Center for Quantum Information and Control

UNM professor Milad Marvian receives DOE Early Career Research Award

Milad Marvian, an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a member of the Center for Quantum Information and Control (CQuIC) at The University of New Mexico, has received the prestigious Department of Energy (DOE) Early Career Research Program Award. This provides long-term support for the research of outsta…

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…

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…

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 …