Challenge Institute for Quantum Computation
Motivated by the transformative potential impacts of quantum information science (QIS) and responding to the National Quantum Initiative’s call for American leadership in QIS and its technological application, the Challenge Institute for Quantum Computation (CIQC) was founded in 2020 as one of the Quantum Leap Challenge Institutes established by the National Science Foundation.
Our central mission is to advance the fundamental science and engineering of quantum information processing
The long-term research posture of the CIQC addresses three Research Challenges
Discovering and realizing the power of quantum computation
Engineering quantum technologies and developing their applications
Understanding nature through the lens of QIS
The CIQC Network
The CIQC addresses these Research Challenges by empowering a strong team of researchers from across the disciplines of chemistry, computer science, electrical and optical engineering, mathematics, materials science, and physics.
The CIQC operates as a QIS research network, drawing together 7 universities: Caltech, Stanford, UC Berkeley, UC Los Angeles, UC Santa Barbara in California, and Harvard University and MIT.
CIQC research program
The present research activities of the CIQC are focused on three specific aims:
- To discover and demonstrate new quantum algorithms with exponential advantage
- To develop scalable architectures and address roadblocks to fault-tolerant quantum computing
- To use QIS to understand nature and discover novel states for computation
Our research community is organized into five Research Cores
