I-Corps: Scalable quantum hardware for use in quantum computers and quantum communication industries

这个I-Corps项目更广泛的影响/商业潜力是开发混合超导体-超导体结构，这对于开发未来的纳米器件至关重要，以形成量子技术的骨干，包括量子计算机，通信网络和密码学应用。这些努力可能会加速量子计算在材料发现、生物学、制药、物流、优化、网络安全、金融和化学领域的实际和商业应用。例如，适当规模的量子计算可以通过模拟疫苗开发中涉及的复杂生物过程来更快地开发疫苗。实现第二次量子革命的承诺需要新的工具和方法来解决量子计算机的可扩展性挑战。通过解决这个问题，量子计算机可能会达到真正的计算能力。拟议的努力旨在通过专注于将集成硬件解决方案与以材料为中心的技术相结合来解决这一关键需求，以创建可用于量子计算机和量子通信行业的解决方案。Corps项目的基础是通过材料研究开发用于产生纠缠光子的混合纳米器件，并结合紧凑且高度可集成的硬件接口进行控制，量子比特的测量这一努力可能有助于解决量子计算机面临的最大挑战之一--可扩展性。更具体地说，邻近效应在二维材料的超导体-半导体界面上的重点进行了探索。这种方法的预期应用是为量子信息技术创建高纯度、按需纠缠光子源。这项工作增加了一个新的维度，现有的努力，在研究邻近相关性，探索库珀对和激子之间的相互作用，在货车德瓦尔斯界面的一类新的材料系统。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。

The broader impact/commercial potential of this I-Corps project is the development of hybrid semiconductor-superconductor structures essential for developing future nano-devices to form the backbone of quantum technologies including quantum computers, communication networks, and cryptography applications. These efforts may accelerate practical and commercial applications of quantum computing in material discovery, biology, pharma, logistics, optimization, cybersecurity, finance, and chemistry. For example, adequately scaled quantum computing may allow much faster development of vaccines by simulating the complicated biological processes involved in vaccine development. Achieving the promise of the second quantum revolution requires new tools and methods to address the scalability challenge in quantum computers. By solving this problem, quantum computers may reach their true computational power. The proposed effort seeks to address this key need by focusing on combining an integrated hardware solution with materials-focused technology to create a solution that may be used in quantum computers and quantum communication industries.This I-Corps project is based on the development of hybrid nanodevices used in the generation of entangled photons through materials research combined with a compact and highly integrable hardware interface for control and measurement of qubits. This effort may help to solve one of the biggest challenges in quantum computers - scalability. More specifically, the proximity effects in two-dimensional materials with a focus on the superconductor-semiconductor interface is explored. The intended application of this approach is in the creation of high-purity, on-demand entangled photon sources for quantum information technology. This work adds a new dimension to existing efforts in studying proximity correlations by exploring interactions between Cooper-pairs and excitons across the van der Waals interface in a new class of materials system. This capability is combined with scalable control and measurement hardware that may provide a foundation for solving significant challenges of quantum computing and quantum communication.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.