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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
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
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
Existence and topological stability of Fermi points in multilayered graphene
We study the existence and topological stability of Fermi points in a
graphene layer and stacks with many layers. We show that the discrete
symmetries (spacetime inversion) stabilize the Fermi points in monolayer,
bilayer and multilayer graphene with orthorhombic stacking. The bands near
and in multilayers with the Bernal stacking depend on the
parity of the number of layers, and Fermi points are unstable when the number
of layers is odd. The low energy changes in the electronic structure induced by
commensurate perturbations which mix the two Dirac points are also
investigated.Comment: 6 pages, 6 figures. Expanded version as will appear in PR
Imprinting the memory into paste and its visualization as crack patterns in drying process
In the drying process of paste, we can imprint into the paste the order how
it should be broken in the future. That is, if we vibrate the paste before it
is dried, it remembers the direction of the initial external vibration, and the
morphology of resultant crack patterns is determined solely by the memory of
the direction. The morphological phase diagram of crack patterns and the
rheological measurement of the paste show that this memory effect is induced by
the plasticity of paste.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures, submitted to JPS
Geometric Aspects of Composite Pulses
Unitary operations acting on a quantum system must be robust against
systematic errors in control parameters for reliable quantum computing.
Composite pulse technique in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) realises such a
robust operation by employing a sequence of possibly poor quality pulses. In
this article, we demonstrate that two kinds of composite pulses, one
compensates for a pulse length error in a one-qubit system and the other
compensates for a J-coupling error in a twoqubit system, have vanishing
dynamical phase and thereby can be seen as geometric quantum gates, which
implement unitary gates by the holonomy associated with dynamics of cyclic
vectors defined in the text.Comment: 20 pages, 4 figures. Accepted for publication in Philosophical
Transactions of the Royal Society
Existence of positive representations for complex weights
The necessity of computing integrals with complex weights over manifolds with
a large number of dimensions, e.g., in some field theoretical settings, poses a
problem for the use of Monte Carlo techniques. Here it is shown that very
general complex weight functions P(x) on R^d can be represented by real and
positive weights p(z) on C^d, in the sense that for any observable f, _P
= _p, f(z) being the analytical extension of f(x). The construction is
extended to arbitrary compact Lie groups.Comment: 9 pages, no figures. To appear in J.Phys.
Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen correlation in gravitational field
For quantum communication in a gravitational field, the properties of the
Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) correlation are studied within the framework of
general relativity. Acceleration and gravity are shown to deteriorate the
perfect anti-correlation of an EPR pair of spins in the same direction, and
apparently decrease the degree of the violation of Bell's inequality. To
maintain the perfect EPR correlation and the maximal violation of Bell's
inequality, observers must measure the spins in appropriately chosen different
directions. Which directions are appropriate depends on the velocity of the
particles, the curvature of the spacetime, and the positions of the observers.
Near the event horizon of a black hole, the appropriate directions depend so
sensitively on the positions of the observers that even a very small
uncertainty in the identification of the observers' positions leads to a fatal
error in quantum communication, unless the observers fall into the black hole
together with the particles.Comment: 22 pages, 3 figures, several minor revisions are mad
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