Griffith University

Lists of Publications

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Statistics

• Publications 65
• Citations 1172
• h-index 21

Publications with more than 50 citations

• 90 citations
  J.A. Vaccaro and D.T. Pegg, "Phase properties of squeezed states of light", Opt. Comm. 70, 529 (1989).
• 87 citations
  H.M. Wiseman and J.A. Vaccaro, "Entanglement of indistinguishable particles shared between two parties", Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 097902 (2003) [arXiv:quant-ph/0210002].
• 83 citations
  S.F. Huelga, J.A. Vaccaro, A. Chefles and M.B. Plenio, "Quantum Remote Control - Teleportation of Unitary Operations", Phys. Rev. A, 63 042303 (2001)  [arXiv:quant-ph/0005061].
• 59 citations
  U. Leonhardt, J.A. Vaccaro, B. Bohmer and H. Paul, "Canonical and measured phase distributions", Phys. Rev. A 51, 84 (1995).
• 57 citations
  J.A. Vaccaro and D.T. Pegg, "Wigner function for number and phase", Phys. Rev. A 41, 5156-5161 (1990).
• 53 citations
  S.M. Barnett, K. Burnett and J.A. Vaccaro, "Why a condensate can be thought of as having a definite phase", Research Journal of the National Institute of Standards 101, 593 (1996).

Publications by Research Topic

Quantum states of light - squeezing

• Amplifying squeezing light
  • J.A. Vaccaro and D.T. Pegg, "Squeezing of light by coherent attenuation", Optica Acta, 33, 1141-1147 (1986);
  • D.T. Pegg and J.A. Vaccaro,"Squeezing in the output of a high-gain atomic light amplifier", Optics Commun., 61, 317-320, (1987);
  • J.A. Vaccaro and D.T. Pegg, "Squeezed atomic light amplifiers", J. Mod. Optics, 34, 855-872 (1987).
• Phase properties
  • J.A. Vaccaro and D.T. Pegg, "Phase properties of squeezed states of light", Optics Commun. 70, 529-534 (1989);
  • J.A. Vaccaro and D.T. Pegg, "Phase properties of optical linear-amplifiers", Phys. Rev. A, 49, 4985-4995 (1994);
  • J.A. Vaccaro and D.T. Pegg, "Nondiffusive phase dynamics from linear-amplifiers and attenuators in the weak-field regime", J. Mod. Optics 41, 1079-1086 (1994);
  • J.A. Vaccaro, S.M. Barnett and D.T. Pegg, "Phase fluctuations and squeezing", J. Mod. Optics 39, 603-614 (1992).

Pegg-Barnett Quantum Phase Operator

• Minimum uncertainty states
  • J.A. Vaccaro and D.T. Pegg, "Physical number phase intelligent and minimum-uncertainty states of light", J. Mod. Optics 37, 17-29 (1990).
• Generalized canonical observables
  • D.T. Pegg, J.A. Vaccaro and S.M. Barnett, "Quantum-optical phase and canonical conjugation", J. Mod. Optics 37, 1703 (1990).
• Mathematical formalism
  • U. Leonhardt, J.A. Vaccaro, B. Bohmer and H. Paul, "Canonical and measured phase distributions", Phys. Rev. A 51, 84-95 (1995);
  • J.A. Vaccaro, "Phase operators on Hilbert-space", Phys. Rev. A 51, 3309-3317 (1995);
  • J.A. Vaccaro and R.F. Bonner, "Pegg-Barnett phase operators of infinite rank", Phys. Lett. A, 198, 167-174 (1995);
  • J.A. Vaccaro and Y. Benaryeh, "Antinormally ordering of phase operators and the algebra of weak limits", Optics Commun., 113, 427-432 (1995).
• Wigner function for photon number and phase
  • J.A. Vaccaro and D.T. Pegg, "Wigner function for number and phase", Phys. Rev. A 41, 5156-5163 (1990);
  • J. Vaccaro, "Number-phase Wigner function on Fock space", Phys. Rev. A 52, 3474-3488 (1995);
  • J.A. Vaccaro, "New Wigner function for number and phase", Optics Commun. 113, 421-426 (1995).
• General aspects of phase
  • J.A. Vaccaro and D.T. Pegg, "On measuring extremely small phase fluctuations", Optics Commun. 105, 335-340 (1994);
  • J.A. Vaccaro and D.T. Pegg, "Consistency of quantum descriptions of phase", Physica Scripta T48, 22-28 (1993);
  • J. Vaccaro and A. Orlowski, "Phase properties of Kerr media via variance and entropy as measures of uncertainty", Phys. Rev. A 51, 4172-4180 (1995);
  • A.R. Gonzalez, J.A. Vaccaro and S.M. Barnett, "Entropic uncertainty relations for canonically conjugate operators", Phys. Lett. A 205, 247-254 (1995).

