Grant to bring quantum chips closer
Dr Michael Kraft, pictured, from the University of Southampton’s School of Electronics and Computer Science and Professor Edward Hinds of Imperial College, London, have been awarded a £1.2 million Basic Technology Translation Grant from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) to develop atom chip devices. The two researchers say they will take building blocks developed over the past four years and integrate them on a single chip. The work is expected to bring quantum computing a step closer.
Dr Michael Kraft, pictured, from the University of Southampton’s School of Electronics and Computer Science and Professor Edward Hinds of Imperial College, London, have been awarded a £1.2 million Basic Technology Translation Grant from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) to develop atom chip devices. Two researchers say they will take building blocks developed over the past four years and integrate them on a single chip. The work is expected to bring quantum computing a step closer.
Specific devices to be explored include atomic clocks, accelerometers, interferometers, magnetometers, single photon sources, quantum information processors and molecule traps.
“Over the past four years,” said Dr Kraft, “we have done the fundamental research into atom chips. Now it’s time to make application orientated devices.”
