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      An Innovative Approach for the Generation of Species of the Interstellar Medium 

      Kolesniková, Lucie; León Ona, Iker; Alonso Alonso, Elena Rita; Mata, Santiago; Alonso, Jose Luis (Wiley, 2021-11-08)
      [EN]The large amount of unstable species in the realm of interstellar chemistry drives an urgent need to develop efficient methods for the in situ generations of molecules that enable their spectroscopic characterizations. ...
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      Analog simulator of integro-differential equations with classical memristors 

      Alvarado Barrios, Gabriel Darío; Retamal, Juan Carlos; Solano Villanueva, Enrique Leónidas ORCID; Sanz Ruiz, Mikel ORCID (Nature Publishing, 2019-09-10)
      An analog computer makes use of continuously changeable quantities of a system, such as its electrical, mechanical, or hydraulic properties, to solve a given problem. While these devices are usually computationally more ...
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      Antibacterial Coatings for Improving the Performance of Biomaterials 

      Andrade del Olmo, Jon; Ruiz Rubio, Leire; Pérez Álvarez, Leyre; Sáez Martínez, Virginia; Vilas Vilela, José Luis ORCID (MDPI, 2020-02-04)
      Biomedical devices have become essential in the health care. Every day, an enormous number of these devices are used or implanted in humans. In this context, the bacterial contamination that could be developed in implanted ...
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      Artificial Life in Quantum Technologies 

      Álvarez Rodríguez, Unai; Sanz Ruiz, Mikel ORCID; Lamata Manuel, Lucas ORCID; Solano Villanueva, Enrique Leónidas ORCID (Nature Publishing, 2016-02-08)
      We develop a quantum information protocol that models the biological behaviours of individuals living in a natural selection scenario. The artificially engineered evolution of the quantum living units shows the fundamental ...
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      Charge transport modulation in pseudorotaxane 1D stacks of acene and azaacene derivatives 

      Gozálvez Martínez, Cristian; Zafra, Jose L.; Saeki, Akinori; Melle Franco, Manuel; Casado, Juan; Mateo Alonso, Aurelio ORCID (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2019-03-07)
      Acenes have received a lot of attention because of their inherent and tunable absorbing, emissive, and charge transport properties for electronic, photovoltaic, and singlet fission applications, among others. Such properties ...
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      Digital Quantum Rabi and Dicke Models in Superconducting Circuits 

      Mezzacapo, Antonio; Las Heras García, Urtzi; Simón Pedernales, Julen Jon; Di Carlo, L.; Solano Villanueva, Enrique Leónidas ORCID; Lamata Manuel, Lucas ORCID (Nature Publishing Group, 2014-12-15)
      We propose the analog-digital quantum simulation of the quantum Rabi and Dicke models using circuit quantum electrodynamics (QED). We find that all physical regimes, in particular those which are impossible to realize in ...
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      Digital Quantum Simulation of Spin Models with Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics 

      Salathé, Y.; Mondal, M.; Oppliger, M.; Heinsoo, J.; Kurpiers, P.; Potočnik, A.; Mezzacapo, Antonio; Las Heras García, Urtzi; Lamata Manuel, Lucas ORCID; Solano Villanueva, Enrique Leónidas ORCID; Filipp, S.; Wallraff, A. (American Physical Society, 2015-06-17)
      Systems of interacting quantum spins show a rich spectrum of quantum phases and display interesting many-body dynamics. Computing characteristics of even small systems on conventional computers poses significant challenges. ...
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      Energetic study of ultrasonic wettability enhancement 

      Sarasua Miranda, Jon Ander; Ruiz Rubio, Leire; Aranzabe Basterrechea, Estíbaliz; Vilas Vilela, José Luis ORCID (Elsevier, 2021-11)
      [EN]Many industrial and biological interfacial processes, such as welding and breathing depend directly on wettability and surface tension phenomena. The most common methods to control the wettability are based on modifying ...
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      Enhanced Connectivity of Quantum Hardware with Digital-Analog Control 

      Galicia Martínez, Asier; Ramón Gómez, Borja; Solano Villanueva, Enrique Leónidas ORCID; Sanz Ruiz, Mikel ORCID (American Physical Society, 2020-07-20)
      Quantum computers based on superconducting circuits are experiencing rapid development, with the aim to outperform classical computers in certain useful tasks in the near future. However, the currently available chip ...
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      Experimental implementation of precisely tailored light-matter interaction via inverse engineering 

      Yan, Ying; Shi, Chunyan; Kinos, Adam; Syed, Hafsa; Horvath, Sebastian P.; Walther, Andreas; Rippe, Lars; Chen, Xi; Kroll, Stefan (Springer Nature Limited, 2021-09-14)
      Accurate and efficient quantum control in the presence of constraints and decoherence is a requirement and a challenge in quantum information processing. Shortcuts to adiabaticity, originally proposed to speed up the slow ...
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      Experimental Semi-Autonomous Eigensolver Using Reinforcement Learning 

