Collaboration drives innovation
The SQMS Center comprises 43 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
Affiliate Partners
Arizona
University of Arizona
- Qudit error correction
California
Applied Materials
- Commercial foundry development of high-coherence qubits nano fabrication
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- Quantum sensing for dark matter
- Controls for axion platforms
- TLS modeling
NASA Ames Research Center
- Algorithms and applications development
- Error correction and resource estimates
NVIDIA
- AI for qubits
Rigetti Computing
- Qubit characterization
- Nanofabrication
- Coherence advances into commercial platforms
Stanford University
- Quantum sensing for dark matter
University of Southern California
- Quantum sensing and communication theory and protocols
Unitary Foundation
- Qubit software and error mitigation
Colorado
Infleqtion
- Qudit software development
Maybell Quantum Industries
- Efficient cryogenics for quantum data centers
NIST
- Qubits characterization
- Nanofabrication
- Quantum-limited amplifiers
University of Colorado Boulder
- Cavity qudits architectures development and experiments
Iowa
Ames National Laboratory
- Materials characterization
- Qudit algorithms and applications development
Illinois
Fermilab
- Center headquarters
- Quantum computing, sensing, communication, materials and cryogenic experimental facilities
- Prototypes deployment
llinois Mathematics and Science Academy
- High school workforce development programs
llinois Institute of Technology
- Theory of TLS, quasiparticles losses
Northern Illinois University
- Theory of TLS, quasiparticles losses
- Low T Physics, thermal transfer modeling
Northwestern University
- Materials and qubits characterization
- Nanofabrication
- Qudit software development
- Workforce programs
University of Illinois Chicago
- Materials characterization
Louisiana
Louisiana State University
- Theory of TLS, quasiparticles losses
- Low T physics, thermal transfer modeling
Maryland
Johns Hopkins University
- Fundamental tests of quantum mechanics
Lockheed Martin
- Qudit algorithms development
University of Maryland
- Qudit algorithms and applications development for HEP
Universities Space Research Association
- Workforce development programs
Minnesota
University of Minnesota
- Quantum sensing for dark matter
New Jersey
Rutgers University – New Brunswick
- Cavity qudits architectures development and experiments
New York
IBM
- Quantum internet commercial QNU prototypes development
NYU Langone
- Algorithms and sensing for bioimaging applications
- Nanofabriation
- Workforce programs
Oregon
University of Oregon
- Workforce programs
Pennsylvania
Temple University
- Materials characterization
International Partners
Canada
University of Toronto
- Quantum sensing for dark matter
University of Waterloo, Institute for Quantum Computing
- Quantum sensing for magnetometry
- Qubit 1/f noise characterization
- Nanofabrication
Finland
Aalto University
- Qubit characterization
- Low T physics
- Thermal transfer modeling
- CBP thermometry
Bluefors
- Efficient cryogenics for quantum data centers
Germany
DESY
- Quantum sensing for gravitational waves
- Qudit algorithms and HEP applications
Israel
Quantum Machines
- Qudit control platforms and calibration
Italy
INFN
- Radiation impact on qubits
- Quantum sensing for dark matter
- Cavity for axion platforms
University of Pisa
- Qubit 1/f noise characterization
- Algorithms development
- Quantum sensing
Japan
Kyocera
- Commercial foundry development of substrates for high coherence qubits
UK
National Physical Laboratory
- Materials and qubit characterization
Royal Holloway University London
- Qubit characterization
- Low T physics
- Thermal transfer modeling
- Microkelvin experimental platform
University of Glasgow
- Theory of TLS
- Quasiparticle losses