Quantum Explorations in Science and Technology (QuEST) Seed Grants

In October 2018, CU Boulder’sÌýResearch & Innovation Office, in partnership with theÌýCollege of Engineering and Applied Science, theÌýCollege of Arts and Sciences,ÌýJILAÌýand theÌýNational Institute of Standards and Technology, announced a new funding opportunity to support multi-disciplinary, trans-institutional research partnerships that will be competitive for future funding opportunities of the National Quantum Initiative and other quantum research solicitations.

Ìý Jan. 15, 2019: Awardees Announced ÌýÌý Original Call for Proposals Ìý

The 2018 QuEST awardees, announced on January 15, 2019, are listedÌýbelow.Ìý

Research Mixer Participants

TheÌýQuantum Research Mixer—held on Nov. 12, 2018—was designed to help catalyze quantum research collaborations across campus for QuEST.

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2018 QuEST Seed Grant Winners

Victor Bright
  • PI Affiliation: Mechanical Engineering
  • Co-PI: Juliet Gopinath (Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering), Scott Papp (NIST)
  • Title: Entangled frequency combs in a liquid droplet
Gang Cao
  • PI Affiliation: Physics
  • Co-PI: Sandeep Sharma (Chemistry)
  • Title: Quantum Entanglement in Strongly Spin-Orbit Coupled Matter
Dan Dessau
  • PI Affiliation: Physics, JILA
  • Co-PI: Prashant Nagpal (Chemical & Biological Engineering, RASEI)
  • Title: Topological superconductivity and Majorana quasiparticles
Juliet Gopinath
  • PI Affiliation: Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering
  • Co-PI: Krister Shalm (NIST, Physics), Wounjhang Park (Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering)
  • Title: A Loophole-Free Bell Test on a Chip
Aaron Holder
  • PI Affiliation: Chemical and Biological Engineering
  • Co-PI: Andriy Zakutayev (NREL, RASEI)
  • Title: Unleashing High-throughput Materials Design into the Quantum Realm
Svenja Knappe
  • PI Affiliation: Mechanical Engineering
  • Co-PI: Matt Brubaker (NIST), Kristine Bertness (NIST)
  • Title: A chip-scale atomic clock based on nanowire LEDs
Heather Lewandowski
  • PI Affiliation: Physics, JILA
  • Co-PI: Sarah Miller (College of Engineering & Applied Science, BOLD Center) and Benjamin Zwickl (Physics, Rochester Institute of Technology)
  • Title: Quantum Education and Workforce Development
Josef Michl
  • PI Affiliation: Chemistry
  • Co-PI: T Mitch Wallis (NIST)
  • Title: Porphene: An Analog of Graphene and a New Quantum Material
Sanghamitra Neogi
  • PI Affiliation: Aerospace Engineering Sciences
  • Co-PI: Fabian Menges (Physics, JILA)
  • Title: Controlling the quantum state of atom-like defects via topologically engineered phonon polariton modes
Marco Nicotra
  • PI Affiliation: Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering
  • Co-PI: David Leibrandt (NIST, Physics)
  • Title: Advanced Control Algorithms for Trapped-ion Quantum MetrologyÌý
Wounjhang Park
  • PI Affiliation: Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering
  • Co-PI: Ralph Jimenez (JILA, NIST)
  • Title: Photon and nanomaterials engineering for quantum-enhanced biosensing
Zoya Popovic
  • PI Affiliation: Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering
  • Co-PI: Dana Anderson (Physics, JILA)
  • Title: Millimeter-wave antenna array processing using laser-cooled Rydberg atoms
Markus Raschke
  • PI Affiliation: Physics, Chemistry, JILA
  • Co-PI: Scott Diddams (NIST)
  • Title: Single molecule vibrational strong coupling with nano-cavities: A new regime of quantum opto-mechanics
Cindy Regal
  • PI Affiliation: Physics, JILA
  • Co-PI: Bob Mcleod (Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering), Adam Kaufman (NIST, JILA, Physics)
  • Title: Ultrastable spatial light modulators for quantum state assembly with neutral atoms and entanglement-assisted clocks
Charles Rogers
  • PI Affiliation: Physics
  • Co-PI: Victor Bright (Mechanical Engineering), Steve George (Chemistry)
  • Title: Improved gallium nitride nanowire mechanical damping and optical absorption for quantum-limited sensors
Sean Shaheen
  • PI Affiliation: Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering
  • Co-PI: Markus Raschke (Physics, Chemistry, JILA)
  • Title: Room Temperature Coherence and Condensation in Exciton-Polariton States: Toward Practical Quantum Phenomena in Cavity-Coupled Perovskite Materials
L. Krister Shalm
  • PI Affiliation: NIST, Physics
  • Co-PI: Kate Stange (Mathematics), Paul Beale (Physics)
  • Title: A quantum randomness beacon
Bart Van Zeghbroeck
  • PI Affiliation: Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering
  • Co-PI: Sam Benz (NIST) & Paul Hale (NIST)
  • Title: Cryometrology and Sampling Technology for Future Quantum Networking, Communication and Computing Systems
Xiaobo Yin
  • PI Affiliation: Mechanical Engineering
  • Co-PI: Markus Raschke (Physics, Chemistry, JILA), Baowen Li (Mechanical Engineering)
  • Title: Local exciton control in 2D transition metal dichalcogenides: an enabling platform for quantum sensors and memoriesÌý