UTC Quantum Information Science and Engineering program off to a great start
That is thanks to almost $800,000 in funding over three years from the National Science Foundation.
Thanks to an almost $800,000 funding award from the National Science Foundation, the Quantum Information Science and Engineering (QISE) program at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC) is off to a great start.
The grant funding will be awarded incrementally over three years, beginning this month and concluding in October 2027. It will enable the hiring of postdoctoral researchers, graduate students, and undergraduates — and the purchase of specialized instruments — to be involved in a research project overseen by Dr. Tian Li. He is the UTC Quantum Center’s Chief Technology Officer and an Assistant Professor of Physics. Collaborating with Li on the project is Dr. Girish Agarwal, a Texas A&M University Professor of Biological and Agricultural Engineering with a joint appointment in physics and astronomy.
They will investigate “a novel theoretical and experimental scheme for demonstrating distributed quantum sensing on a metropolitan-scale fiber-optic quantum network in downtown Chattanooga.” That would be the EPB Quantum Network powered by Qubitekk, Inc. The network was launched in late 2022 as the world’s first software-reconfigurable commercial quantum network, and UTC is connected to the network via its Quantum Node Lab on campus.
So, what is “distributed quantum sensing?” And how is it demonstrated? Click on the UTC news release to learn.
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