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发展量子信息处理(QIP)和中子方法。这些新兴科学家将利用他们在该项目中培养的技能，为行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测器，因为它们很轻，不带电荷，并且有磁矩。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、机械部件的无损检测、用于生化应用的膜结合蛋白质的探索，以及用于国家安全的探测器中的中子荧光。通过整合不断增长的量子信息处理领域的技术，这一名单将继续增长--加拿大在这一领域已经是公认的领先者。 QIP承诺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，我们获得了极高的测量精度和灵敏度。该计划将培养一批年轻的、具有独特技能的多学科研究人员，他们都是这两个领域的专家。这些高素质的人员将在这些领域创造尖端应用程序方面发挥带头作用。 这一培训计划将结合加拿大在麦克马斯特大学布罗克豪斯研究所在中子科学方面的历史优势，以及在滑铁卢大学量子计算研究所在量子信息科学方面的既定领导地位。这些专门知识中心将通过国家标准与技术研究所(NIST)与国际领导人联系起来。

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).