QMC Engineer Doug Bensen has been awarded the Dean's Outstanding Employee Award for his dedication and effort to assist all manner of technical challenges in our center and other parts of the physics department. Congrats Doug - well deserved!! You can read an excellent story about Doug here.

A new report by CIFAR overviews quantum technology R&D strategies and initiatives in a selection of countries with comprehensive policy measures. The report overviews the three primary areas of quantum technologies, then highlights the policy measures taken by different countries to support quantum R&D. Download the full report here.

The team of QMC faculty member Vlad Manucharyan have reported a record coherence time for their fluxonium qubit, achieving an average single-qubit gate fidelity above 0.9999, surpassing that of any other solid-state quantum system. Combined with recent demonstrations of two-qubit gates on fluxoniums, this result paves the way for the next generation of quantum processors. See preprint at https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.08578

QMC is in search of candidates for its Administrative Coordinator position. This position is responsible for managing, planning, and implementing operational and administrative activities, including financial, personnel, procurement, events planning, and travel operations. The Coordinator is also responsible for interpreting, articulating, and implementing university, state, and federal travel and procurement policies and meet all audit requirements related to these functions. QMC is currently comprised of 17 tenure/tenure track faculty, 20 faculty affiliates, 50 research faculty (scientists, post-doctoral associates, faculty assistants), and in excess of 70 graduate and undergraduate assistants. QMC faculty members have annual research funding of approximately $3M.

The job posting can be found here.