MRS Advances Materials for Quantum Technology Issue date: Spring 2020 Submission deadline: December 18, 2019
MRS Advances is accepting full-paper submissions on Nanoscale and Quantum Materials topics related to the symposium topic Materials for Quantum Computing Applications from the 2019 MRS Fall Meeting. Submissions, the review process, and the final decision are not contingent on presentation at the meeting itself.
MRS Advances publishes short papers that provide a “snapshot” of an advance within the field of materials research. Such work may include important early indications from a research project that has not yet reached a conclusion, or related results that are significant but not central to the goal of the project. The scientific methods and logic should be rigorous, technically sound, and of interest to other specialists in the area of research.
Of particular interest are topics in Materials for Quantum Computing Applications:
• High-Q dielectric films and substrates for qubits at microwave frequencies • Materials for micro-fabricated/on-chip ion trap qubits • Materials to mitigate quasiparticles in superconducting qubits • Ultra-high purity materials/substrates for spin qubits and color-centers • Materials for topological qubits • Device materials and substrates for quantum dot qubits • Novel material characterization methods: experiments and modeling • Novel device fabrication methods • Theory and modeling of the coherence properties of quantum devices • Theory and modeling of quantum computing device design • Novel josephson junctions and circuit elements for quantum computing applications • Interactions between qubits and spins in materials
Manuscript Submission:
To be considered for MRS Advances, new and previously unpublished results significant to the development of this field should be presented. The manuscripts must be submitted via the MRS Advances electronic submission system by December 18, 2019.
EARLY SUBMISSION OPPORTUNITY: Submissions received by October 1, 2019 and accepted for publication by November 18, 2019, will get limited-time free access to MRS member and non-members alike upon publication, and promotion onsite at the MRS meeting, to appropriate symposia and at the MRS-Cambridge University Press Publications booth.
All manuscripts will be reviewed in the standard rapid timeframe of MRS Advances to ensure timely publication in the issue related to the submission topic. Please see manuscript preparation instructions, length restrictions, and the required template for submission at www.mrs.org/mrs-advances-manuscript-instructions. At submission, indicate Nanoscale and Quantum Materials as the topical area of your paper.