Lab Equipment with Aesthetic Presence (IMAGE)

Washington University in St. Louis

Lab Equipment with Aesthetic Presence

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The superconducting circuit used as a model quantum system in Murch's lab is bolted to a stage in a dilution refrigerator (pictured above), which holds it at a temperature of 7 milliKelvin, or just a hair's breadth above absolute zero. With thermal noise suppressed to this level, the device enters quantum space.

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