The Santa Clara women's soccer team will continue conference play this weekend when they take on Saint Mary's and University of San Francisco. The Gael of Saint Mary's travel to Santa Clara on Friday, Oct. 17. Kick off is set

PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers in Canada have made a bold stride in the struggle to detect dark matter. The PICASSO collaboration has documented the discovery of a significant difference between the acoustic signals induced by neutrons and alpha

A new screening method can be used to detect the chromosomal abnormalities most commonly associated with autism spectrum disorders. By screening for genetic defects associated with various kinds of cognitive impairment, the approach will help clinicians identify the underlying causes

New Hi Resulution 'Half-Blood Prince magazine scans have emerged online via 'Canada's Famous Kids Magazine'. Also, SnitchSeeker has posted several hi-res scans from the Half-Blood Prince feature in Empire Magazine, which was released over the summer

As we previously reported, Daniel Radcliffe was a guest on 'Inside the Actors Studio' with James Lipton. While actual text from the interview was not previously available, they now have been posted online for us all to read.

Flaw in the treatment of different spin components

Some basic concepts concerning systems of identical particles are discussedin the framework of a realist interpretation, where the wave function is thequantum object and |psi(r)|^2 d^3r is the probability that the wave functioncauses an effect about the point r. The

Coherent control and the creation of entangled states are discussed in asystem of two superconducting flux qubits interacting with each other throughtheir mutual inductance and identically coupling to a reservoir of harmonicoscillators. We present different schemes using continuous-wave control fieldsor

Bosonic and fermionic particle currents can be introduced in a more unifiedway, with the cost of introducing a preferred spacetime foliation. Such aunified treatment of bosons and fermions naturally emerges from an analogoussuperstring current, showing that the preferred spacetime foliation

A number of papers over the past eight years have claimed to solve thefractional Schr\"{o}dinger equation for systems ranging from theone-dimensional infinite square well to the Coulomb potential toone-dimensional scattering with a rectangular barrier. However, some of theclaimed solutions ignore

We investigate how nonlocal entanglement, as identified by violations of aBell inequality, may be protected during the evolution. Our system consists oftwo qubits each embedded in a bosonic reservoir evolving independently andinitially in an entangled mixed state. We show that

Modeling an anisotropic spatially and temporarily dispersivemagnetodielectric medium by two independent collections of three dimensionalvector fields, we demonstrate a fully canonical quantization of electromagneticfield in the presence of such a medium. Two tensor fields which couple theelectromagnetic field with the

During the last ten years or so, derivations of the Born rule based ondecision theory have been proposed and developed, and it is claimed that theseare valid in the context of the Everett interpretation. This claim iscritically assessed and it

We experimentally characterized a novel radio-frequency (rf) ion trapgeometry formed by two concentric cylinders over a ground plane. These trapsallow optical and physical access of 91 % and 96 % of 4pi, respectively, in twoof the three traps tested. We

We propose a simple scheme for expanding a polarization-entangled W state. Bymixing a single photon and one of the photons in an n-photon W state at apolarization-dependent beam splitter (PDBS), we can obtain an (n+1)-photon Wstate after post-selection. Our scheme

We study various optimality criteria for quantum observables. Observables arerepresented as covariant positive operator valued measures and we consider thecase when the symmetry group is compact. Phase observables are examined as anexample.

We introduce the notion of quantum computational webs: These are quantumstates universal for measurement-based computation which can be built up from acollection of simple primitives. The primitive elements--reminiscent ofbuilding blocks in a construction kit--are (i) states on a one-dimensionalchain of

The violation of Bell inequalities by experiment has convinced physiciststhat we cannot maintain a classical view of the world. When we argue againstthe possibility of local realist hidden-variable models, however, theubiquitous requirement of realism, that "measurement results depend onpre-existing properties

Suppose we are given several copies each of two orthogonal states $\ketz$ and$\keto$ that are promised to come from known orthogonal subspaces, but areotherwise unknown. We consider the quantum-information-theoretic tasks of statepreparation and universal quantum computation with respect to the

The possibility of storage of quantum information with photons is studied inthe case of resonant transitions via many close lying exciton levels in a solidwith impurity Lambda-atoms. The upper levels of the impurity atom form resonantFano states, similar to the