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QT Director Irfan Siddiqi was featured at the Nature Reviews Materials journal with his paper titled “Engineering High-Coherence Superconducting Qubits." What does it take to engineer superconducting qubits with improved coherence times for quantum computing? What limits the computational power of superconducting qubits and processors? These are some of the questions addressed in the review and the path forward.

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Citation:

"For fundamental advances in superconducting parametric amplifiers, including the development of the Josephson traveling wave parametric amplifier, and for their application to quantum measurement and control."

Background:

Irfan Siddiqi is a Professor of Physics at the University of California, Berkeley, and a faculty scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). He is the director of the Quantum Systems Accelerator (...

The first VinFuture Special Prize for Innovators with Outstanding Achievements for Emerging Fields was awarded to Professor Omar M. Yaghi for the discovery of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs).

Professor Yaghi has been awarded this prize for scientific advancement with his pioneering work on the discovery and development of metal-organic framework and covalent organic framework materials which have the potential to improve the everyday lives of millions of people.

In 1995, Prof. Yaghi reported the successful preparation and crystallization of the first strongly-bonded...

Photosynthesis, from the Greek words for “light” and “putting together,” is the foundation for life as we know it. Photosynthesis is the reason our skies are blue and our forests are green, and plant-based agriculture is essential to human civilization. According to the traditional understanding of photosynthesis, the sun sends light to Earth, and this light is absorbed by light-harvesting complexes made of chlorophyll—the molecules that make leaves green. The energy is then transferred from one chlorophyll to another until it reaches the reaction center, where the energy from the sun is...