Quantum nonlocality

• Bell correlations and the Wigner function
  • U. Leonhardt and J.A. Vaccaro, "Bell correlations in phase-space - application to quantum optics", J. Mod. Optics, 42, 939-943 (1995).

Quantum state determination

• Reconstructing the wave function
  • J.A. Vaccaro and S.M. Barnett, "Reconstructing the wave-function in quantum optics", J. Mod. Optics, 42, 2165-2171 (1995);
  • O. Steuernagel and J.A. Vaccaro, "Reconstructing the density operator via simple projectors", Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 3201-3205 (1995) [arXiv:quant-ph/9510014].

Stochastic Schrödinger equations

• From quantum jumps to quantum state diffusion
  • J.A. Vaccaro and D. Richards, "Stochastic Schrodinger equations for optical fields based on atom detection", Phys. Rev. A., 58 2690-2698 (1998).

Electromagnetically-induced transparency (EIT)

• Transient EIT
  • H.X. Chen, A.V. Durrant,  J.P. Marangos, and J.A. Vaccaro, "Observation of transient electromagnetically induced transparency in a rubidium Lambda system", Phys. Rev. A 58 1545-1548 (1998);
  • S.R. de Echaniz, A.D. Greentree, A.V. Durrant, D.M. Segal, J.P. Marangos and J.A. Vaccaro, "Observation of transient gain without population inversion in a laser-cooled rubidium Lambda system", Phys. Rev. A 64 055801 (2001);
  • A.D. Greentree, T.B. Smith, S.R. de Echaniz, A.V. Durrant, J.P. Marangos, D.M. Segal and J.A. Vaccaro, "Resonant and off-resonant transients in electromagnetically induced transparency: Turn-on and turn-off dynamics", Phys. Rev. A 65, 053802 (2002) [arXiv:quant-ph/0109090].
• Hyperfine sublevels in laser cooled samples
  • A.V. Durrant, H.X. Chen, S.A. Hopkins, and J.A. Vaccaro, "Zeeman-coherence-induced transparency and gain without inversion in laser-cooled rubidium", Optics Commun., 151, 135-146 (1998).
• 4 and 5 level systems
  • A.D. Greentree, J.A. Vaccaro, S.R. de Echaniz, A.V. Durrant and J.P. Marangos, "Prospects for photon blockade in four-level systems in the N configuration with more than one atom",Journal of Optics B 2, 252-259 (2000) [arXiv:quant-ph/0002091];
  • S.R. de Echaniz, A.D. Greentree, A.V. Durrant, D.M. Segal, J.P. Marangos and J.A. Vaccaro, "Observations of a doubly driven V system probed to a fourth level in laser-cooled rubidium", Phys Rev. A 64, 013812 (2001) [arXiv:quant-ph/0102098];
  • A.D. Greentree, D. Richards, J.A. Vaccaro, A.V. Durrant, S.R. de Echaniz, D.M. Segal and J.P. Marangos, "Intensity-dependent dispersion under conditions of electromagnetically induced transparency in coherently prepared multistate atoms", Phys Rev. A 67, 023818 (2002)  [arXiv:quant-ph/0209067].
• Vector model of EIT
  • J.A. Vaccaro, A.V. Durrant, D. Richards, S.A. Hopkins, H.X. Chen and K.E. Hill, "Stochastic wavefunction diagrams for electromagnetically induced transparency, inversionless gain and shelving", J. Mod. Optics 45, 315-333 (1998).

Quantum Information Processing

• Classical properties of quantum gates
  • J.A. Vaccaro, O. Steuernagel and S.F. Huelga, "A class of symmetric controlled quantum operations", J. Phys. A 34, 7057 (2001) [arXiv:quant-ph/0102015].
• Quantum remote control
  • S.F. Huelga,  J.A. Vaccaro, A. Chefles and M.B. Plenio, "Quantum remote control: Teleportation of unitary operations", Phys. Rev. A, 63 042303 (2001) [arXiv:quant-ph/0005061];
  • S.F. Huelga, M.B. Plenio and J.A. Vaccaro, "Remote control of restricted sets of operations: Teleportation of angles", Phys. Rev. A 65, 042316 (2002) [arXiv:quant-ph/0101110].
• Quantum voting
  • J.A. Vaccaro, J. Spring and A. Chefles, "Quantum protocols for anonymous voting and surveying", Phys. Rev. A 75, 012333 (2007) [arXiv:quant-ph/0504161].
• Quantum source coding (data compression)
  • Y. Mitsumori, J.A. Vaccaro, S.M. Barnett, E. Andersson, A. Hasegawa, M. Takeoka and M. Sasaki, "Experimental demonstration of quantum source coding", Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 217902 (2003) [arXiv:quant-ph/0304036];
  GB Patent 2400252 A, 6 April 2005, Japan Patent 3858067, 29 September 2006, US Patent 07403713 B2, 22 July 2008.

