New techniques for reducing the depth of circuits for cryptographic applications are described and applied to the AES S-box. These techniques also keep the number of gates quite small. The result, when applied to the AES S-box, is a circuit with depth 16 and only 128 gates. For the inverse, it is also depth 16 and has only 127 gates. There is a shared middle part, common to both the S-box and i...

1 Light and quantum information 2 Photons as qubits, phase shifters, beam splitters, polarization rotations, polarizing beam splitters, interferometers. 2 Two-qubit gates and the KLM scheme 6 Two-photon entanglement, the KLM approach, Clifford operations, two-photon interference, Hong-Ou-Mandel effect, fusion gates. 3 Cluster states 13 From circuits to clusters, single-qubit gates, two-qubit ga...

Failures of barrages or regulators or parts of them may be expected when excessive scour patterns are observed downstream of such structures. Severe and excessive scour may be largely due to unsymmetric operation of gates especially when a multi-vents barrages or regulator is being considered. Previous investigations proved that the scour patterns downstream hydraulic structures are functions o...

Usually, important parameters in the design and implementation of combinational logic circuits are the number of gates, transistors, and the levels used in the design of the circuit. In this regard, various evolutionary paradigms with different competency have recently been introduced. However, while being advantageous, evolutionary paradigms also have some limitations including: a) lack of con...

Quantum computers operate with qubits, which are entities that can be in the state |0〉, state |1〉 or any superposition (linear combination) of those. One of the essential parts of a quantum computer is a controlled two-qubit gate. An example of such gate is the controlled phase gate, which imparts a phase of π (i.e. multiplies by −1) to the state, where both qubits are in |1〉. In this thesis we...

BACKGROUND The gamma camera uptake method with Tc-99m-DTPA is simple and less time consuming for the determination of the glomerular filtration rate (GFR). However, its diagnostic accuracy is debated. Gates' method and predicted creatinine clearance method were compared with plasma clearance method with Tc-99m-DTPA for the measurement of GFR. MATERIALS AND METHODS Tc-99m-DTPA renography was p...

Synthetic biologists have developed DNA/molecular modules that perform genetic logic operations in living cells to track key moments in a cell's life or change the fate of a cell. Increasing evidence has also revealed that diverse genetic logic gates capable of generating a Boolean function play critically important roles in synthetic biology. Basic genetic logic gates have been designed to com...

Reversible single-target gates are a generalization of Toffoli gates which are a helpful formal representation for the description of synthesis algorithms but are too general for an actual implementation based on some technology. There is an exponential lower bound on the number of Toffoli gates required to implement any reversible function, however, there is also a linear upper bound on the nu...

This paper presents an automated procedure for the technology mapping of timed circuits to practical gate libraries. Timed circuits are a class of asynchronous circuits that incorporate explicit timing information in the speciication which is used throughout the design process to optimize the implementation. Our procedure begins with a timed speciication and a delay-annotated gate library descr...

Constructing a set of universal quantum gates is a fundamental task for quantum computation. The existence of noises, disturbances and fluctuations is unavoidable during the process of implementing quantum gates for most practical quantum systems. This paper employs a sampling-based learning method to find robust control pulses for generating a set of universal quantum gates. Numerical results ...