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On March 20-21, Northwestern hosted a QED-C plenary meeting for nearly 150 members — including leaders from Northwestern Engineering and the University —to learn, network, and identify collaboration opportunities. See the announcement...

CAPST Co-Director Jens Koch named APS Fellow

by kmb165 | October 31, 2023 | 2023, News | 0 Comments

Koch was recently named APS Fellow for providing theoretical and numerical frameworks for modern superconducting qubits, as well as pioneering contributions to circuit quantum electrodynamics and quantum optics. Congratulations!

SQMS is looking for a Postdoctoral Associate in Quantum Information Science

by kmb165 | July 6, 2023 | 2023, News | 0 Comments

The Department of Physics and Astronomy at Northwestern University and the Center for Superconducting Quantum Materials and Systems (SQMS), invite applications for a Postdoctoral Associate in Quantum Information Science. The successful candidate will be principally...

Quantum researchers strike the right chord with silicides

by kmb165 | January 23, 2023 | 2023 | 0 Comments

Silicides form when elemental niobium is deposited onto silicon during the fabrication process of a transmon qubit. They need to be well understood to make devices that reliably and efficiently store quantum information for as long as possible. See the announcement...

SQMS 2023 Summer Internship Search Begins

by kmb165 | December 30, 2022 | 2022, News | 0 Comments

Applications are now being accepted for SQMS 2023 Summer Internships. Apply here. Program Description Sponsored by the Department of Energy Office of Science, the SQMS Quantum Undergraduate Internship places undergraduate sophomore and junior physics and...

Anna Grassellino awarded New Horizons Prize in fundamental physics

by kmb165 | September 23, 2022 | 2022, News | 0 Comments

The Breakthrough Prize Foundation announced the winners of the 11th annual Breakthrough Prizes, which included the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory’s Anna Grassellino, director of the Superconducting Quantum Materials and Systems...

Jens Koch named new deputy director of SQMS Center

by kmb165 | September 1, 2022 | 2022, News | 0 Comments

Koch also named new Co-Director of the Northwestern-Fermilab Center for Applied Physics and Superconducting Technologies. Jens Koch, professor of physics at Northwestern University, will serve as the next deputy director for the collaboration of 23 partner...

CAPST Welcomes 2022 SQMS Summer Interns

by kmb165 | June 23, 2022 | 2022, News | 0 Comments

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...

Challenges and opportunities of srf theory for next generation particle accelerators

by kmb165 | March 21, 2022 | 2022, News | 0 Comments

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...

CAPST/Fermilab’s Alexander Romanenko wins one of two 2022 Particle Accelerator Science and Technology Awards

by kmb165 | January 26, 2022 | 2022, News | 0 Comments

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...

SQMS Industry Partner Rigetti to Go Public

by kmb165 | October 6, 2021 | 2021, News | 0 Comments

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...

Researchers develop new tool for analyzing large superconducting circuits

by kmb165 | September 15, 2021 | 2021, News | 0 Comments

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

by kmb165 | July 30, 2021 | 2021, News | 0 Comments

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 at...

CAPST Co-Director Dr. James Sauls Guests on Scientific Sense Podcast

by kmb165 | February 9, 2021 | 2021, News | 0 Comments

CAPST co-director Dr. James Sauls appeared on an episode of the podcast “Scientific Sense” to talk with host Gill Eapen. The discussion is nearly an hour and ranges from superconducting RF cavities for particle accelerators, NU-Fermilab collaborations, quantum fluids,...

Fermilab-NU scientist Anna Grassellino named “Woman of the Year” by Italy’s D La Repubblica

by kmb165 | December 10, 2020 | 2020, News | 0 Comments

Grassellino was selected from a list of 50 Italian women who have excelled in their fields, and who left their mark on 2020. She heads Fermilab’s new quantum national center, the Superconducting Quantum Materials and Systems Center. Read more...

Northwestern is key partner in $115 million national center to build revolutionary quantum computer

by kmb165 | August 26, 2020 | 2020, News | 0 Comments

Fermilab-led initiative — one of just five elite National Quantum Initiative centers funded by the DOE — includes an interdisciplinary team of Northwestern faculty Read more...

CAPST researchers Wave Ngampruetikorn and James Sauls published new theoretical predictions of a Zero-Field Thermal Hall Effect as a signature of a broken P and T ground state in Topological Superconductors

by kmb165 | April 14, 2020 | 2020, News | 0 Comments

Chiral superconductors exhibit novel transport properties that depend on the topology of the order parameter, topology of the Fermi surface, the spectrum of bulk and edge Fermionic excitations, and the structure of the impurity potential. In the case of electronic...

