UK Quantum Technology Hub: NQIT - Networked Quantum Information Technologies

英国量子技术中心：NQIT - 网络量子信息技术

基本信息

批准号：
EP/M013243/1
负责人：
Ian Walmsley
金额：
$ 4845.78万
依托单位：
University of Oxford
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2014
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2014 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FM013243%2F1
关键词：
UK Quantum Technology Hub NQIT

项目摘要

This Hub accelerates progress towards a new "quantum era" by engineering small, high precision quantum systems, and linking them into a network to create the world's first truly scalable quantum computing engine. This new computing platform will harness quantum effects to achieve tasks that are currently impossible.The Hub is an Oxford-led alliance of nine universities with complementary expertise in quantum technologies including Bath, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Leeds, Strathclyde, Southampton, Sussex and Warwick. We have assembled a network of more than 25 companies (Lockheed-Martin, Raytheon BBN, Google, AMEX), government labs (NPL, DSTL, NIST) and SMEs (PureLiFi, Rohde & Schwarz, Aspen) who are investing resources and manpower.Our ambitious flagship goal is the Q20:20 engine - a network of twenty optically-linked ion-trap processors each containing twenty quantum bits (qubits). This 400 qubit machine will be vastly more powerful than anything that has been achieved to date, but recent progress on three fronts makes it a feasible goal. First, Oxford researchers recently discovered a way to build a quantum computer from precisely-controlled qubits linked with low precision by photons (particles of light). Second, Oxford's ion-trap researchers recently achieved a new world record for precision qubit control with 99.9999% accuracy. Third, we recently showed how to control photonic interference inside small silica chips. We now have an exciting opportunity to combine these advances to create a light-matter hybrid network computer that gets the 'best of both worlds' and overcomes long-standing impracticalities like the ever increasing complexity of matter-only systems, or the immense resource requirements of purely photonic approaches.Engineers and scientists with the hub will work with other hubs and partners from across the globe to achieve this. At present proof-of-principle experiments exist in the lab, and the 'grand challenge' is to develop compact manufacturable devices and components to build the Q20:20 engine (and to make it easy to build more).We have already identified more than 20 spin-offs from this work, ranging from hacker-proof communication systems and ultra-sensitive medical and military sensors to higher resolution imaging systems.Quantum ICT will bring great economic benefits and offer technical solutions to as yet unsolveable problems. Just as today's computers allow jet designers to test the aerodynamics of planes before they are built, a quantum computer will model the properties of materials before they've been made, or design a vital drug without the trial and error process. This is called digital quantum simulation. In fact many problems that are difficult using conventional computing can be enhanced with a 'quantum co-processor'. This is a hugely desirable capability, important across multiple areas of science and technology, so much so that even the prospect of limited quantum capabilities (e.g. D-Wave's device) has raised great excitement. The Q20:20 will be an early form of a verifiable quantum computer, the uncompromised universal machine that can ultimately perform any algorithm and scale to any size; the markets and impacts will be correspondingly far greater.In addition to computing there will be uses in secure communications, so that a 'trusted' internet becomes feasible, in sensing - so that we can measure to new levels of precision, and in new components - for instance new detectors that allow us to collect single photons.The hub will ultimately become a focus for an emerging quantum ICT industry, with trained scientists and engineers available to address the problems in industry and the wider world where quantum techniques will be bringing benefits. It will help form new companies, new markets, and grow the UK's knowledge economy.

