Charles Tahan
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Today I am stepping down from my positions here at OSTP and at LPS and leaving the government. It has been an honor to serve the quantum ecosystem these past 15 years (17 if you include DARPA!), especially these last four at the White House. Thank you for your support on our many
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I’m looking for funding for my high temperature superconducting quantum computer AI GPT company. DM me.
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@quantum_graeme
Let’s be fair here. I think we should all be able to agree on the following:
1) The trend of “journal article as press release” in our field has to stop. If it’s a press release, just put out a PR.
2) If you go against the (long-time) norms of our field (not posting on the
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The National Quantum Initiative Advisory Committee and the National Quantum Coordination Office at the White House Eisenhower Executive Office Building, March 24, 2023. 🇺🇸⚛️
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The President about to sign the CHIPS and Science Act. A lot of work still to come but amazing day. Did you hear the quantum call out?
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Psyched to be leading the National Quantum Inititative!
And in other epic Tahan family news, my 5-year old graduated kindergarten AND learned to ride a bike, same day, today!
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Harvard Launches PhD in Quantum Science and Engineering
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Signing of the US-Swiss Quantum Cooperation Statement!🇺🇸🇨🇭⚛️
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After being quoted alongside Von Neumann today, I think it’s all downhill from here.
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Extremely excited to reveal today, the web presence of the National Quantum Initiative and the National Quantum Coordination Office! We’ve been working to get this launched all summer.
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How it started // How it’s going
Absolute honor to celebrate the centennial of Neils Bohr’s Nobel Prize and the founding of the NBI with my Denmark and USA colleagues.
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Oops…We did it again.
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Wow! Today is National Quantum Twitter day!
Congrats to DOE on launching their new QIS research centers! The 8 new DOE and NSF quantum research centers will support AT LEAST 400 PIs across the country!
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One of the joys of working at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building is walking by this picture of Noble Laureate and quantum physicist David Wineland.
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Today the House Science Committee introduced a bill to reauthorize and expand the National Quantum Initiative:
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Today, President Biden Announces Two Presidential Directives Advancing Quantum Technologies
The first, an Executive Order, reaffirms the Administration’s commitment to the NQI as a substantial and sustained national priority and establishes the NQIAC.
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You are the future of quantum! Happy World Quantum Day.
#WorldQuantumDay
@q12education
@levarburton
@WHOSTP
👇more quantum tweets below...
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I want to thank the 20+ quantum companies who joined us in-person and virtually at the White House for the first Summit on Quantum Industry and Society on Tuesday. Would have loved to have every q co participate but there are just too many now!
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Not my typical Director’s Letter from the National Quantum Coordination Office. A quantum wish for 2022…my thoughts on why quantum education is so important and a challenge for a museum like experience. Can we make QC visual?
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@chrisalbon
STOP talking shit about different qubits
Superconductor circuits have a huge phase space of possibilities
Semiconductor spins are small, fast, and can be made in silicon
Ion trap qubits are atomic clocks
Topological
Photonic qubits can travel long distances
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Happy Holidays from the National Quantum Coordination Office!
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Check out the second annual report of the National Quantum Initiative!
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Super-semi qubits that are 100x more dense, less noisy, AND agnostic to junction material? Yes, please:
w/ Tom Hazard, Jamie Kerman, and
@kyle_serniak
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Happening now - the first NQIAC meeting of the Biden-Harris Administration:
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Only 998,640 away from 1 million followers. Thank you quantum Twitter!
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Pleased to release the first annual report of the National Quantum Initiative today. Thanks to everyone who has been working so hard to get these great programs and initiatives up and running.
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Today the White House Subcommittee on Quantum Information Science released our strategy for workforce development in QIST! Check it out 👇
SCQIS Releases Strategic Plan for QIST Workforce - National Quantum Initiative
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We have an NQIAC.
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Eleanor
@NASAAmes
, Celia
@The_QEDC
, Emily
@IllinoisQuantum
@q12education
, Paul
@ScienceUnderSec
, and myself will be giving testimony to the House Science Committee tomorrow for the reauth of the NQI. Wish us luck!
BE THERE OR BE CLASSICAL.
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It was an honor to testify before the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee this morning on Advancing American Leadership in Quantum Technology and reauthorizing the NQI Act.
Watch the video:
Here is my written testimony:
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I’m announcing today a major role change. I’m moving full time to my new role as kindergarten and preschool teacher (which involves a lot of Zoom scheduling, apparently, and yelling, but I’m still learning). Physics, it’s been a good run, peace out.
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Pleased to release the latest report from the WH Subcommittee on QIS: Bringing Quantum Sensors to Fruition
We have an opportunity in the next few years to bring new quantum sensors out of the lab for health, defense, and other applications.