Robust states of open quantum systems

• Quantum state of Bose-Einstein condensates and atom lasers
  • S.M. Barnett, K. Burnett and J.A. Vaccaro, "Why a condensate can be thought of as having a definite phase", Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology 101, 593 (1996);
  • H.M. Wiseman and J.A. Vaccaro, "Atom lasers, coherent states, and coherence. I. Physically realizable ensembles of pure states", Phys. Rev. A 65, 043605 (2002) [arXiv:quant-ph/9906125];
  • H.M. Wiseman and J.A. Vaccaro, "Atom lasers, coherent states, and coherence II. Maximally robust ensembles of pure states", Phys. Rev. A 65, 043606 (2002) [arXiv:quant-ph/0112145].
• Robust states as the preferred ensemble
  • H.M. Wiseman and J.A. Vaccaro, "Maximally Robust Unravelings of Quantum Master Equations", Phys. Lett. A 250, 241-248 (1998) [arXiv:quant-ph/9709014];
  • H.M. Wiseman and J.A. Vaccaro, "Inequivalence of pure state ensembles for open quantum systems: The preferred ensembles are those that are physically realizable", Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 240402 (2001) [arXiv:quant-ph/0112115]. 

Superselection Rules, Reference Systems and Entanglement

• Effect on quantum entanglement
  • H.M. Wiseman and J.A. Vaccaro, "Entanglement of indistinguishable particles shared between two parties" Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 097902 (2003) [arXiv:quant-ph/0210002];
  • J.A. Vaccaro, F. Amselmi and H.M. Wiseman, "Entanglement of identical particles and reference phase uncertainty", Int. J. Quant. Inf. 1, 427 (2003) [arXiv:quant-ph/0311028].
• Reference Ability
  • S.J. Jones, H.M. Wiseman, S.D. Bartlett, J.A. Vaccaro and D.T. Pope, "Entanglement and symmetry: A case study in superselection rules, reference frames, and beyond" Phys. Rev. A 74, 062313 (2006) [arXiv:quant-ph/0608056];
  • J.A. Vaccaro, F. Amselmi, H.M. Wiseman and K. Jacobs, "Trade off between the locally extractable work, accessible entanglement and local reference frame ability for bipartite systems", Phys. Rev. A 77, 032114 (2008) [arXiv:quant-ph/0501121];
  • G. White, J.A. Vaccaro and H.M. Wiseman, "The consumption of reference resources", AIP Conference Proceedings 1110, 11-22 (2009) [arXiv:0811.3660].
• Optimal reference states
  • G. White, J.A. Vaccaro and H.M. Wiseman, "Optimal reference states for maximum accessible entanglement under the local-particle-number superselection rule", Phys. Rev. A 79, 032109 (2009) [arXiv:0807.0064].

Foundations of Thermodynamics

• Information erasure without an energy cost
  • J.A. Vaccaro and S.M. Barnett, "The cost of erasing information", AIP Conference Proceedings 1110, 37-40 (2009).
  • J.A. Vaccaro and S.M. Barnett, "Information erasure without an energy cost", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 467, 1770-1778 (2011) DOI [arXiv:1004.5330].

Particle-wave Duality and Complementarity

• Particle-wave duality
  • J.A. Vaccaro, "Group Theoretic Formulation of Complementarity" Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Quantum Communication, Measurement and Computing, Edited by O. Hirota et al. (NICT, Tokyo, 2006) [arXiv:1012.3532].
• • J.A. Vaccaro, "Particle-wave duality: a dichotomy between symmetry and asymmetry", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 468, 1065-1084 (2012) DOI [arXiv:1105.0083] 

Physical Nature of Time

• Unidirectionality of time
  • J.A. Vaccaro, "Unidirectionality of time induced by T violation", J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 306, 012057 (2011)  DOI .
  • J.A. Vaccaro, "T Violation and the Unidirectionality of Time", Foundations of Physics 41, 1569-1596 (2011) DOI [arXiv:0911.4528].