Scientists from Yale University and the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) have developed a systematic approach to understanding how energy is lost from the materials that make up qubits. Energy loss inhibits the performance of these quantum computer building blocks, so determining its sources can help bring researchers closer to designing quantum computers. To conduct this work, the scientists used electron microscopes from the Center for Functional Nanomaterials, a DOE-funded user facility at BNL.
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