Collaboration drives innovation
The SQMS Center comprises 36 partners, including national and international laboratories, academic institutions and members of industry, in a mission-driven multidisciplinary collaboration. This page features the key expertise and facilities that each partner brings to the Center to achieve its ambitious goals.
Host institution

Core partners





Contributing partners






























California
Rigetti Computing
- Fleet of quantum material and devices testbeds
 - QPU testbeds
 - Foundry: 2-D superconducting qubits fab facilities
 - QIS industry and workforce training
 
NASA Ames
- Quantum algorithms and simulations
 
Stanford University
- Quantum controls development
 - Dark sector searches theory and modeling
 - High-energy physics applications
 
Unitary Fund
- Open source software development
 
Form Factor
- Advanced sub-K cryogenic testbeds development
 
Italy
INFN
- Underground quantum devices and materials testbed
 - Dark sector particle searches testbeds
 
University of Pisa
- Quantum computing devices testbed
 - Quantum devices for dark matter and gravitational waves searches
 - Algorithms and simulation development
 
Arizona
University of Arizona
- Quantum sensing theory
 - Error correction development
 
Louisiana
Louisiana State University
- Theoretical superconductivity
 - Quantum sensing
 
Iowa
AMES National Laboratory
- Superconducting quantum and materials characterization facilities
 - Condensed matter applications of quantum computing
 
Maryland
Johns Hopkins University
- Dark sector searches theory and modeling
 - High-energy physics applications
 
Lockheed Martin
- Algorithms and simulations development
 
Minnesota
University of Minnesota
- Quantum sensing for new physics
 
Colorado
NIST
- Foundry: custom 2-D superconducting quantum devices fab facilities
 - Cryogenic quantum testbed
 
University of Colorado Boulder
- Cryogenic quantum testbed
 
Colorado School of Mines
- Algorithms and simulations development
 - QIS theory
 
New York
NYU Langone
- Algorithms for quantitative MRI
 
Goldman Sachs
- Algorithms and simulations development for finance
 
New Jersey
Rutgers University – New Brunswick
- Multimode control schemes for cavity-qubits control
 
Pennsylvania
Temple University
- Superconducting characterization
 
Virginia
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
- Development and fabrication of advanced materials for qubits, optimization of 2-D and 3-D design concepts
 
Illinois
Fermilab
- Center headquarters
 - Quantum materials testbed
 - 3-D and 2-D quantum devices and prototypes testbed
 - Fundamental physics and sensing testbed
 - Foundry: 3-D SRF fab facilities
 - Material characterization facilities
 - Particle physics theory
 
Northwestern University
- Workforce development lead
 - Quantum materials and devices testbed
 - Fundamental physics and sensing testbed
 - Quantum material structural characterization facilities
 - Condensed matter and superconductivity QIS theory
 
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Dark sector searches theory and modeling
 - HEP applications
 
Illinois Institute of Technology
- Superconducting characterization
 
Canada
University of Waterloo, Institute for Quantum Computing
- Facilities for fabrication and characterization of superconducting devices