en.Wedoany.com Reported - The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has selected five new teams to design experimental quantum technologies, covering areas such as long-distance quantum networks and single-cell sensors. These teams will receive a total of $20 million in funding and join four other teams selected by NSF in 2025 to support the government's vision of strengthening U.S. leadership in the quantum field, advancing under the recently issued Executive Order on "Meeting the Next Frontier of Quantum Innovation."
The five teams are supported through NSF's National Quantum Virtual Laboratory (NQVL) program. Currently in the design phase, the laboratory aims to provide researchers with dedicated resources to develop practical quantum technologies. Each team will receive $4 million over two years to refine development plans and prepare for the implementation phase.
The project goal is to integrate the three major areas of quantum sensors, networks, and computers into a unified system, demonstrating functional quantum technologies for real-world applications.
Brian Stone, performing the duties of the NSF Director, stated that the U.S. has outstanding talent working on quantum science, but often in isolation, and NSF is committed to bringing these talents and ideas together. Team members come from higher education institutions and other organizations across 20 states. Federal partners include the U.S. Department of War's Air Force Research Laboratory, several U.S. Department of Energy national laboratories, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). More than twenty U.S. companies are involved in collaboration, including Boeing, Honeywell, IonQ, NVIDIA, and Quantinuum.
NSF also supports education and training activities, including developing quantum science education curricula with K-12 teachers to encourage young people to pursue STEM careers. The NSF National Quantum Virtual Laboratory is a strategic component of the vision outlined in the National Quantum Initiative Act, passed by Congress in 2018. NSF expects to select the first teams to transition from the design phase to the implementation phase in the second half of 2026, subject to congressional appropriations.
The five design projects are: The Accelerating Fault-Tolerant Quantum Logic team will build fault-tolerant quantum computing logic by unifying the design of error-correcting codes, hardware, and algorithms into a coherent development process; the Attosecond Synchronous Photonic Entanglement Network team will design a high-fidelity quantum network system, approximately 100,000 times faster than current quantum networks, capable of transmitting information over a distance of about 60 miles; the Chemically Propelled Distributed Entanglement Quantum Sensing team will design novel sensors, including protein-based qubit sensors utilizing quantum properties of entanglement and coherence, applicable to solid materials or within cells; the Erasure Qubits and Dynamic Circuits for Quantum Advantage team will use superconducting hardware technology to design new methods for error detection and correction in quantum computers to improve efficiency; and the Quantum Photonic Integration and Deployment team will design chip-based quantum sensor technology that is portable and robust, suitable for field environments without requiring highly controlled laser laboratories.
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