EPSRC Hub in Quantum Computing and Simulation

EPSRC 量子计算和模拟中心

• 批准号: EP/T001062/1
• 负责人: Dominic O'Brien
• 金额: $ 3483.51万
• 依托单位: University of Oxford
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FT001062%2F1
• 关键词: EPSRC; Hub; Quantum; Computing; Simulation

The EPSRC Quantum Computing and Simulation Hub will enable the UK to be internationally leading in Quantum Computing and Simulation. It will drive progress toward practical quantum computers and usher in the era where they will have revolutionary impact on real-world challenges in a range of multidisciplinary themes including discovery of novel drugs and new materials, through to quantum-enhanced machine learning, information security and even carbon reduction through optimised resource usage.The Hub will bring together leading quantum research teams across 17 universities, into a collaboration with more than 25 national and international commercial, governmental and academic entities. It will address critical research challenges, and work with partners to accelerate the development of quantum computing in the UK. It will foster a generation of UK-based scientists and engineers equipped with the new skill sets needed to make the UK into a global centre for innovation as the quantum sector emerges. The Hub will engage with government and citizens so that there is a wide appreciation of the potential of this transformative technology, and a broad understanding of the issues in its adoption.Hub research will focus on the hardware and software that will be needed for future quantum computers and simulators. In hardware we will advance a range of different platforms, encompassing simulation, near term quantum computers, and longer term fully scalable machines. In software the Hub will develop fundamental techniques, algorithms, new applications and means to verify the correct operation of any future machine. Hardware and software research will be closely integrated in order to provide a full-stack capability for future machines, enabled by the broad expertise of our partners. We will also study the architecture of these machines, and develop emulation techniques to accelerate their development. Success will require close engagement with a wide range of commercial and government organisations. Our initial partners include finance (OSI), suppliers (Gooch & Housego, Oxford Instruments, E6), integrators and developers (OQC, QM, CQC, QxBranch, D-Wave), users from industry (Rolls-Royce, Johnson Matthey, GSK, BT, BP, TrakM8, Airbus, QinetiQ) and government (DSTL, NCSC), and other research institutions (NPL, ATI, Heilbronn, Fraunhofer). We will build on this strong network using Industry Days, Hackathons and targeted workshops, authoritative reports, and collaborative projects funded through the Hub and partners. Communications and engagement with the community through a range of outreach events across the partnership will inform wider society of the potential for quantum computing, and we will interact with policy makers within government to ensure that the potential benefits to the UK can be realised.The Hub will train researchers and PhD students in a wide range of skills, including entrepreneurship, intellectual property and commercialisation. This will help deliver the skilled workforce that will be required for the emerging quantum economy. We will work with our partners to deliver specific training for industry, targeting technical, commercial and executive audiences, to ensure the results of the Hub and their commercial and scientific opportunities are understood.The Hub will deliver demonstrations, new algorithms and techniques, spinout technologies, and contribute to a skilled workforce. It will also engage with potential users, the forthcoming National Centre for Quantum Computing, the global QC community, policy makers and the wider public to ensure the UK is a leader in this transformative new capability.

