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A cartoon schematic of a silicon heterojunction solar cell and it’s photo-generated charges. The numbers correspond to three of the major electrical noise signals identified…
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Team develops simulator with 256 qubits, largest of its kind ever created. A team of physicists from the Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms and other universities…
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Credit: CC0 Public Domain PC owners will experience some big changes to their Windows software later this year. Last month, Microsoft unveiled Windows 11, the…
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