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...
The Regents of the University of California at Riverside (UC Riverside) received a $2,000,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) on August 1, 2021 to fund the LEAP-HI: Manufacturing of silicon-based hybrid organic-inorganic quantum building blocks project through July 31, 2026. The grant is part of the NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), which seeks to improve quality of life and economic strength through engineering research and education. Under the award, UC...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $479,600 Project Grant to the Regents of the University of California at Riverside under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The three-year award, made on September 1, 2021 and concluding on August 31, 2024, will support research into codes, circuits, and networks for modular quantum computation. The Mathematical and Physical Sciences program aims to strengthen the Nation's scientific enterprise through advancing knowledge and...
The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science has awarded a $875,000 Project Grant to the Regents of the University of California at Riverside (UC Riverside) for the project "TOWARDS QUANTUM IMAGING OF NUCLEI IN THE JLAB 12 GEV ERA AND BEYOND". The grant, awarded under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA 81.049), will fund research to advance quantum imaging of nuclei, with a focus on leveraging the capabilities of the Jefferson Lab's 12 GeV upgrade. UC...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $3,500,000 Project Grant (CFDA 11.617 Congressionally-Identified Projects) to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC) to establish the UTC Quantum Center (UTCQC). The purpose of this 4-year award, effective September 1, 2024, is to advance distributed quantum sensing and access to quantum computing cloud environments. Key activities include infrastructure development, education programs, use-case driven R&D, and...
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 Regents of the University of California at Riverside received a two-year, $211,578 Project Grant award from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The grant will support the establishment of 3D printed traps for electron quantum computing. The University of California at Riverside will develop techniques for 3D printing electron traps to confine and coherently control individual electrons, with...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded a $1,500,000 Project Grant under the Congressionally-Identified Projects program (CFDA 11.617) to the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) to establish the UMBC Quantum Science Institute (QSI). The purpose of the QSI is to geographically diversify the Maryland quantum ecosystem by creating a quantum research institute at UMBC. The key activities to be performed under this award include supporting quantum information...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded a $135,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Measurement and Engineering Research and Standards (CFDA 11.609) program to Theiss Research, a non-profit research organization located in La Jolla, California. The purpose of this 2-year award, from October 2024 to September 2026, is to develop chip-based devices with integrated quantum dots for quantum science research and applications in quantum information technologies, such as...
The Regents of the University of California at Riverside received a $480,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation on July 15, 2021 to complete work by June 30, 2024. The grant falls under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise through advancing knowledge and understanding of major challenges. Specifically, the university will work to minimize quantum decoherence in gravitational-wave...