Project Grant FA23861814028

This four-year, $1.8 million project grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA #47.070) supports research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to develop a quantum circuit compiler. The goals of the project are to automatically generate optimized mappings of quantum programs to physical quantum computing systems through the use of synthesis frameworks. This will include the automatic discovery and verification of circuit...

This three-year, $284,063 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program will support research into advances in quantum control and noise mitigation using a highly accurate quantum testbed. The University of Arizona, operating through the Arizona Board of Regents, will lead collaborative experimental and theoretical work to develop new techniques for quantum control and shielding quantum devices from noise. Researchers will employ a small,...

This $641,778 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports research at George Mason University to develop an automated framework for deploying quantum-centric computing applications. The key products and services include: Designing an AI-powered quantum performance predictor to enable efficient, fidelity-aware allocation of quantum computing resources. Developing an application-specific...

This three-year, $800,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) funds the development of adaptive quantum algorithms to solve important societal problems through quantum simulation. Arizona State University will lead research to overcome challenges like ansatz selection, noise, and rugged optimization landscapes faced by existing quantum simulation algorithms. The research aims to create a family of algorithms that can...

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...

This $400,000 NSF Engineering Project Grant (CFDA 47.041) aims to develop the QDREAM framework to support quantum dot device autotuning research. The key products and services to be delivered include: Device-physics-based "cold start" simulations that combine finite element electrostatic modeling with a quantum dot model to simulate untuned quantum dot devices. An FPGA-based quantum dot device emulator that can take real voltages and output a charge sensor signal in real-time. A series...

This $270,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (CFDA 47.070 - Computer and Information Science and Engineering) to Kent State University aims to enable temporal-reliable quantum learning on NISQ-era devices. The key products and services to be delivered include: Developing a novel compression-based error adaptor to adjust the parameters and structure of variational quantum circuits (VQCs) based on fluctuating quantum noise,...

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 Quantum Simulation Technologies Inc. a $256,000 Project Grant under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) to develop a matrix product state-based fermionic quantum emulator. The emulator will enable simulation of quantum computations involving up to 100 spin orbitals or 50 electrons on classical computing hardware, an order of magnitude larger than currently possible. Quantum Simulation Technologies will complete a Python...

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...