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Quantum innovation boosted with critical investment

Backed by renewed Department of Energy funding, the Quantum Systems Accelerator (QSA) will continue advancing cutting-edge quantum technologies as a National Quantum Information Science Research Center. 

CU Boulder is one of 15 partners in the center, led by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories, which will receive $125 million over five years. 

CU Boulder participates in QSA as part of the National Science Foundation-funded Quantum Systems through Entangled Science & Engineering (Q-SEnSE). Since 2020, QSA has advanced quantum computing, sensing and simulation, helping strengthen the U.S. quantum ecosystem. 

“With the renewal of DOE funding for the QSA, CU Boulder is positioned to deepen its contributions to national quantum innovation,” said Inese Berzina-Pitcher, executive director of Q-SEnSE.

Cindy Regal, professor of physics, JILA fellow and Q-SEnSE senior investigator, uses a custom vacuum system to trap a single atom in optical tweezers for quantum experiments

Cindy Regal, professor of physics, JILA fellow and Q-SEnSE senior investigator, uses a custom vacuum system to trap a single atom in optical tweezers for quantum experiments.

Principal investigator
Jun Ye

Funding
U.S. Department of Energy (DOE); U.S National Science Foundation (NSF)

Collaboration + support
CU Boulder’s Q-SEnSE, CUbit Quantum Initiative; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab); Sandia National Laboratories; Nobel Prize winner John Martinis’ Qolab; Inese Berzina-Pitcher; Xun Gao; Murray Holland; Adam Kaufman; Cindy Regal; Ana Maria Rey; James K. Thompson; other industry partners and universities