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Q-CTRL Federal, LLC, with assistance from our Partners at Sandia National Laboratory, will develop software for pulse level quantum control, automated calibration, and characterization for the improvement of near-term gate-model quantum computers. The result will be an AI-based toolset compatible with any quantum hardware system that can deliver up to 10X performance gains, >10X improvements in th ...

With majority of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions stemming from fossil assets and transportation, the U.S. economy is becoming more innovative and flexible in response to environmental and economic challenges and to the demands for clean energy, fuels, and other products. Due to the intermittent nature of renewable energy (such as solar and wind) makes it difficult to balance power generation wi ...

The rising prevalence of cancer, increasing safety awareness among people working in radiation-prone environment, growing safety concerns after nuclear power plant disasters, spur in the number of PET/CT scans, increasing adoption of nuclear medicine and radiation therapy for diagnosis and treatment of various diseases, and potential terrorist attacks using radioactive and biological weapons are s ...

The global flow chemistry market size was valued at USD 1.37 billion in 2020 and is estimated to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 10.2% from 2020 to 2028.Chemical reactors are a critical component in biofuel production, environmentally friendly plastics & waste processing and pharmaceuticals. With climate change being the forefront of the problems, we face in a modern world, there is an im ...

Sensors for aquatic phosphorus have been widely used in monitoring nutrient levels in water bodies to prevent eutrophication and preserve aquatic diversity. However, the key challenge facing current aquatic phosphorus sensing technologies is lack of in-situ determination capability and poor long-term stability. These methods either require addition of reagent such as ascorbic acid to induce colori ...

For quantum networks to extend beyond the physical distances defined by the real-world limitations of signal loss, a sophisticated multi-modular network of quantum devices to allow for “repeating” quantum information, without measuring or damaging it, are required. Quantum repeaters create entanglement between remote photons by swapping the entanglement between multiple entanglement sources in ...

Cloud cover is an important but poorly characterized component of current climate models. In particular, there is a need to detect and quantify cloud cover in a physically meaningful manner. This need has led to the development of infrared cloud imagers. This system uses long-wave infrared cameras to observe the thermal emission from the clouds and produces a measurement of spatially distributed c ...

Increasing demands on the Nation’s vital natural resources will require extensive and ambitious R&D efforts aimed at achieving a predictive understanding of complex biological, earth, and environmental systems. Recent advances in sensing and machine learning technologies are opening up the possibility for “smart sensor” approaches to automation and optimization of data collection and analysi ...

As Free-Electron Laser and diffraction-limited storage ring X-ray light sources have come into their own in the past few years, the need for highly precise X-ray mirrors is becoming more and more apparent. These brighter X-ray light sources are being held back by the mirrors that are used, both in the availability of these optics, as well as their manufacturability. There are very few methods that ...

This Small Business Innovation Research proposal seeks to develop a laser-based diagnostic to quantify radioactive impurities present in clean materials at radiation levels < 1 µBq/kg. The proposed diagnostic will address the need for an analytical instrument to screen clean/radiopure for U, Th, and K incorporated into rare-event nuclear physics experiments. Existing radioassays suffer from long ...