STTR Phase II: Versatile Low-Noise Traveling-Wave Parametric Amplifier for Quantum Information Processing

STTR 第二阶段：用于量子信息处理的多功能低噪声行波参量放大器

• 批准号: 2025848
• 负责人: Christopher Koh
• 金额: $ 96.58万
• 依托单位: MILLIMETER WAVE SYSTEMS, LLC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-01-01 至 2024-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2025848&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: STTR; Phase; II; Versatile; Low

The broader impact of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project is to advance quantum technologies. Currently, the construction of larger quantum computers, measured by the number of quantum bits or qubits, is hampered by the many wired connections that must connect between the cryogenically-cooled circuits and room-temperature electronics. This project will advance a method to simultaneously boost the weak signals from many quantum bits (qubits) at the same time, and therefore reduce hardware complexity and size. This product will help increase the density of hardware, enabling more powerful quantum computers that will drive new breakthroughs in science, drug development, materials, machine learning capabilities for disease diagnostics, weather predictions, and algorithms for the efficient direction of resources. This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project will advance the development of amplifiers for quantum computers. Quantum computers require quantum noise-limited amplifiers for efficient operation, but such devices are not commercially available due to the difficulty in fabrication and lack of universal solutions. This project will develop specialized amplifiers that can be fabricated in commercial foundries for deployment at scale. The technology uses an innovative arrangement of superconducting elements to form a novel amplifier. This process will be tolerant to manufacturing variations to enable production at scale.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）第二阶段项目的更广泛影响是推进量子技术。目前，通过量子比特或量子比特的数量来衡量的更大量子计算机的构建受到必须连接低温冷却电路和室温电子器件之间的许多有线连接的阻碍。该项目将提出一种方法，可以同时增强来自多个量子比特（qubit）的微弱信号，从而降低硬件复杂性和尺寸。该产品将有助于提高硬件的密度，实现更强大的量子计算机，从而推动科学、药物开发、材料、疾病诊断机器学习能力、天气预测以及有效引导资源的算法等领域的新突破。这个小型企业创新研究（SBIR）第二阶段项目将推进量子计算机放大器的开发。量子计算机需要量子噪声限制放大器来进行有效操作，但由于制造困难和缺乏通用解决方案，这种设备无法商业化。该项目将开发可在商业铸造厂制造的专用放大器，以进行大规模部署。 该技术采用了一种创新的超导元件排列方式，形成了一种新型的放大器。该奖项反映了NSF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。