AP faculty are founding members of new Q-NEXT national quantum center

SLAC and Stanford become founding partners of Q-NEXT national quantum center.  Participating Applied Physics faculty are Amir Safavi-Naeini, Kam Moler, Benjamin Lev, Mark Kasevich, Tony Heinz, & Marty Fejer, and courtesy faculty David Goldhaber-Gordon and Jelena Vuckovic.

Q-NEXT will tackle next-generation quantum science challenges through a public-private partnership, ensuring U.S. leadership in an economically crucial arena.

Today the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced the creation of five new Quantum Information Science Research Centers led by DOE national laboratories across the country. SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University will partner with other institutions on one of the national QIS centers, Q-NEXT, led by Argonne National Laboratory.

Q-NEXT will bring together nearly 100 world-class researchers from three national laboratories, 10 universities and 10 leading U.S. technology companies with the single goal of developing the science and technology to control and distribute quantum information. These activities, along with a focus on rapid commercialization of new technologies, will support the emerging “quantum economy” and ensure that the U.S. remains at the forefront in this rapidly advancing field.

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