      Pan, C. Y.; Hao, M.; Barraza, N.; Solano Villanueva, Enrique Leónidas ORCID; Albarrán Arriagada, Francisco (Nature, 2021-06-10)
      The characterization of observables, expressed via Hermitian operators, is a crucial task in quantum mechanics. For this reason, an eigensolver is a fundamental algorithm for any quantum technology. In this work, we implement ...
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      Green Alternative Cosolvents to N-Methyl-2-Pyrrolidone in Water Polyurethane Dispersions 

      Germán Ayuso, Lorena; Cuevas, José María; Cobos, Rubén; Pérez Álvarez, Leyre; Vilas Vilela, José Luis ORCID (Royal Society Of Chemistry, 2021-06-05)
      N-Methyl-2-pyrrolidone is a toxic dipolar aprotic solvent widely used in the synthesis of polyurethane dispersions (PUD). Since legislation strongly restricts this substance, green alternatives are essential. Dihydrolevo ...
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      Laser-induced highly oriented pyrolytic graphite for high-performance screen-printed electrodes 

      Alba, Alejandro Fidel; Totoricaguena Gorriño, Joseba; Campos-Arias, Lia; Peřinka, Nikola; Ruiz Rubio, Leire; Vilas Vilela, José Luis ORCID; Lanceros Méndez, Senentxu; Francisco Javier del Campo (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2021-09-21)
      Screen-printed carbon electrodes (SPCEs) are enjoying increasing popularity in different electrochemistry areas, from electroanalysis to energy storage and power generation. Highly oriented pyrolytic graphite (HOPG), an ...
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      Magnetic nanostructures for emerging biomedical applications 

      Peixoto, L.; Magalhães, R.; Navas, D.; Moraes, S.; Redondo Esteban, Carolina ORCID; Morales Arboleya, Rafael ORCID; Araújo, J. P.; Sousa, C. T. (American Institute of Physics, 2020-01-28)
      Magnetic nanostructures have been widely studied due to their potential applicability into several research fields such as data storage, sensing and biomedical applications. Focusing on the biomedical aspect, some new ...
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      Magnetic properties of permalloy antidot arrayfabricated by interference lithography 

      Silva, A. S.; Hierro Rodríguez, A.; Bunyaev, S. A.; Kakazei, Gleb N.; Dobrovolskiy, O. V.; Redondo Esteban, Carolina ORCID; Morales Arboleya, Rafael ORCID; Crespo, H.; Navas Otero, David (American Institute of Physics, 2019-03)
      The interference laser lithography and ion-beam sputtering have been reported. Magneto-optical Kerr effect magnetometry indicated that the sample exhibits four-fold anisotropic behaviour, i.e. different magnetization loops ...
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      Magneto Twister: Magneto Deformation of the Water-Air Interface by a Superhydrophobic Magnetic Nanoparticle Layer 

      Gunatilake, Udara Bimendra; Morales Arboleya, Rafael ORCID; Basabe Desmonts, Lourdes ORCID; Benito López, Fernando ORCID (American Chemical Society, 2022)
      [EN] Remote manipulation of superhydrophobic surfacesprovides fascinating features in water interface-related applications. Asuperhydrophobic magnetic nanoparticle colloid layer is able to float on the water-air interface ...
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      Optimally refined isogeometric analysis 

      García Vesga, Arturo Daniel; Barton, Michael; Pardo Zubiaur, David ORCID (Elsevier, 2017)
      Performance of direct solvers strongly depends upon the employed discretization method. In particular, it is possible to improve the performance of solving Isogeometric Analysis (IGA) discretizations by introducing multiple ...
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      Parity-dependent State Engineering and Tomography in the ultrastrong coupling regime 

      Felicetti, Simone; Douce, T.; Romero Huenchuñir, Guillermo Esteban; Milman, P.; Solano Villanueva, Enrique Leónidas ORCID (Nature Publishing Group, 2015-07-08)
      Reaching the strong coupling regime of light-matter interaction has led to an impressive development in fundamental quantum physics and applications to quantum information processing. Latests advances in different quantum ...
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      Quantum Memristors in Frequency-Entangled Optical Fields 

      González Raya, Tasio; Lukens, Joseph M.; Céleri, Lucas C.; Sanz Ruiz, Mikel ORCID (MDPI, 2020-02-14)
      A quantum memristor is a passive resistive circuit element with memory, engineered in a given quantum platform. It can be represented by a quantum system coupled to a dissipative environment, in which a system–bath ...
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      Quantum Simulation of Dissipative Processes without Reservoir Engineering 

      Di Candia, Roberto; Simón Pedernales, Julen Jon; Del Campo, Adolfo; Solano Villanueva, Enrique Leónidas ORCID; Casanova Marcos, Jorge (Nature Publishing Group, 2015-05-29)
      We present a quantum algorithm to simulate general finite dimensional Lindblad master equations without the requirement of engineering the system-environment interactions. The proposed method is able to simulate both ...