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Year 2014
  • Resonance-Raman spectro-electrochemistry of intermediates in molecular artificial photosynthesis of bimetallic complexes
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    • L. Zedler
    • J. Guthmuller
    • I. Rabelo
    • S. Kupfer
    • S. Krieck
    • M. Schmitt
    • J. Popp
    • S. Rau
    • B. Dietzek

    - CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS - Year 2014

    The sequential order of photoinduced charge transfer processes and accompanying structure changes were analyzed by UV-vis and resonance-Raman spectroscopy of intermediates of a Ru(II) based photocatalytic hydrogen evolving system obtained by electrochemical reduction.

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  • Quantum-state transfer in spin chains via isolated resonance of terminal spins
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    - PHYSICAL REVIEW A - Year 2014

    We propose a quantum-state transfer protocol in a spin chain that requires only the control of the spins at the ends of the quantum wire. The protocol is to a large extent insensitive to inhomogeneity caused by local magnetic fields and perturbation of exchange couplings. Moreover, apart from the free evolution regime, it allows one to induce an adiabatic spin transfer, which provides the possibility of performing the transfer...

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  • Quantum structure in competing lizard communities
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    - ECOLOGICAL MODELLING - Year 2014

    Almost two decades of research on applications of the mathematical formalism of quantum theory as a modeling tool in domains different from the micro-world has given rise to many successful applications in situations related to human behavior and thought, more specifically in cognitive processes of decision-making and the ways concepts are combined into sentences. In this article, we extend this approach to animal behavior, showing...

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  • Quantifying Contextuality
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    • A. Grudka
    • K. Horodecki
    • M. Horodecki
    • P. Horodecki
    • R. Horodecki
    • P. Joshi
    • W. Kłobus
    • A. Wójcik

    - PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS - Year 2014

    Contextuality is central to both the foundations of quantum theory and to the novel information processing tasks. Despite some recent proposals, it still faces a fundamental problem: how to quantify its presence? In this work, we provide a universal framework for quantifying contextuality. We conduct two complementary approaches: (i) the bottom-up approach, where we introduce a communication game, which grasps the phenomenon of...

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Year 2006
Year 2016
  • Relativity of arithmetic as a fundamental symmetry of physics

    Arithmetic operations can be defined in various ways, even if one assumes commutativity and associativity of addition and multiplication, and distributivity of multiplication with respect to addition. In consequence, whenever one encounters ‘plus’ or ‘times’ one has certain freedom of interpreting this operation. This leads to some freedom in definitions of derivatives, integrals and, thus, practically all equations occurring in...

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  • Realistic noise-tolerant randomness amplification using finite number of devices
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    • F. Brandão
    • R. Ramanathan
    • A. Grudka
    • K. Horodecki
    • M. Horodecki
    • P. Horodecki
    • T. Szarek
    • H. Wojewódka

    - Nature Communications - Year 2016

    Randomness is a fundamental concept, with implications from security of modern data systems, to fundamental laws of nature and even the philosophy of science. Randomness is called certified if it describes events that cannot be pre-determined by an external adversary. It is known that weak certified randomness can be amplified to nearly ideal randomness using quantum-mechanical systems. However, so far, it was unclear whether randomness amplification...

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  • Randomness Amplification under Minimal Fundamental Assumptions on the Devices
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    • R. Ramanathan
    • F. Brandão
    • K. Horodecki
    • M. Horodecki
    • P. Horodecki
    • H. Wojewódka

    - PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS - Year 2016

    Recently, the physically realistic protocol amplifying the randomness of Santha-Vazirani sources producing cryptographically secure random bits was proposed; however, for reasons of practical relevance, the crucial question remained open regarding whether this can be accomplished under the minimal conditions necessary for the task. Namely, is it possible to achieve randomness amplification using only two no-signaling components...

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  • Quantum communication complexity advantage implies violation of a Bell inequality
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    - PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - Year 2016

    We obtain a general connection between a quantum advantage in communication complexity and non-locality. We show that given any protocol offering a (sufficiently large) quantum advantage in communication complexity, there exists a way of obtaining measurement statistics which violate some Bell inequality. Our main tool is port-based teleportation. If the gap between quantum and classical communication complexity can grow arbitrarily...