Broken time-reversal symmetry in the topological superconductor UPt₃

by kmb165 | March 9, 2020 | 2020, News | 0 Comments

CAPST researchers in Physics, Keenan Avers, William Halperin, and James Sauls, in collaboration with the neutron scattering team led by Morten Eskildsen at Notre Dame, report the discovery of Broken time-reversal symmetry in the topological superconductor UPt3:...

New Quantum Phases of Matter Confined in Quantized Vortices

by kmb165 | February 7, 2020 | 2020, News | 0 Comments

Classical liquids achieve co-rotation in a rotating container through the force of the walls on the fluid and viscous forces in the fluid. Quantum liquids, like Helium, are fundamentally different. They obey the laws of quantum mechanics in aggregate, with the...

From Qubits to Climate Change: Northwestern Quantum Experts See Powerful Potential

by kmb165 | January 21, 2020 | 2020, News | 0 Comments

University’s quantum science strengths harness multidisciplinary talent. Imagine there are 20 playing cards laying side-by-side and face down on a table in front of you. You know that one of them is the queen of hearts, but you don’t know which one. To find it, you...

CAPST Co-Director Anna Grassellino is new deputy chief technology officer of Fermilab

by kmb165 | December 9, 2019 | 2019, News | 0 Comments

On December 1st, 2019, CAPST co-director Anna Grassellino was named Deputy Chief Technical Officer at Fermilab. She will play a leadership role in Fermilab’s portfolio for advancing the key technologies in high-energy physics. Dr. Grassellino will oversee the...

Chiral Higgs Mode in Nematic Superconductors

by kmb165 | December 3, 2019 | 2019, News | 0 Comments

The CAPST-Osaka Collaboration has just published a prediction of a novel Bosonic excitation as a signature of Nematic superconductivity in doped topological insulators. The paper appeared in Physical Review Letters, Dec. 3, 2019. Title: Chiral Higgs Mode in Nematic...

Fermilab launches new institute for quantum science

by kmb165 | November 18, 2019 | 2019, News | 0 Comments

Laboratory to use particle physics expertise to kickstart quantum technology for computing, sensors, simulations and communication The nation’s premier particle physics laboratory has become a major player in the rapidly expanding field of quantum science and...

‘Dirty’ Superconductors Make Better Particle Accelerators

by kmb165 | November 8, 2019 | 2019, News | 0 Comments

Northwestern researchers show how impurities can increase the maximum accelerating field of superconducting radio-frequency cavities, a finding with huge potential cost advantages. It turns out that imperfection may be the perfect way to push the limits of a key...

A Week of Breaking News in Quantum Computing

by kmb165 | October 28, 2019 | 2019, News | 0 Comments

CAPST co-director Dr. James Sauls sums up several noteworthy developments in the world of quantum computing from the week of October 21st, 2019, about the report of Quantum Supremacy and the responses to it. Redirecting to the full...

Physicists Reveal New Understanding of Quantum Mechanics in Circuits

by kmb165 | August 20, 2019 | 2019, News | 0 Comments

Quantum mechanics is typically associated with microscopic particles, such as atoms, electrons, or photons. However, within the past 20 years the field’s undergone a revolution in how people think about it. As first proposed by Nobel-Prize winning physicist Anthony...

Sauls Appointed to EMP Int’l Scientific Advisory Board

by kmb165 | January 12, 2019 | 2019, News | 0 Comments

CAPST Co-Director Dr. James A. Sauls was appointed to the International Scientfic Advisory Board of the European MicroKelvin Platform, a consortium of 17 research laboratories and technology partners with expertise and facilities in ultra-low temperature physics. The...

Sending out an SRF

by kmb165 | June 23, 2017 | 2017, News | 0 Comments

Fermilab and Northwestern Partner for Applied Superconductivity Center: The Cryogenic Society of America picked up the news about the formation of CAPST. Redirecting to that article…...

Northwestern University and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

by jrc411 | June 21, 2017 | 2017, News | 0 Comments

Northwestern and Fermilab established the Center for Applied Physics and Superconducting Technologies (CAPST) with a focus on superconductivity at the forefronts of accelerator physics, quantum simulation and computing, and discovery of superconducting materials for...

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