We study the quantum properties of a nano-mechanical oscillator via the squeezing of the oscillator amplitude. The static longitudinal compressive force 0 F close to a critical value at the Euler buckling instability leads to an anharmonic term in the Hamiltonian and thus the squeezing properties of the nano-mechanical oscillator are to be obtained from the Hamiltonian of the form 4 / ) ( a a a...

We evaluated the effects of gel consistency and bolus volume on ingestion in humans. Eight healthy men were asked to ingest liquids, and sample foods of different gel consistencies and volumes, as usual. Tongue pressure against the hard palate was recorded at five points, and bolus flow was recorded using videoendoscopic images. The number of squeezes increased as gel consistency and volume inc...

We generated -2.2 dB of broadband amplitude squeezing at 1064 nm in a periodically poled KTiOPO4 (PPKTP) waveguide by coupling of the fundamental and second-harmonic cw fields. This is the largest amount of squeezing obtained to date in a KTP waveguide, limited by propagation losses. This result paves the way for further improvements by use of lower-loss buried ion-exchanged waveguides.

We investigate nonclassical properties of the output of a Bose-Einstein condensate in Milburn’s model of intrinsic decoherence. It is shown that the squeezing property of the atom laser is suppressed due to decoherence. Nevertheless, if some very special conditions were satisfied, the squeezing properties of atom laser could be robust against the decoherence. PACS numbers: 03.75.Gg, 03.75.Pp, 0...

Given a polynomial with all real roots, the Polynomial Root Squeezing Theorem states that moving two roots an equal distance toward each other, without passing other roots, will cause each critical point to move toward (ri + rj)/2, or remain fixed. In this note, we extend the Polynomial Root Squeezing Theorem to the case where two roots are squeezed together a nonuniform distance.

We derive spin squeezing inequalities that generalize the concept of the spin squeezing parameter and provide necessary and sufficient conditions for genuine 2-, or 3-qubit entanglement for symmetric states, and sufficient condition for N-qubit states. Our inequalities have a clear physical interpretation as entanglement witnesses, can be easily measured, and are given by complex but elementary...

We show that, at finite temperature, the maximum spin squeezing achievable using interactions in Bose-Einstein condensates has a finite limit when the atom number N→∞ at fixed density and interaction strength. We calculate the limit of the squeezing parameter for a spatially homogeneous system and show that it is bounded from above by the initial noncondensed fraction.

Even and odd q-deformed charge coherent states are constructed , their (over)completeness proved and their generation explored. A D-algebra realization of the SU q (1,1) generators is given in terms of them. They are shown to exhibit SU q (1,1) squeezing and two-mode q-antibunching, but neither one-mode, nor two-mode q-squeezing.

We theoretically demonstrate a viable approach to spin squeezing in optical lattice clocks via optical dressing of one clock state to a highly excited Rydberg state, generating switchable atomic interactions. For realistic experimental parameters, these interactions are shown to generate over 10 dB of squeezing in large ensembles within a few microseconds and without degrading the subsequent cl...