Creating and destroying coherence with quantum channels

Creating and Destroying Processes

Creating and Destroying Party Brands

Party brands are central to theories of Congressional action. While previous work assumes that a party’s brand—its long run reputation—is a direct consequence of the content of legislation, in this presentation I show how partisans from both parties use public statements to craft their own party’s reputation and to undermine their opponents party. The incentive to craft and destroy brands varie...

Destructive Games: Creating Value by Destroying Valuable Physical ObjectsDestructive Games: Creating Value by Destroying Valuable Physical ObjectsDestructive Games: Creating Value by Destroying Valuable Physical Objects

While personal fabrication tools, such as laser cutters and milling machines, are intended for construction, we are exploring their use for destruction. We present a series of games that result in valuable physical objects being destroyed—objects owned by the players. Interestingly, we found that we can design these games to be desirable to play, despite the loss of the object, by instead produ...

Cost Stickiness: Value Creating or Value Destroying (The Iranian Experience)

This research reviews and tests two contradicting notions in cost stickiness literature by empirical recognition of the consequences of cost stickiness. Cost stickiness is consistent with both rational resource planning and opportunistic incentives of manager to increase personal benefits arising from status and power. Although both mechanisms involve asymmetric retention of slack, some of the ...

Destroying Coherence in High-Temperature Superconductors with Current Flow

A. Kaminski, S. Rosenkranz, M. R. Norman, M. Randeria, Z. Z. Li, H. Raffy, and J. C. Campuzano Ames Laboratory and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, C...