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着进展。例如，这一进展包括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场和力感测方面前所未有的分辨率。要继续取得进展，就需要培训新一代的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计划（NRT）将通过培训量子科学和技术这一新兴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。该计划将培养134名博士生，其中包括67名受资助的学员，将工程，物理，材料，化学和数学的相关概念联系起来。该培训特别强调通过广泛而具体的外联招聘，指导和保留计划来增加女性和少数民族学生在量子科学和技术中的代表性。加速量子科学和技术的跨学科前沿（AIF-Q）计划包括四个方面。其中包括：（1）原子量子比特和新化学;（2）面向新形式计算的材料和算法;（3）用于量子模拟的光学量子比特;（4）用于多体物理学的捕获离子。跨越这些跨学科的层面，实习将异质材料，微波光谱学和量子算法的核心支柱联系在一起。中心的推力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-国家实验室的互动指导。综合培训计划包括跨学科的三个教师通过实验室轮换，在跨学科量子科学和技术，杰出的外部咨询和内部指导委员会，形成总结性评估新课程的建议和指导。项目团队将与行业和国家实验室合作伙伴一起进行种子和联合互动。一个长期的机构承诺将体现在拟议形成的加州大学跨部门的学位课程在量子科学和技术。NSF研究培训（NRT）计划的目的是鼓励开发和实施大胆的，新的，潜在的变革，和可扩展的模型STEM研究生教育培训。 该培训课程致力于通过创新的、基于证据的、与不断变化的劳动力和研究需求相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价值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.