Cooperative Agreement W911NF2320216

This $2.46 million project grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program will fund research into interconnected superconducting and color center qubits in silicon devices from September 2021 through August 2025. The University of California, Berkeley will lead efforts to design high kinetic inductance superconducting devices using disordered superconducting alloys for insensitivity to light fields and coupling microwave fields to mechanical modes....

The National Science Foundation awarded Virginia Commonwealth University a $800,000 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to develop energy efficient quantum control of robust spin ensemble qubits. The three-year award will support research to simulate and demonstrate highly localized control of qubits using nanomagnets driven by electric fields at spin qubit Larmor frequencies. This aims to implement single-qubit quantum gates with high fidelities...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $750,000 Cooperative Agreement to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) on September 1, 2025, with completion scheduled for August 31, 2027. The Open-Stack Rydberg Atom Quantum Computing Laboratory (ORAQL) project delivers next-generation neutral atom quantum computing technology designed to demonstrate practical quantum advantage...

This $400,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research at the University of Maryland, College Park to develop optically active quantum bits (qubits) in silicon. The goal is to create scalable quantum devices by integrating these silicon-based qubits with nanophotonic engineering and microwave control. The research will focus on a silicon color center called the "T center" which can exhibit efficient optical...

The National Science Foundation's Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences awarded a $2.0 million Cooperative Agreement to Duke University effective September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2027, for the Quantum Advantage Class Trapped Ions (QACTI) System design project. This initiative targets the development and construction of an ion trap quantum computer capable of demonstrating scientific computational capabilities exceeding standard computers. The collaborative research effort...

The National Science Foundation Division of Physics awarded $780,000 under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.049) to the California Institute of Technology for the project "Quantum Control of Vanadium Nuclear Spin Registers Surrounding a Single Yttrium Ion in a Crystal." The funding will support research exploring and controlling the quantum interaction between a single ytterbium qubit and the nearby vanadium nuclear spins in a yttrium...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Summary The University of New Mexico, as lead institution, received a $2.0 million Cooperative Agreement from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) awarded September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2027. This award funds the Quantum Computing Applications of Photonics (QCAP) project, which develops integrated hardware and software solutions to overcome current limitations in quantum photonic device scalability and...

This $250,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) supports research at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) to investigate methods for efficiently creating entanglement between multiple qubits for quantum computing. The project aims to develop new multi-qubit entangling gates that can reduce the complexity of quantum circuits and expand the practical applications of current quantum hardware, which is...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) under the Congressionally-Identified Projects program (CFDA 11.617) provides $963,000 to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to develop an optical qubit test bed at the UCLA Quantum Information Science (QIS) Hub. The key objectives are to procure lasers, electronics, and test and measurement equipment to establish an atomic qubit research test bed within a 12-month timeframe. This...

Theiss Research received a $446,757.98 cooperative agreement from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) under the Measurement and Engineering Research and Standards program (CFDA 11.609) for the period June 1, 2025 through May 31, 2028. Under this award, the recipient will develop and publicly release a scalable Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)-based Radio-Frequency System-on-Chip (RFSoC) quantum control system capable of performing direct digital synthesis without up-...