Award Abstract # 2116246
FRHTP: Center for Quantum Information and Control

NSF Org: PHY
Division Of Physics
Recipient: UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO
Initial Amendment Date: July 30, 2021
Latest Amendment Date: July 14, 2025
Award Number: 2116246
Award Instrument: Cooperative Agreement
Program Manager: Mark S. Byrd
msbyrd@nsf.gov
 (703)292-7421
PHY
 Division Of Physics
MPS
 Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Start Date: August 1, 2021
End Date: July 31, 2026 (Estimated)
Total Intended Award Amount: $3,000,000.00
Total Awarded Amount to Date: $3,000,000.00
Funds Obligated to Date: FY 2021 = $600,000.00
FY 2022 = $600,000.00

FY 2023 = $600,000.00

FY 2024 = $600,000.00

FY 2025 = $600,000.00
History of Investigator:
  • Ivan Deutsch (Principal Investigator)
    ideutsch@unm.edu
  • Susan Atlas (Co-Principal Investigator)
  • Akimasa Miyake (Co-Principal Investigator)
  • Tameem Albash (Co-Principal Investigator)
  • Milad Marvian (Co-Principal Investigator)
  • Elizabeth Crosson (Former Co-Principal Investigator)
Recipient Sponsored Research Office: University of New Mexico
1 UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO
ALBUQUERQUE
NM  US  87131-0001
(505)277-4186
Sponsor Congressional District: 01
Primary Place of Performance: University of New Mexico
1700 Lomas Blvd. NE, Suite 2200
Albuquerque
NM  US  87131-0001
Primary Place of Performance
Congressional District:
01
Unique Entity Identifier (UEI): F6XLTRUQJEN4
Parent UEI:
NSF Program(s): QIS - Quantum Information Scie
Primary Program Source: 01002324DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT
01002425DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT

01002223DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT

01002526DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT

01002122DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT
Program Reference Code(s): 9150, 7203
Program Element Code(s): 728100
Award Agency Code: 4900
Fund Agency Code: 4900
Assistance Listing Number(s): 47.049

ABSTRACT

Quantum Information Science (QIS) is an interdisciplinary field at the interface of two of the greatest scientific and technical triumphs of the 20th century: quantum physics and information science. The digital revolution that followed, based on semiconductor chips, laser communications, and computer science, has fueled the economic engine of today?s information society. QIS will fuel a second quantum revolution into the 21st century. The second quantum revolution will harness the full power of quantum mechanics (the physics of the atomic world) with devices that rely on quantum-weird phenomena such as superposition and entanglement to process information in ways that are much more powerful than today?s best supercomputers and cybersecurity systems. The Focused Research Hub in Theoretical Physics (FRHTP): Center for Quantum Information and Control (CQuIC) funded in this grant from the NSF will create a ?theory hub? for fundamental research that provides the foundation for the second quantum revolution. Housed at the University of New Mexico (UNM), CQuIC brings together an interdisciplinary team of theoreticians with expertise in physics, computer science, electrical engineering, and chemistry, as well as partners at Sandia National Laboratories, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Honeywell Quantum Solutions, to collaborate, innovate, and tackle the most important outstanding problems in QIS. CQuIC will provide a focal point for United States QIS-theory community to retain its competitive advantage. CQuIC will serve the National Quantum Initiative (NQI) Act by hosting focused workshops that target common problems, share lessons learned, and help to break logjams when they arise to push forward the goals of the NQI. The hub will be critical for education and training, with a focus on building a diverse and inclusive next-generation QIS workforce.

