Abstract: Example methods are provided for configuring a cluster of hosts in a virtualized computing environment. The method may comprise obtaining a configuration specification that specifies multiple features associated with the cluster of hosts and identifying one or more dependencies associated with multiple configuration tasks that are executable for configuring the set of features. The method may also comprise, based on the one or more dependencies, determining a configuration workflow that defines an order in which at least some of the multiple configuration tasks are executed. The method may further comprise orchestrating execution of the at least some of the multiple configuration tasks according to the configuration workflow.

Abstract: A method for a XML editor includes loading one or more files, extracting elements that extend a browser user interface from the one or more files, and presenting a graphical user interface (GUI) for editing the plug-in XML manifest file. The method further includes receiving one or more user edits to the plug-in XML manifest file through the GUI, validating the one or more user edits against properties of the elements, and generating a warning in the GUI for a user edit that conflicts with a property of an element. The method also includes generating or updating XML code in the plug-in XML manifest file in response to the one or more user edits, and saving the XML code.

Abstract: Example methods are provided for configuring a cluster of hosts in a virtualized computing environment. The method may comprise obtaining a configuration specification that specifies multiple features associated with the cluster of hosts and identifying one or more dependencies associated with multiple configuration tasks that are executable for configuring the set of features. The method may also comprise, based on the one or more dependencies, determining a configuration workflow that defines an order in which at least some of the multiple configuration tasks are executed. The method may further comprise orchestrating execution of the at least some of the multiple configuration tasks according to the configuration workflow.

Abstract: A method for a XML editor includes loading one or more files, extracting elements that extend a browser user interface from the one or more files, and presenting a graphical user interface (GUI) for editing the plug-in XML manifest file. The method further includes receiving one or more user edits to the plug-in XML manifest file through the GUI, validating the one or more user edits against properties of the elements, and generating a warning in the GUI for a user edit that conflicts with a property of an element. The method also includes generating or updating XML code in the plug-in XML manifest file in response to the one or more user edits, and saving the XML code.

Abstract: A finger SQUID qubit device and method for performing quantum computation with said device is disclosed. A finger SQUID qubit device includes a superconducting loop and one or more superconducting fingers, wherein the fingers extend to the interior of said loop. Each finger has a mesoscopic island at the tip, separated from the rest of the finger by a Josephson junction. A system for performing quantum computation with the finger SQUID qubit device includes a mechanism for initializing, entangling, and reading out the qubits. The mechanism may involve passing a bias current across the leads of the superconducting loop and a mechanism for measuring a potential change across the leads of the superconducting loop. Furthermore, a control system includes a mechanism for addressing specific qubits in a quantum register of finger SQUID devices.

Abstract: A finger SQUID qubit device and method for performing quantum computation with said device is disclosed. A finger SQUID qubit device includes a superconducting loop and one or more superconducting fingers, wherein the fingers extend to the interior of said loop. Each finger has a mesoscopic island at the tip, separated from the rest of the finger by a Josephson junction. A system for performing quantum computation with the finger SQUID qubit device includes a mechanism for initializing, entangling, and reading out the qubits. The mechanism may involve passing a bias current across the leads of the superconducting loop and a mechanism for measuring a potential change across the leads of the superconducting loop. Furthermore, a control system includes a mechanism for addressing specific qubits in a quantum register of finger SQUID devices.

Abstract: A finger SQUID qubit device and method for performing quantum computation with said device is disclosed. A finger SQUID qubit device includes a superconducting loop and one or more superconducting fingers, wherein the fingers extend to the interior of said loop. Each finger has a mesoscopic island at the tip, separated from the rest of the finger by a Josephson junction. A system for performing quantum computation with the finger SQUID qubit device includes a mechanism for initializing, entangling, and reading out the qubits. The mechanism may involve passing a bias current across the leads of the superconducting loop and a mechanism for measuring a potential change across the leads of the superconducting loop. Furthermore, a control system includes a mechanism for addressing specific qubits in a quantum register of finger SQUID devices.

