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Gold-colored cryostat plates and a dense forest of vertical coaxial cables fill a tall laboratory refrigerator.
Advanced Quantum Testbed/Berkeley Lab
Cryogenics · Superconducting

Blizzard, the AQT dilution refrigerator

The internal stages and wiring of Blizzard, the main cryogenic dilution refrigerator at Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Quantum Testbed.

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