Q-NEXT has added two new corporate partners to its collaboration: Verizon and Zurich Instruments USA, Inc.
Q-NEXT, a National Quantum Information Science Research Center led by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, is a partnership of three national laboratories, nine universities and, with the new addition, 12leading U.S. quantum technology companies.
The Q-NEXT mission is to develop the science and technology to control, store and transmit quantum information, whether the information is distributed over the length of a computer chip or the distance between Chicago and San Francisco. Q-NEXT collaborators are working together toward this goal by developing new quantum materials and instruments that outperform current technology.
Unlike traditional information technologies, such as the internet or smart phone, quantum information technologies work by taking advantage of physics that operates at nature’s smallest scales, manipulating information encoded in matter’s quantum properties. The successful development of such technologies can lead to unhackable communication channels, ultraprecise sensors and more powerful computers.