Schmidt decompositions of parametric processes III: simultaneous amplification and conversion

Krull-schmidt Decompositions for Thick Subcategories

Following Krause [Kra99], we prove Krull-Schmidt theorems for thick subcategories of various triangulated categories: derived categories of rings, noetherian stable homotopy categories, stable module categories over Hopf algebras, and the stable homotopy category of spectra. In all these categories, it is shown that the thick ideals of small objects decompose uniquely into indecomposable thick ...

Unity-Efficiency Parametric Down-Conversion via Amplitude Amplification.

We propose an optical scheme, employing optical parametric down-converters interlaced with nonlinear sign gates (NSGs), that completely converts an n-photon Fock-state pump to n signal-idler photon pairs when the down-converters' crystal lengths are chosen appropriately. The proof of this assertion relies on amplitude amplification, analogous to that employed in Grover search, applied to the fu...

Parametric Amplification and Cascaded-Nonlinearity Processes in Common Atomic System

For the first time, we study the parametric amplification process of multi-wave mixing (PA-MWM) signal and cascaded-nonlinearity process (CNP) in sodium vapors both theoretically and experimentally, based on a conventional phase-conjugate MWM and a self-diffraction four-wave mixing (SD-FWM) processes, which are pumped by laser or amplified spontaneous emission (ASE), respectively. For laser pum...

Operator-Schmidt decompositions and the Fourier transform, with applications to the operator-Schmidt numbers of unitaries

The operator-Schmidt decomposition is useful in quantum information theory for quantifying the nonlocality of bipartite unitary operations. We construct a family of unitary operators on C ⊗ C whose operatorSchmidt decompositions are computed using the discrete Fourier transform. As a corollary, we produce unitaries on C ⊗ C with operatorSchmidt number S for every S ∈ {1, ..., 9}. This corollary...

Parametric Amplification of Atoms