Royal Holloway is an international partner with the prestigious US Department of Energy Office of Science (DOE) Superconducting Quantum Materials and Systems Center (SQMS), hosted by Fermilab.
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The renewal of funding announced by the DOE and SQMS will accelerate breakthroughs in quantum information science through a $125 million investment over the next five years.
Superconducting Quantum Materials and Systems Center (SQMS) supports research in the pursuit of new materials and fabrication methods to achieve higher performance quantum bits (qubits), which encode information in a quantum computer.
Professor John Saunders, from Centre for Advanced Quantum Science and Technology at Royal Holloway, said: “The mission of the SQMS collaboration is strongly aligned with our research at the University, conducted in tight collaboration with the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), and funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).
“Our collaboration with SQMS is founded on a common interest, and our unique research capabilities to cool superconducting devices at the London Low Temperature Laboratory.”
The Royal Holloway research team works with the SQMS Quantum Materials research thrust and the Physics and Sensing thrust groups.
Professor Saunders added: “The former is focused on materials research to improve the coherence of superconducting qubits, to contribute to the realisation of future fault-tolerant quantum computing, a technology which will have transformative impact on the economy and society.
“The latter concerns the application of quantum sensors for fundamental physics, including the search for dark matter candidates.”
Royal Holloway’s quantum research team includes Professor John Saunders, Professor Andrew Casey, Dr. Vasilii Sevriuk, Dr Petri Heikkinen, Dr Lev Levitin, PhD students, Amber Carreck, Dan Doling (both also affiliated with NPL), Zakaria Mohamed.
