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      Quantitative Determination of Acrolein in Cider by 1H NMR Spectrometry 

      De las Heras, Enaitz; Zuriarrain Ocio, Andoni; Zuriarrain Ocio, Juan; Bordagaray Eizaguirre, Ane ORCID; Dueñas Chasco, María Teresa ORCID; Berregi Abalde, Iñaki ORCID (MDPI, 2020-12-08)
      Acrolein occasionally appears in cider, completely spoiling its quality due to its bitter taste. It is crucial to detect it in the early steps, before the taste is severely affected, to apply the appropriate treatment. A ...
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      Quantitative determination of fentanyl in newborn pig plasma and cerebrospinal fluid samples by HPLC-MS/MS 

      Blanco, María Encarnación; Encinas Pérez, Esther; González Mendia, Oscar ORCID; Rico Parrilla, Estitxu; Vozmediano, Valvanera; Suárez González, María Elena; Alonso Rojas, Rosa María ORCID (Wiley, 2015-03-09)
      In this study, a selective and sensitive high performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (HPLC-MS/MS) method requiring low sample volume (≤100 μL) was developed and validated for the quantitative determination ...
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      Quantitative proteomic analysis of Parkin substrates in Drosophila neurons 

      Martínez Zárate, Aitor; Lectez, Benoit; Ramírez Sánchez, Juan Manuel ORCID; Popp, Oliver; Sutherland, James D.; Urbé, Sylvie; Dittmar, Gunnar; Clague, Michael J.; Mayor Martínez, Ugo ORCID (Biomed Central, 2017-04-11)
      Background: Parkin (PARK2) is an E3 ubiquitin ligase that is commonly mutated in Familial Parkinson's Disease (PD). In cell culture models, Parkin is recruited to acutely depolarised mitochondria by PINK1. PINK1 activates ...
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      Quantitative super-resolution imaging of pathological aggregates reveals distinct toxicity profiles in different synucleinopathies 

      Morten, Michael J.; Sirvio, Liina; Rupawala, Huzefa; Hayes, Emma Mee; Franco Budia, Aitor ORCID; Radulescu, Carola; Barnes, Samuel J.; Muga Villate, Arturo ORCID; Ye, Yu (National Academy of Sciences, 2022-10)
      Protein aggregation is a hallmark of major neurodegenerative disorders. Increasing data suggest that smaller aggregates cause higher toxic response than filamentous aggregates (fibrils). However, the size of small aggregates ...
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      Quantum anharmonic enhancement of superconductivity in P63/mmc ScH6 at high pressures: A first-principles study 

      Hou, Pugeng; Belli, Francesco; Bianco, Raffaello; Errea Lope, Ion ORCID (AIP Publishing, 2021-11-05)
      Making use of first-principles calculations, we analyze the effect of quantum ionic fluctuations and lattice anharmonicity on the crystal structure and superconductivity of P63/mmc ScH6 in the 100–160 GPa pressure range ...
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      Quantum Artificial Life in an IBM Quantum Computer 

      Álvarez Rodríguez, Unai; Sanz Ruiz, Mikel ORCID; Lamata Manuel, Lucas ORCID; Solano Villanueva, Enrique Leónidas ORCID (Nature Publishing, 2018-10-04)
      We present the first experimental realization of a quantum artificial life algorithm in a quantum computer. The quantum biomimetic protocol encodes tailored quantum behaviors belonging to living systems, namely, self-replication, ...
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      Quantum cosmology of the Big Rip: Within GR and in a modified theory of gravity 

      Bouhmadi López, Mariam ORCID; Albarran, Imanol; Chen, Che-Yu (MDPI, 2017-04-14)
      Quantum gravity is the theory that is expected to successfully describe systems that are under strong gravitational effects while at the same time being of an extreme quantum nature. When this principle is applied to the ...
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      Quantum crystal structure in the 250-kelvin superconducting lanthanum hydride 

      Errea Lope, Ion ORCID; Belli, Francesco; Monacelli, Lorenzo; Sanna, Antonio; Koretsune, Takashi; Tadano, Terumasa; Bianco, Raffaello; Calandra, Matteo; Arita, Ryotaro; Mauri, Francesco; Flores-Livas, Jose A. (Springer Nature, 2020-02-05)
      The discovery of superconductivity at 200 kelvin in the hydrogen sulfide system at high pressures demonstrated the potential of hydrogen-rich materials as high-temperature superconductors. Recent theoretical predictions ...
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      Quantum Emulation of Gravitational Waves 

