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Designing Robust Unitary Gates: Application to Concatenated Composite Pulse
We propose a simple formalism to design unitary gates robust against given
systematic errors. This formalism generalizes our previous observation [Y.
Kondo and M. Bando, J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 80, 054002 (2011)] that vanishing
dynamical phase in some composite gates is essential to suppress amplitude
errors. By employing our formalism, we naturally derive a new composite unitary
gate which can be seen as a concatenation of two known composite unitary
operations. The obtained unitary gate has high fidelity over a wider range of
the error strengths compared to existing composite gates.Comment: 7 pages, 4 figures. Major revision: improved presentation in Sec. 3,
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Topological Computation without Braiding
We show that universal quantum computation can be performed within the ground
state of a topologically ordered quantum system, which is a naturally protected
quantum memory. In particular, we show how this can be achieved using brane-net
condensates in 3-colexes. The universal set of gates is implemented without
selective addressing of physical qubits and, being fully topologically
protected, it does not rely on quasiparticle excitations or their braiding.Comment: revtex4, 4 pages, 4 figure
Synthesis of perfluoroalkylene aromatic diamines
Analogues of methylene dianilines were synthesized, in which the methylene group between the two aromatic nuclei was replaced by various perfluoroalkylene linkage. The hydrolytic thermal, and thermal oxidative stabilities of PMR Polyimides derived from these diamines were determined. Three types of PMR Polyimide discs were fabricated from the dimethyl ester of 3,3', 4,4'-benzophenonetetracarboxylic acid, the methyl ester of 5-norbornene-2,3-dicarboxylic acid, and one of the following three diamines: methyl dianiline, 1,3-bis(4-aminophenyl)hexafluoropropane, and 2,2-bis(4-aminophenyl)hexafluoropropane. The polyimide based on 2,2-bis(4-aminophenyl)hexafluoropropane exhibited the best hydrolytic, thermal, and thermal oxidative stability as determined by moisture uptake and thermogravimetric analysis
Improved perfluoroalkylether fluid development
The objective of this program was to optimize and scale up the linear perfluoroalkylether stabilization process and to provide test data regarding the fluids' thermal oxidative stability in the presence of metal alloys. The stabilization of Fomblin Z-25 was scaled up to 300 g of fluid. The modified fluid was stable at 316 C in oxygen in the presence of M-50 alloy for more than 24 hrs but less than 40 hrs; the amount of volatiles produced after 24 hrs was 5.5 mg/g. In the presence of Ti(4Al,4Mn) alloy, under the above conditions, following an exposure of 24 hrs, the amount of volatiles formed was 6.2 mg/g; 56 hrs exposure yielded 13.9 mg/g. The commercial fluid at 288 C (in oxygen) in the presence of M-50 after 15 hrs of exposure decomposed extensively, 342 mg/g; in the presence of Ti(4Al,4Mn) alloy after only 8 hrs at 288 C, the amount of volatiles was 191 mg/g. Formulation of the commercial fluid with C2PN3 additive was not as effective as the stabilization processing. All the perfluoroalkylether fluids studied were stable in nitrogen at 343 C. The thermal oxidative stability in the absence of metal alloys varied, with Aflunox exhibiting the best behavior. All the fluids were degraded in oxygen at 316 C during 24 hrs exposure to Ti(4Al,4Mn) alloy with the exception of a perfluoroalkylether substituted triazine and the modified Z-25
Fermionic Hopf solitons and Berry's phase in topological surface superconductors
A central theme in many body physics is emergence - new properties arise when
several particles are brought together. Particularly fascinating is the idea
that the quantum statistics may be an emergent property. This was first noted
in the Skyrme model of nuclear matter, where a theory formulated entirely in
terms of a bosonic order parameter field contains fermionic excitations. These
excitations are smooth field textures, and believed to describe neutrons and
protons. We argue that a similar phenomenon occurs in topological insulators
when superconductivity gaps out their surface states. Here, a smooth texture is
naturally described by a three component real vector. Two components describe
superconductivity, while the third captures the band topology. Such a vector
field can assume a 'knotted' configuration in three dimensional space - the
Hopf texture - that cannot smoothly be unwound. Here we show that the Hopf
texture is a fermion. To describe the resulting state, the regular
Landau-Ginzburg theory of superconductivity must be augmented by a topological
Berry phase term. When the Hopf texture is the cheapest fermionic excitation,
striking consequences for tunneling experiments are predicted
Minimal and Robust Composite Two-Qubit Gates with Ising-Type Interaction
We construct a minimal robust controlled-NOT gate with an Ising-type
interaction by which elementary two-qubit gates are implemented. It is robust
against inaccuracy of the coupling strength and the obtained quantum circuits
are constructed with the minimal number (N=3) of elementary two-qubit gates and
several one-qubit gates. It is noteworthy that all the robust circuits can be
mapped to one-qubit circuits robust against a pulse length error. We also prove
that a minimal robust SWAP gate cannot be constructed with N=3, but requires
N=6 elementary two-qubit gates.Comment: 7 pages, 2 figure
Cross Linking and Degradation Mechanisms in Model Sealant Candidates
Model compounds were investigated as to which type of heterocyclic ring is the most advantageous for curing sealants based on perfluoroalkylether chains. The relative thermal, thermal oxidative, hydrolytic, and fuel stability of potential crosslinks were determined. Specifically substituted materials were synthesized and evaluation of their stabilities in air, inert atmosphere, water, and Jet-A fuel at 235 and 325 C was made. Three heterocyclic ring systems were considered, namely, triazine, 1,2,4- and 1,3,4-oxadiazoles
Temporal meson correlators at finite temperature on quenched anisotropic lattice
We study charmonium correlators at finite temperature in quenched anisotropic
lattice QCD. The smearing technique is applied to enhance the low energy part
of the correlator. We use two analysis procedures: the maximum entropy method
for extraction of the spectral function without assuming specific form, as an
estimate of the shape of spectral function, and the fit assuming
typical forms as quantitative evaluation of the parameters associated to the
forms. We find that at the ground state peak has almost the
same mass as at T=0 and almost vanishing width. At , our result
suggests that the correlator still has nontrivial peak structure at almost the
same position as below with finite width.Comment: Lattice 2002 Nonzero temperature 3page
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