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Switching magnetic vortex core by a single nanosecond current pulse
In a ferromagnetic nanodisk, the magnetization tends to swirl around in the
plane of the disk and can point either up or down at the center of this
magnetic vortex. This binary state can be useful for information storage. It is
demonstrated that a single nanosecond current pulse can switch the core
polarity. This method also provides the precise control of the core direction,
which constitutes fundamental technology for realizing a vortex core memory.Comment: 13 pages, 4 figure
Cosmic R-string, R-tube and Vacuum Instability
We show that a cosmic string associated with spontaneous symmetry
breaking gives a constraint for supersymmetric model building. In some models,
the string can be viewed as a tube-like domain wall with a winding number
interpolating a false vacuum and a true vacuum. Such string causes
inhomogeneous decay of the false vacuum to the true vacuum via rapid expansion
of the radius of the tube and hence its formation would be inconsistent with
the present Universe. However, we demonstrate that there exist metastable
solutions which do not expand rapidly. Furthermore, when the true vacua are
degenerate, the structure inside the tube becomes involved. As an example, we
show a "bamboo"-like solution, which suggests a possibility observing an
information of true vacua from outside of the tube through the shape and the
tension of the tube.Comment: 28 pages, 17 figures, v2: references added, improved arguments in sec
3.5.
Power of Quantum Computation with Few Clean Qubits
This paper investigates the power of polynomial-time quantum computation in
which only a very limited number of qubits are initially clean in the |0>
state, and all the remaining qubits are initially in the totally mixed state.
No initializations of qubits are allowed during the computation, nor
intermediate measurements. The main results of this paper are unexpectedly
strong error-reducible properties of such quantum computations. It is proved
that any problem solvable by a polynomial-time quantum computation with
one-sided bounded error that uses logarithmically many clean qubits can also be
solvable with exponentially small one-sided error using just two clean qubits,
and with polynomially small one-sided error using just one clean qubit. It is
further proved in the case of two-sided bounded error that any problem solvable
by such a computation with a constant gap between completeness and soundness
using logarithmically many clean qubits can also be solvable with exponentially
small two-sided error using just two clean qubits. If only one clean qubit is
available, the problem is again still solvable with exponentially small error
in one of the completeness and soundness and polynomially small error in the
other. As an immediate consequence of the above result for the two-sided-error
case, it follows that the TRACE ESTIMATION problem defined with fixed constant
threshold parameters is complete for the classes of problems solvable by
polynomial-time quantum computations with completeness 2/3 and soundness 1/3
using logarithmically many clean qubits and just one clean qubit. The
techniques used for proving the error-reduction results may be of independent
interest in themselves, and one of the technical tools can also be used to show
the hardness of weak classical simulations of one-clean-qubit computations
(i.e., DQC1 computations).Comment: 44 pages + cover page; the results in Section 8 are overlapping with
the main results in arXiv:1409.677
Revisiting the Effect of Branch Handling Strategies on Change Recommendation
Although literature has noted the effects of branch handling strategies on
change recommendation based on evolutionary coupling, they have been tested in
a limited experimental setting. Additionally, the branches characteristics that
lead to these effects have not been investigated. In this study, we revisited
the investigation conducted by Kovalenko et al. on the effect to change
recommendation using two different branch handling strategies: including
changesets from commits on a branch and excluding them. In addition to the
setting by Kovalenko et al., we introduced another setting to compare:
extracting a changeset for a branch from a merge commit at once. We compared
the change recommendation results and the similarity of the extracted
co-changes to those in the future obtained using two strategies through 30
open-source software systems. The results show that handling commits on a
branch separately is often more appropriate in change recommendation, although
the comparison in an additional setting resulted in a balanced performance
among the branch handling strategies. Additionally, we found that the merge
commit size and the branch length positively influence the change
recommendation results.Comment: 11 pages, ICPC 202
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