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One adult in dark clothes stands beside two others, seated on yellow stools, before a wood background in a modern workspace
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Matt Perko
Left to right: Chris Palmstrøm, Chris Van de Walle, Michel Devoret

Rebuilding the heart of a quantum computer

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photo of the the LZ experiment's outer detector
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Matt Kapust/Sanford Underground Research Laboratory
The outer detector of the LZ dark matter experiment
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Gary Horowitz in blue collared shirt on blue background.
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Jeff Liang
Gary Horowitz
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artists' rendering of a sun and its planet-forming disk
Artist's rendering of a young star surrounded by its protoplanetary disk, with elements furnished by NASA's Hubble Telescope
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white man in front of blackboard
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Matt Perko
Joseph Polchinski at UCSB’s Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, where he advanced pivotal ideas in string theory and quantum gravity.
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scientist at work
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Matt Perko
A researcher at work in materials scientist Stephen Wilson's Lab
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images of six galaxies taken with the James Webb Space Telescope
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M. Franco / C. Casey / COSMOS-Web collaboration
Six images of galaxies taken from nearly 800,000, from upper left to lower right: the present-day universe, and 3, 4, 8, 9 and 10 billion years ago
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photo of world's first quantum topological processor
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Used with permission from Microsoft
Majorana 1, the eight-qubit topological quantum processor unveiled at Microsoft Station Q's 2025 conference
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green and purple objects
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Fangzhou ZhaoI, Van de Walle group
Concept illustration of non-radiative recombination, in which electron-hole interaction at a defect in the atomic structure results in heat, rather than light, being emitted. Jim Speck will use his Vannevar Bush Award to advance understanding of the physics of such interactions.
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two men standing against a gray background
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Jeff Liang
Professors Andrew Jayich, left, and Jon Schuller