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A method is proposed for obtaining the spectrum for noise that causes the phase decoherence of a qubit directly from experimentally available data. The method is based on a simple relationship between the spectrum and the coherence time of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Tatsuro Yuge , Susumu Sasaki , Yoshiro Hirayama

The polarization analysis of the light is typically carried out using modulation schemes. The light of unknown polarization state is passed through a set of known modulation optics and a detector is used to measure the total intensity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-05-01 A. Asensio Ramos , M. Collados

Extraction of the CMB (Cosmic Microwave Background) angular power spectrum is a challenging task for current and future CMB experiments due to the large data sets involved. Here we describe an implementation of MASTER (Monte carlo Apodised…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Poutanen , D. Maino , H. Kurki-Suonio , E. Keihanen , E. Hivon

Stokes polarimetry (SP) is a powerful technique that enables spatial reconstruction of the state of polarization (SoP) of a light beam using only intensity measurements. A given SoP is reconstructed from a set of four Stokes parameters,…

Space-time adaptive processing (STAP) is an effective tool for detecting a moving target in spaceborne or airborne radar systems. Statistical-based STAP methods generally need sufficient statistically independent and identically distributed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-08-26 Ke Sun , Hao Zhang , Gang Li , Huadong Meng , Xiqin Wang

We present an imaging algorithm for polarimetric interferometric data from radio telescopes. It is based on Bayesian statistics and thereby able to provide uncertainties and to incorporate prior information such as positivity of the total…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-02 Philipp Arras , Jakob Roth , Martin Reinecke , Richard A. Perley , Andrei Frolov , Rüdiger Westermann , Torsten A. Enßlin

Reducing noise caused by the instrumentation in observational data is a crucial step in data post-processing. A method is searched for that conserves most of the instrumental resolution and introduces as few methodical artefacts as…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-30 Ph. -A. Bourdin

High-resolution spectropolarimetry is a useful astronomical technique, in particular to study stellar magnetic fields. It has been extensively used in the past but mostly in the visible range. Space missions equipped with high-resolution…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-29 Maelle Le Gal , Martin Pertenais , Arturo Lopez Ariste , Coralie Neiner , Norbert Champion , Youssef Younes , Jean-Michel Reess

Transmission spectroscopy, which consists of measuring the wavelength-dependent absorption of starlight by a planet's atmosphere during a transit, is a powerful probe of atmospheric composition. However, the expected signal is typically…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 N. P. Gibson , S. Aigrain , S. Roberts , T. M. Evans , M. Osborne , F. Pont

Quantitative thermodynamical, dynamical and magnetic properties of the solar and stellar plasmas are obtained by interpreting their emergent non-polarized and polarized spectrum. This inference requires the selection of a set of spectral…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-25 A. Asensio Ramos , J. de la Cruz Rodriguez , M. J. Martinez Gonzalez , A. Pastor Yabar

We explore a free-space polarization modulator in which a variable phase introduction between right- and left-handed circular polarization components is used to rotate the linear polarization of the outgoing beam relative to that of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-24 David T. Chuss , Edward J. Wollack , Giampaolo Pisano , Sheridan Ackiss , Kongpop U-Yen , Ming wah Ng

Polarization is a unique characteristic of transverse wave and is represented by Stokes parameters. Analysis of polarization states can reveal valuable information about the sources. In this paper, we propose a separable low-rank quaternion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Junjun Pan , Michael K. Ng

In this work, an efficient numerical scheme is presented for seismic blind deconvolution in a multichannel scenario. The proposed method iterate with wo steps: first, wavelet estimation across all channels and second, refinement of the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-10-20 Naveed Iqbal , Entao Liu , James H. McClellan , Abdullatif A. Al-Shuhail

A statistical model is used to determine how stochastic fluctuations in the intensities of orthogonal polarization modes contribute to the modulation and depolarization of pulsar radio emission. General expressions for the distributions of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-19 M. M. McKinnon

Spectral characterization of noise environments that lead to the decoherence of qubits is critical to developing robust quantum technologies. While dynamical decoupling offers one of the most successful approaches to characterize noise…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-21 Arian Vezvaee , Nanako Shitara , Shuo Sun , Andrés Montoya-Castillo

Future cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarisation experiments aim to measure an unprecedentedly small signal - the primordial gravity wave component of the polarisation field B-mode. To achieve this, they will analyse huge datasets,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 D. Sutton , J. A. Zuntz , P. G. Ferreira , M. L. Brown , H. K. Eriksen , B. R. Johnson , A. Kusaka , S. K. Naess , I. K. Wehus

The use of polarimetric techniques is nowadays widespread among solar and stellar astronomers. However, notwithstanding the recommandations that have often been made about the publication of polarimetric results in the astronomical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Landi Degl'Innocenti , S. Bagnulo , L. Fossati

Here, we explore the prospects of carrying out the single qubit spectroscopy of environmental noise when the resolution of the frequency filters produced by the dynamical decoupling pulse sequences can be set high enough to reveal the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-11-22 Piotr Szańkowski

We present stacking polarized intensity as a means to study the polarization of sources that are too faint to be detected individually in surveys of polarized radio sources. Stacking offers not only high sensitivity to the median signal of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 J. M. Stil , B. W. Keller , S. J. George , A. R. Taylor

The new generation of X-ray polarisation detectors, gas pixel detectors, which will be employed by the future space missions IXPE and eXTP, allows for spatially resolved X-ray polarisation studies. This will be of particular interest for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-20 Jacco Vink , Ping Zhou