Quantum Foundry to Develop Materials for Quantum-Based Technologies

The University of California, Santa Barbara will be the home of the nation’s first Quantum Foundry, a center for developing materials and devices for quantum-information-based technologies. Research at the Quantum Foundry will focus on three main areas. One area of focus, natively entangled materials, will work to identify and characterize materials that intrinsically host anyon excitations and long-range entangled states with topological protection against decoherence. These materials could include new intrinsic topological superconductors and quantum spin liquids, as well as materials that enable topological quantum computing. Professors Stephen Wilson and Ania Bleszynski Jayich will co-direct the new Quantum Foundry at...