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The Ohio State University awards Honorary Doctor of Science to Q-NEXT Director David Awschalom
The honorary degree is given to individuals for extraordinary distinction in their area of study. Read More
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Katie Sautter: building materials for a quantum future
In graduate school, Argonne postdoctoral researcher Katie Sautter learned to master a machine that builds bits of matter one atomic layer at a time. Now she wields her considerable skills inventing materials for quantum communication devices at Q-NEXT. Read More
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Verizon and Zurich Instruments join Q-NEXT national quantum science center
The two world-leading companies will help Q-NEXT carry out its mission to deliver cutting-edge technologies for managing quantum information. Read More
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Blueprint for a robust quantum future
International team establishes guidelines that will serve as a blueprint for pivotal discoveries in quantum information science. Read More
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Argonne National Laboratory a founding partner in nation’s first startup accelerator program dedicated exclusively to quantum
Led by the University of Chicago, the program also includes the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and private-sector-led non-profit P33. Read More
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Strengthening U.S. Leadership in Quantum Information Science
By Charles Tahan, Assistant Director for Quantum Information Science at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and Director of the National Quantum Coordination Office This is the first Director’s Letter from the National Quantum Coordination Office (NQCO). Roughly each month I will … Read More
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Department of Energy selects Argonne to lead national quantum center
Q-NEXT will tackle next-generation quantum science challenges through a public-private partnership, ensuring U.S. leadership in an economically crucial arena. Read More
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U.S. Department of Energy unveils blueprint for the quantum internet at ‘Launch To The Future: Quantum Internet’ event
Nationwide effort to build quantum networks and usher in new era of communications. Read More
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Argonne and UChicago scientists take important step in developing national quantum internet
Real-world experiment in Chicago suburbs achieves quantum entanglement across 52-mile fiber network Read More
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Undergraduate fellowship works to diversify quantum science
From Diverse: Issues In Higher Education: A summer undergraduate fellowship has launched to support emerging scientists and engineers of historically underrepresented backgrounds who are eager to dive into a burgeoning field: quantum information science and engineering. Through a 10-week residential research program called the Open … Read More
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Chicago now has a 124-mile quantum network. This is what it’s for.
From Popular Science: Researchers in Chicago have unveiled an extended, 124-mile quantum network linking Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago. The newly extended network will enable researchers to experiment with new types of quantum communications, security protocols, and algorithms with the goal of … Read More
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Chicago Quantum Exchange takes first steps toward a future that could revolutionize computing, medicine and cybersecurity
From the Chicago Tribune: Researchers have created one of the world’s largest networks for sharing quantum information — a field of science that depends on paradoxes so strange that Albert Einstein didn’t believe them. The network, which connects the University of Chicago with Argonne National … Read More
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A fiber-optic network now links Argonne with Hyde Park. Here's why that's a big deal.
From Crain's Chicago Business: Researchers use the network, which extends from the University of Chicago to Argonne National Laboratory, to test new tech for quantum computing, which could change the nature of high-end computing in medicine, finance, research and other industries. Read More
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Undergrads begin summer quantum research with support from Moore Foundation, Chicago region universities, national labs
From Bioengineering.org: More than a dozen college students from underrepresented backgrounds will spend the summer conducting quantum information science and engineering research in labs across the Midwest thanks to the Open Quantum Initiative Undergraduate Fellowship, a new program that seeks to make the burgeoning quantum … Read More