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Using Microsatellites to Assess Genetic Variation in a Selective Breeding Program of Chinese Bay Scallop (Argopecten irradians irradians)
This study aimed to improve our understanding of the genetics of the Chinese bay scallop (Argopecten irradians irradians), one of the most important maricultured shellfish in China. Ten polymorphic microsatellite loci were examined to assess the allelic diversity, heterozygosity, and genetic variation between two domesticated populations selected for fast growth in breeding programs, and their base population. Forty-one alleles were found throughout the loci and the mean number of alleles per locus ranged 3.30-3.50. The average heterozygosity ranged 0.38-0.45, whereas the polyamorphic information content ranged 0.1504-0.7518. Genetic differences between the three populations were detected based on the number of alleles per locus, effective number of alleles, Shannon index, inbreeding coefficient (Fis), p values, genetic distance, and pairwise Fst values. There was no significant loss of genetic variability in the breeding program but changes in gene frequencies were detectable over the populations, implying that thea loci were saffected by the pressures of selective culture
Dynamical decoupling of superconducting qubits
We show that two superconducting qubits interacting via a fixed transversal
coupling can be decoupled by appropriately-designed microwave feld excitations
applied to each qubit. This technique is useful for removing the effects of
spurious interactions in a quantum processor. We also simulate the case of a
qubit coupled to a two-level system (TLS) present in the insulating layer of
the Josephson junction of the qubit. Finally, we discuss the qubit-TLS problem
in the context of dispersive measurements, where the qubit is coupled to a
resonator.Comment: 4 figures, 6 page
Effect of dimensions on the efficiency of radiant energy cells
Effect of dimensions on quantum and photovoltaic energy conversion efficiency of germanium p-n semiconducting cell
Convergence of the Lasserre Hierarchy of SDP Relaxations for Convex Polynomial Programs without Compactness
The Lasserre hierarchy of semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxations is an
effective scheme for finding computationally feasible SDP approximations of
polynomial optimization over compact semi-algebraic sets. In this paper, we
show that, for convex polynomial optimization, the Lasserre hierarchy with a
slightly extended quadratic module always converges asymptotically even in the
face of non-compact semi-algebraic feasible sets. We do this by exploiting a
coercivity property of convex polynomials that are bounded below. We further
establish that the positive definiteness of the Hessian of the associated
Lagrangian at a saddle-point (rather than the objective function at each
minimizer) guarantees finite convergence of the hierarchy. We obtain finite
convergence by first establishing a new sum-of-squares polynomial
representation of convex polynomials over convex semi-algebraic sets under a
saddle-point condition. We finally prove that the existence of a saddle-point
of the Lagrangian for a convex polynomial program is also necessary for the
hierarchy to have finite convergence.Comment: 17 page
Measurement-induced entanglement of two superconducting qubits
We study the problem of two superconducting quantum qubits coupled via a
resonator. If only one quanta is present in the system and the number of
photons in the resonator is measured with a null result, the qubits end up in
an entangled Bell state. Here we look at one source of errors in this quantum
nondemolition scheme due to the presence of more than one quanta in the
resonator, previous to the measurement. By analyzing the structure of the
conditional Hamiltonian with arbitrary number of quanta, we show that the
scheme is remarkably robust against these type of errors.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figure
Solving finite word length realization problems in the framework of structured singular value
Synthesis of bulk, dense, nanocrystalline yttrium aluminum garnet from amorphous powders
Amorphous powders of Al2O3x2014;37.5 mol% Y2O3 (yttrium aluminum garnet (YAG)) were prepared by coprecipitation, decomposed at 800xB0;C, and hot-pressed uniaxally at low temperature (600xB0;C) and a moderate pressure (750 MPa). Optimum conditions yielded microstructures with only 2% porosity and partial crystallization of YAG. Further processing using high quasi-hydrostatic pressure (1 GPa) at 1000xB0;C enabled the production of fully crystallized YAG with gt;96% relative density and a nanocrystalline grain size of x223C;70 nm. 13
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