CAPST warmly welcomes 2022’s summer interns at an all-day event here at Northwestern University. Interns in the 2022 summer program are working with SQMS researchers at Northwestern, Fermilab, Rigetti, and CU Boulder, gaining laboratory experience and building connections in the…
Challenges and opportunities of srf theory for next generation particle accelerators
CAPST Co-director James A. Sauls has submitted a new publication with collaborators Alex Gurevich and Takayuki Kubo. We suggest a program to establish theoretical performance limits of srf cavities using modern theories of nonequilibrium superconductivity under a strong electromagnetic field.…
CAPST/Fermilab’s Alexander Romanenko wins one of two 2022 Particle Accelerator Science and Technology Awards
Alexander Romanenko of the U.S. Department of Energy Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory is the recipient of one of the two 2022 Particle Accelerator Science and Technology Awards of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society.…
SQMS Industry Partner Rigetti to Go Public
Rigetti Computing, a Global Leader in Full-Stack Quantum Computing, Announces Plans to Become Publicly Traded via Merger with Supernova Partners Acquisition Company II PIPE transaction subscribed to by top investors including funds and accounts advised by T. Rowe Price Associates,…
Researchers develop new tool for analyzing large superconducting circuits
CAPST researcher Professor Jens Koch and members of his team have developed a new and exciting tool for analyzing larger superconducting circuits, building on previous work on superconducting qubits and public software that they developed. Lead author Dan Weiss: “Our…
New results on stability of Half-Quantum Vortices in Nematic and Chiral Phases of 3He published in Physical Review B
CAPST researchers Drs. Robert Regan and James Sauls along with Dr. Joshua Wiman from Chalmers University report new theoretical findings on the stability of half-quantum vortices in the superfluid phases of 3He confined in highly anisotropic Nafen aerogel. See more…