Tiny Materials Lead to a Big Advance in Quantum Computing – MIT AI Hardware Program

Adam Zewe | MIT News Office
January 27, 2022

Using ultrathin materials to reduce the size of superconducting qubits may pave the way for personal-sized quantum devices. MIT researchers used a 2D material hexagonal boron nitride to build much smaller capacitors for superconducting qubits, enabling them to shrink the footprint of a qubit by two orders of magnitude without sacrificing performance.

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MIT Researchers use AI to Uncover Atomic Defects in Materials

Zach Winn | MIT News

A new model measures defects that can be leveraged to improve materials’ mechanical strength, heat transfer, and energy-conversion efficiency.

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“Near-misses” in Particle Accelerators can Illuminate New Physics, Study finds

Jennifer Chu | MIT News

Physicists discovered new properties of the strong force by analyzing what happens when light-speed particles skim by each other.

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Why Solid-state Batteries Keep Short-circuiting

Zach Winn | MIT News

New insights into metallic cracks that harm battery performance could advance the longstanding quest to develop energy-dense solid-state batteries.