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| News from Berkeley Lab

Quantum Systems Accelerator is renewed!

The Department of Energy (DOE) has renewed funding for the Quantum Systems Accelerator (QSA), a DOE National Quantum Information Science Research Center led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). The Noel lab will continue work on scaling trapped ion quantum computers.

| Duke Pratt School of Engineering

Scaling Up: Building a 96-Qubit Quantum Computer by 2027

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| Quantum Zeitgeist

New paper featured in Quantum Zeitgeist

Researchers Measure Quantum First-Passage-Time Distributions, Revealing Connections to Classical Physics and Quantum Systems

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New paper on 'Quantum First Passages'

New paper from the group. We performed the first measurement of quantum first passages.

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Crystal at ECTI

Crystal presented new work at ECTI 2025 in Amsterdam.

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Congratulations Debo!

Debopriyo was a Duke Top 10 finalist in the 3-minute thesis competition.

Exciting new measurement scheme proposed!

Check out our new paper posted to the arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.12538

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Peter Shor visits the Noel Lab

We had the pleasure of welcoming Peter Shor at DQC, and showing him the research in the Noel lab.

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Simon Presents at Duke Advanced Multifunctional Metamaterials Workshops 2024

Simon Presents at Duke Advanced Multifunctional Metamaterials Workshops 2024

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Crystal presents at IEEE Quantum Week 2024 in Montreal

Crystal presents at IEEE Quantum Week 2024 in Montreal

| Duke Pratt School of Engineering

Duke-led Team Begins Plans for an Enormous 256-Qubit Quantum Computer

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Thomas Kessler at CLEO2024 in Charlotte, NC

Thomas Kessler presented his poster on 'integrating thin-film Lithium Niobate photonics and surface-electrode ion traps' at CLEO 2024 in Charlotte, NC.

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Simon Gorbaty at QSim-2024 in Rhode Island

Simon Gorbaty travelled to Rhode Island to attend the QSIm-2024 Summer School and conference. He presented his research on fabricating novel surface-electrode ion-trap architectures.

Jerry Chen at NACTI-2024 in Los Angeles

Jerry Chen went to NACTI (North American Conference on Trapped Ions) in Los Angeles this week. He shared his progress on building the Ba-based Green system.

Mitch Peaks joins the Lab

Mitch Peaks joins the lab as our newest post-doc. An experienced ion trapper, his knowledge will surely be appreciated.