Convergence Accelerator Phase I: Workshop: Scalable Quantum Computing Laboratory

该研讨会将于2019年秋季举办，将汇集来自学术界和工业界的主要利益相关者。与会者将讨论量子计算目前面临的挑战，克服这些挑战的机会，并将制定一条实现近期进展的前进道路。研讨会的具体目标是确定量子计算领域的现实交付成果，包括：i）未来2-5年内可以开发的原型，ii）未来5年内需要评估它们的测试床随着量子信息科学现在渗透到学术和政府科学与工程项目的各个角落，人们对追求量子计算机能力的科学极限非常感兴趣。在量子计算机中控制和使用更大的纠缠叠加态，甚至可能面临量子力学的基本难题：如何调和量子世界和经典世界？ 除了这些知识方向之外，量子计算机设备的持续使用和建造预计将影响一个新的学科，这将有助于改变我们的科学家和工程师的文化，以接受量子物理学定律并创造新的科学和技术能力。通过研讨会，目的是收集量子信息科学和量子计算广泛社区的投入，来自物理（原子/分子/光学和凝聚态物质），化学，数学，信息论，计算机科学和工程学科的代表。我们期待来自学术界、政府实验室和工业界的与会者，以确定量子计算科学目标的具体需求。研讨会产生的白色论文将有助于激励这些领域的资源分配，并将对整个量子信息科学界产生积极影响。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This workshop will be organized in Fall 2019 and will bring together key stakeholders from academia and industry. The participants will discuss current challenges in Quantum Computing, opportunities to overcome those challenges, and will map out a path forward to enable near-term progress. The specific aim of the workshop is to identify realistic deliverables in the area of Quantum Computing, including: i) Prototypes that could be developed in the next 2-5 years, and ii) Testbeds needed to evaluate them in the following 5 years.With quantum information science now pervading all corners of academic and government science and engineering programs, there is great interest in pursuing the scientific limits of quantum computer capabilities. The control and use of ever larger entangled superpositions in quantum computers may even confront the fundamental conundrum of quantum mechanics: how to reconcile quantum and classical worlds? Apart from such intellectual directions, the continual use and building of generations of quantum computer devices is expected to impact a new discipline that will help change the culture of our scientists and engineers to embrace the laws of quantum physics and create new scientific and technological capabilities.With the workshop, the aim is to gather input from the broad community in quantum information science and quantum computing, with representatives from physics (atomic/molecular/optical and condensed matter), chemistry, mathematics, information theory, computer science, and engineering disciplines. We expect attendees from academia, government laboratories and industry in order to determine needs that are specific to the science goals of quantum computing. The resulting white paper produced by the workshop will help motivate the allocation of resources to these areas and will have a positive impact on the entire quantum information science community.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.