Tag: Quantum
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Timepix
Timepix | The original Timepix ASIC is a silicon chip developed at CERN by the Medipix2 Collaboration. The chip is divided into a 256×256 grid of tiny pixels, each one containing thousands of transistors that allow it to detect and analyse radiation. Its successor, Timepix2, can be programmed to operate in one of several modes
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Quantum Artificial Intelligence for Earth Observation (QuAI4EO)
Quantum Artificial Intelligence for Earth Observation (QuAI4EO) | Quantum Artificial Intelligence for Earth Observation (QuAI4EO) is a collaboration between the European Space Agency (ESA) and CERN, involving two PhD students between 2021 and 2025. The goal was to study the use of quantum machine learning (QML) algorithms in image analysis, with particular focus on Earth
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Cryolab
Cryolab | With many of its magnets operating at temperatures colder than outer space, the LHC is the largest cryogenic system in the world and one of the coldest places on Earth. For more than 50 years, CERN’s unique cryogenic facilities – also known as Cryolab – have provided expertise and R&D opportunities at low temperatures. In these installations able
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CHARM – Mixed fields
CHARM – Mixed fields | CHARM is a unique irradiation infrastructure at CERN, used for many years to test electronic equipment for CERN accelerators and available to users from the aerospace community. CHARM provides a completely new approach to low-cost qualification against radiation. This facility can batch screen many components or boards in parallel, as well as test large systems,
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White Rabbit
White Rabbit | White Rabbit provides sub-nanosecond accuracy and picoseconds precision of synchronization for large distributed systems. It also allows for deterministic and reliable data delivery. White Rabbit allows you to precision time-tag measured data and lets you trigger data taking in large installations while at the same time using the same network to transmit
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Thin film coatings
Thin film coatings | Thin film coatings for ultra-high vacuums CERN experts have significant expertise across a range of thin film coating techniques for producing High & Ultra-High Vacuum, particularly Non-Evaporable Getter (NEG) thin film coatings. NEG coatings are produced by sputtering an alloy of several selected metals onto a vacuum chamber wall. When activated
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Singular Light: Integrated Single Mode Laser Converter
Singular Light: Integrated Single Mode Laser Converter | Singular Light: Integrated Single Mode Laser Converter, is an efficient, simple device that relies on Raman laser conversion for generating a single longitudinal mode (SLM) laser output. The configuration offered by Singular Light not only offers a more robust generation of SLM lasers compared to conventional techniques,
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PicoTDC
PicoTDC | The PicoTDC is a specially developed 64 channel Time to Digital Converter (TDC) ASIC in 65nm CMOS for use in High Energy Physics (HEP) experiments and similar scientific applications where high rate, very high time resolution single shot time measurements are required on a large number of channels. It is a succesor to
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Material Science
Material Science | Novel fabrication methods and analysis procedures for materials operating at the extremes of precision and endurance. CERN’s Know-How Facts & Figures Key Competencies Materials for demanding applications & environments Selection, specification, development and application of materials and processes to meet demanding requirements, often at the extremes of temperature, radiation, vacuum and magnetism.
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Machine Learning and Deep Learning
Machine Learning and Deep Learning | Know-how and experience derived from early adoption of neural network techniques by particle physics community. CERN’s Know-How Facts & Figures Key Competencies Designing & Training Neural Networks CERN has a long history in the design and training of neural networks in for example classification, filtering, event and particle detection,
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High and Ultra High Vacuum Systems
High and Ultra High Vacuum Systems | CERN’s Know-How Facts & Figures Contact Person Amanda Diez Fernandez Knowledge Transfer Officer amanda.diez.fernandez@cern.ch
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Cryogenics
Cryogenics | CERN’s unique know-how derived from 60 years of designing, installing and operating the world’s largest cryogenics installation. CERN’s Know-How Facts & Figures Key Competencies Robust Big Data Acquisition Radiation tolerant, reliable and highly flexible large scale industrial data acquisition system capable of monitoring and operating systems equipped with thousands of sensors and controllers
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CERN tech for Quantum Systems
CERN tech for Quantum Systems | How to collaborate with CERN? Find out about upcoming Quantum related news and events here Key Competencies Thin film coatings for ultra-high vacuums CERN experts have developed a range of techniques and materials for thin film coatings in order to meet the diverse demands of achieving vacuums in different systems
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Bringing quantum computing to society
Bringing quantum computing to society | A new, three-year CERN-based programme called the Open Quantum Institute seeks to make quantum computing resources and technical expertise widely available A new, three-year CERN-based programme will make quantum computing resources and technical expertise available to projects designed to support the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The new programme
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Combining quantum with high-energy physics
Quantum leap CERN QTI head Alberto Di Meglio speaking at the QT4HEP event, supported through CERN openlab and sponsored by Google, IBM and Intel
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CERN Quantum Technology Initiative unveils strategic roadmap shaping CERN’s role in next quantum revolution
CERN Quantum Technology Initiative unveils strategic roadmap shaping CERN’s role in next quantum revolution CERN QTI reaches its next milestone today, with the unveiling of a first roadmap defining its medium- and long-term quantum research programme This article was originally published on quantum.cern Geneva, 14 October 2021. The CERN Quantum Technology Initiative (CERN QTI) reaches its