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Year 2003
Year 2007
Year 2002
  • Reflectiona upon separability and distillability
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    • D. Bruss
    • I. Cirac
    • P. Horodecki
    • F. Hulpke
    • B. Kraus
    • M. Lewenstein
    • A. Sanpera

    - JOURNAL OF MODERN OPTICS - Year 2002

    Przedstawiono abstrakcyjną wersję badań kwantowych korelacji za pomocą zbiorów wypukłych (tzw. program Insbruck-Hannover). Przedstawiono zwarty opis optymalnych rozkładów danego stanu oraz optymalnych obserwabli warunkujących przynależność danego stanu do określonego zbioru wypukłego.

Year 2019
  • Reexamination of the decoherence of spin registers
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    - PHYSICAL REVIEW A - Year 2019

    We revisit the decoherence process of a multiqubit register interacting with a thermal bosonic bath. We generalize the previous studies by considering not only the register’s behavior but also a part of its environment. In particular, we are interested in information flow from the register to the environment, which we describe using recently introduced multipartite quantum state structures called spectrum broadcast structures....

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  • Pupil detection supported by Haar feature based cascade classifier for two-photon vision examinations
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    - Year 2019

    The aim of this paper is to present a novel method, called Adaptive Edge Detection (AED), of extraction of precise pupil edge coordinates from eye image characterized by reflections of external illuminators and laser beams. The method is used for monitoring of pupil size and position during psychophysical tests of two-photon vision performed by dedicated optical set-up. Two-photon vision is a new phenomenon of perception of short-pulsed...

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  • Propagation of initially sawtooth periodic and impulsive signals in a quasi-isentropic magnetic gas
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    The characteristics of propagation of sawtooth periodic and impulsive signals at a transducer are analytically studied in this work. A plasma under consideration is motionless and uniform at equilibrium, and its perturbations are described by a system of ideal magnetohydrodynamic equations. Some generic heating/cooling function, which in turn depends on equilibrium thermodynamic parameters, may destroy adiabaticity of a flow and...

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Year 2018
Year 2013
Year 2012
  • Quantum-correlation breaking channels, broadcasting scenarios, and finite Markov chains
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    - PHYSICAL REVIEW A - Year 2012

    One of the classical results concerning quantum channels is the characterization of entanglementbreakingchannels [M. Horodecki et al., Rev. Math. Phys 15, 629 (2003)]. We address the questionwhether there exists a similar characterization on the level of quantum correlations which may gobeyond entanglement. The answer is fully affirmative in the case of breaking quantum correlationsdown to the, so called, QC (Quantum-Classical)...

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  • Quantum privacy witness
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    - PHYSICAL REVIEW A - Year 2012

    While it is usually known that the mean value of a single observable is enough to detect entanglement or its distillability, the counterpart of such an approach in the case of quantum privacy has been missing. Here we develop the concept of a privacy witness, i.e., a single observable that may detect the presence of the secure key even in the case of bound entanglement. Then we develop the notion of secret-key estimation based...

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Year 2010
Year 2017
  • Quantum Steering Inequality with Tolerance for Measurement-Setting Errors: Experimentally Feasible Signature of Unbounded Violation
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    - PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS - Year 2017

    uantum steering is a relatively simple test for proving that the values of quantum-mechanical measurement outcomes come into being only in the act of measurement. By exploiting quantum correlations, Alice can influence — steer — Bob ’ s physical system in a way that is impossible in classical mechanics, as shown by the violation of steering inequalities. Demonstrating this and similar quantum effects for systems of increasing size,...

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  • Quantum entanglement in time
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    In this paper we present a concept of quantum entanglement in time in a context of entangled consistent histories. These considerations are supported by presentation of necessary tools closely related to those acting on a space of spatial multipartite quantum states. We show that in similarity to monogamy of quantum entanglement in space, quantum entanglement in time is also endowed with this property for a particular history....

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  • Quantum Coherence as a Resource
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    • A. Streltsov
    • G. Adesso
    • M. B. Plenio

    - REVIEWS OF MODERN PHYSICS - Year 2017

    The coherent superposition of states, in combination with the quantization of observables, represents one of the most fundamental features that mark the departure of quantum mechanics from the classical realm. Quantum coherence in many-body systems embodies the essence of entanglement and is an essential ingredient for a plethora of physical phenomena in quantum optics, quantum information, solid state physics, and nanoscale thermodynamics....

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  • Positron-electron correlation-polarization potentials for the calculation of positron collisions with atoms and molecules
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    We present correlation-polarization potentials for the calculation of scattering cross sections of positrons with atoms and molecules. The potentials are constructed from a short-range correlation term and a long-range polarization term. For the short-range correlation term we present four different potentials that are derived from multi-component density functionals. For the long-range polarization term we employ a multi-term...

