Center for Quantum Information and Control

量子信息科学（QIS）是研究如何使用遵循量子力学定律的系统来执行信息处理任务的跨学科领域。该研究项目为新墨西哥大学（UNM）的量子信息与控制中心（CQuIC）提供核心资金，并为亚利桑那大学（UA）的实验研究提供主要组成部分。CQuIC为基于物理的研究带来了量子信息的视角。特别是，CQuIC内的研究将QIS的新思想和技术应用于控制量子系统行为的最先进的实验室任务，因此这些系统可以被设计成科学家想要他们做的事情，而不是只做自然发生的事情，并进行高精度，量子有限的测量。CQuIC专注于培养从事QIS研究的研究生和博士后。新墨西哥大学和亚利桑那大学的学生可以接触到各种各样的课程和其他活动，这些课程和活动提供了信息理论和物理观点的跨学科整合。CQuIC与六个外部机构合作：桑迪亚国家实验室；洛斯阿拉莫斯国家实验室；马里兰大学联合量子研究所，总部设在昆士兰大学的澳大利亚工程量子系统中心；加州理工学院量子信息与物质研究所；以及巴西国家量子信息科学技术研究所。这些伙伴关系提供了思想和人员的双向流动，从而扩大了CQuIC和合作机构可用的理论和实验能力。CQuIC是西南量子信息与技术（SQuInT）网络的行政所在地。SQuInT是一个由22个节点机构组成的联盟，包括研究型大学、本科学院、国家和工业实验室以及国际QIS中心，它促进了节点机构之间的QIS研究和合作。

Quantum information science (QIS) is the interdisciplinary field that investigates how to use systems obeying the laws of quantum mechanics to perform information-processing tasks. This research project provides the core funding for the Center for Quantum Information and Control (CQuIC), based at the University of New Mexico (UNM), with a major component of experimental research at the University of Arizona (UA). CQuIC brings a quantum-information perspective to physics-based research. In particular, research within CQuIC applies the new ideas and techniques of QIS to the state-of-the-art laboratory tasks of controlling the behavior of quantum systems, so these systems can be engineered to do what scientists want them to do, instead of doing only what comes naturally, and of making high-precision, quantum-limited measurements.CQuIC specializes in the training of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows for research careers in QIS. Students at UNM and UA are exposed to a full range of courses and other activities, which provide an interdisciplinary integration of information-theoretic and physics perspectives. CQuIC partners with six external institutions: Sandia National Laboratories; Los Alamos National Laboratory; the Joint Quantum Institute at the University of Maryland, the Australian Centre for Engineered Quantum Systems, headquartered at the University of Queensland; Caltech's Institute for Quantum Information and Matter; and the Brazilian National Institute of Science and Technology for Quantum Information. These partnerships provide a two-way flow of ideas and people and thus expand the theoretical and experimental capabilities available to CQuIC and the partnering institutions. CQuIC is the administrative home for the Southwest Quantum Information and Technology (SQuInT) Network. A consortium of 22 node institutions, including research universities, undergraduate colleges, national and industrial laboratories, and international centers for QIS, SQuInT promotes QIS research at and collaborations among its node institutions.