NSERC CREATE Program on Neutron Science and Engineering of Functional Materials

该计划培训研究生，博士后研究员和本科生使用和开发量子信息处理（QIP）和中子方法。这些新兴科学家将利用他们在该计划中开发的技能，为工业和社会做出有意义的科学贡献。 中子是功能材料的精致探针，因为它们很轻，没有电荷，并且具有磁矩。这些特性可以在对加拿大社会至关重要的广泛应用中加以利用，包括燃料电池设计、石油勘探、电池开发、自旋电子学、机械部件的非破坏性测试、用于生物化学应用的膜结合蛋白的勘探以及用于国家安全的探测器中的中子荧光。这份名单将通过整合来自不断增长的量子信息处理领域的技术而继续增长-加拿大已经是一个既定的领导者。 QIP有望改变我们与纳米世界互动的方式。将QIP的思想应用到中子科学中，获得了前所未有的测量精度和灵敏度。该计划将创建一个年轻的，独特的技能，多学科的研究人员谁是在这两个领域的专家队列。这些高素质的人员将成为这些领域中创建尖端应用程序的领导者。 该培训计划将联合收割机加拿大在麦克马斯特大学布罗克豪斯研究所的中子科学的历史实力与滑铁卢大学量子计算研究所在量子信息科学方面的领先地位相结合。这些专家中心将通过国家标准和技术研究所（NIST）与国际领导人建立联系。

This program trains graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and undergraduates in the use and development of quantum information processing (QIP) and neutron methods. These emerging scientists will use the skills they develop in the program to make meaningful scientific contributions to industry and society. Neutrons are exquisite probes of functional materials because they are light, have no electric charge, and have a magnetic moment. These properties can be exploited in a broad range of applications vital to Canadian society, including fuel cell design, oil exploration, battery development, spintronics, non-destructive testing of mechanical components, exploration of membrane-bound proteins for biochemical applications, and neutron fluorescence in detectors used for national security. This list will continue to grow by integrating techniques from the growing field of quantum information processing - an area in which Canada is already an established leader. QIP promises to transform the way we interact with the nano-world. By applying ideas of QIP to neutron science we reach unprecidented measurement precision and sensitivities. This program will create a cohort of young, uniquely skilled, multidisciplinary researchers who are experts in both of these areas. These highly qualified personnel will be the leaders in creating cutting-edge applications in these fields. This training program will combine Canada's historical strength in neutron science at McMaster University's Brockhouse Institute with its established leadership in quantum information science at the University of Waterloo's Institute for Quantum Computing. These centres of expertise will be linked with international leaders via the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).