Are today’s rudimentary quantum computers already on the verge of significant feats beyond the reach of traditional computers? Or have their capabilities been exaggerated, as practical uses for the technology recede into the future?
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics to Alain Aspect, John Clauser, and Anton Zeilinger “for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science…”
Building capacity, broadening participation, increasing access and expanding opportunities are central to fulfilling the mandate outlined in the “National Quantum Initiative Act,” passed in 2018 under the Trump Administration, and a key tenet of the U.S. National Science Foundation’s founding mission.
The Pentagon currently has a “little bias towards” photonic systems… DOD is still “figuring things out like what is the layout of these, and how would you use a small number of qubits effectively?”
Recent developments in the field of quantum information science (QIS) have the potential to drive American innovation across multiple sectors.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has become a member of Q-NEXT, a quantum research center that is developing the science and technology for controlling and distributing quantum information.
Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s Advanced Quantum Testbed (AQT) demonstrated that an experimental method known as randomized compiling (RC) can dramatically reduce error rates in quantum algorithms and lead to more accurate and stable quantum computations. No longer just a theoretical concept for quantum computing, the multidisciplinary team’s breakthrough experimental results are published in Physical Review X.
Researchers around the world are exploring how the smallest bits of matter and energy, such as atoms, electrons and photons, can relay information by making essential use of their quantum properties. These unique properties are described by a branch of physics called quantum mechanics, which was originally devised to explain phenomena at the atomic and subatomic scales, but is now central to our understanding of all matter. At the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, quantum information science (QIS) is a burgeoning discipline that stands to revolutionize computing, science and communication.
NSF advances 10 quantum technology and artificial intelligence Innovation solution teams to the next phase of the Convergence Accelerator program The U.S. National Science Foundation
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today [August 19, 2021] announced $61 million in funding for infrastructure and research projects to advance quantum information science (QIS). QIS is the science of the extremely small, where molecules, atoms, and light can defy traditional laws of physics. Advances in QIS can enable new forms of computing, simulation, communication, and sensing that can advance breakthroughs.
