This Project Grant award, with a total funding amount of $599,848.00, was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070). The award supports fundamental research in quantum information theory, focused on developing methods to better understand and estimate the capacity of quantum communication channels. Key objectives include constructing testbed quantum channels with interesting...
This $248,756 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports research to design secure quantum computing systems. The project focuses on studying security vulnerabilities and developing remediation techniques for both hardware-specific and agnostic side-channel attacks on existing noisy intermediate-scale quantum computers and upcoming fault-tolerant quantum computing architectures. The...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $399,083 will support research at the University of Illinois from August 2022 to July 2025 under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). The award will fund development of single-photon quantum information processing using nonlinear photonic integrated circuits. Specifically, the university researchers will work to generate and manipulate few-photon quantum correlations and entanglement through an integrated photonic system with record-high...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program provides $100,000.00 in funding to the Board of Trustees of Illinois State University (ISU) to research quantum information and interference features in transport. The 3-year project, starting on September 1, 2024, aims to advance the understanding of quantum coherence, entanglement, and information from the perspective of transport and nanostructure symmetry. This...
This federal Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program, provides $500,000 to the University of Massachusetts (UMass) to conduct research on the design, analysis, and control of quantum networks. The key products and services to be delivered under this 3-year award, which began on September 1, 2024, include: (i) Developing new path selection and link-level entanglement allocation algorithms...
This $599,338 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports theoretical research at Cornell University on quantum information science and communication. The key objectives are to investigate quantum information transmission limits, entanglement measures, and probabilistic communication capacity. The research aims to advance the fundamental understanding of quantum Shannon theory, with...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $200,000 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to the University of Illinois. This 2-year grant, effective from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2026, plans to enable a network instrument to measure the adoption rate of quantum-resistant encryption methods, also known as post-quantum cryptography (PQC). The developed network instrument aims to track the adoption of new encryption, measure any...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $180,989 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to the University of Wyoming. The grant supports a study on the Complementary-Quantum Correlation (CQC) conjecture, an information exclusion relation with applications in quantum information processing. The key objectives of the project are to: (1) identify sufficient conditions to prove the validity of the CQC conjecture beyond known state...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.070 - Computer and Information Science and Engineering) in the amount of $300,000.00 supports research to enable and operate a quantum network infrastructure. The key objectives are to: (i) develop path selection and entanglement allocation algorithms for quantum network flows; (ii) create resource allocation protocols optimized for quantum device quality metrics; and (iii) develop strategies to reduce the classical...
This $283,041 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Computing and Communication Foundations, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), will support research into resource theories of quantum channels at Cornell University from January 2023 through February 2024. Specifically, the award will address fundamental questions about how much entanglement is required to prepare quantum states or simulate quantum channels, how much...