The National Research Foundation of South Korea (NRF) has awarded two professors from the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (PME) $1 million to co-lead the creation of a South Korea-U.S. joint research center dedicated to quantum error correction.
Prof. David Awschalom and Prof. Liang Jiang will serve as co-principal investigators for The Center for Quantum Error Correction, which seeks to improve the fidelity of networked quantum computing systems. The center will receive funding over five years, continuing the long history of scientific collaboration between the United States and South Korea.
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On August 1, 2023, The National Research Institute of Korea (NRIK) began funding a five-year initiative to construct a distributed quantum network connecting nodes separated by 20 kilometers. It will also be the first “hybrid” network connecting nodes using both optical fibers and open-air links to mobile platforms like drones. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign researcher Paul Kwiat will play an integral role in its development.
Kwiat, the Bardeen Professor of Physics and Electrical Engineering and researcher in UIUC’s Illinois Quantum Information Science and Technology Center (IQUIST), has known the principal investigator, Hee Su Park of the Korean Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS), since Park was a visiting scientist in his research group 10 years ago. They collaborated on a technique that has led to what is now the world’s most efficient single-photon source.