QARC Center The Quantum Architecture Project
Project Overview

The Quantum Architecture Research Center

This research project is investigating architectures and applications for scalable quantum information systems, sponsored by DARPA.
The center has four locations: MIT, U.C. Davis, U.C. Berkeley, and U. Washington. and the principle investigators are Professor Frederic Chong, Professor Isaac Chuang, Professor John Kubiatowicz, and Professor Mark Oskin.
Fred Chong  Isaac Chuang  John Kubiatowicz  Mark Oskin 

Objectives. This is a collaborative computer science and physical sciences effort to design a complete system architecture for a realistic programmable, arbitrary-scale quantum computer. Our focus is on designing components and systems which provide low-overhead fault-tolerance to enable solid-state quantum computation and application of quantum information to the real-world problems in secure distributed information storage.

Partners. We work closely with industrial partners in this research, including IBM (Yorktown and Almaden Research Centers), and with Hewlett-Packard basic research. We also have regular interaction with our industrial sponsors, including Motorola, Sun Microsystems, and the U.S. Postal Service, and twice-a-year meetings of the Things That Think research consortium at the MIT Media Laboratory.


Last modified on 07/19/2003 by John Kubiatowicz.