August 2025: Jonas Brown, a graduate student researcher in the Phonon Optimized Engineered Materials Laboratory at the University of California, Los Angeles, built coupled charge-density-wave oscillators at the UCLA Nanofabrication Laboratory, jointly run by CNSI and UCLA Samueli, and tested them in UCLA’s Phonon Optimized Engineered Materials Laboratory. These experimental devices use electron-phonon condensate quantum properties for energy-efficient information processing at room temperature.
“Our approach is physics-inspired computing, which has recently emerged as a promising method to solve complex optimization problems,” said corresponding author Alexander Balandin, the Fang Lu Professor of Engineering and distinguished professor of materials science and engineering at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering. “It leverages physical phenomena involving strongly correlated electron–phonon condensate to perform computation through physical processes directly, thus achieving greater energy efficiency and speed.”