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Revealing Buried Layers: Exploring the Metal-Substrate Interface Layer in Superconducting Films Researchers used a multimodal approach to determine the metal-substrate interface in a superconducting qubit material.
Improving Computing Memory Performance for Scientific Discovery A new framework employs usage patterns to improve data placement.
Visualizing an Elusive Quantum Crystal Discovery proves the existence of the mysterious Wigner crystal — an unusual kind of matter made entirely of electrons.
Unusual Massless Particle Discovered in a 2D Material Although scientists conceived of Weyl fermions in 3D, researchers have observed their 2D equivalent in a monolayer film.

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