The National Science Foundation awarded a $200,000 Project Grant to the Regents of the University of Minnesota under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The two-year award will support research into developing new approaches for vertically coupling and cross-talk shielding of superconducting quantum devices. Specifically, the grantee will fabricate high-quality Josephson junction arrays and link them vertically via microwave waveguide arrays. This integrated manufacturing approach...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (CFDA 47.041) awarded a $275,000 Project Grant to the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) to develop a scalable quantum information processing platform. The key objectives are to integrate silicon-based photonic waveguides with microwave kinetic inductance detectors (MKIDs) to create a highly scalable quantum photonic integrated circuit (QPIC). The research aims to address challenges in QPIC scaling, efficiency, and...
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....
This $400,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) will fund collaborative research to develop scalable quantum computing systems. The project aims to interconnect multiple quantum processing units (QPUs) with limited qubit capacity into a scalable "virtual quantum machine" (VQM) with far greater qubit capabilities. The research will investigate fundamental qubit entanglement and...
The National Science Foundation Division of Materials Research awarded a $533,000 Project Grant to the University of California, Santa Barbara for research into quantum phenomena in solids. The three-year award, running from September 2021 through August 2024, will fund investigation into major problems confronting the Nation through advancement of the mathematical and physical sciences under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). As the prime awardee, UC Santa Barbara...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $617,885 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program to the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) for a project titled "Nanoscale Imaging of Quantum Scarring, Electron Guiding, and Steering in Two-Dimensional Material Heterostructures." The project aims to enhance the fundamental understanding of quantum chaotic behavior in two-dimensional (2D) material devices through the visualization,...
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 University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) has been awarded a $450,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program. Through this 3-year grant, UCSB will conduct fundamental research to advance the theoretical understanding of the dynamics of excitations in exotic quantum states of matter. The research will focus on three main thrusts: 1) developing new theoretical models and techniques for studying quantum spin...
The National Science Foundation awarded a 5-year, $162,364 CAREER grant to Yale University under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) federal grant program (CFDA 47.070). The goal of this project is to develop a practical architecture based on heterogeneous superconducting qubits, as well as crucial compiling and benchmarking tools, that will allow quantum computing applications to be executed fault tolerantly while requiring fewer resources. The project aims to bring...
The National Science Foundation awarded $397,978 under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program to the University of California, Los Angeles to support research titled "CAREER: FIRST PRINCIPLES DESIGN OF ERROR-CORRECTED SOLID-STATE QUANTUM REPEATERS." The award period is from October 1, 2022 to June 30, 2025. Through theoretical modeling and experimental validation, the project will develop new approaches to discover solid-state quantum systems capable of coherently storing and...