Citizen science · superconducting materials
Help screen the materials that could power the next collider.
Laboratories can test only a handful of candidate materials a month. Your browser can give hypothesized compositions a first-pass screen with the same model our laboratory tool uses — right here, on your machine. No account, no download, no data sent anywhere.
- Materials you screened
- 0
- Promising leads you found
- 0
- Records you checked
- 0
Counted on this device only — this prototype has no accounts and no server.
What actually happens here — precisely
- Your browser runs a 4-qubit quantum-circuit simulation — the exact statevector computation of the quantum neural network our laboratory workbench uses, verified against its reference implementation. It really runs here: no server is called.
- The result is a first-pass estimate with an uncertainty interval. It assumes the composition resembles historically studied superconductor chemistry — it cannot prove a material exists, superconducts, or is useful in a device.
- Every flagged lead goes to scientist review before anyone claims anything. Public screening decides where scarce laboratory attention looks first — people stay in charge.
How this scales roadmap
CERN has run volunteer computing for twenty years: LHC@home drew thousands of contributors within its first week. OpenSuperLab@home follows the same pattern — the screening you just did is embarrassingly parallel, so many browsers can each take a shard of a much larger hypothesis space:
- Public browsersfirst-pass screen, millions of candidates
- Laboratoriesportfolio of the few worth testing
- Shared recordsreviewed results — including negative ones — improve the model for everyone
To operate this at scale with the public, the natural partner for BasQ is the Ibercivis Foundation, Spain’s citizen-science network — a proposed next step, not an existing partnership.