Two beams of blue light intersect and a spherical ion is at the center.

Efficient cooling method could enable chip-based trapped-ion quantum computers

Adam Zewe | MIT News

New technique could improve the scalability of trapped-ion quantum computers, an essential step toward making them practically useful.

Two ions, made of red spheres, meet and a white sphere is transferred.

What Makes a Good Proton Conductor?

Zach Winn | MIT News

MIT researchers found a way to predict how efficiently materials can transport protons in clean energy devices and other advanced technologies.

artistic abstract visualization of Memory Integration and Data Dis-Aggregation

MIDDAS: Memory Integration and Data Dis-Aggregation

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Closing in on Superconducting Semiconductors

Julianna Mullen | Plasma Science and Fusion Center

Plasma Science and Fusion Center researchers created a superconducting circuit that could one day replace semiconductor components in quantum and high-performance computing systems.

MIT Physicists Discover a New Type of Superconductor that’s also a Magnet

Jennifer Chu | MIT News

The “one-of-a-kind” phenomenon was observed in ordinary graphite.

Two coupled qubits with a bright light shining on them

MIT Engineers Advance Toward a Fault-tolerant Quantum Computer

Adam Zewe | MIT News

Researchers achieved a type of coupling between artificial atoms and photons that could enable readout and processing of quantum information in a few nanoseconds.

Close-up of a golden silicon disk against a white background. About 100 integrated circuits are visible within the disk.

New Chip Tests Cooling Solutions for Stacked Microelectronics

Kylie Foy | MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Preventing 3D integrated circuits from overheating is key to enabling their widespread use.

Analog Compute-in-Memory Accelerators for Deep Learning

Wednesday, April 30, 2025 | 12:00 - 1:00pm ET
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Photon traveling through curly processors

Device enables direct communication among multiple quantum processors

Adam Zewe | MIT News

MIT researchers developed a photon-shuttling “interconnect” that can facilitate remote entanglement, a key step toward a practical quantum computer.

Very close-up photo of a computer chip, with mostly green and yellow components

High-performance Computing, with Much Less Code

Adam Conner-Simons | MIT CSAIL

The Exo 2 programming language enables reusable scheduling libraries external to compilers.

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