The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Caltech’s hub for cutting-edge quantum research, the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter, or IQIM, $13.8 million to support six more years of operations. IQIM is one of several Physics Frontiers Centers, which brings together a collection of research groups, often across disciplines, and is designed and supported by the NSF to “foster major breakthroughs at the intellectual frontiers of physics.”
Joe Falson, shown here in his Caltech lab, explores the properties of highly entangled materials in collaboration with IQIM colleagues.
“Quantum research centers are springing up all over the world in recent years, but NSF recognizes that IQIM has a unique and valuable role,” says John Preskill “We’ve built a highly interconnected community focused on exploiting quantum technology for scientific discovery. We’re proud of our past accomplishments, but more importantly, this new award will enable IQIM to lead further advances in quantum science that lay the foundations for extraordinary future applications.”
“Research teams at NSF Physics Frontiers Centers have made breakthrough after breakthrough, such as creating remarkable new states of matter and revealing the first evidence for the gravitational wave background of the universe,” says NSF Director Sethuraman Panchanathan. “While different in their respective areas of focus, NSF’s newly funded centers are all bold team efforts to punch through to exciting new vistas of scientific exploration. Achieving transformative opportunities requires us to reach those vistas through new technologies and other advances and have a look around.”
Read more in the Caltech media story Caltech’s Institute for Quantum Information and Matter (IQIM) Receives New 6-Year Grant
