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Nathan Nakamura (Fed)

Nathan Nakamura is a physicist in the Quantum Sensors Group at NIST. His research interests include the use of superconducting x-ray microcalorimeters for applications such as computed tomography and x-ray spectroscopy and the application of Monte Carlo approaches to model superconducting x-ray sensors and associated instrumentation. He joined NIST in 2020 as a National Research Council (NRC) postdoctoral fellow.

Publications

Spectroscopic Measurements and Models of Energy Deposition in the Substrate of Quantum Circuits by Natural Ionizing Radiation

Author(s)
Joseph Fowler, Paul Szypryt, Raymond Bunker, Ellen Edwards, Ian Fogarty Florang, JIANSONG GAO, Shannon Hoogerheide, Ben Loer, Hans Mumm, Nathan Nakamura, John Orrell, Elizabeth M. Scott, Jason Stevens, Daniel Swetz, Brent VanDevender, Michael Vissers, Joel Ullom
Naturally occurring background radiation is a potential source of correlated decoherence events in superconducting qubits that will challenge error-correction...
Created September 2, 2020, Updated October 11, 2023
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