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UCSB researchers are securing significant funding to advance foundational quantum systems within the NSF's QLCI framework, a critical step toward scaling practical quantum technologies. This collaboration highlights the ongoing shift from theoretical groundwork to applied research in quantum information science.
UC Santa Barbara Researchers to Collaborate in Three of NSF Quantum Leap Challenge Institutes

This article was originally published in UCSB’s ‘The Current‘. hrough the National Science Foundation’s Quantum Leap Challenge Institutes (QLCI) program, several UC Santa Barbara researchers are poised to tackle hurdles on the road to building widespread, powerful quantum-based technologies. “We are very proud that UC Santa Barbara professors Dan Blumenthal, Michel Devoret, Andrew Jayich, Ania Jayich and David Weld will be involved in three of…
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