Workshop on Emerging Opportunities at the Intersection of Quantum and Thermal Sciences

该奖项旨在支持将于2021年6月28日至30日举行的量子与热科学交叉领域新兴机会研讨会。在过去的一个世纪里，量子科学的进步为现代信息技术和固态能量转换设备的出现奠定了基础，并改变了人类历史的进程。随着这些经典设备和技术接近其理论极限，现在正在取得进展，将信息存储在量子系统中，以实现当前经典计算机无法处理的安全量子通信，量子传感和复杂问题的量子计算。在建立和部署量子信息技术需要克服的各种重大挑战中，需要创新的热科学和工程解决方案来将量子硬件冷却到极低的温度。同时，热测量可以为奇异量子材料提供独特的探针，并可能为量子硬件设计提供意想不到的新方向。为了应对这些挑战和机遇，19位相关领域的领先研究人员被邀请在为期三天的虚拟研讨会上发表前瞻性观点并参加小组讨论。研讨会向广泛的研究团体开放，包括来自不同领域的学生和成熟的研究人员。这个为期三天的虚拟研讨会的目标是确定量子和热科学交叉领域的新兴研究机会，特别是量子计算和硬件中的热挑战和机遇，量子传感器和材料的热科学和工程，以及量子信息技术的相干声子和磁振子。这一目标将通过邀请美国、欧洲和以色列的量子和热科学领域的领先专家进行会谈，以及小组讨论来促进科学交流，并启动量子理论、热科学、材料科学和先进制造领域不同社区之间的跨学科合作。这些跨学科的互动将有助于确定热科学和工程领域的研究需求，以推进量子信息科学和技术。该研讨会还有望促进量子传感和计算在热问题测量和计算中的应用。量子和热科学之间的这些相互作用将刺激材料科学和先进制造领域的未来研究机会，以实现量子系统中的热器件和组件以及用于热应用的量子硬件。除了为研究界寻找合作机会外，研讨会还将为教育来自不同背景的学生，为量子信息技术产业的未来劳动力做出贡献。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。

This award is to support the Workshop on Emerging Opportunities at the Intersection of Quantum and Thermal Sciences to be held virtually on June 28-30, 2021. Advances in quantum science over the past century have laid the foundation for both modern information technologies and solid-state energy-conversion devices that have emerged and altered the course of human history. As these classical devices and technologies approach their theoretical limits, progress is now being made to store information in quantum systems to enable secured quantum communication, quantum sensing, and quantum computation of complex problems that cannot be handled by current classical computers. Among the various grand challenges that need to be overcome for the establishment and deployment of quantum information technologies, innovative thermal science and engineering solutions are required for cooling the quantum hardware to an extremely low temperature. Meanwhile, thermal measurements can provide unique probes of exotic quantum materials and may provide unanticipated new directions in quantum hardware designs. In response to these challenges and opportunities, nineteen leading researchers in relevant fields have been invited to present forward-looking perspectives and participate in panel discussions in the three-day virtual workshop. The workshop is open to the broad research community, including both students and established researchers from different fields.The goal of this three-day virtual workshop is to identify emerging research opportunities at the intersection of quantum and thermal sciences, especially on thermal challenges and opportunities in quantum computation and hardware, thermal science and engineering of quantum sensors and materials, and coherent phonons and magnons for quantum information technologies. This goal will be pursued via invited talks from leading experts in quantum and thermal science communities in US, Europe, and Israel, as well as panel discussions that will stimulate scientific exchanges and initiate interdisciplinary collaborations between the different communities in quantum theories, thermal science, material science, and advanced manufacturing. These cross-disciplinary interactions will help identify research needs in thermal science and engineering for advancing quantum information science and technologies. The workshop is also expected to promote the applications of quantum sensing and computation for measurements and computation of thermal problems. These reciprocal interactions between quantum and thermal sciences will stimulate future research opportunities in materials science and advanced manufacturing for realizing thermal devices and components in quantum systems and quantum hardware for thermal applications. Besides identifying collaboration opportunities for the research communities, the workshop will contribute to the education of students from diverse backgrounds for the future workforce of the quantum information technology industry.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.