Abstract: A finger SQUID qubit device and method for performing quantum computation with said device is disclosed. A finger SQUID qubit device includes a superconducting loop and one or more superconducting fingers, wherein the fingers extend to the interior of said loop. Each finger has a mesoscopic island at the tip, separated from the rest of the finger by a Josephson junction. A system for performing quantum computation with the finger SQUID qubit device includes a mechanism for initializing, entangling, and reading out the qubits. The mechanism may involve passing a bias current across the leads of the superconducting loop and a mechanism for measuring a potential change across the leads of the superconducting loop. Furthermore, a control system includes a mechanism for addressing specific qubits in a quantum register of finger SQUID devices.

Abstract: A finger SQUID qubit device and method for performing quantum computation with said device is disclosed. A finger SQUID qubit device includes a superconducting loop and one or more superconducting fingers, wherein the fingers extend to the interior of said loop. Each finger has a mesoscopic island at the tip, separated from the rest of the finger by a Josephson junction. A system for performing quantum computation with the finger SQUID qubit device includes a mechanism for initializing, entangling, and reading out the qubits. The mechanism may involve passing a bias current across the leads of the superconducting loop and a mechanism for measuring a potential change across the leads of the superconducting loop. Furthermore, a control system includes a mechanism for addressing specific qubits in a quantum register of finger SQUID devices.

Abstract: A finger SQUID qubit device and method for performing quantum computation with said device is disclosed. A finger SQUID qubit device includes a superconducting loop and one or more superconducting fingers, wherein the fingers extend to the interior of said loop. Each finger has a mesoscopic island at the tip, separated from the rest of the finger by a Josephson junction. A system for performing quantum computation with the finger SQUID qubit device includes a mechanism for initializing, entangling, and reading out the qubits. The mechanism may involve passing a bias current across the leads of the superconducting loop and a mechanism for measuring a potential change across the leads of the superconducting loop. Furthermore, a control system includes a mechanism for addressing specific qubits in a quantum register of finger SQUID devices.

Abstract: A finger SQUID qubit device and method for performing quantum computation with said device is disclosed. A finger SQUID qubit device includes a superconducting loop and one or more superconducting fingers, wherein the fingers extend to the interior of said loop. Each finger has a mesoscopic island at the tip, separated from the rest of the finger by a Josephson junction. A system for performing quantum computation with the finger SQUID qubit device includes a mechanism for initializing, entangling, and reading out the qubits. The mechanism may involve passing a bias current across the leads of the superconducting loop and a mechanism for measuring a potential change across the leads of the superconducting loop. Furthermore, a control system includes a mechanism for addressing specific qubits in a quantum register of finger SQUID devices.

Abstract: A finger SQUID qubit device and method for performing quantum computation with said device is disclosed. A finger SQUID qubit device includes a superconducting loop and one or more superconducting fingers, wherein the fingers extend to the interior of said loop. Each finger has a mesoscopic island at the tip, separated from the rest of the finger by a Josephson junction. A system for performing quantum computation with the finger SQUID qubit device includes a mechanism for initializing, entangling, and reading out the qubits. The mechanism may involve passing a bias current across the leads of the superconducting loop and a mechanism for measuring a potential change across the leads of the superconducting loop. Furthermore, a control system includes a mechanism for addressing specific qubits in a quantum register of finger SQUID devices.

Abstract: Quantum computing systems and methods that use opposite magnetic moment states read the state of a qubit by applying current through the qubit and measuring a Hall effect voltage across the width of the current. For reading, the qubit is grounded to freeze the magnetic moment state, and the applied current is limited to pulses incapable of flipping the magnetic moment. Measurement of the Hall effect voltage can be achieved with an electrode system that is capacitively coupled to the qubit. An insulator or tunnel barrier isolates the electrode system from the qubit during quantum computing. The electrode system can include a pair of electrodes for each qubit. A readout control system uses a voltmeter or other measurement device that connects to the electrode system, a current source, and grounding circuits. For a multi-qubit system, selection logic can select which qubit or qubits are read.

