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RLE Professor Terry P. Orlando
wins major awards in quantum computation from the Defense
University Research Initiative on NanoTechnology (DURINT)
program
Cambridge, MA 05.01.2001
 Professor
Terry P.
Orlando will lead an RLE DURINT program entitled, "Quantum
Computation with Superconducting Quantum Devices." This
$5.7M project (including an associated instrumentation grant
also from the DURINT program) will study, design, demonstrate,
and develop algorithms and quantum-coherent circuitry using
magnetic-flux-based superconducting qubits.
The project is sponsored by the Air
Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) of the
Department of Defense (DoD) and the Advanced
Research and Development Activity (ARDA) of the National
Security Agency (NSA).
Quantum computers are machines that store information on
quantum variables and that process the information by making
those variables interact in a way that preserves quantum coherence.
Quantum computation promises a revolution in computational
power. As the microelectronics industry drives the dimensions
of electronic devices towards nanoscale feature sizes, quantum
mechanical effects can become an obstacle in classical device
design. Quantum effects can also be exploited, however,
to improve device performance.
Professor Orlando's research team at MIT for the DURINT
includes Professor Seth
Lloyd and Professor Leonid
S. Levitov. The project also comprises teams at the University
of Rochester led by Professors Marc
J. Feldman and Mark
F. Bocko, Harvard University
led by Professor Michael
Tinkham, and the Technical
University of Delft led by Professor Johan
E. Mooij.
These awards to Professor Orlando highlight one of RLE's
fastest growing areas of new research interest: quantum information
and devices. RLE is the also the home to a recently
awarded major DoD Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative
(MURI) project led by RLE's Director, Professor Jeffrey H.
Shapiro entitled, "Quantum
Information Technology: Entanglement, Teleportation, and Quantum
Memory," as well as a number of related research
programs in the quantum information field. |
