Publisher Springer has announced that its journal Quantum Information Processing has awarded the first annual Howard E. Brandt Best Paper Award to the most outstanding paper published in the journal during the previous year. The winning paper is 'Ultrastrong coupling in a scalable design for circuit QED with superconducting flux qubits' by Mun Dae Kim of the Korea Institute for Advanced Study in Seoul. The award was announced at the Quantum Information and Computation Conference at the SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing Meeting in Baltimore, MD, USA.
The award commemorates the journal's late editor-in-chief Howard E. Brandt, and carries a prize amount of 500 USD. At the meeting, Quantum Information Processing editor-in-chief Yaakov S. Weinstein of the MITRE Corporation, Princeton, NJ, USA, and Springer publishing editor Sara Kate Heukerott announced the winner and presented copies of the March 2016 special issue "In Memory of Dr. Howard Brandt" to Dr. Brandt's widow and family.
Quantum Information Processing is a high-impact, international journal publishing experimental and theoretical research in all areas of quantum information science. The journal supports and inspires research by providing a comprehensive peer review process, and disseminating high-quality results in a range of formats. These include original papers, letters, broadly focused perspectives, comprehensive review articles, book reviews and special topical issues.
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