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A polymorph of diaquaÂbis(pyrazine-2-carboxylÂato-κ2 N 1,O)copper(II)
The title compound, [Cu(C5H3N2O2)2(H2O)2], is a new polymorph of the previously reported compound [Klein et al. (1982 â–¶). Inorg. Chem.
21, 1891–1897]. The CuII atom, lying on an inversion center, is coordinated by two N atoms and two O atoms from two pyrazine-2-carboxylÂate ligands and by two water molÂecules in a distorted octaÂhedral geometry with the water molÂecules occupying the axial sites. InterÂmolecular O—H⋯O, O—H⋯N and C—H⋯O hydrogen bonds connect the complex molÂecules into a two-dimensional layer parallel to (10), whereas the previously reported polymorph exhibits a three-dimensional hydrogen-bonded network
catena-Poly[[dichloridozinc(II)]-μ-1,1′-(butane-1,4-diÂyl)diimidazole-κ2 N 3:N 3′]
The title compound, [ZnCl2(C10H14N4)]n, is a coordination polymer consisting of zigzag chains propagating in [001], in which the metal cation exhibits a distorted tetrahedral ZnCl2N2 coordination. Adjacent chains are linked by interÂmolecular C—H⋯Cl hydrogen bonds, forming a three-dimensional supraÂmolecular network
Inguinal canal angioleiomyoma: case report of a rare disease entity within inguinal canal
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Secure Key from Quantum Discord
The study of quantum information processing seeks to characterize the
resources that enable quantum information processing to perform tasks that are
unfeasible or inefficient for classical information processing. Quantum
cryptography is one such task, and researchers have identified entanglement as
a sufficient resource for secure key generation. However, quantum discord,
another type of quantum correlation beyond entanglement, has been found to be
necessary for guaranteeing secure communication due to its direct relation to
information leakage. Despite this, it is a long-standing problem how to make
use of discord to analyze security in a specific quantum cryptography protocol.
Here, based on our proposed quantum discord witness recently, we successfully
address this issue by considering a BB84-like quantum key distribution protocol
and its equivalent entanglement-based version. Our method is robust against
imperfections in qubit sources and qubit measurements as well as basis
misalignment due to quantum channels, which results in a better key rate than
standard BB84 protocol. Those advantages are experimentally demonstrated via
photonic phase encoding systems, which shows the practicality of our results
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