Honeycomb pattern consisting of three pairs of round graphene orbs in red, yellow, and blue.

Graphene can hold multiple states of superconductivity, a new study finds

Jennifer Chu | MIT News

What’s more, the superconducting states get stronger under conditions expected to kill them.

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Improving the reliability of circuits for quantum computers

Adam Zewe | MIT News

A new technique helps scientists measure a phenomenon that can cause quantum circuits to perform differently than expected, increasing the error in computations.

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Powerful shrinking technique could enable devices that compute with light

Anne Trafton | MIT News

MIT researchers created tiny 3D photonic devices with features small enough to channel visible light.

Hundreds of parallel lines comprised of spheres recede into the distance. In the middle ground are seven large red dots and a white 3D arrow pointing up.

Electrons in Moiré Crystals Explore Higher-dimensional Quantum Worlds

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MIT physicists have discovered 3D “moiré crystals” that simulate four-dimensional quantum materials to a T.

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New Photonic Device Efficiently Beams Light into Free Space

Adam Zewe | MIT News

Light-emitting structures that curl off the chip surface could enable advanced displays, high-speed optical communications, and larger-scale quantum computers.

A computing device with pores, like cheese, is hot on one side and cool on the other.

MIT Engineers Design Structures that Compute with Heat

Adam Zewe | MIT News

By leveraging excess heat instead of electricity, microscopic silicon structures could enable more energy-efficient thermal sensing and signal processing.

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.

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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.

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