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The LANL Research Library is a research library at Los Alamos National Laboratory. It contains a substantial collection of books, journals, databases, patents along with technical reports. Additionally it offers literature searching, training, and outreach services. The library has a research and development (R&D) component, which works in areas such as open archives, recommendation systems (including visualization), emergency response information systems, and discovery systems. Its stated mission is to deliver effective and responsive knowledge services, thereby connecting people with information, technology, and resources. Its stated purpose (vision) is essential knowledge services for national security sciences.

Machine-learning models, guided by physics, will improve subsurface imaging

“Potential applications include energy exploration and earthquake early warning, among others A team of scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory is applying machine-learning algorithms to subsurface imaging that will impact a variety of applications, including energy exploration, carbon capture and …

Ultrasound technology helps with brewing better beer

“With the new year upon us, many beer lovers will be spreading the cheer at one of our great local brewpubs. As they hoist a tasty toast to new beginnings, not many revelers are likely to pause to ponder the …

Unusual gamma-ray burst reveals previously undetected hybrid neutron-star merger event

“The standard view of gamma-ray bursts as a signature for different types of dying stars might need a rewrite. Recent astronomical observations, supported by theoretical modeling, reveal a new observational fingerprint of neutron-star mergers, which may shed light on the …

AI predicts physics of future fault slip in laboratory earthquakes

“Analyzing seismic signals, a natural-language processing approach ‘auto-fills’ the future physical state of a fault in an earthquake machine, with potential applications in Earth An artificial-intelligence approach borrowed from natural-language processing — much like language translation and auto-fill for text on …

Quantum AI breakthrough: theorem shrinks appetite for training data

“Rigorous math proves neural networks can train on minimal data, providing ‘new hope’ for quantum AI and taking a big step toward quantum advantage. Training a quantum neural network requires only a small amount of data, according to a new …

Quantum annealing can beat classical computing in limited cases

“Under most conditions, according to a new proof, algorithms on a quantum annealing computer don’t offer quantum speedup Recent research proves that under certain conditions, quantum annealing computers can run algorithms — including the well-known Shor’s algorithm — more quickly …

Math error: A new study overturns 100-year-old understanding of color perception

“A paradigm shift away from the 3D mathematical description developed by Schrödinger and others to describe how we see color could yield more vibrant computer displays, TVs, printed materials, textiles and more A new study corrects an important error in …

Research in MAGLAB verifies new phase of matter in material

“Strange behavior of ytterbium dodecaboride better understood. The three most-common phases of matter are well known: liquid, solid, gas. But under certain extreme conditions, matter exhibits much more bizarre behavior. Working with ytterbium dodecaboride (YbB12) under extreme conditions, a research …

Anti-butterfly effect enables new benchmarking of quantum-computer performance

“Running a quantum system backward, then forward in time distinguishes information leaks from the desired information scrambling. Research drawing on the quantum “anti-butterfly effect” solves a longstanding experimental problem in physics and establishes a method for benchmarking the performance of …

Los Alamos National Laboratory and SK hynix to demonstrate first-of-a-kind ordered Key-value Store Computational Storage Device

“Los Alamos National Laboratory and SK hynix, a leading semiconductor innovator and memory/flash manufacturer, will demonstrate the world’s first ordered Key Value Store Computational Storage Device (KV-CSD), a result of a collaboration between Los Alamos’ High Performance …