This $499,872 federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Defense Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431) supports research and development of modeling and simulation tools for predicting the performance of semiconductor quantum computing (qubit) circuits. The overall objective is to develop predictive device physics modeling, qubit calibration methods, and verification and validation tools to enhance the...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded a $146,100 Cooperative Agreement (CFDA 11.609 Measurement and Engineering Research and Standards) to Theiss Research, a non-profit research organization in La Jolla, California. The purpose of this grant is to develop silicon chip-integrated photonic devices for quantum science research and quantum information technologies, such as quantum computing and quantum networks. The project will involve the design, fabrication, and...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $963,000 Project Grant under the Congressionally-Identified Projects program (CFDA 11.617) to the Regents of the University of California at Riverside (UC Riverside). The grant supports the establishment of a shared user facility for the measurement and characterization of quantum devices at UC Riverside. The goal is to build a training program in quantum engineering and microelectronics to educate and prepare students in this...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Integrative Activities program, CFDA 47.083, provides $539,000 to develop a Rydberg tweezer quantum processor with real-time optical cavity readout at the University of California, Berkeley from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2023. The award will enable measurements of a portion of a complex quantum system while the remainder continues to evolve coherently. This will be realized using arrays of optically trapped single atoms with...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $1,000,000 Project Grant under the Congressionally-Identified Projects (CFDA 11.617) program to The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York, doing business as Stony Brook University. The grant, awarded on September 1, 2023, will fund the establishment of the Long Island Quantum Internet Center, a quantum network testbed that can be accessed from the cloud to investigate applications leveraging entanglement...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $472,639 Project Grant to the University of California, Los Angeles under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The grant supports research exploring open channel operations using atomic qubits as processing and measurement resources. Specifically, the university will study how dissipation and thermal light sources can be leveraged to cool and control single atoms for quantum information applications. Researchers will address...
This $500,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will enable the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to build an advanced quantum computing laboratory. The laboratory will create and fault-tolerantly measure many-body quantum states, with the goal of demonstrating practical quantum advantages for problems in chemistry, materials, and physics. The project will make significant advances in atomic...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) federal grant program to the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) for $236,459 starting on July 1, 2025. The grant aims to develop a "Quantum Pulse Processing" framework to improve the performance and programmability of Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) devices for quantum simulation. The research focuses on integrating advanced...
This federal Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program, aims to support the development of a verifiable quantum compiler that integrates formal methods to enable fault-tolerant quantum computing. The $500,000 award, with a period of performance from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2028, will fund research to optimize the translation of quantum algorithms into fault-tolerant...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $135,000 supports research toward universal quantum computing with integrated quantum optical frequency combs through August 2025. Funded under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), this award to the University of Virginia will support collaborative research to demonstrate generation of continuous variable cluster states and Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill grid states on a photonic chip. Key objectives are to realize a chip-scale quantum state...