The influences of pulsed electric fields on early physiological development in Arabidopsis thaliana were studied. Inside a 4-mm electroporation cuvette, pre-germination seeds were subjected to high-intensity, nanosecond electrical pulses generated using laboratory-assembled pulsed electric field system. The field strength was varied from 5 to 20 kV.cm and the pulse width and the pulse number we...

Scaling up trapped-ion quantum computers requires new trap materials to be explored. Here we present experiments with a surface ion made from the high-temperature superconductor YBCO, promising material for future designs. We show that voltage noise superconducting electrode leads is negligible within sensitivity ${S}_{V}=9\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}{10}^{\ensuremath{-}20}\phantom{\rule{...

Grid or mesh techniques are frequently used to approximate continuous entities that behave in a wave or fluid-like fashion. Partial Differential Equations (PDE’s) are usually involved in the description of such entities or processes. Distributed parallel computation was used in various computer cluster configurations to calculate PDE solutions of electrostatic field. The study of the efficacy o...