Active control of qubit-qubit entanglement evolution

In this work, we propose a scheme to design the time evolution of the entropy of entanglement between two qubits. It is shown an explicit accurate solution for the inverse problem of determining the time dependence of the coupling constant from a user-defined dynamical entanglement function. Such an active control of entanglement can be implemented in many different physical implementations of coupled qubits, and we briefly comment on the use of interacting flux qubits.Comment: Author added, Expanded version, 10 figure

Si-HPMC hydrogel reinforcement using nano or micro particles

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Towards Reliable Automatic Protein Structure Alignment

A variety of methods have been proposed for structure similarity calculation, which are called structure alignment or superposition. One major shortcoming in current structure alignment algorithms is in their inherent design, which is based on local structure similarity. In this work, we propose a method to incorporate global information in obtaining optimal alignments and superpositions. Our method, when applied to optimizing the TM-score and the GDT score, produces significantly better results than current state-of-the-art protein structure alignment tools. Specifically, if the highest TM-score found by TMalign is lower than (0.6) and the highest TM-score found by one of the tested methods is higher than (0.5), there is a probability of (42%) that TMalign failed to find TM-scores higher than (0.5), while the same probability is reduced to (2%) if our method is used. This could significantly improve the accuracy of fold detection if the cutoff TM-score of (0.5) is used. In addition, existing structure alignment algorithms focus on structure similarity alone and simply ignore other important similarities, such as sequence similarity. Our approach has the capacity to incorporate multiple similarities into the scoring function. Results show that sequence similarity aids in finding high quality protein structure alignments that are more consistent with eye-examined alignments in HOMSTRAD. Even when structure similarity itself fails to find alignments with any consistency with eye-examined alignments, our method remains capable of finding alignments highly similar to, or even identical to, eye-examined alignments.Comment: Peer-reviewed and presented as part of the 13th Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics (WABI2013

Comportement mécanique d'une pâte de ciment pétrolier sous température : Effet de la dégradation chimique

Cette étude présente l'influence d'une dégradation chimique sur le comportement thermo-hydro-mécanique (THM) d'une pâte de ciment pétrolier servant de barrière d'étanchéité dans les puits pétroliers. Afin de caractériser l'évolution du comportement THM avec la dégradation, des essais de compression triaxiale cyclique à différentes pressions de confinement avec une pression interstitielle constante sont réalisés sur le matériau à l'état sain et complètement dégradé par le nitrate d'ammonium, sous température de 90 °C. Les résultats obtenus montrent d'importantes évolutions. Le matériau sain présente une très faible phase élastique et une forte phase plastique évoluant avec le confinement. La résistance à la rupture diminue drastiquement après la dégradation chimique conduisant à une augmentation de la porosité. Le coefficient élastique chute également et évolue peu au cours de l'essai. Par ailleurs, un passage clair d'un comportement fragile à un comportement ductile est constaté avec la dégradation, notamment pour des faibles confinements

The Effects of Disorder on the ν=1\nu=1 Quantum Hall State

A disorder-averaged Hartree-Fock treatment is used to compute the density of single particle states for quantum Hall systems at filling factor $\nu=1$. It is found that transport and spin polarization experiments can be simultaneously explained by a model of mostly short-range effective disorder. The slope of the transport gap (due to quasiparticles) in parallel field emerges as a result of the interplay between disorder-induced broadening and exchange, and has implications for skyrmion localization.Comment: 4 pages, 3 eps figure

Measurements of J/psi Decays into 2(pi+pi-)eta and 3(pi+pi-)eta

Based on a sample of 5.8X 10^7 J/psi events taken with the BESII detector, the branching fractions of J/psi--> 2(pi+pi-)eta and J/psi-->3(pi+pi-)eta are measured for the first time to be (2.26+-0.08+-0.27)X10^{-3} and (7.24+-0.96+-1.11)X10^{-4}, respectively.Comment: 11 pages, 6 figure