UK Quantum Technology Hub for Sensors and Metrology

该中心将在我们已建立的量子技术知识交流活动的基础上，在科学和应用之间建立无缝联系。通过开发新产品、展示其应用和优势、建立强大的多领域用户基础，将科学转化为技术。我们的首要目标是提供广泛的量子传感器，以支持许多新的商业应用。我们的主要目标是确保Hub的成果将在资助期结束时被公司或行业主导的TSB项目所采用。Hub将包括：强大的制造组件；具有证明有能力将科学卓越与技术交付相结合的量子科学家；具有开发和使用新量子传感器所需的广泛集体专业知识和联系的领先工程师。我们已经确定并积极参与行业推动因素，以构建量子传感器技术的供应链。除了与工业的直接物理连接外，工程师还为相关工业用户提供强大的联系，从而提供有关工业需求的信息，并使现场快速部署原型成为可能。为了建立一个连贯的全国性合作努力，该中心将包括一个英国的量子传感器和计量学网络，该网络还将利用邦教授和该中心所有成员在欧洲、美国和亚洲建立的联系。这种相互联系确保捕捉到世界各地最先进的量子技术发展，供英国利用。量子传感器和计量学，加上量子通信中的一些设备，是实验室原型已经被证明优于最好的经典同行的唯一领域。这为从中心涌现的快速和颠覆性应用程序奠定了可信的基础。原型的选择将受到商业拉动的推动，即中心内的每个原型项目必须从一开始就证明我们的工程和/或行业合作者对行业或从业者的参与。我们在几个学科领域拥有强大的行业支持，并建立了积极管理向行业部门转移技术和知识的结构。NPL和e2v扮演着特殊的角色。我们将与NPL密切合作，作为计量终端用户开发时钟、磁力计和潜在瓦特天平，伯明翰大学和我们的PRDA贡献了一名讲师级别的伯明翰-NPL研究员，除了在高级计量实验室/孵化器空间的这些联合项目中花费3-5名博士生外，我们还将花费约17个工年。E2V拥有一个独特的工业制造/研发设施，位于诺丁汉物理和天文学院，已经催化了他们在量子技术领域的活动扩展。公众参与传达中心的突破将是一个高度优先的事项-例如，每年在皇家学会夏季展览上。除了对在该中心工作的80名博士生进行分组培训外，该中心还将通过电子共享讲座(许多人已经在MPAGS、MEGS、SEPNET和SUPA等电子学习研究生院运营)，为培训约500名博士生做出贡献。该中心将创建一个在量子传感器和计量学领域具有重大影响的国际领先的卓越中心。为了扩大中心的影响并确保长期可持续性，我们将积极寻求欧洲和其他国际合作资金，用于基础基础研究和技术开发。

The Hub will create a seamless link between science and applications by building on our established knowledge exchange activities in quantum technologies. We will transform science into technology by developing new products, demonstrating their applications and advantages, and establishing a strong user base in diverse sectors. Our overarching ambition is to deliver a wide range of quantum sensors to underpin many new commercial applications. Our key objective is to ensure that the Hub's outputs will have been picked up by companies, or industry-led TSB projects, by the end of the funding period.The Hub will comprise: a strong fabrication component; quantum scientists with a demonstrated ability to combine scientific excellence with technological delivery; leading engineers with the broad collective expertise and connections required to develop and use new quantum sensors. We have identified, and actively involved, industry enablers to build a supply chain for quantum sensor technology. As well as direct physics connections to industry, the engineers provide strong links to relevant industrial users, thus providing information on industrial needs and enabling rapid prototype deployment in the field. To establish a coherent national collaborative effort, the Hub will include a UK network on quantum sensors and metrology, which will also exploit the connections that Prof Bongs and all Hub members have forged in Europe, the US and Asia. This inter-linkage ensures capture of the most advanced developments in quantum technology around the world for exploitation by the UK. Quantum sensors and metrology, plus some devices in quantum communication, are the only areas where laboratory prototypes have already proven superior to their best classical counterparts. This sets the stage, credibly, for rapid and disruptive applications emerging from the Hub. The selection of prototypes will be driven by commercial pull, i.e. each prototype project within the Hub must demonstrate, from the outset, industry or practitioner engagement from our engineering and/or industrial collaborators. We have strong industry support across several disciplines with the structures in place actively to manage technology and knowledge transfer to the industry sector. Particular roles are played by NPL and e2V. We will closely collaborate with NPL as metrology end-user on clock, magnetometer and potentially Watt balance developments with a lecturer-level Birmingham-NPL fellow contributed by Birmingham University and our PRDAs spending ~17 man-years in addition to 3-5 PhD students on these joint projects in the Advanced Metrology Laboratory/incubator space. E2v have a unique industrial manufacturing/R&D facility co-located within the School of Physics and Astronomy at Nottingham that has already catalysed the expansion of their activities into the Quantum Technology domain. Public Engagement conveying the Hub's breakthroughs will be a high priority - for example annually at the Royal Society Summer Exhibitions. In addition to cohort-training of 80 PhD students working within the Hub, the Hub will contribute to the training of ~500 PhD students via electronically-shared lectures (many already running within the e-learning graduate schools MPAGS, MEGS, SEPNET and SUPA) across the institutions within the Hub.The Hub will create an internationally-leading centre of excellence with major impact in the area of quantum sensors and metrology. To widen the impact of the Hub and ensure long-term sustainability, we will actively pursue European and other international collaborative funding for both underlying fundamental research and the technology development.