Project Grant W911NF2310307

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) provides $600,000 to the University of Arizona to develop practical quantum error correction codes and advanced decoding methods to overcome scalability challenges in quantum computing. The key products and services to be delivered under this 3-year award (1/1/2025 - 12/31/2027) include: Designing a new class of quantum low-density...

This $600,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program supports research at the University of Southern California (USC) on developing fault-tolerant quantum computing and communication methods. The key products and services to be delivered through this 3-year award include: Decoding quantum error-correcting codes to enable fault-tolerant quantum computing on near-term quantum hardware. This involves developing...

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...

This $389,831 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to advance quantum error correction techniques using a dual species atomic qubit array. The university will demonstrate novel approaches to implementing error correction in a prototype quantum computer with cesium and rubidium atoms. Cesium atoms will encode data qubits while rubidium atoms will detect errors and enable correction. Researchers will transfer quantum information between...

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 Project Grant award of $500,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program aims to accelerate the development of fault-tolerant quantum computing. The project, awarded to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) on December 15, 2024, focuses on co-designing quantum error-correcting (QEC) codes and the hardware architecture to support them, specifically targeting the trapped-ion quantum computing...

This federal Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program, aims to support the development of a verifiable quantum compiler that integrates formal methods to enable fault-tolerant quantum computing. The $500,000 award, with a period of performance from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2028, will fund research to optimize the translation of quantum algorithms into fault-tolerant...

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...

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....

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $500,000 Project Grant under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program to Yale University. The grant, titled "ERASURE QUBITS AND DYNAMIC CIRCUITS FOR QUANTUM ADVANTAGE (ERASE)," aims to develop an innovative quantum computing platform based on "erasure flag" qubits that can more easily detect and correct errors, a key challenge in building large-scale fault-tolerant quantum computers. The project...