该枢纽通过工程高精度量子系统来加速发展新的“量子时代”，并将它们链接到网络中，以创建世界上第一个真正可扩展的量子计算引擎。这个新的计算平台将利用量子效应来实现目前不可能的任务。该枢纽是牛津领导的九个大学的联盟，具有量子技术的互补专业知识，包括Bath，Cambridge，Edinburgh，Leeds，Strathclyde，Strathclyde，Southampton，Southampton，Sussex，Sussex和Warwick。我们已经组建了一个由25家公司（Lockheed-Martin，Raytheon BBN，Google，Amex）组成的网络，政府实验室（NPL，DSTL，NIST）和SME（Purelifi，Rohde＆Schwarz，Aspen，Aspen，Aspen）正在投资资源和人力资源。位（Qubits）。这台400个Qubit机器将比迄今为止所取得的任何实现的功能要强得多，但是最近在三个方面的进展使其成为一个可行的目标。首先，牛津研究人员最近发现了一种方法，可以从精确控制的量子位构建量子计算机，这些量子与光子（光颗粒）相关的较低精度。其次，牛津的离子陷阱研究人员最近以99.9999％的精度获得了精确量子量控制的新世界记录。第三，我们最近展示了如何控制小二氧化硅芯片内的光子干扰。现在，我们有一个令人兴奋的机会将这些进步结合在一起，以创建一个轻型的混合网络计算机，该计算机获得了“两者兼而有之”，并克服了长期以来的不切实际，诸如唯一的系统系统的复杂性不断增加，或者纯粹的光子方法的巨大资源需求。工程师和科学家与HUB一起将与其他集线器和Partnorts一起工作，从而实现这一目标。目前，实验室中存在原则证明，“巨大的挑战”是要开发紧凑型制造的设备和组件，以构建Q20：20的引擎（并且可以易于构建更多）。我们已经从这项工作中确定了20多个衍生作用，从这项工作中确定了超过20个，从可提供技术和超级敏感的医疗传感器和技术效率的范围内，从而使技术上的效率和技术效率为较高的系统，并且具有系统的效果。无法解决的问题。正如当今的计算机允许喷气式设计人员在建造飞机之前测试飞机的空气动力学一样，量子计算机将在制造材料之前对材料的性质进行建模，或者在没有试验和错误过程的情况下设计重要的药物。这称为数字量子模拟。实际上，使用“量子协调员”可以增强许多使用常规计算困难的问题。这是一个非常理想的能力，在科学和技术的多个领域中都很重要，以至于即使是有限的量子能力的前景（例如D-Wave的设备）也引起了极大的兴奋。 Q20：20将是可验证的量子计算机的早期形式，这是一种不妥协的通用机器，最终可以执行任何算法并扩展到任何尺寸； the markets and impacts will be correspondingly far greater.In addition to computing there will be uses in secure communications, so that a 'trusted' internet becomes feasible, in sensing - so that we can measure to new levels of precision, and in new components - for instance new detectors that allow us to collect single photons.The hub will ultimately become a focus for an emerging quantum ICT industry, with trained scientists and engineers available to address the problems in industry and the wider world量子技术将带来好处。它将有助于成立新公司，新市场，并发展英国的知识经济。

项目成果

期刊论文数量（10）

专著数量（0）

科研奖励数量（0）

会议论文数量（0）

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Investigation into the writing dynamics of planar Bragg gratings using pulsed 213 nm radiation

使用脉冲 213 nm 辐射研究平面布拉格光栅的写入动力学

DOI：
10.1364/ome.481901
发表时间：
2023
期刊：
Optical Materials Express
影响因子：
2.8
作者：
Ahmed Q
通讯作者：
Ahmed Q

Exact multistability and dissipative time crystals in interacting fermionic lattices

DOI：
10.1038/s42005-022-01090-z
发表时间：
2022-12
期刊：
Communications Physics
影响因子：
5.5
作者：
H. Alaeian;B. Buča
通讯作者：
H. Alaeian;B. Buča

Direct UV written waveguides and Bragg gratings in doped planar silica using a 213 nm laser

DOI：
10.1049/ell2.12126
发表时间：
2021-03
期刊：
Electronics Letters
影响因子：
1.1
作者：
Q. S. Ahmed;P. Gow;C. Holmes;P. Mennea;James W. Field;R. Bannerman;Devin H. Smith;C. Gawith;Philip Smith;J. Gates
通讯作者：
Q. S. Ahmed;P. Gow;C. Holmes;P. Mennea;James W. Field;R. Bannerman;Devin H. Smith;C. Gawith;Philip Smith;J. Gates

A perspective on multiparameter quantum metrology: From theoretical tools to applications in quantum imaging