Project Grant FA23862214052

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award of $275,000 to Qubitsolve Inc., a minority-owned small disadvantaged business, will develop a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software prototype for quantum computers. The project aims to utilize quantum computing to perform CFD simulations, initially targeting applications in the aerospace and automotive industries, with potential future use in national defense, healthcare, and...

This $123,157 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under the Science Mission Directorate (CFDA 43.001 - Science) is aimed at exploring the use of quantum computing to simulate compressible fluid flow problems. The research will evaluate two different approaches - quantum-ready simulations and quantum-inspired simulations - to understand the advantages and disadvantages of using quantum computing compared to classical computational...

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...

Quantum Simulation Technologies Inc., doing business as Qsimulate, was awarded a $250,000 Project Grant from the Department of Energy Office of Science on February 14, 2022 to develop cloud-based low-scaling quantum chemistry simulations for materials. The grant is being carried out under the Office of Science Financial Assistance Program (CFDA #81.049), which aims to deliver scientific discoveries and tools to transform understanding of nature and advance U.S. energy and economic security....

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory awarded a $787,406 Project Grant to the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) to support fundamental and applied research towards quantum information processing with trapped electrons. This funding is provided through the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800), which focuses on maintaining technological superiority and preventing technological surprise for the U.S. Air Force and Space Force. The research aims to advance...

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...

The Department of Defense awarded a $506,152 Project Grant to the University of Oxford under the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431) to explore methods and benchmark a universal set of hybrid spin-boson interactions that enable fast and versatile quantum gate operations. The research aims to break the conventional speed limit of motional interactions in trapped-ion quantum computing systems through the use of higher-order bosonic interactions. This 1-year award, starting on...

The University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) was awarded a $150,000 Project Grant from the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800). The grant, titled "(YIP) QUANTUM COMPUTING -- ANALOG QUANTUM LEARNING ARCHITECTURES FOR SCALING QUANTUM METROLOGY,CONTROL AND NISQ APPLICATIONS," will fund research to advance quantum computing capabilities, with a focus on developing analog quantum learning architectures to enhance quantum...

This $400,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) will fund collaborative research to develop scalable quantum computing systems. The project aims to interconnect multiple quantum processing units (QPUs) with limited qubit capacity into a scalable "virtual quantum machine" (VQM) with far greater qubit capabilities. The research will investigate fundamental qubit entanglement and...

The University of New Mexico was awarded a $241,884 project grant from the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to develop efficient numerical methods for studying the complexity versus robustness tradeoff in noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) information processors. The grant was awarded on September 15, 2022 under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA #12.800) and will be completed by September 14, 2023. The Air Force Defense Research Sciences...