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Researchers at SLAC are developing experimental techniques to evaluate new candidates for inertial fusion energy targets. 

a graphic in the style of graphic novel depicts four lasers converging on a spherical target, which represents an inertial fusion energy reaction

The SLAC team is developing digital twins – powered by AI and high-performance computing – to help quickly shape high-quality particle beams for the lab’s X-ray and ultrafast facilities.

hand pointing to digital twin
News Brief · Via Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics

Observing quantum footballs blown up by laser kicks

Laser-driven break up of "buckyballs" is recorded in real-time by X-ray imaging at LCLS. 

Buckyballs

A new machine learning algorithm rapidly reconstructs 3D images from X-ray data. 

Schematic of a machine learning algorithm that reconstructs 3D images from X-ray data

SLAC and Stanford scientists uncovered a quantum spin liquid, a state of matter that may have applications for quantum information.

An assembly of blue-green crystals

He was honored for his work in ultrafast physics.

Portrait of Shambhu Ghimire

SLAC and Stanford partner with Argonne National Laboratory and others toward a quantum-interconnected world.

A person in a bunny suit examines a wafer

Quantum networking is the framework that uses the strange properties of quantum mechanics to transmit quantum information, encoded in qubits, from one quantum device to another.

illustration of ballet dancers

After a major upgrade, SLAC's X-ray free-electron laser is 10,000 times brighter and thousands of times faster. Now, researchers are using LCLS to observe electrons in real time as they move across molecules.

Detail of the TMO hutch at SLAC's X-ray laser

Her work will advance a next-generation experiment in the hope of detecting this mysterious ingredient of the universe.

Portrait of Ann Wang