EPSRC量子计算和模拟中心将使英国在量子计算和模拟方面处于国际领先地位。它将推动实用量子计算机的进步，并开启一个时代，在这个时代，它们将对一系列多学科主题的现实世界挑战产生革命性影响，包括发现新药和新材料，再到量子增强的机器学习、信息安全，甚至通过优化资源使用来减少碳排放。该中心将汇集17所大学的领先量子研究团队，与超过25个国家和国际商业、政府和学术实体合作。它将应对关键的研究挑战，并与合作伙伴合作，加快英国量子计算的发展。它将培养一代驻英国的科学家和工程师，他们拥有随着量子行业的崛起而成为全球创新中心所需的新技能。该中心将与政府和公民接触，以便人们广泛认识到这项变革性技术的潜力，并对其采用过程中的问题有广泛的了解。中心的研究将集中在未来量子计算机和模拟器所需的硬件和软件上。在硬件方面，我们将推进一系列不同的平台，包括模拟、短期量子计算机和长期完全可扩展的机器。在软件方面，该中心将开发基本技术、算法、新的应用程序和方法，以验证任何未来机器的正确操作。硬件和软件研究将紧密结合，以便在我们合作伙伴的广泛专业知识的支持下，为未来的机器提供全栈能力。我们还将研究这些机器的体系结构，并开发仿真技术来加速它们的开发。成功将需要与广泛的商业和政府组织密切接触。我们最初的合作伙伴包括金融(OSI)、供应商(Gooch&Housego、牛津仪器、E6)、集成商和开发商(OQC、QM、CQC、QxBranch、D-Wave)、行业用户(劳斯莱斯、强生Matthee、GSK、BT、BP、Trakm8、空中客车、QinetiQ)和政府(DSTL、NCSC)，以及其他研究机构(NPL、ATI、海尔布隆、Fraunhofer)。我们将通过行业日、黑客马拉松和有针对性的研讨会、权威报告以及通过中心和合作伙伴资助的协作项目来构建这一强大的网络。通过合作伙伴关系中的一系列外展活动与社区进行沟通和接触，将使更广泛的社会了解量子计算的潜力，我们将与政府内部的政策制定者互动，以确保能够实现对英国的潜在好处。中心将培训研究人员和博士生掌握广泛的技能，包括创业、知识产权和商业化。这将有助于提供新兴量子经济所需的熟练劳动力。我们将与我们的合作伙伴合作，为行业提供专门的培训，面向技术、商业和高管受众，以确保Hub的成果及其商业和科学机会得到理解。Hub将提供演示、新算法和技术、衍生技术，并为熟练的劳动力做出贡献。它还将与潜在用户、即将成立的国家量子计算中心、全球QC社区、政策制定者和更广泛的公众接触，以确保英国在这一变革性的新能力方面处于领先地位。

项目成果

Direct UV written waveguides and Bragg gratings in doped planar silica using a 213 nm laser

• DOI: 10.1049/ell2.12126
• 发表时间: 2021-03
• 期刊: Electronics Letters
• 影响因子: 1.1
• 作者: Q. S. Ahmed;P. Gow;C. Holmes;P. Mennea;James W. Field;R. Bannerman;Devin H. Smith;C. Gawith;Philip Smith;J. Gates

Investigation into the writing dynamics of planar Bragg gratings using pulsed 213 nm radiation

使用脉冲 213 nm 辐射研究平面布拉格光栅的写入动力学

• DOI: 10.1364/ome.481901
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Optical Materials Express
• 影响因子: 2.8
• 作者: Ahmed Q

Practical Parallel Self-testing of Bell States via Magic Rectangles

• DOI: 10.1103/physreva.105.032456
• 发表时间: 2021-05
• 期刊: ArXiv
• 作者: Sean A. Adamson;P. Wallden

Imperfect 1-Out-of-2 Quantum Oblivious Transfer: Bounds, a Protocol, and its Experimental Implementation

• DOI: 10.1103/prxquantum.2.010335
• 发表时间: 2021-03-01
• 期刊: PRX QUANTUM
• 影响因子: 9.7
• 作者: Amiri, Ryan;Starek, Robert;Andersson, Erika
• 通讯作者: Andersson, Erika

A high-fidelity quantum matter-link between ion-trap microchip modules.

• DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-35285-3
• 发表时间: 2023-02-08
• 期刊: NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
• 影响因子: 16.6
• 作者: Akhtar, M.;Bonus, F.;Lebrun-Gallagher, F. R.;Johnson, N. I.;Siegele-Brown, M.;Hong, S.;Hile, S. J.;Kulmiya, S. A.;Weidt, S.;Hensinger, W. K.
• 通讯作者: Hensinger, W. K.