Center for Quantum Information and Control

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Quantum information science (QIS) is the interdisciplinary field thatinvestigates how to use systems obeying the laws of quantum mechanicsto perform information-processing tasks. This research projectestablishes and provides the core funding for a new center, theCenter for Quantum Information and Control (CQuIC), based at theUniversity of New Mexico (UNM), with a major component ofexperimental research at the University of Arizona (UA). CQuICbrings a quantum-information perspective to physics-based research.In particular, research within CQuIC applies the new ideas andtechniques of QIS to the state-of-the-art laboratory tasks ofcontrolling the behavior of quantum systems, so these systems can bemade to do what scientists want them to do, instead of doing justwhat comes naturally, and of making high-precision measurements.CQuIC specializes in the training of graduate students andpostdoctoral fellows for research careers in QIS. Students at UNMand UA are exposed to a full range of courses and other activities,which provide an interdisciplinary integration ofinformation-theoretic and physics perspectives. CQuIC partners withfour external institutions, the Joint Quantum Institute at theUniversity of Maryland, the quantum information and quantumnanoscience groups at the University of Queensland, Sandia NationalLaboratory, and Los Alamos National Laboratory. These partnershipsfocus on a two-way flow of ideas and people, thus expanding thetheoretical and experimental capabilities available to CQuIC and thepartnering institutions. CQuIC is the administrative home for theSouthwest Quantum Information and Technology (SQuInT) Network, whichpromotes QIS research at about 20 institutions located mainly in theUS Southwest.