Project Grant N000142612092

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 $530,619 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences Program (CFDA 47.049) supports research to explore spin-triplet superconductors as a promising pathway for fault-tolerant quantum computing. The primary awardee, Washington University, will focus on fabricating and characterizing high-quality Josephson junctions to detect and control exotic quantum states in these materials, which could serve as the basis for robust quantum bits....

This SBIR Phase I Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.084 - NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships) awarded $305,000 to Quantum Formatics Corp. to accelerate the discovery of novel superconducting materials. The goal is to develop high-performance superconductors that can be more easily manufactured and operate at higher temperatures than current commercial options. This could significantly lower the cost and complexity of using superconductors in applications...

This Project Grant award of $799,967 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program supports research to develop materials and devices that can preserve quantum coherence, enhance light-matter interactions, and achieve strong charge confinement. The key objectives are to: Investigate advanced superconducting quantum materials by measuring superconducting resonator quality factors and studying new materials with surface treatment techniques. Develop...

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 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports research on simulating quantum many-body phenomena using superconducting fluxonium qubit circuits. The $798,732 grant, awarded on September 1, 2025, aims to recreate collective quantum behaviors observed in materials with magnetic impurities within superconducting circuits. Key research goals include studying quantum phase transitions, quantum entanglement,...

This Project Grant award of $550,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research by the University of Colorado (CU) to develop robust quantum processors using superconducting Fourier qubits. The objective is to demonstrate the logical operation and scalability of these novel quantum circuits that possess intrinsic error protection, which can enhance the reliability of quantum computers. The project aims to pave the way for robust superconducting...

The National Science Foundation awarded a two-year $100,000 Project Grant to the University of California, Santa Barbara under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The grant will support research into developing new approaches for vertically coupling and cross-talk shielding of superconducting quantum devices. Specifically, the university researchers will fabricate high-quality Josephson junction arrays and link them vertically via microwave waveguide arrays. This innovative...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $200,000 Project Grant to the Regents of the University of Minnesota under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The two-year award will support research into developing new approaches for vertically coupling and cross-talk shielding of superconducting quantum devices. Specifically, the grantee will fabricate high-quality Josephson junction arrays and link them vertically via microwave waveguide arrays. This integrated manufacturing approach...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) awarded Northeastern University a $500,000 Project Grant to develop energy-efficient, low-cost, and compact cryogenic chips that enable scaling quantum computing systems to support thousands of qubits. The research focuses on advancing cryogenic complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) integrated circuits for qubit control pulse generation and superconducting chip technology for on-chip circulators. These innovations...