University of Hyderabad

About: University of Hyderabad is a education organization based out in Hyderabad, India. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Catalysis & Crystal structure. The organization has 6446 authors who have published 13005 publications receiving 237641 citations. The organization is also known as: Hyderabad Central University & HCU.

Nonclassical properties of states generated by the excitations on a coherent state

Abstract: In the past few years there has been considerable interests in attempts to produce non-classical states of light such as squeezed states and photon number states. The squeezed states have reduced fluctuations in one field quadrature when compared with the coherent states.1 In this paper we consider the state obtained by repeated application of the photon creation operator on the coherent state. Such a state has a nonzero field amplitude and is shown to exhibit non-classical properties like the squeezing in one of the quadratures of the field, and sub- Poissonian photon statistics. We calculate different quasiprobability functions for fields in such states and also the distribution function for one of the field quadratures. In the last section we discuss how such states can be generated in nonlinear processes in cavities.

Siting Translation: History, Post-Structuralism, and the Colonial Context

Abstract: The act of translation, Tejaswini Niranjana maintains, is a political action. Niranjana draws on Benjamin, Derrida, and de Man to show that translation has long been a site for perpetuating the unequal power relations among people, races, and languages. The traditional view of translation underwritten by Western philosophy helped colonialism to construct the exotic 'other' as unchanging and outside history, and thus easier both to appropriate and control. Scholars, administrators, and missionaries in colonial India translated the colonized people's literature in order to extend the bounds of empire. Examining translations of Indian texts from the eighteenth century to the present, Niranjana urges post-colonial people to reconceive translation as a site for resistance and transformation.

Chemistry beyond the molecule

Abstract: Supramolecular chemistry has grown in importance because it goes beyond the molecule — the focus of classical chemistry. It also offers a fresh interface with biological and materials science.