Abstract: Quantum computing systems and methods that use opposite magnetic moment states read the state of a qubit by applying current through the qubit and measuring a Hall effect voltage across the width of the current. For reading, the qubit is grounded to freeze the magnetic moment state, and the applied current is limited to pulses incapable of flipping the magnetic moment. Measurement of the Hall effect voltage can be achieved with an electrode system that is capacitively coupled to the qubit. An insulator or tunnel barrier isolates the electrode system from the qubit during quantum computing. The electrode system can include a pair of electrodes for each qubit. A readout control system uses a voltmeter or other measurement device that connects to the electrode system, a current source, and grounding circuits. For a multi-qubit system, selection logic can select which qubit or qubits are read.

Abstract: Quantum computing systems and methods that use opposite magnetic moment states read the state of a qubit by applying current through the qubit and measuring a Hall effect voltage across the width of the current. For reading, the qubit is grounded to freeze the magnetic moment state, and the applied current is limited to pulses incapable of flipping the magnetic moment. Measurement of the Hall effect voltage can be achieved with an electrode system that is capacitively coupled to the qubit. An insulator or tunnel barrier isolates the electrode system from the qubit during quantum computing. The electrode system can include a pair of electrodes for each qubit. A readout control system uses a voltmeter or other measurement device that connects to the electrode system, a current source, and grounding circuits. For a multi-qubit system, selection logic can select which qubit or qubits are read.

Abstract: A thin film ferroelectric varactor device comprising a substrate layer, a ferroelectric layer structure and an electrode structure is presented. The ferroelectric layer structure comprises a number of ferroelectric layers and a number of intermediate buffer layers arranged in an alternating manner. At least a first and a second layer of the ferroelectric layers have different Curie temperatures, i.e. the dielectric constant of the first ferroelectric layer has a maximum at a temperature which is different from the temperature at which the dielectric constant of the second ferroelectric layer has a maximum.

Abstract: Quantum computing systems and methods that use opposite magnetic moment states read the state of a qubit by applying current through the qubit and measuring a Hall effect voltage across the width of the current. For reading, the qubit is grounded to freeze the magnetic moment state, and the applied current is limited to pulses incapable of flipping the magnetic moment. Measurement of the Hall effect voltage can be achieved with an electrode system that is capacitively coupled to the qubit. An insulator or tunnel barrier isolates the electrode system from the qubit during quantum computing. The electrode system can include a pair of electrodes for each qubit. A readout control system uses a voltmeter or other measurement device that connects to the electrode system, a current source, and grounding circuits. For a multi-qubit system, selection logic can select which qubit or qubits are read.

Abstract: A magnetoresistive element, comprising a crystal structure with a grain boundary formed at a misorientation angle, and a method of producing a crystal structure having colossal magnetoresistance, wherein a grain boundary is formed at a misorientation angle. The crystal structure comprises a substrate layer and a CMR film layer epitaxially grown thereon, the CMR film layer having a plurality of first sections and a plurality of second sections with intermediate grain boundaries, the crystallographic axis of the first sections being different from the crystallographic axis of the second sections.

Abstract: Quantum computing systems and methods that use opposite magnetic moment states read the state of a qubit by applying current through the qubit and measuring a Hall effect voltage across the width of the current. For reading, the qubit is grounded to freeze the magnetic moment state, and the applied current is limited to pulses incapable of flipping the magnetic moment. Measurement of the Hall effect voltage can be achieved with an electrode system that is capacitively coupled to the qubit. An insulator or tunnel barrier isolates the electrode system from the qubit during quantum computing. The electrode system can include a pair of electrodes for each qubit. A readout control system uses a voltmeter or other measurement device that connects to the electrode system, a current source, and grounding circuits. For a multi-qubit system, selection logic can select which qubit or qubits are read.

Abstract: Quantum computing systems and methods that use opposite magnetic moment states read the state of a qubit by applying current through the qubit and measuring a Hall effect voltage across the width of the current. For reading, the qubit is grounded to freeze the magnetic moment state, and the applied current is limited to pulses incapable of flipping the magnetic moment. Measurement of the Hall effect voltage can be achieved with an electrode system that is capacitively coupled to the qubit. An insulator or tunnel barrier isolates the electrode system from the qubit during quantum computing. The electrode system can include a pair of electrodes for each qubit. A readout control system uses a voltmeter or other measurement device that connects to the electrode system, a current source, and grounding circuits. For a multi-qubit system, selection logic can select which qubit or qubits are read.