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Impact of interface traps on charge noise, mobility and percolation density in Ge/SiGe heterostructures
Hole spins in Ge/SiGe heterostructure quantum dots have emerged as promising
qubits for quantum computation. The strong spin-orbit coupling (SOC),
characteristic of heavy-hole states in Ge, enables fast and all-electrical
qubit control. However, SOC also increases the susceptibility of spin qubits to
charge noise. While qubit coherence can be significantly improved by operating
at sweet spots with reduced hyperfine or charge noise sensitivity, the latter
ultimately limits coherence, underlining the importance of understanding and
reducing charge noise at its source. In this work, we study the voltage-induced
hysteresis commonly observed in SiGe-based quantum devices and show that the
dominant charge fluctuators are localized at the semiconductor-oxide interface.
By applying increasingly negative gate voltages to Hall bar and quantum dot
devices, we investigate how the hysteretic filling of interface traps impacts
transport metrics and charge noise. We find that the gate-induced accumulation
and trapping of charge at the SiGe-oxide interface leads to an increased
electrostatic disorder, as probed by transport measurements, as well as the
activation of low-frequency relaxation dynamics, resulting in slow drifts and
increased charge noise levels. Our results highlight the importance of a
conservative device tuning strategy and reveal the critical role of the
semiconductor-oxide interface in SiGe heterostructures for spin qubit
applications
Charge Symmetry Breaking in 500 MeV Nucleon-Trinucleon Scattering
Elastic nucleon scattering from the 3He and 3H mirror nuclei is examined as a
test of charge symmetry violation. The differential cross-sections are
calculated at 500 MeV using a microsopic, momentum-space optical potential
including the full coupling of two spin 1/2 particles and an exact treatment of
the Coulomb force. The charge-symmetry-breaking effects investigated arise from
a violation within the nuclear structure, from the p-nucleus Coulomb force, and
from the mass-differences of the charge symmetric states. Measurements likely
to reveal reliable information are noted.Comment: 5 page
KLEIN: A New Family of Lightweight Block Ciphers
Resource-efficient cryptographic primitives become fundamental for realizing both security and efficiency in embedded systems like RFID tags and sensor nodes. Among those primitives, lightweight block cipher plays a major role as a building block for security protocols. In this paper, we describe a new family of lightweight block ciphers named KLEIN, which is designed for resource-constrained devices such as wireless sensors and RFID tags. Compared to the related proposals, KLEIN has advantage in the software performance on legacy sensor platforms, while in the same time its hardware implementation can also be compact
Triton binding energy calculated from the SU_6 quark-model nucleon-nucleon interaction
Properties of the three-nucleon bound state are examined in the Faddeev
formalism, in which the quark-model nucleon-nucleon interaction is explicitly
incorporated to calculate the off-shell T-matrix. The most recent version,
fss2, of the Kyoto-Niigata quark-model potential yields the ground-state energy
^3H=-8.514 MeV in the 34 channel calculation, when the np interaction is used
for the nucleon-nucleon interaction. The charge root mean square radii of the
^3H and ^3He are 1.72 fm and 1.90 fm, respectively, including the finite size
correction of the nucleons. These values are the closest to the experiments
among many results obtained by detailed Faddeev calculations employing modern
realistic nucleon-nucleon interaction models.Comment: 10 pages, no figure
The acheulean handaxe : More like a bird's song than a beatles' tune?
© 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. KV is supported by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research. MC is supported by the Canada Research Chairs Program, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research of Canada, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, the British Columbia Knowledge Development Fund, and Simon Fraser UniversityPeer reviewedPublisher PD
Summative assessment of 5th year medical students' clinical reasoning by script concordance test: requirements and challenges
Background: The Script Concordance Test (SCT) has not been reported in summative assessment of students across the multiple domains of a medical curriculum. We report the steps used to build a test for summative assessment in a medical curriculum. Methods: A 51 case, 158-question, multidisciplinary paper was constructed to assess clinical reasoning in 5th-year. 10â16 experts in each of 7 discipline-based reference panels answered questions on-line. A multidisciplinary group considered reference panel data and data from a volunteer group of 6th Years, who sat the same test, to determine the passing score for the 5th Years. Results: The mean (SD) scores were 63.6 (7.6) and 68.6 (4.8) for the 6th Year (nâ=â23, alphaâ=â0.78) and and 5th Year (nâ=â132, alpha =0.62) groups (pâ<â0.05), respectively. The passing score was set at 4 SD from the expert mean. Four students failed. Conclusions: The SCT may be a useful method to assess clinical reasoning in medical students in multidisciplinary summative assessments. Substantial investment in training of faculty and students and in the development of questions is required.Paul Duggan and Bernard Charli
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Data assimilation with correlated observation errors: experiments with a 1-D shallow water model
Remote sensing observations often have correlated errors, but the correlations are typically ignored in data assimilation for numerical weather prediction. The assumption of zero correlations is often used with data thinning methods, resulting in a loss of information. As operational centres move towards higher-resolution forecasting, there is a requirement to retain data providing detail on appropriate scales. Thus an alternative approach to dealing with observation error correlations is needed. In this article, we consider several approaches to approximating observation error correlation matrices: diagonal approximations, eigendecomposition approximations and Markov matrices. These approximations are applied in incremental variational assimilation experiments with a 1-D shallow water model using synthetic observations. Our experiments quantify analysis accuracy in comparison with a reference or âtruthâ trajectory, as well as with analyses using the âtrueâ observation error covariance matrix. We show that it is often better to include an approximate correlation structure in the observation error covariance matrix than to incorrectly assume error independence. Furthermore, by choosing a suitable matrix approximation, it is feasible and computationally cheap to include error correlation structure in a variational data assimilation algorithm
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