Collaboration drives innovation
The SQMS Center comprises 34 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
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Core partners
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Contributing partners
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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