A Robust Quantum Random Access Memory

A "bucket brigade" architecture for a quantum random memory of $N=2^n$ memory cells needs $n(n+5)/2$ times of quantum manipulation on control circuit nodes per memory call. Here we propose a scheme, in which only average $n/2$ times manipulation is required to accomplish a memory call. This scheme may significantly decrease the time spent on a memory call and the average overall error rate per memory call. A physical implementation scheme for storing an arbitrary state in a selected memory cell followed by reading it out is discussed.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figure

Expression levels of microRNAs are not associated with their regulatory activities

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) regulate their targets by triggering mRNA degradation or translational repression. The negative relationship between miRNAs and their targets suggests that the regulatory effect of a miRNA could be determined from the expression levels of its targets. Here, we investigated the relationship between miRNA activities determined by computational programs and miRNA expression levels by using data in which both mRNA and miRNA expression from the same samples were measured. We found that different from the intuitive expectation one might have, miRNA activity shows very weak correlation with miRNA expression, which indicates complex regulating mechanisms between miRNAs and their target genes

The Hamiltonian index of graphs

The Hamiltonian index of a graph G is defined as h ( G ) = min { m : L m ( G ) is Hamiltonian } . In this paper, using the reduction method of Catlin [P.A. Catlin, A reduction method to find spanning Eulerian subgraphs, J. Graph Theory 12 (1988) 29–44], we constructed a graph H ̃ ( m ) ( G ) from G and prove that if h ( G ) ≥ 2 , then h ( G ) = min{ m : H ̃ ( m ) ( G ) has a spanning Eulerian subgraph }

N-(2-Hy­droxy-5-nitro­phen­yl)methane­sulfonamide ethanol monosolvate

In the title compound, C7H8N2O5S·C2H6O, the dihedral angle between the aromatic ring and the nitro group is 8.78 (9)° and the S atom is displaced by 0.226 (3) Å from the plane of the aromatic ring. In the crystal, the ethanol mol­ecule is involved in hydrogen bonding to two separate sulfonamide mol­ecules, as a donor in an O—H⋯O inter­action and as an acceptor in an N—H⋯O inter­action. Weak C—H⋯O hydrogen bonding is also present

A Three-Flavor AdS/QCD Model with a Back-Reacted Geometry

A fully back-reaction geometry model of AdS/QCD including the strange quark is described. We find that with the inclusion of the strange quark the impact on the metric is very small and the final predictions are changed only negligibly.Comment: 10 pages, 2 figures; references revised, minor change for caption of fig