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Washington University in St. Louis biologist Keith Hengen is applying theories of brain criticality to a $750,000 Department of Energy project aimed at improving quantum sensor performance.
The research will test whether superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors can operate more accurately and efficiently when tuned near the boundary between order and chaos.
The team will begin with about nine months of theoretical and computational work before potentially helping design and test chips to be built at MIT.
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