A bicontinuous lyotropic cubic phase, composed of the nonionic surfactant

Universal quantum computing with continuous variables requires non-Gaussian resources, in addition to a Gaussian set of operations. A known resource enabling universal computation is the cubic phase state, state whose experimental implementation has so far remained elusive. In this paper, we introduce two conversion protocols that allow for been achieved experimentally, namely trisqueezed [Chan...

The icosahedral quasicrystalline, amorphous plus crystalline and glassy phases were formed in Ti40Zr20Hf20(3d-LTM)20 alloys (3d-LTM=3d late transition metals Fe, Co and Ni). The icosahedral phase formed in the melt-spun Ti40Zr20Hf20Fe20 alloy is metastable and the average size of the quasicrystalline icosahedral particles precipitated in the amorphous matrix is 5 nm. The metastable icosahedral ...

High permittivity barium titanate zirconate (BTZ) is often used for dielectrics in commercial multilayer ceramic capacitors, actuators applications, and is a highly promising material for dynamic random access memory (DRAM) and microelectromechanical system (MEMS) applications due to its very stable, high insulating characteristic against voltage. Especially, the material is promising for envir...

High P–T studies of molecular N2O4 using Raman, synchrotron infrared, and X-ray diffraction measurements reveal several new phenomena. Significant changes in the vibrational spectra indicate a phase transition at about 12 GPa. The X-ray diffraction measurements show that the material remains cubic through the transition. We ascribe the transition to a change in the molecular geometry of N2O4 wi...

Multiphase (MP) monoclinic and cubic Y2O3 nanoparticles, 40 nm in diameter, were densified by spark plasma sintering for 5–15 min and100 MPa at 1000 C, 1100 C, and 1500 C. Densification started with pressure increase at room temperature. Densification stagnated during heating compared to the high shrinkage rate in cubic single-phase reference nanopowder. The limited densification of the MP nano...

The crystal structure of the highestand second highesttemperature solid phases of choline tetrafluoroborate and iodide was determined by X-ray powder diffraction. The structure in the highest-temperature phase of both salts is NaCl-type cubic (a = 10.16(2) Ä, Z = 4 for tetrafluoroborate; a = 10.08(2) A, Z = 4 for iodide). The second highesttemperature phase of tetrafluoroborate and iodide is Cs...