Last week papers (16th week 2012)

Now, Happy belated easter; writing in advance is really confusing because today is the first week of Easter and this will not see light until the second... and I'm rambling... back to business, the interesting things on the physics 'tubes from April 9th to 15th...

Published

• "Observation of the Kinetic condensation of classical waves" by  C. Sun,  et. al., Nature Physics (2012).
  
  
  This I want to read, a few years ago I think I saw a paper on the topic—give me a second...this one and this one in PRL—and it really got my eye. Now, that's something I want to learn about, it seems fun and interesting.

• "Tavis-Cummings model beyond the rotating wave approximation: Quasidegenerate qubits" by S. Agarwal, S.M. Hashemi Rafsanjani and J. H. Eberly , Physical Review A 85,  043815 (2012).
  
  
  As Rabi model has come back, it was not long before the many two-level system version should appear back in press. Here the dynamics in a particular regime where the energy gap of the two-level system  is way smaller than the frequency of the field is explored with strong coupling via an adiabatic approximation known for the same regime but for a single two-level system interacting with a field.

Preprints

• "Can free will emerge from determinism in quantum theory?" by G. Brassard and P. Raymond-Robichaud et. al., arXiv: 1204.2128v1 [quant-ph].
  
  
  They push a deterministic, local and realistic interpretation of quantum mechanics, this never gets old at all and now we have a "parallel lives" added to the zoo of interpretations. If you like interpretations, philosophical speculation and so, this is for you  


• "Producing and measuring entanglement between two beams of microwave light" by E. Flurin et. al., arXiv: 1204.0732v1 [quant-ph].
  
  
  I'm too lazy to read it today but entanglement between beams of microwave is interesting. 


• "Thermal phase transitions for Dicke-type models in the ultra-strong coupling limit" by M. Aparicio Alcalde et. al., arXiv: 1204.2271v1 [quant-ph].
  
  
  I like almost everything related to Dicke model, here a study of thermal phase transitions of the mathematical model is presented. I like papers involving Emary and Brandes, they are nice reads.