MAY 23, 2025 Staff Accomplishment Early Career Researchers Receive High Energy Physics Awards Erik Lentz and Christian Boutan will research quantum information science-enabled discoveries in high energy physics with these awards. ( Read More )
MAY 23, 2025 Research Highlight Unleashing Quantum Computing for Quantum Chemistry from Constrained Optimization Developing a new scheme to more efficiently solve quantum chemistry problems. ( Read More )
APRIL 23, 2025 News Release Scientists Speed Up the Groundwork Essential for Quantum Computing Researchers have created an algorithm that slashes the calculations necessary to prepare and customize data for quantum computing. ( Read More )
JANUARY 17, 2025 Feature Flow Across Scales with a Quantum Computing Boost A potential quantum advantage for fluid dynamics simulations from molecular to atmospheric scales with a new formula for success. ( Read More )
DECEMBER 10, 2024 Research Highlight Polaritonic Chemistry with the Density Matrix Renormalization Group Method Pacific Northwest National Laboratory researchers developed a new theoretical method for studying highly correlated systems. ( Read More )
NOVEMBER 26, 2024 Article PNNL Scientists Among Most Highly Cited Researchers Nineteen PNNL-affiliated researchers have been named to Clarivate’s 2024 list of the world's most highly cited researchers. ( Read More )
NOVEMBER 13, 2024 News Release How ‘Clean’ Does a Quantum Computing Test Facility Need to Be? PNNL Scientists Show the Way How to keep stray radiation from “shorting” superconducting qubits; a pair of studies shows where ionizing radiation is lurking and how to banish it. ( Read More )
OCTOBER 30, 2024 Feature Hunting for Dark Matter Axions The search for dark matter includes expertise in radio frequency signal detection, quantum sensing, and high-energy physics at PNNL. ( Read More )
OCTOBER 14, 2024 Feature A Recipe for Quantum Scaling ARQUIN computational pipeline provides a holistic framework for simulating a system with distributed quantum computing ingredients. ( Read More )
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024 Article A Unified Mathematical Theory for Barren Plateaus In a recent publication in Nature Communications, a team of researchers presents a mathematical theory to address the challenge of barren plateaus in quantum machine learning. ( Read More )
SEPTEMBER 10, 2024 News Release PNNL Takes Its Radiation Expertise to Space A launch from Cape Canaveral early today carried a PNNL experiment to space so scientists can learn more about radiation far above Earth. ( Read More )
SEPTEMBER 10, 2024 Feature Three PNNL Researchers Receive DOE Early Career Research Awards Three PNNL researchers will receive five continuous years of funding for projects through highly competitive DOE Early Career Research Program awards. ( Read More )
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024 Staff Accomplishment Bylaska Selected for Computational Materials Science Award Bylaska and team will aim to make computational design of functional materials more targeted, impactful, and user friendly through this award. ( Read More )
JUNE 24, 2024 Article Enabling Nuclear Physics Discoveries with Quantum Computing A new approach validates quantum algorithms for low-energy nuclear physics applications ( Read More )
APRIL 11, 2024 Article Springing Simulations Forward with Quantum Computing A new quantum algorithm speeds up simulations of coupled oscillator dynamics. ( Read More )
APRIL 3, 2024 Feature Computational Chemistry Needs To Be Sustainable, Too As new paradigms in advanced computing take shape, computational chemistry researchers are finding new ways to solve challenging chemistry problems. ( Read More )
MARCH 18, 2024 Research Highlight Quantum Flow Algorithms for Simulating Many-Body Systems on Quantum Computers In a new approach, quantum flow algorithms are used to simulate many-body systems on quantum computers and effectively describe chemical processes. ( Read More )
FEBRUARY 29, 2024 Staff Accomplishment Cooper Selected for Leadership Institute Cohort Adom Cooper was selected for the inaugural cohort of the Black Professionals in International Affairs at the Colin Powell Leadership Institute. ( Read More )
NOVEMBER 22, 2023 Research Highlight Creating Quiet Cables for Rare Physics Events Researchers designed ultra-low radiation cables to reduce background noise for highly sensitive neutrino and dark matter detectors. ( Read More )
OCTOBER 10, 2023 Article Tracking Cosmic Rays with Radioactivity PNNL’s Richard Saldanha will lead a new project to benchmark and validate models of cosmic ray exposure ( Read More )