To achieve these goals, CQuIC will administer a prize postdoctoral fellowship program, host seminars, workshops, conferences, and a visitor?s program, and critically focus on synergistic research that brings together the principal investigators at UNM with its partnering institutions. The research will be anchored in tackling four ?Big Questions? in contemporary QIS: I. What is the computational power of quantum matter? II. How do we efficiently represent quantum systems, and when do these representations lead to efficient classical algorithms? III. What quantum advantage can be achieved with Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) devices? IV. What near-term quantum algorithms and architectures can yield practical results? Postdoctoral fellows will provide the ?connective tissue,? creating bridges between senior participants and bringing additional expertise to the Center. CQuIC?s intensely collaborative environment will provide the necessary incubator for the QIS-theory community to work to together to tackle the Big Questions. In addition, CQuIC will host a variety of hub activities that will bring together the community to interact, create, and tackle critical problems, and integrate this with education, training, and shared educational resources to help develop the next generation of quantum information scientists. Hub activities include the long-running SQuInT Annual Workshop, with a 25-year history of focus on building community for early-career scientists at a world-class conference. CQuIC will create outreach programs that focus on building diversity and inclusion of traditionally underrepresented groups in QIS.

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.

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Rodríguez-García, M. A. and DiMario, M. T. and Barberis-Blostein, P. and Becerra, F. E. "Determination of the asymptotic limits of adaptive photon counting measurements for coherent-state optical phase estimation" npj Quantum Information , v.8 , 2022 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41534-022-00601-8 Citation Details
Rodríguez-García, M A and Becerra, F E "Adaptive Phase Estimation with Squeezed Vacuum Approaching the Quantum Limit" Quantum , v.8 , 2024 https://doi.org/10.22331/q-2024-09-25-1480 Citation Details
Propp, Tzula B. and Ray, Sayonee and DeBrota, John B. and Albash, Tameem and Deutsch, Ivan H. "Decoherence limiting the cost to simulate an anharmonic oscillator" Physical Review A , v.108 , 2023 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.108.062219 Citation Details
Propp, Tzula_B "How to describe collective decay of uncoupled modes in the inputoutput formalism" Journal of the Optical Society of America B , v.39 , 2022 https://doi.org/10.1364/JOSAB.468251 Citation Details
Omanakuttan, Sivaprasad and Chinni, Karthik and Blocher, Philip Daniel and Poggi, Pablo M. "Scrambling and quantum chaos indicators from long-time properties of operator distributions" Physical Review A , v.107 , 2023 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.107.032418 Citation Details
Mitra, Anupam and Albash, Tameem and Blocher, Philip_Daniel and Takahashi, Jun and Miyake, Akimasa and Biedermann, Grant and Deutsch, Ivan "Macroproperties vs. Microstates in the Classical Simulation of Critical Phenomena in Quench Dynamics of 1D Ising Models" New Journal of Physics , 2025 https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/ada84f Citation Details
Kolmer_Forbes, Andrew and Daniel_Blocher, Philip and Deutsch, Ivan_H "Modeling local decoherence of a spin ensemble using a generalized HolsteinPrimakoff mapping to a bosonic mode" Optica Quantum , v.2 , 2024 https://doi.org/10.1364/OPTICAQ.528078 Citation Details
DeBrota, John B. and Love, Peter J. "Quantum and Classical Bayesian Agents" Quantum , v.6 , 2022 https://doi.org/10.22331/q-2022-05-16-713 Citation Details
DeBrota, John_B and Fuchs, Christopher_A and Schack, Rüdiger "QBism's account of quantum dynamics and decoherence" Physical Review A , v.110 , 2024 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.110.052205 Citation Details
Blocher, Philip Daniel and Chinni, Karthik and Omanakuttan, Sivaprasad and Poggi, Pablo M "Probing scrambling and operator size distributions using random mixed states and local measurements" Physical Review Research , v.6 , 2024 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.6.013309 Citation Details
Blocher, Philip Daniel and Asaad, Serwan and Mourik, Vincent and Johnson, Mark A. and Morello, Andrea and Mølmer, Klaus "Measuring out-of-time-ordered correlation functions without reversing time evolution" Physical Review A , v.106 , 2022 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.106.042429 Citation Details
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