EPSRC Network in Materials for Quantum Technologies

通过发展晶体管和其他电子和光学设备，量子科学已经使全球数字革命成为可能。我们现在正在进入第二次革命，叠加和纠缠的量子科学将应用于传感、定时、导航、通信、成像和计算等变革性技术。这将对能源、建筑、制药、电信、国防、金融、安全和信息技术等主要行业产生影响。正如数字革命依赖于半导体芯片、光纤、显示器和硬盘驱动器等材料来创造设备一样，新的量子设备也严重依赖材料，这些材料既是量子系统的核心，也是周围基础设施中的材料，而且往往需要满足苛刻的环境要求。英国拥有世界领先的国家量子技术计划，并以其材料科学和工程研究而闻名国际。现在，英国需要将这两种优势结合在一起，为未来的量子技术提供支撑材料平台，并确保它保持在这第二次量子革命的前沿。这个EPSRC量子网络材料(M4QN)寻求通过将世界领先的英国材料研究界、现有的英国国家量子技术计划(NQTP)和正在发展的英国量子技术产业基地聚集在一起，在英国范围内协调努力，加速这一进程。M4QN的首要目标是通过与我们领先的材料科学和工程社区的包容性接触，确保英国在QT研究和开发方面的领先地位得到长期保障，为未来的QT提供所需的材料解决方案。还有一种强烈的短期抱负，即获取社区内的专业知识，以帮助当前的NQTP解决当前的材料问题，并推动这些社区之间参与解决这些问题。

Quantum science has already enabled the global digital revolution through the development of transistors and other electronic and optical devices. We are now entering a second revolution where the quantum science of superposition and entanglement will be applied to transformative technologies for sensing, timing, navigation, communications, imaging and computing. These will impact on major industries including energy, construction, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, defence, finance, security and information technology.Just as the digital revolution depended upon materials to create devices, e.g. semiconductor chips, optical fibres, displays, and hard disk drives, so new quantum devices also rely critically upon materials, both at the heart of the quantum system and also in the surrounding infrastructure and are often required to meet demanding environmental requirements. The UK has a world-leading national quantum technologies programme and is renowned internationally for its research on materials science and engineering. Now the UK needs to bring these two strengths together to deliver the underpinning materials platforms for future quantum technologies and ensure that it remains at the forefront of this second quantum revolution.This EPSRC Materials for Quantum Network (M4QN) seeks to accelerate this process by bringing together the world-leading UK materials research community, the existing UK National Quantum Technologies Programme (NQTP), and the developing quantum technologies industry base in a UK-wide coordinated effort. The over-riding ambition for M4QN is to ensure that the UKs leading position in QT research and development is secured for the long-term through the inclusive engagement with our leading materials science and engineering community, providing the materials solutions required for the delivery of future QTs. There is also a strong near-term ambition to capture the expertise within this community to aid the current NQTP to address current materials issues and to drive engagement between these communities in solving these.