Never a Bad Time
Highlighting the LPS Qubit Collaboratory (March 1, 2024) My first official day at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) was June 15, 2020, during the depths …
Quantum Origin Stories
Highlighting the National Q-12 Education Partnership (February 29, 2024) Origin stories make the best superhero movies. I am no superhero, but I still remember what my undergraduate thesis advisor said …
Cheek by Jowl
Highlighting the Fermilab-led Superconducting Quantum Materials and Systems Center (August 3, 2023) Quantum is global, and I’m proof of that. Through an international postdoctoral fellowship from the National Science Foundation (NSF), …
Why Quantum Matters to You
Highlighting the Air Force Research Lab in Rome, NY (June 1, 2023) Quantum mechanics are the rules that describe how really small things behave. Discovered over 100 years ago by …
A Pivotal Year for National Quantum Policy
(April 13, 2023) It has been some time since I last wrote a director’s letter. The eve of World Quantum Day is a great time to reflect on a pivotal …
Quantum Industry and Society
Highlighting the QED-C | The Quantum Economic Development Consortium (quantumconsortium.org) (May 03, 2022) The computer you are using right now runs on an electron’s charge and ignores its spin, or magnetic, …
A Quantum Wish
Quantum mechanical objects, such as single atoms, can behave as if they are in two or more places at once, even though they are really in a single quantum “state.” Quantum mechanics also allows for quantum entanglement: two or more atoms can be correlated no matter their distance apart. If you believe the quantum math (which hasn’t failed us yet), with each new particle you add to the system, you double the information stored. A quantum computer made up of just 50 perfect quantum bits (or qubits) processes 250 = 1,125,899,906,842,624 complex numbers at the same time.
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The State of Quantum – Highlighting the NSF Center for Quantum Networks
The State of Quantum Roughly each month I write “from” a different research center about the NQCO’s progress coordinating Quantum Information Science (QIS) activities. Learn more about the NSF Center …
The Quantum Questions
Roughly each month I write “from” a different research center about the NQCO’s progress coordinating Quantum Information Science (QIS) activities. Learn more about the Q-SEnSE Quantum Leap Challenge Institute by …
Strengthening U.S. Leadership in Quantum Information Science Highlighting Argonne’s Q-NEXT QIS Research Center
Strengthening U.S. Leadership in Quantum Information Science This is the first Director’s Letter from the National Quantum Coordination Office. Roughly each month I will write “from” a different research center …