Sandia National Labs Academic Programs Collaboration Report

Virtual quantum workshop leads to real partnership opportunities In January 2022, Sandia and Purdue facilitated a two-and-a-half hour virtual quantum workshop with 80 participants engaging from the two institutions. There were 19 presenters packed into this quick-hitting forum that included 15 lightning talks and four breakout sessions. Sandia’s Campus Partnership Manager (CPM) for Purdue Ken Patel and David Stewart, Purdue’s Managing Director of the Purdue Quantum Science and Engineering Institute, opened the session. Sandia’s Richard Muller, Deputy Director of the Quantum Systems Accelerator , provided an overview of the National Quantum Initiative roadmap and research needs, and Purdue’s Director of Quantum Science & Engineering Institute Yong Chen gave an overview of the university’s quantum research programs and capabilities. The 19 lightning talks, eight from each institution, covered topics such as photonics, trapped ion quantum computing, spin qubits, characterization/benchmarking of quantum computers, hybrid quantum systems/transduction, atom-based gyros/clocks/ magnetometers, quantum sensing with nitrogen vacancies in diamond, micro-resonator frequency combs, cold atom and nanophotonic integration, computational quantum electromagnetics, and engineering rare-earth ion arrays. The four facilitated breakout sessions focused on quantum sensing, quantum devices and networking, quantum materials, and quantum applications and algorithms. Several areas that lean far into the edge of quantum computing were identified for potential collaboration. Sandia and Purdue are both partners in DOE’s National Quantum Information Science Research Centers . Sandia is in the Quantum Systems Accelerator , and Purdue is in the Quantum Science Center .

CONTRIBUTOR Spotlight

Thomas Roth is an assistant professor at Purdue in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and a former Member of Sandia’s Technical Staff. His research interests are in multiscale and multiphysics electromagnetic

modeling and improving the design of quantum electromagnetic devices.

“Purdue is focused on increasing their role in the national security space, which will help me continue to contribute to this important mission.”

Sandia’s QSCOUT provides scientists free and complete access to the world’s only open quantum computing testbed based on trapped ions.

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