Mixed states are important in quantum computation and quantum information theories. Each quantum mixed state can be described by its density matrix. We discuss how properties of mixed states and their density matrices can be used to explain fundamentals of most popular quantum computing protocols. By using density matrices we show that some of quantum protocols are safe, but some of them allow ...

To improve the CO2/N2 separation performance, mixed-matrix carbon molecular sieve membranes (mixed-matrix CMSMs) were fabricated and tested. Two carbon-based fillers, graphene oxide (GO) activated (YP-50F), separately incorporated into two polymer precursors (Matrimid® 5218 ODPA-TMPDA), resulting CMSMs demonstrated improved CO2 permeability. The improvement afforded by YP-50F was more substanti...

In this article we provide a solution to the mixed H 2 =H 1 problem with reduced order controllers for time-varying systems in terms of the solvability of diierential linear matrix inequalities and rank conditions, including a detailed discussion of how to construct a controller. Immediate specializations lead to a solution of the full order problem and the mixed H 2 =H 1 problem for linear sys...

Perturbed Quantization (PQ) steganography scheme is almost undetectable with the current steganalysis methods. We present a new steganalysis method for detection of this data hiding algorithm. We show that the PQ method distorts the dependencies of DCT coefficient values; especially changes much lower than significant bit planes. For steganalysis of PQ, we propose features extraction from the e...

Although titanium/hydroxyapatite composite is an attractive material for dental implants, it would be more useful if it could be produced as a functionally graded material (FGM). In this paper, microstructure and microhardness of a five-layer titanium/hydroxyapatite functionally graded material has been investigated. First, titanium and hydroxyapatite (HA) powders were mixed with the Ti to HA v...

Biofilms formed on tooth surfaces are comprised of mixed microbiota enmeshed in an extracellular matrix. Oral biofilms are constantly exposed to environmental changes, which influence the microbial composition, matrix formation and expression of virulence. Streptococcus mutans and sucrose are key modulators associated with the evolution of virulent-cariogenic biofilms. In this study, we used a ...

In this paper, various Recursive Mixed L2-Linfty (RML) learning algorithms are developed by choosing different forgetting factor matrix function () for Linear-inthe-Parameters (LIP) models, including Projection, Recursive Mixed L2-Linfty, Recursive Mixed Mean L2-Linfty, weighted Mixed L2-Linfty, instantaneous RML, and Batch RML algorithms. A few models are given to apply the proposed RML alg...

In this study, aluminum (Al) matrix reinforced with micro-particles (30 µm) and nano-particles (50 nm) boron carbide (B4C) were used to prepare Al-2.5%wt., B4C nano-composite and micro-composite, respectively, using mechanical alloying method. The mixed powders were mechanically milled at 5, 10, 15 and 20 hrs. The XRD results indicated that the crystallite sizes of both the micro-composite and ...

An interaction integral method for evaluating mixed-mode stress intensity factors (SIFs) for two dimensional crack problems using NURBS-based isogeometric analysis method is investigated. The interaction integral method is based on the path independent J-integral. By introducing a known auxiliary field solution, the mixed-mode SIFs are calculated simultaneously. Among features of B-spline basis...

We present an efficient algorithm to compute permanents, mixed discriminants and hyperdeterminants of structured matrices and multidimensional arrays (tensors). We describe the sparsity structure of an array in terms of a graph, and we assume that its treewidth, denoted as ω, is small. Our algorithm requires Õ(n 2) arithmetic operations to compute permanents, and Õ(n + n 3) for mixed discrimina...