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.
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.