QCIS-FF: Quantum Computing & Information Science Faculty Fellow at the University of California-Davis

量子计算是对量子计算机的研究，量子计算机是一种新型计算机，可以使用量子力学定律处理信息。 一旦真正的量子计算机能够被建造出来，它们将能够运行新的算法来解决选定的问题，这些算法的速度比经典计算机的任何可能的速度都要快--在某些情况下，甚至是指数级的速度。它们将代表计算机和信息革命的新篇章，量子篇章。 自20世纪80年代和90年代量子计算的意外发现以来，研究取得了稳定而令人兴奋的进展。 该奖项将帮助加州大学戴维斯分校通过资助计算机科学系的一个新的教师职位，加入日益增长和极其重要的量子计算研究浪潮。新职位将补充加州大学戴维斯分校电气和计算机工程，数学和物理系量子计算和量子信息（QCQI）的现有研究力量。 它将帮助加州大学戴维斯分校达到一个临界质量，以维持和扩大量子计算研究和培训无限期地进入未来。该项目将开始在所有研究领域和QCQI内的主题，是适合计算机科学系的灵活搜索。这些主题包括：数学上严格的量子算法、量子复杂性理论、启发式量子算法、量子纠错、量子通信、量子软件、量子通信、量子信息边界、量子电路优化、量子器件设计和后量子密码学。 理想的候选人将与计算机科学的非量子研究人员和加州大学戴维斯分校其他部门的量子研究人员互动。 随着加州大学戴维斯分校达到QCQI教师的临界质量，现有的主题课程将扩展到有凝聚力的研究生培训。 现有的专题研讨会将扩展到加州大学戴维斯分校的跨部门QCQI研究网络，量子计算相关主题将开始进入我们的本科课程，以确保我们在未来拥有一支训练有素的员工队伍。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。

Quantum computing is the study of quantum computers, which are a new type of computer that can process information using the laws of quantum mechanics. Once serious quantum computers can be built, they will be able to run new algorithms for selected problems that are faster than anything possible with classical computers - in some cases, exponentially faster. They will represent a new chapter in the computer and information revolution, the quantum chapter. Since the unexpected discovery of quantum computing in the 1980s and 1990s, research has made steady and exciting progress. This award will help the University of California, Davis join the growing and extremely important wave of research in quantum computing, by funding a new faculty position in the Department of Computer Science. The new position will complement existing research strength in quantum computing and quantum information (QCQI) at UC Davis in the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mathematics, and Physics. It will help UC Davis reach a critical mass to sustain and expand quantum computing research and training indefinitely into the future.The project will begin with a flexible search across all research areas and topics within QCQI that are suitable for a computer science department. These topics include: mathematically rigorous quantum algorithms, quantum complexity theory, heuristic quantum algorithms, quantum error correction, quantum communication, quantum software, quantum communication, quantum information bounds, quantum circuit optimization, design of quantum devices, and post-quantum cryptography. The ideal candidate would interact with both non-quantum researchers in Computer Science and quantum researchers in other departments at UC Davis. As UC Davis achieves a critical mass of QCQI faculty, existing topics courses will expand into cohesive graduate training. Existing topical seminars will expand into an interdepartmental QCQI research network at UC Davis, and quantum computing related topics will begin to tunnel down into our undergraduate curriculum in order to ensure we have a sufficiently trained workforce in the future.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.