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The DOE's ARPA-E QC3 program marks a significant milestone by allocating $37 million to ten teams for full-stack co-design targeting quantum chemistry applications in energy. By mandating partnerships with hardware providers like QuEra, the initiative directly addresses critical bottlenecks in error correction and algorithm development necessary for scaling logical qubits. This funding accelerates practical breakthroughs in areas such as superconductor discovery and battery simulation, moving quantum computing from theoretical potential to tangible industrial impact.
DOE ARPA-E Launches $37 Million QC3 Program Across Ten Quantum Chemistry Performers

The U.S. Department of Energy’s ARPA-E has launched the $37 million Quantum Computing for Computational Chemistry (QC3) program, funding ten research teams for three years. This initiative aims to achieve a 100-fold speedup over classical computation in high-impact energy applications by focusing on full-stack co-design across algorithms, error correction, and quantum hardware. Notably, QuEra Computing is a key hardware and algorithm co-design partner for three of the selected projects. The post DOE ARPA-E Launches $37 Million QC3 Program Across Ten Quantum Chemistry Performers appeared first on Quantum Computing Report.
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) has officially launched its Quantum Computing for Computational Chemistry (QC3) program, directing $37 million across ten selected research teams over three years. Directed by Dr. Jyotsna Sharma, the initiative focuses on…
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