Quantum Matter and Materials

Materials R&D enables new and better quantum technologies. This research entails materials discovery and characterization and device fabrication, all made possible by the unique and varied capabilities at Argonne in materials and computation.

Argonne researchers are working to improve established qubit systems and searching for new qubit systems with better coherence, scalability, measurement access, and ease of fabrication and operation. They are also pursuing the ability to convert or ​“transduce” information across qubit types.

Argonne projects in this area focus on the development and characterization of materials and devices for next-generation quantum information systems with these issues in mind.

Efforts enabled by the Advanced Photon Source and the Center for Nanoscale Materials, both U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science User Facilities, have mapped out qubit-environment interactions, such as spin/strain effects, and developed new sources for producing single and entangled photons.