quantum ecosystem
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Getting in line with Photon Queue
From the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: Photon Queue is a quantum company startup mostly led by a group of PhD students from the lab of Paul Kwiat, a UIUC professor and Q-NEXT collaborator. The company is a participant in Cohort 4 of Duality, a Chicago-based accelerator program solely focused on supporting early-stage companies addressing the important challenges in building quantum tech. Photon Queue is the first startup from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to be accepted into the program and the first quantum-focused startup to come from the university. Read More
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Building the quantum economy - Chicago style
From HPCWire: HPCwire talks with Q-NEXT Director David Awschalom about the evolution of the quantum information technology market, the prospects for quantum computing sensing and communication, the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park, current messaging on a quantum future, quantum startups, and the quantum workforce. Read More
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Quantum capital of the world: emerging field that could solve ‘unsolvable’ problems
From WGN News: Chicago is aiming to become the quantum capital of the world. Public and private investment, workforce efforts, tech startups, and collaboration across academia, government and industry are all helping position Illinois as a leader in the quantum revolution. The WGN news piece features Q-NEXT Director David Awschalom and Q-NEXT collaborator Pranav GQuantum capital of the world: Emerging field that could solve ‘unsolvable’ problems okhale of Infleqtion. Read More
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Fact Sheet: Biden-Harris administration announces 31 regional tech hubs to spur American innovation, strengthen manufacturing and create good-paying jobs in Every Region of the Country
From the White House: President Biden and Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announce the designation of 31 communities across the country as Regional Innovation and Technology Hubs (Tech Hubs) through the Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration. The 31 Tech Hubs focus on developing and growing innovative industries, including quantum computing. One of the tech hubs is the Bloch Tech Hub, led by the Chicago Quantum Exchange. Read More
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Quantum quarterbacks: Pritzker’s a ‘geek’ for computing science that Emanuel calls ‘cutting edge of the next generation’
From the Chicago Sun-Times: Illinois Governor J. B. Pritzker and former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel are working to boost quantum research in Illinois and in Chicago. Governor Pritzker toured quantum labs at the University of Chicago in July and discussed QIS research with Q-NEXT Director David Awschalom and Q-NEXT members Hannes Bernien and Peter Maurer. Read More
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Chicago hopes to become a world center for quantum research
From The Economist: Q-NEXT Director David Awschalom weights in on how Chicago is moving to the forefront of the quantum industry. Chicago’s strength in quantum research in part goes back to its days at the center of research into the nuclear industry. Argonne National Laboratory opened in 1946 as a hub for research into nuclear power. Today, Illinois generates more electricity from nuclear power than any other state. And it was the visionary thinking by Robert Zimmer, a former president of the University of Chicago, that was responsible the city’s more recent quantum leap. Read More
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Democratizing quantum information science
At the 2023 AAAS Meeting in Washington, DC, experts discuss how the scientific community can make quantum information science more accessible and reach a wider base of innovators. Read More
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New foundry to accelerate quantum information research at Argonne National Laboratory
The Argonne Quantum Foundry is meeting a critical need for quantum science by providing a robust supply chain of materials for quantum devices and systems. Read More
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Quantum leaders discuss past, present, future of quantum technology at Chicago Quantum Summit
From the Chicago Quantum Exchange: The fifth annual Chicago Quantum Summit, held Nov. 14 – 15, 2022, brought together over 220 members of the quantum information science and technology community from across the nation and around the world. Industry leaders, US government officials, university presidents, and national laboratory directors gathered to discuss quantum education, cutting-edge quantum research, and what comes next for the rapidly growing field. Read More
In the News
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Quantum Revolution: Pranav Gokhale, general manager of computing at Infleqtion
From The Bear Roars podcast: Pranav Gokhale — co-founder of Super.tech and a key leader at Infleqtion, talks about his lifelong passion for quantum information and discusses how quantum technology is transforming national defense, finance, biotech and communications. Read More
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A new study provides insights into cleaning up noise in quantum entanglement
From the University of Chicago: Researchers at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and Microsoft have shown that it is fundamentally impossible to design a single one-size-fits-all protocol to counteract the noise of entangled states. Read More
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Molecular engineering and battery recycling: developing new technologies in quantum, medicine and energy
From the Physics World podcast: Nadya Mason, dean of the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, talks about how scientists are engineering molecules to develop next-generation quantum technologies, the challenges of quantum information research, and the quantum ecosystem. Read More
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Quantum engineering with Jelena Vučković
On the Zero Knowledge podcast, Stanford University's Jelena Vučković discusses different quantum technology platforms, how researchers are developing chip-scale quantum systems, and the implications these technologies have for communication and cryptography. Read More
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Boeing hits key milestone on path to quantum first in orbit
From Payload: HRL Laboratories has built a space-hardened quantum payload and demonstrated it on the ground — a key milestone in Boeing’s push to demonstrate the first quantum entanglement swap in space. Read More