Institute for Quantum Information

该奖项为量子信息研究所（IQI）提供了持续的支持，该研究所于2000年9月在加州理工学院成立。IQI致力于建立量子信息科学的理论基础，涵盖量子算法、量子密码学、量子信息理论、容错量子信息处理和量子计算的物理实现。所有这些领域的基本进展都需要使革命性的量子技术更接近实现。IQI的优势在于三个独特的品质：专注于跨学科研究，强调培养世界级博士后人才的职业发展，并致力于积极的访客计划。IQI促进了不同背景的科学家之间的协同互动。物理学家和计算机科学家合作研究量子算法和量子密码协议。控制理论家和物理学家联手阐明纠缠的结构。理论家和实验人员联合起来设想量子硬件的可行实现。IQI吸引并培养了顶尖的博士后学者，其中7人已经转到其他地方担任教职（或同等职位），从而大大加强了QIS的全球努力。访问计划激发了智力的兴奋，促进了科学思想的合作和交流，并为国际QIS社区提供了高度重视的服务。随着传统硅基信息技术可扩展性的终结，积极探索信息技术的新范式至关重要。IQI的贡献致力于扩大国家的技术基础，并确保美国在量子科学和技术的未来发展中的领导地位。该奖项的资金由物理部的信息前沿物理学项目和数学与物理科学理事会的多学科活动办公室以及计算机与信息科学与工程理事会的计算与通信基础部的新兴模型与计算技术集群提供。

This award provides continued support for the Institute for Quantum Information (IQI), which was founded at Caltech in September 2000. The IQI is devoted to building the theoretical foundations of quantum information science across a broad front encompassing quantum algorithms, quantum cryptography, quantum information theory, fault-tolerant quantum information processing, and physical implementations of quantum computing. Basic advances in all of these areas are needed to bring revolutionary quantum technologies closer to realization.The strength of the IQI rests on three distinctive qualities: a focus on interdisciplinary research, an emphasis on fostering the career development of world-class postdoctoral talent, and devotion to an active visitor program. The IQI promotes synergistic interactions among scientists with a variety of backgrounds. Physicists and computer scientists collaborate on investigations of quantum algorithms and quantum cryptographic protocols. Control theorists and physicists team up to illuminate the structure of entanglement. Theorists and experimenters join forces to conceive feasible realizations of quantum hardware. The IQI has attracted and trained top postdoctoral scholars, seven of whom have moved on to faculty positions (or the equivalent) elsewhere, thus significantly strengthening the world effort in QIS. The visitor program fuels intellectual excitement, facilitates collaborations and exchanges of scientific ideas, and performs a highly valued service for the international QIS community.With the end of scalability of conventional silicon-based information technology on the horizon, it is vitally important to explore aggressively new paradigms for information technology. IQI contributions are dedicated to broadening the nation's technical base and ensuring US leadership in the future development of quantum science and technology. Funding for this award is provided through the Physics at the Information Frontier program in the Physics Division and the Office of Multidisciplinary Activities in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate and the Emerging Models and Technologies for Computation Cluster in the Computing and Communications Foundations Division in the Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate.