How ‘Clean’ Does a Quantum Computing Test Facility Need to Be? PNNL Scientists Show the Way

Credit: (Photo by Andrea Starr | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

PNNL physicist Brent VanDevender worked with an interdisciplinary team to examine the effects of environmental radiation on the performance of experimental quantum computing devices.

« How ‘Clean’ Does a Quantum Computing Test Facility Need to Be? PNNL Scientists Show the Way

Credit: (Photo by Eric Francavilla | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

PNNL physicist Ben Loer works with a dilution refrigerator, which cools experimental qubits to near absolute zero.

« How ‘Clean’ Does a Quantum Computing Test Facility Need to Be? PNNL Scientists Show the Way

Credit: (Photo by Eric Francavilla | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

The electronic connections that record signals from experimental superconducting qubits must be ultra-clean to avoid stray environmental radiation interrupting quantum coherence.

« How ‘Clean’ Does a Quantum Computing Test Facility Need to Be? PNNL Scientists Show the Way

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