Caltech's Institute for Quantum Information and Matter (IQIM) Receives New 6-Year Grant

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Caltech's hub for cutting-edge quantum research, the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter, or IQIM, $13.8 million to support six more years of operations. IQIM is one of several NSF Physics Frontiers Centers, which bring together a collection of research groups, often across disciplines, and are designed to "foster major breakthroughs at the intellectual frontiers of physics."

"Quantum research centers are springing up all over the world in recent years, but NSF recognizes that IQIM has a unique and valuable role," says John Preskill, the Allen V. C. Davis and Lenabelle Leadership Chair of IQIM and the Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics. "We've built a highly interconnected community focused on exploiting quantum technology for scientific discovery. We're proud of our past accomplishments, but more importantly, this new award will enable IQIM to lead further advances in quantum science that lay the foundations for extraordinary future applications." [Caltech story]