An 0.5-mile-long stretch 30 feet underground below Interstate 280 in Menlo Park, California, is now colder than most places in the universe: -456 F. It houses a new particle accelerator that is part of a $1bn upgrade of SLAC’s X-ray laser LCLS. The new machine, LCLS-II, will be able to produce up to a million X-ray flashes per second – a world record for today’s most powerful X-ray light sources.
(Jim Gensheimer and Greg Stewart/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
Nickelate materials give scientists an exciting new window into how unconventional superconductors carry electric current with no loss at relatively high temperatures.
Q-NEXT will tackle next-generation quantum science challenges through a public-private partnership, ensuring U.S. leadership in an economically crucial arena.
Discovered at SLAC and Stanford, this new class of unconventional superconductors is starting to give up its secrets – including a surprising 3D metallic...
The Hubbard model, used to understand electron behavior in numerous quantum materials, now shows us its stripes, and superconductivity too, in simulations for cuprate...
Nickelate materials give scientists an exciting new window into how unconventional superconductors carry electric current with no loss at relatively high temperatures.
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Q-NEXT will tackle next-generation quantum science challenges through a public-private partnership, ensuring U.S. leadership in an economically crucial arena.
Discovered at SLAC and Stanford, this new class of unconventional superconductors is starting to give up its secrets – including a surprising 3D metallic state.
The Hubbard model, used to understand electron behavior in numerous quantum materials, now shows us its stripes, and superconductivity too, in simulations for cuprate superconductors.