor from quasielastic3He→(e→,e′)atQ2=0.3to0.6(GeV/c)2

Author

G. G. Petratos, Z. E. Meziani, J. M. Finn, A. Saha, W. Xu, J. P. Chen, D. Pripstein, J. S. Jensen, C. E. Jones, K. McCormick, Dipangkar Dutta, C. R. Howell, P. Żołnierczuk, S. Churchwell, A. Kievsky, R. I. Pomatsalyuk, J. R. Calarco, Ronald Ransome, G. S. Corrado, T. Black, Sebastien Incerti, K. Kramer, E. Chudakov, Emanuele Pace, R. Holmes, John C. Mitchell, T.W. Donnelly, D. S. Dale, M. K. Jones, Gordon D. Cates, K. McIlhany, E. Lakuriqi, T. Averett, M. Liang, J. O. Hansen, G. J. Kumbartzki, B. D. Anderson, Jacek Golak, Bogdan Wojtsekhowski, W. Glöckle, F. W. Hersman, S. Strauch, P. Djawotho, E. W. Hughes, D. W. Higinbotham, B. Humensky, Haiyan Gao, D. J. Margaziotis, C. F. Williamson, L. Auberbach, C. Glashausser, Karl Slifer, M. Sutter, J. Yeh, M. Viviani, Wolfgang Korsch, S. K. Nanda, M. Kuss, I. K. Kominis, C. W. de Jager, B. Tipton, William Bertozzi, F. Xiong, C. Crawford, J. W. Watson, Nilanga Liyanage, A. Deur, Hiroyuki Kamada, R. D. McKeown, R. Michaels, G. Salme, Y. Roblin, Branislav Vlahovic, Seonho Choi, L. S. Cardman, R. Suleiman, R. Kahl, L. Todor, S. Malov, J. Gomez, M. Schnee, J. W. Martin, Henryk Witała, Ronald Gilman, Paul Souder, T. Pavlin, G. W. Miller, David L. Prout, X. Jiang, M. Rvachev, T. Shin, A. V. Glamazdin, Z. Chai, J. J. LeRose, and V. Gorbenko

Subjects
Physics, Nuclear physics, Nuclear reaction, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Quasielastic scattering, Scattering, Magnetic form factor, Hadron, Momentum transfer, Neutron, Nuclear Experiment, Nucleon
Abstract

A high precision measurement of the transverse spin-dependent asymmetry A_T' in ^3He(e,e') quasielastic scattering was performed in Hall A at Jefferson Lab at values of the squared four-momentum transfer, Q^2, between 0.1 and 0.6 (GeV/c)^2. A_(T') is sensitive to the neutron magnetic form factor, G_M^n . Values of G_M^n at Q^2 = 0.1 and 0.2 (GeV/c)^2, extracted using Faddeev calculations, were reported previously. Here, we report the extraction of G_M^n for the remaining Q^2 values in the range from 0.3 to 0.6 (GeV/c)^2 using a plane-wave impulse approximation calculation. The results are in good agreement with recent precision data from experiments using a deuterium target.

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2003
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46. Q2Evolution of the Generalized Gerasimov-Drell-Hearn Integral for the Neutron using aH3eTarget

Author

Bogdan Wojtsekhowski, J. J. LeRose, V. Gorbenko, A. Saha, X. Jiang, E. Cisbani, Ronald Ransome, D. Rowntree, P. Djawotho, J. P. Chen, C. Glashausser, Gordon D. Cates, Karl Slifer, E. Lakuriqi, T. Averett, Paul Souder, G. M. Urciuoli, J. Berthot, E. J. Brash, Hiroshi Ueno, A. Ketikyan, S. Teijiro, T. Pavlin, F. Sabatié, Kevin Fissum, Jiansong Gao, K. S. Kumar, M. Amarian, F. Xiong, Nilanga Liyanage, G. Jones, C. E. Jones, M. Liang, R. DiSalvo, R. Suleiman, P. A. Zolnierczuk, A. V. Glamazdin, Z. Chai, Haiyan Gao, D. Pripstein, E. Chudakov, C. Jutier, R. Michaels, M. K. Jones, J. O. Hansen, S. Malov, P.Y. Bertin, M. Finn, S. Frullani, E. Burtin, J. Gomez, J. R. Calarco, David L. Prout, R. L.J. van der Meer, S. Jensen, Z. Papandreou, D. S. Brown, G. J. Lolos, M. Kuss, Mauro Iodice, M. Rvachev, K. Takahashi, William Bertozzi, A. Gasparian, H. Voskanian, G. M. Huber, F. Garibaldi, Sebastien Incerti, E. Goldberg, I. K. Kominis, Seonho Choi, S. Strauch, Shalev Gilad, L. B. Auerbach, C. W. de Jager, P. Vernin, Ronald Gilman, K. McCormick, Hiroaki Tsubota, H. Fonvieille, E. W. Hughes, Wolfgang Korsch, T. B. Humensky, W. Xu, Baile Zhang, A. Deur, R. D. McKeown, L. Todor, G. G. Petratos, Z. E. Meziani, T. Saito, Sonja Dieterich, K. Kramer, Y. Roblin, F. W. Hersman, J. Marroncle, John C. Mitchell, G. J. Kumbartzki, G. Laveissière, T. Black, R. Holmes, and J. C. Yang

Subjects
Physics, Range (particle radiation), Cross section.transverse, Particle physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Scattering, Nuclear Theory, General Physics and Astronomy, Virtual particle, Electron, 01 natural sciences, Resonance (particle physics), Nuclear physics, 0103 physical sciences, High Energy Physics::Experiment, Neutron, Nuclear Experiment, 010306 general physics, Nucleon
Abstract

We present data on the inclusive scattering of polarized electrons from a polarized ^3He target at energies from 0.862 to 5.06 GeV, obtained at a scattering angle of 15.5°. Our data include measurements from the quasielastic peak, through the nucleon resonance region, and beyond, and were used to determine the virtual photon cross-section difference σ_(1/2)-σ_(3/2). We extract the extended Gerasimov-Drell-Hearn integral for the neutron in the range of four-momentum transfer squared Q^2 of 0.1–0.9 GeV^2.

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2002
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47. Coherent triplet excitation suppresses the heading error of the avian compass

Author

A. T. Dellis, I. K. Kominis, and G. E. Katsoprinakis

Subjects
Physics, Quantum technology, Heading (navigation), Compass, Quantum mechanics, General Physics and Astronomy, Sensitivity (control systems), Excitation, Quantum Zeno effect
Abstract

Radical-ion pair reactions are currently understood to underlie the biochemical magnetic compass of migratory birds. It was recently shown that radical-ion pair reactions form a rich playground for the application of quantum-information-science concepts and effects. We will show here that the intricate interplay between the quantum Zeno effect and the coherent excitation of radical-ion pairs leads to an exquisite angular sensitivity of the reaction yields. This results in a significant and previously unanticipated suppression of the avian compass heading error, opening the way to quantum engineering precision biological sensors.

Published
2010
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