NRT-QISE: Accelerating Interdisciplinary Frontiers in Quantum Sciences and Technologies (AIF-Q)

近年来，量子科学和技术取得了显著进展。这一进步包括，例如，具有独特计算能力的新量子处理器，大城市距离上的安全通道，以及前所未有的场和力传感分辨率。要继续取得进展，就需要培训新一代科学家和工程师来开发这些技术。这项授予加州大学洛杉矶分校的国家科学基金会研究培训(NRT)奖将通过培训这一新兴量子科学和技术领域的博士生来加速这些计算、通信和传感里程碑及其跨学科接口。该项目将培养134名博士生，其中包括67名资助的实习生，将工程、物理、材料、化学和数学的相关概念联系起来。培训特别强调通过广泛而具体的外展招聘、指导和保留计划，增加女性和少数族裔学生在量子科学和技术领域的代表性。加速量子科学与技术跨学科前沿(AIF-Q)计划由四个方面组成。这些包括：(1)原子量子比特和新的化学；(2)新计算形式的材料和算法；(3)用于量子模拟的光学量子比特；(4)用于多体物理的囚禁离子。横跨这些跨学科的层面，实习生将非均质材料、微波光谱学和量子算法的核心支柱联系在一起。核心支柱和核心支柱是跨学科的研究生教育和研究培训，由教师和行业-国家实验室互动指导。综合培训计划包括跨学科的三个教员通过实验室轮换提供咨询和指导、提供跨学科量子科学和技术的新课程、杰出的外部咨询和内部指导委员会以及形成性-总结性评估。该计划团队将与行业和国家实验室合作伙伴一起开展种子和联合互动。长期的机构承诺将体现在拟议中的加州大学量子科学和技术部门间学位计划的形成。NSF研究培训计划(NRT)旨在鼓励开发和实施大胆、新的、潜在的变革和可扩展的STEM研究生教育培训模式。Trainesship Track致力于通过创新的、基于证据的、与不断变化的劳动力和研究需求保持一致的综合培训模式，在高度优先的跨学科研究领域对STEM研究生进行有效培训。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Quantum sciences and technologies have progressed remarkably in recent years. This progress includes, for example, new quantum processors with unique computational capabilities, secure channels over metropolitan distances, and unprecedented resolution in fields and force sensing. Continued progress requires the training of a new generation of scientists and engineers to develop these technologies. This National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) award to the University of California Los Angeles will accelerate these computation, communication, and sensing milestones and their interdisciplinary interfaces by training doctoral students in this nascent field of quantum science and technologies. The program will train 134 doctoral students, including 67 funded trainees, bridging relevant concepts from engineering, physics, materials, chemistry, and mathematics. The traineeship has a particularly strong emphasis on increasing the representation of women and minority students in quantum sciences and technologies through broad yet specific outreach recruitment, mentoring, and retention programs.The Accelerating Interdisciplinary Frontiers in Quantum Sciences and Technologies (AIF-Q) program consists of four thrusts. These include: (1) atomic qubits and novel chemistry; (2) materials and algorithms towards new forms of computation; (3) optical qubits for quantum simulations; and (4) trapped ions for many-body physics. Spanning these interdisciplinary layers, the traineeship ties together core pillars of heterogeneous materials, microwave spectroscopy, and quantum algorithms. Central to the thrusts and core pillars is interdisciplinary graduate education and research training, guided by the faculty and industry-national laboratory interactions. The integrated training program consists of interdisciplinary three-faculty advising and mentoring through laboratory rotations, new course offerings in interdisciplinary quantum sciences and technologies, distinguished external advisory and internal steering councils, and formative-summative assessments. The program team will pursue seed and joint interactions together with industry and national laboratory partners. A long-term institutional commitment will be embodied in the proposed formation of a University of California Inter-Departmental Degree Program in Quantum Sciences and Technologies.The NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) Program is designed to encourage the development and implementation of bold, new, potentially transformative, and scalable models for STEM graduate education training. The Traineeship Track is dedicated to effective training of STEM graduate students in high priority interdisciplinary research areas, through the comprehensive traineeship model that is innovative, evidence-based, and aligned with changing workforce and research needs.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.