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W911NF21S0010: NEXT NEW AND EMERGING QUBIT SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY (nextNEQST)

Closed Closed July 20, 2021 Opportunity W911NF21S0010 ☆ Save

This grant is closed. A newer notice from the same program is open now: Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 Department of War (DoW) Multidisciplinary Research Program of the University Research Initiative (MURI) (W911NF26S1000). Status: Closes April 9, 2027 (153 days left). It is in our archive of Dept of the Army -- Materiel Command notices from 2021.

• Award amountsNot given on Grants.gov
• Cost sharingNot required
• Funding typeCooperative Agreement, Grant, Procurement Contract

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Who can apply

This opportunity was open to nonprofits, colleges and universities, state and local governments, small businesses, businesses and individuals.

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Is this a realistic fit?

• Most of the program's money (81% over five years) went to colleges and universities.
• No cost sharing or match is required.

What the grant funds

The U.S. Army Research Office (ARO) in collaboration with the Laboratory for Physical Sciences (LPS) is soliciting proposals for research in the next New and Emerging Qubit Science and Technology (nextNEQST) program. nextNEQST focuses on qubit systems that explore new operating regimes and environments, fundamentally new methods of fabrication, and new methods of design, control, or operation. These explorations should have in mind the development of quantum computation where the novel properties of these systems create significant advantages in coherence, fabrication, and/or qubit operation over current state-of-the-art qubits. A.1.1 Outline of the nextNEQST Research Areas: nextNEQST is soliciting proposals in three research areas as well as advances from previous NEQST research topics. Proposals may address more than one of these research areas and, in some cases, may be required to address more than one area to achieve proposed research milestones. Quantum information science and technology has seen steady progress since the motivating algorithmic discoveries of Shor and others. Continued research in qubit technology has resulted in the development of several different qubit modalities that can now perform two-qubit operations with less than 1% error per gate, with advances towards higher performance and larger qubit systems on the horizon. Many advances are needed to push existing technologies towards the distant goal of fault-tolerant quantum computing or systems of similar complexity. This BAA anticipates that state-of-the-art qubit devices and quantum logic gate approaches, even with anticipated advances, may not be the same devices on which future technology will be based. In other words, tomorrow's fault-tolerant quantum computers will not be made with today's qubits. The nextNEQST program seeks to fund high-risk seedling efforts that can significantly advance the performance of future multi-qubit information processors towards the goal of fault-tolerant quantum computing. Each effort should pursue the experimental realization of the proposal. In addition, theory or model development must be included to elucidate the underlying mechanisms, and the theoretical and practical limits. At the end of this three-year program, research progress will be evaluated to determine whether graduation to a larger research effort is warranted or whether the research direction should be abandoned.

Category: Science and Technology and other Research and Development.

Applying now

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