Project Grant F496200110439

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 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...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a 3-year, $256,000 Project Grant under the Division of Physics' Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to Michigan State University to research methods for improving the performance of quantum computing algorithms for quantum state preparation. The project will explore preconditioning methods, sampling techniques, and reducing systematic errors to accelerate the Rodeo quantum computing algorithm, using the 2D Heisenberg model as a...

This $600,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) aims to advance the understanding of noisy quantum devices and develop new protocols and benchmarks for quantum computing. The key products and services to be delivered under this 3-year award include: Developing a fault-tolerance theorem that enables implementing Shor's quantum factoring algorithm on near-term, noisy quantum devices...

The National Science Foundation awarded Qcml Labs LLC a $296,000 Project Grant under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) to develop room temperature implementations of quantum algorithms using spintronics technology. The one-year award period runs from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2022 and will support Qcml Labs' efforts to advance science and engineering research and innovation leading to breakthrough technologies. Specifically, the company will...

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 three-year, $330,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Physics under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will support the development of a high-fidelity ternary quantum logic processor at the University of California, Berkeley. The central goal is to leverage the rich structure of superconducting circuits to create a processor utilizing a tunable coupling scheme for fast, high-fidelity two-qutrit gates. This will enable entanglement...

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...

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 $400,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will support the development of energy-efficient quantum materials-based magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) for unconventional computing applications. The international, multi-institutional research team from the University of Minnesota, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, and Indian Institute of Technology Delhi will conduct theoretical research, materials synthesis, and advanced...