NSF Engines Development Award: Advancing quantum and supporting technologies in the Northern Intermountain States (MT, WY, ID)

NSF 发动机开发奖：在北部山间州（蒙大拿州、怀俄明州、爱达荷州）推进量子和支持技术

• 批准号: 2304014
• 负责人: Lee Spangler
• 金额: $ 100万
• 依托单位: Montana State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-05-15 至 2025-04-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2304014&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSF; Engines; Development; Award; Advancing

This Regional Innovation Engines Development Award is focused on Quantum Information Science and Engineering (QISE), an area of critical importance to the nation's security and future economy. In classical computing, information is encoded and processed in bits that can exist in one of two states, typically depicted as 0 or 1, and each bit acts independently. Quantum bits (qubits) behave fundamentally different and can be placed in a superposition state, representing a combination of all possible configurations of the qubit. This can potentially solve complex problems beyond our current computing capability. Additionally, quantum systems can be entangled, which links the behavior of two separate items. This can increase quantum computing capability and provide unbreakable encryption in quantum communication. QISE has the potential to revolutionize all information science areas, and leadership in this field represents a huge economic opportunity. The region of service for this Development Award includes the states of Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming, which contain one of only two NSF-funded Quantum Foundries nationally, multiple existing quantum research groups, and multiple companies that are part of the Quantum Supply Chain producing not only quantum materials but also other photonic, electronic, cryogenic and classical computing components required to stabilize, encode and decode, transmit or interface with quantum computers and information systems. University-led use-inspired research will include investigating quantum devices by Boise State University's Quantum DNA group, new methods of designing and fabricating topological Josephson junction qubits by the University of Wyoming, two-dimensional quantum materials, and quantum networking by Montana State University. Much of this work will collaborate with Montana Instruments, Teledyne FLIR, Cylynt, Quantel, AdvR, Wavelength Electronics, Micron, and Qubitekk. Collaborative research, with private sector input into performance requirements and vested interest in the outcomes, will improve the probability of translation of that research. The envisioned Engine team will comprise educational institutions at the university, community college, and Tribal college levels, incubator and accelerator entities, business alliances, economic development organizations, non-profits, and state and local government economic development-related offices. The team has a coalition of members with track records of success in accelerating advances in emerging technologies and industries, taking innovations to commercialization, supporting and creating start-ups and small businesses, workforce development, and catalyzing local and regional economic development. The Development Award will allow the team to strengthen and coordinate these emerging partnerships as they move towards an NSF Engine for quantum and supporting technologies.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该区域创新引擎开发奖的重点是量子信息科学与工程（QISE），这是对国家安全和未来经济至关重要的领域。在经典计算中，信息是在可能存在于两个状态之一的位中编码和处理的，通常描绘为0或1，每个位独立起作用。 量子位（Qubits）的行为基本上不同，可以放置在叠加状态下，代表了量子的所有可能配置的组合。这可以解决我们当前计算能力之外的复杂问题。另外，可以纠缠量子系统，该系统将两个单独项目的行为链接起来。这可以提高量子计算能力，并提供量子通信中牢不可破的加密。 Qise有可能彻底改变所有信息科学领域，而该领域的领导才能代表着巨大的经济机会。该开发奖的服务区域包括蒙大拿州，爱达荷州和怀俄明州，其中包含仅有的两个NSF资助的量子铸造厂之一，在全国范围内，多个现有的量子研究小组以及多家量子供应链生产量子量的量子链的一部分，不仅是量子材料，不仅是其他量子，而且还需要量子，而且还需要计算量子和量子，并稳定了量子和计算机，并构成了型号，并构成了编码，并分配了编号，并定制了编号。由大学主导的使用启发的研究将包括研究博伊西州立大学的量子DNA组的量子设备，新的设计和制造拓扑结构的约瑟夫森连接量，由怀俄明州大学，二维量子材料以及蒙大拿州立大学的量子网络。这项工作的大部分将与蒙大拿州仪器，Teledyne Flir，Cylynt，Quanly，Advr，波长电子，Micron和Qubitekk合作。合作研究，私营部门对绩效要求的投入和对结果的既得利益的意见将提高该研究的翻译可能性。设想的发动机团队将在大学，社区学院和部落学院，孵化器和加速器实体，商业联盟，经济发展组织，非营利组织以及州和地方政府经济发展相关的办公室组成教育机构。该团队有一个成员组成的联盟，该联盟在加速新兴技术和行业的进步方面取得了成功的记录，将创新进行商业化，支持和创建初创企业和小型企业，劳动力发展以及催化本地和地区经济发展。开发奖将使团队在向NSF引擎迈向量子和支持技术时加强和协调这些新兴合作伙伴关系。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛影响审查标准的评估来进行评估的。