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Year 2015
  • Quantum origins of objectivity
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    - PHYSICAL REVIEW A - Year 2015

    In spite of all of its successes, quantum mechanics leaves us with a central problem: How does nature create a bridge from fragile quanta to the objective world of everyday experience? Here we find that a basic structure within quantum mechanics that leads to the perceived objectivity is a so-called spectrum broadcast structure. We uncover this based on minimal assumptions, without referring to any dynamical details or a concrete...

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  • Quantum metrology: Heisenberg limit with bound entanglement
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    - PHYSICAL REVIEW A - Year 2015

    Quantum entanglement may provide a huge boost in the precision of parameter estimation. However, quantum metrology seems to be extremely sensitive to noise in the probe state. There is an important still open question: What type of entanglement is useful as a resource in quantum metrology? Here we raise this question in relation to entanglement distillation. We provide a counterintuitive example of a family of bound entangled states...

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  • Positron scattering on molecular hydrogen: Analysis of experimental and theoretical uncertainties
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    - PHYSICAL REVIEW A - Year 2015

    Experiments performed in recent years on positron scattering from molecular hydrogen indicated a rise of the total cross section in the limit of zero energy, but essentially disagree on the amplitude of this rise. Mitroy and collaborators [J.-Y. Zhang et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 223202 (2009)] predicted a scattering length somewhat different from values deduced experimentally. Using a Markov chain Monte Carlo modified effective...

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  • Photophysics of Ru(II) Dyads Derived from Pyrenyl-Substitued Imidazo[4,5-f][1,10]phenanthroline Ligands.
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    • C. Reichardt
    • M. Pinto
    • M. Wachtler
    • M. Stephenson
    • S. Kupfer
    • T. Sainuddin
    • J. Guthmuller
    • S. A. Mcfarland
    • B. Dietzek

    - JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A - Year 2015

    The photophysics of a series of Ru(II) dyads based on the 2-(1-pyrenyl)-1H-imidazo[4,5-f][1,10]-phenanthroline ligand was investigated. The ability of these metal complexes to intercalate DNA and induce cell death upon photoactivation makes them attractive photosensitizers for a range of photobiological applications, including photodynamic therapy. In the present study, time-resolved transient absorption and emission spectroscopy...

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Year 2008
Year 2009
  • Quantum entanglement
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    - REVIEWS OF MODERN PHYSICS - Year 2009

    All our former experience with application of quantum theory seems to say that what is predicted by quantum formalism must occur in the laboratory. But the essence of quantum formalism-entanglement, recognized by Einstein, Podolsky, Rosen, and Schrödinger-waited over 70 years to enter laboratories as a new resource as real as energy. This holistic property of compound quantum systems, which involves nonclassical correlations between...

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  • Purely quantum superadditivity of classical capacities of quantum multiple access channels
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    We are studying classical capacities of quantum memoryless multiaccess channels in geometric terms and we are revealing a break of additivity of the Holevo-like capacity. This effect is a purely quantum mechanical one, since, as we point out, the capacity regions of all classical memoryless multiaccess channels are additive. It is the first such effect revealed in the field of classical information transmission via quantum channels.

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Year 2011
  • Propagation of acoustic pulses in some fluids with yield stress
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    This study is devoted to the derivation of approximate equations governing acoustic pulses in flows with yieldstress, including some time-dependent flows with a slow dependence on time of yield stress and apparent viscosity. Themodeling of yield stress and apparent viscosity in the vicinity of a zero deformation rate allows us to consider a thixotropicfluid as a Bingham plastic with coefficients that are dependent on time. The...

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  • Postulates for measures of genuine multipartite correlations
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    - PHYSICAL REVIEW A - Year 2011

    A lot of research has been done on multipartite correlations. However, it seems strange thatthere is no denition of so called genuine multipartite correlations. In this paper we propose threereasonable postulates which each measure or indicator of genuine multipartite correlations (or gen-uine multipartite entanglement) should satisfy. We also introduce degree of correlations which givespartial characterization of multipartite...

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Year 2020
  • Positron Scattering and Annihilation in Organic Molecules
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    - ACTA PHYSICA POLONICA B - Year 2020

    In this paper, we address the problem of connecting positron lifetimes in liquids with collision cross sections in gases. We present the analyses of annihilation lifetime spectra of positrons in the liquid benzene, c-hexane, n-hexane, methanol and ethanol and calculations of scattering cross sections of positrons with benzene and c-hexane in the gas phase.

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