Vacuum fluctuations of the electromagnetic field induce current fluctuations in resistively shunted Josephson junctions that are measurable in terms of a physically relevant power spectrum. In this paper we investigate under which conditions vacuum fluctuations can be gravitationally active,...

Stochastic resonance (SR) induced by the signal modulation is investigated, by introducing the signal-modulated gain into a single-mode laser system. Using the linear approximation method, we detailedly calculate the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of a gain-noise model of the single-mode laser,...

In previous papers we have studied stationary [Physica A 197 (1993) 364] and transient [Physica A 268 (1999) 121] solutions of a quantized LC-circuit showing squeezing effect generated by a time-dependent parameter. Here we extend this issue studying the transfer of this effect in coupled...

We give a detailed account of the derivation of a master equation for two-coupled cavities in the presence of dissipation. The analytical solution is presented and physical limits of interest are discussed. Firstly, we show that the decay rate of initial coherent states can be significantly...

We analyze in detail the discrete-time quantum walk on the line by separating the quantum evolution equation into Markovian and interference terms. As a result of this separation, it is possible to show analytically that the quadratic increase in the variance of the quantum walker's position...

Given an arbitrary probability distribution and a nondegenerate energy spectrum, so that a mean energy U can be computed, we derive the partition function Z and the entropic functional S that satisfy the basic relation dU=TdS. The procedure is illustrated by considering examples of typical...

We consider a new model of quantum walk on a one-dimensional momentum space that includes both discrete jumps and continuous drift. Its time evolution has two stages; a Markov diffusion followed by localized dynamics. As in the well known quantum kicked rotor, this model can be mapped into a...

The notion of quantum discord introduced by Ollivier and Zurek [Phys. Rev. Lett 88 (2001) 017901] (see also Henderson and Vedral [J. Phys. A 34 (2001) 6899] ) has attracted increasing attention, in recent years, as an entropic quantifier of non-classical features pertaining to the correlations...

The thermal entanglement of the Hubbard dimer (two-site Hubbard model) has been studied with the nonextensive statistics. We have calculated the auto-correlation (Oq), pair correlation (Lq), concurrence (Γq) and conditional entropy (Rq) as functions of entropic index q and the temperature T....

We study the possible advantages of adopting quantum strategies in multi-player evolutionary games. We base our study on the three-player Prisoner’s Dilemma (PD) game. In order to model the simultaneous interaction between three agents we use hypergraphs and hypergraph networks. In particular,...