Center for Quantum Information and Control

2024 FRHTP Prize Postdoctoral Fellowship

The Center for Quantum Information and Control (CQuIC, https://cquic.unm.edu/) as part of Quantum New Mexico Institute (QNM-I) at the University of New Mexico invites applications for Postdoctoral Fellowships in theoretical quantum information science (QIS) as part of the National Science Foundation’s Focused Research Hub in Theoretical Physics (F…

Tomorrow’s Quantum Hotbeds? 7 U.S. Cities That Could Incubate The Next Great Quantum Technology Ecosystem

The United States is already a global leader in quantum technology and is home to several hot quantum ecosystems, including Chicago, Colorado, Massachusetts and California. Here are some future quantum ecosystems, just waiting for the spark when technology, innovation and vision combine.

Out of the desert, a quantum powerhouse rises

How New Mexico is quietly transforming itself into a hub for quantum tech They knew it was an ambitious goal. But by the time they announced it in 2022, Sandia National Laboratories and The University of New Mexico — two of the state’s largest research institutions — had been working out their strategy for more than a year. Their goal: transform th…

The University of New Mexico launches The Quantum New Mexico Institute

New Mexico scientists played a pioneering role in the development of Quantum Informational Science; now The University of New Mexico (UNM) is partnering with Sandia National Laboratories to launch the University’s newest research center, the Quantum New Mexico Institute (QNM-I).

QNM-Institute fellow Akimasa Miyake's quantum computing research helps to win $17 million NSF STAQ project renewal award

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has renewed the Software-Tailored Architecture for Quantum co-design (STAQ) project for another five years. During that time $17 million will be given to the STAQ project to continue in its mission to develop a prototype quantum computer that will be useful for practical computational applications. As a faculty…

Save the Date: SQuInT 2024!

Twenty-Sixth Annual SQuInT Workshop: October 30-November 1, 2024 Boulder, Colorado Organized by the Center for Quantum Information and Control (CQuIC) SQuInT is a consortium of universities, national labs, and industrial labs, with concentration in the southwestern United States. The SQuInT meeting has a strong tradition of mixing invited talks fr…

UNM Physics and Astronomy awarded $800,000 grant for quantum eraser research project

UNM Department of Physics & Astronomy Associate Professor Francisco Elohim Becerra was recently awarded an $800,000 research grant for a research project titled, "Nonclassical atomic spin ensembles based on coherent feedback and quantum eraser." This is a Department of Defense Research and Education Program for Historically Black Colleges and Unive…

CQuIC awarded $3 million from NSF to expand New Mexico’s standing as a QIS national hub

Focused Research Hubs in Theoretical Physics Award will enable CQuIC to grow as a national hub that strategically brings the QIS theory-community together through a prize postdoctoral fellowship program that will provide an unrivaled education to future leaders within the field, as well as the ability to host national visitors, workshops, and confe…

Milad Marvian awarded a new DOE quantum computing grant

A researcher based in The University of New Mexico School of Engineering is leading one of 15 projects across the country receiving $11 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy. These projects, announced Aug. 10, are focused on exploratory research for extreme-scale science that will leverage emerging trends and advances in high-end c…

CQuIC receives award in new NSF Quantum Leaps Challenge Institute

CQuIC is excited to be part of the newly created center entitled “Quantum Systems through Entangled Science and Engineering (Q-SEnSE)” one of three Quantum Leap Challenge Institutes (QLCI) inaugurated by the National Science Foundation. These QLCI are central to advancing the United States National Quantum Initiative (NQI). Q-SEnSE, led by the …