Neutral Atom QIS
CIQC collaborations are developing new techniques and resources that are critical to realizing large-scale, high-fidelity quantum systems that use neutral atoms as qubits. In our laboratories, you will find the largest arrays of optical tweezers, quantum-level interfaces with light, arrays of optical clocks, new ultracold atomic elements, bosonic and fermionic quantum simulators, error-correcting codes and mid-circuit measurements, and more.
Solid State QIS
CIQC collaborations are advancing new techniques and resources to enable large-scale, high-fidelity quantum systems using solid-state platforms as qubits. In our laboratories, you will find state-of-the-art superconducting quantum circuits, spin qubits in solid crystals, nanoscale quantum sensors, and integrated photonic and phononic devices. These systems leverage modern nanofabrication to realize quantum processors on a chip, enabling mass production of qubits and integration with classical electronics.
Trapped Ion QIS
Trapped ions represent one of the most mature and well-established platforms for quantum information processing. Because ions are electrically charged, they can be precisely confined using electromagnetic fields generated by trap electrodes. Once trapped, the ions are laser-cooled to near absolute zero and manipulated using carefully controlled sequences of laser and microwave pulses to encode quantum information.
Quantum Computer Architecture & Software
Bridging the gap between hardware realizations of multi-qubit processors and theoretical quantum algorithms are the critically important computing architecture and software. Researchers at the Challenge Institute for Quantum Computation are advancing these frontiers with innovations that leverage the “bugs” of different hardware platforms as features and produce programming interfaces which lend themselves to the application of important algorithms.
Quantum Information Theory
Quantum information theory is investigating how to handle general information-processing tasks, such as storage and transmission of messages, in quantum computers. It extends classical information to the quantum system and uses the quantum state of a microscopic system to express, manipulate and transmit quantum information. In CIQC collaborations, we are developing complexity theory, information encryption algorithms and the state-of-art quantum error correction code.