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QSA Drives Breakthroughs with Superconducting Qubits

Cryogenic dilution refrigerator at MIT for superconducting qubits (Credit: Nathan Fiske)

Harnessing Artificial Intelligence for High-Impact Science

An artistic rendition of a data center where the components of a supercomputer are housed. (Credit: jamesteohart, Shutterstock) – ALT: A dark corridor with faint lights glowing from devices on the walls leads to an open doorway glowing bright white.

Seven Ways Berkeley Lab is Pioneering the Quantum Future

ALT: A researcher in a lab crouched below a silver and gold quantum computer. They are making adjustments to the bottom edge.

Using Mesh Refinement To Accurately Simulate Relativistic Magnetic Reconnection In Plasmas

Comparison of temporal evolution of normalized out-of-plane current density obtained from three 2D uniform grid simulations. Credit: Phys. Plasmas 32, 013905 (2025), https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0233583

Coupling Particle-In-Cell And Monte Carlo Collisions To Improve The Accuracy of Numerical Simulations

The electron temperature att = 66ns from 1-Dmagnetic-piston simulations, obtained using the WarpX electromagnetic PIC solver with different MCC placements: (left) pre v-push MCC, (middle) mid v-push MCC and (right) mid x-push MCC. Credit: Phys. Rev. E 111, 025306 – Published 19 February, 2025. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.111.025306.

Tiny Fibers, Big Impact: Fiber-Optic Sensing Helps Secure Fusion and Particle Collisions

Linqing Luo (EGD, left) and Matthew Reynolds (Engineering Division, right) install optical fiber to the shell of the superconductor used in the study. (Credit: Courtesy of Linqing Luo)

Berkeley Lab’s February 2025 High School STEM Day focuses on Lab-wide engineering efforts

As part of Berkeley Lab’s High School STEM Day event on February 12, Anjana Saravanan, a mechanical engineering associate working in the ATAP Division, shows students an assembled superconducting quadrupole magnet for the high-luminosity upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Credit: Photo by Robinson Kuntz, Berkeley Lab

Enhancing Nuclear Isomer Populations Using Ultrafast Electron Beams

ATAP BELLA Center Senior Scientist and Deputy of Theory Carl Schroeder, University of California, Berkeley, Associate Professor Lee Bernstein, BELLA Center Postdoctoral Scholar Robert Jacob, and BELLA Center Senior Scientist and Deputy of Experiments Jeroen van Tilborg in BELLA's petawatt laser area. (Credit: Matthew Fullmer/Berkeley Lab)

Using Flat Beams In Plasma Accelerators For Future Particle Colliders

ATAP BELLA Center Senior Scientist and Deputy of Projects and Applications Jens Osterhoff, Staff Scientist Carlo Benedetti, and Senior Scientist and Deputy of Theory Carl Schroeder discuss results from their research. (Credit: Matthew Fullmer, Berkeley Lab)

Compact, cheaper, laser-powered particle accelerators get real

In this plasma simulation, a pulse of laser light (red) tows a wake of electrons (blue), which other electrons (magenta) surf to enormous energies. Image Credit: Carlo Benedetti, Berkeley Lab

Berkeley Lab announces FY2024 Inventors and Developers of the Year

Photo montage of Berkeley Lab's Inventors and Developers of the Year FY2024. Top row left to right: Joe Palasz, Damian Rouson, Sebastien Biraud, Gerd Ceder. Bottom row left to right: Mike Tucker, Gang Huang, Yilun Xu. Credit: Ruby Barcklay, Berkeley Lab

Berkeley Lab’s Big Science Stories of 2024

Berkeley Lab News Center feature image montage. Credit: Jenny Nuss, Berkeley Lab

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