SBIR Phase I: Spatially Modulated Light For Trapping And Addressing Of Alkaline-Earth Neutral Atom Qubits

SBIR 第一阶段：用于捕获和寻址碱土中性原子量子位的空间调制光

• 批准号: 1843926
• 负责人: Jonathan King
• 金额: $ 22.5万
• 依托单位: ATOM COMPUTING INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-02-01 至 2020-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1843926&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; Spatially; Modulated; Light

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will result from the development of quantum computers that will impact many technologies by enabling, for example, molecular simulations for drug design and catalyst development for energy applications, quantum machine learning, and solving optimization problems such as scheduling. Scalable, universal quantum computing promises to be one of the most transformative technologies of the modern era. The range of applications are broad and will only expand with the development of new quantum algorithms, with one of the biggest opportunities being molecular simulations for the chemical and pharmaceutical industries. For example, despite being a multi-billion dollar industry, computational drug discovery is limited by the approximations necessary to make calculations tractable for classical computers. In order to perform these simulations at a scale useful for commercial applications, qubit numbers must be increased several orders of magnitude beyond the state of the art. The proposed innovation of trapping and individual control of neutral atoms will, if successful, enable quantum computers to scale to the thousands of qubits needed for error-corrected, universal quantum computing.This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project will develop technology for scalable trapping and addressing of neutral atom qubits through dynamic, parallelized optical trapping and individual addressing of alkaline earth qubits. Neutral atoms are an emerging platform for quantum computing and the majority of work thus far has been directed towards alkali atoms (i.e., those with a single valence electron). Alkaline earth atoms have two valence electrons and correspondingly a richer energy level structure, which has demonstrated very long trapped coherence times.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.

这个小企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力将来自量子计算机的发展，量子计算机将影响许多技术，例如，药物设计的分子模拟和能源应用的催化剂开发，量子机器学习，以及解决调度等优化问题。可扩展的通用量子计算有望成为现代最具变革性的技术之一。应用范围很广，并且只会随着新的量子算法的发展而扩大，其中最大的机会之一是化学和制药行业的分子模拟。例如，尽管这是一个价值数十亿美元的产业，但计算药物的发现却受到必要的近似值的限制，这些近似值使传统计算机的计算易于处理。为了以对商业应用有用的规模执行这些模拟，量子位的数量必须比目前的技术水平增加几个数量级。如果成功的话，捕获和单独控制中性原子的创新将使量子计算机能够扩展到纠错通用量子计算所需的数千个量子位。这个小企业创新研究第一阶段项目将通过动态、并行光学捕获和碱土量子比特的单独寻址，开发中性原子量子比特的可扩展捕获和寻址技术。中性原子是量子计算的新兴平台，迄今为止的大部分工作都是针对碱原子（即具有单个价电子的原子）。碱土原子具有两个价电子，相应地具有更丰富的能级结构，具有很长的俘获相干时间。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。