      Fernández-Corbaton, Iván; Cirio, Mauro; Büse, Alexander; Lamata Manuel, Lucas ORCID; Solano Villanueva, Enrique Leónidas ORCID; Molina-Terriza, Gabriel (Nature Publishing Group, 2015-07-14)
      Gravitational waves, as predicted by Einstein's general relativity theory, appear as ripples in the fabric of spacetime traveling at the speed of light. We prove that the propagation of small amplitude gravitational waves ...
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      Quantum Energy Current Induced Coherence in a Spin Chain under Non-Markovian Environments 

      Ablimit, Arapat; He, Run-Hong; Xie, Yang-Yang; Wu, Lian-Ao; Wang, Zhao-Ming (MDPI, 2022-10-01)
      We investigate the time-dependent behaviour of the energy current between a quantum spin chain and its surrounding non-Markovian and finite temperature baths, together with its relationship to the coherence dynamics of the ...
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      Quantum entanglement in de Sitter space with a wall and the decoherence of bubble universes 

      Albrecht, Andreas; Kanno, Sugumi; Sasaki, Misao (American Physical Society, 2018-04-30)
      We study the effect of a bubble wall on the entanglement entropy of a free massive scalar field between two causally disconnected open charts in de Sitter space. We assume there is a delta-functional wall between the open ...
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      Quantum illumination reveals phase-shift inducing cloaking 

      Las Heras García, Urtzi; Di Candia, Roberto; Fedorov, K. G.; Deppe, F.; Sanz Ruiz, Mikel ORCID; Solano Villanueva, Enrique Leónidas ORCID (Nature Publishing, 2017-08-24)
      In quantum illumination entangled light is employed to enhance the detection accuracy of an object when compared with the best classical protocol. On the other hand, cloaking is a stealth technology based on covering a ...
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      Quantum Measurements and Delays in Scattering by Zero-Range Potentials 

      Gutiérrez de la Cal, Xabier; Pons Barba, María Luisa; Sokolovski, Dmitri (MDPI, 2024-01-16)
      Eisenbud–Wigner–Smith delay and the Larmor time give different estimates for the duration of a quantum scattering event. The difference is most pronounced in the case where the de Broglie wavelength is large compared to ...
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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 Memristors With Superconducting Circuits 

      Salmilehto, J.; Deppe, F.; Di Ventra, M.; Sanz Ruiz, Mikel ORCID; Solano Villanueva, Enrique Leónidas ORCID (Nature Publishing Group, 2017-02-14)
      Memristors are resistive elements retaining information of their past dynamics. They have garnered substantial interest due to their potential for representing a paradigm change in electronics, information processing and ...
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      Quantum neural networks with multi-qubit potentials 

      Ban, Yue; Torrontegui, E.; Casanova Marcos, Jorge (Nature, 2023-06)
      We propose quantum neural networks that include multi-qubit interactions in the neural potential leading to a reduction of the network depth without losing approximative power. We show that the presence of multi-qubit ...
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      Quantum plasmonics: from jellium models to ab initio calculations 

      Varas Barboza, Alejandro; García-González, Pablo; Feist, Johannes; García-Vidal, F.J.; Rubio Secades, Angel (Walter de Gruyter, 2016-08)
      Light-matter interaction in plasmonic nanostructures is often treated within the realm of classical optics. However, recent experimental findings show the need to go beyond the classical models to explain and predict the ...
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      Quantum Rabi dynamics of trapped atoms far in the deep strong coupling regime 

      Koch, Johannes; Hunanyan, Geram R.; Ockenfels, Till; Rico Ortega, Enrique ORCID; Solano Villanueva, Enrique Leónidas ORCID; Weitz, Martin (Nature, 2023-02)
      The coupling of a two-level system with an electromagnetic field, whose fully quantized version is the quantum Rabi model, is among the central topics of quantum physics. When the coupling strength becomes large enough ...
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      Quantum ricochets: surface capture, release and energy loss of fast ions hitting a polar surface at grazing incidence 

      Lucas, A. A.; Sunjic, M.; Benedek, G.; Echenique Landiribar, Pedro Miguel (IOP Publishing, 2014-06-09)
      A diffraction mechanism is proposed for the capture, multiple bouncing and final escape of a fast ion (keV) impinging on the surface of a polarizable material at grazing incidence. Capture and escape are effected by elastic ...
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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 ...