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Just some quantum coordinating going on…
@AGrassellino
@nanonoodle
@qnextquantum
@ORNL
@UCBerkeley
@IllinoisQuantum
@JointQuICS
@UChicago
LQC
@AFResearchLab
#NQCO
I had a really great and useful discussion with all the NQI Directors, check out the readout 👇
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Get your qubits on folks: LPS/ARO releases Qubits for Computing Foundry Request for Information (RFI). Should we fund qubit foundries? Your responses will help us assess supply (interest and capability) and demand (need from the research community).
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Getting my suit ready for tomorrow’s session in Las Vegas
#APSMarch
Special
#APSMarch
session 8pm on Monday: "Quantum Information Science and Engineering — The first four years of the National Quantum Initiative," with
@krystasvore
, David Awschalom, Emily Edwards,
@tahantech
, Dave Wineland, and me. See you there!
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Real honor to be present at the signing of the US-France Quantum Cooperation Statement today. 🇺🇸🇫🇷⚛️
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“we’ll work together with our democratic partners to ensure that new advances in areas from biotechnology, to quantum computing, 5G, artificial intelligence, and more are used to lift people up, to solve problems, and advance human freedom”
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Unveiling of the Korea-US Quantum Technology Cooperation Center, with NQCO in attendance!
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Talking quantum at the White House today with the French JCM delegation.
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We released today the Quantum Frontiers Report , which incorporates all the feedback from the RFI’s and Agency workshops when the National Strategy and NQI were announced. You can find the key challenges in these categories:
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Event here:
“This increase in research and development funding is going to ensure that the United States leads the world in the industries of the future: quantum computing, to artificial intelligence, to advanced biotechnology.” - President Biden
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Really great seeing so many longtime colleagues again in person today at the White House!
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Out of nowhere, Siri just told a quantum computing joke.
I feel seen.
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Big day for quantum security!
NIST Announces First Four Quantum-Resistant Cryptographic Algorithms | NIST
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Democratizing spin qubits; or, How to make semiconductor-based quantum computers without fabricating quantum dot qubits.
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The National Quantum Coordination Office in force (and socially distanced) at DOE today.
#couldbeyou
#NQCO
Wrapping up a successful QIS Program Day with 120+ technical experts and program managers from all across the government (virtually). Thank you
@doescience
for hosting us!
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Working on gatemon-like qubits? You may not understand what you are measuring. Check out this new theory of super-semi weak-link junctions from LPS and Lincoln Lab:
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OMG, Did you miss this?
Yesterday, Assistant Secretary Medina &
@DKambUSA
signed a U.S-Denmark Joint Statement on Cooperation in Quantum Information Science & Technology. Enhanced cooperation will enable both countries to explore quantum’s potential to address societal challenges.
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The first meeting of the National Quantum Initiative Advisory Committee is tomorrow (and open to the public), if you want to get all science policy nerdy with us...
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Thank you
@quantum_jake
for your great service
@WHOSTP
. Excited to keep the momentum going in QIS.
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“Grand” unveiling of the Qubit Zoo. The world needs new and better qubits, submit yours now (old or new). Gates too.
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New report out of the White House Subcommittee on Economic and Security Implications of Quantum Science (ESIX) highlights the vital role that international talent and cooperation plays in our field.
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So the
@APSphysics
March meeting is charging late fees for a virtual conference. And that fee is $520. Come on!
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Pleased to announce great progress on the LPS qubit foundry program.
Qubits for Computing Foundry (QCF) announcement | LPS Qubit Collaboratory
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I love this picture! Truly, 2^N.
Pursuing Quantum Information Together
🌎⚛️🤲
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Fortunately, every day is World Quantum Day for me. But we want to bring
#WorldQuantumDay
to everyone. Bookmark this page
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New BAA out from LPS/ARO! - QUANTUM COMPUTING in the SOLID STATE with SPIN and SUPERCONDUCTING SYSTEMS (QC-S5). Check it out 👇
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Launching the new NSF Center for Quantum Networks RIGHT NOW at
@UAZResearch
with Governor
@dougducey
, Saikat Guha,
@Dirk_Englund
, and more!
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Great talk from Nobel Laureate Bill Phillips on the history of US-France collaboration on laser cooling
@JQInews
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Very qool.
[2202.03605] Universal logic with encoded spin qubits in silicon
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Daughter: “Dad, next year you are going to build a quantum computer.”
Me: “Why do you say that?”
Daughter: “Because your fortune says: FOCUS ON YOUR LONG-TERM GOAL. YOUR WISH WILL BE GRANTED NEXT YEAR. So next year you are going to build one.”
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Expansion of National Quantum Initiative Pitched to Science Committee -
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Join us tomorrow as the NQIAC discusses its recommendations for the NQI.
Federal Register :: National Quantum Initiative Advisory Committee
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Important 👇
DOD announces Request for Solutions for the Microelectronics Commons - National Quantum Initiative
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So, today we're reducing the hype around quantum computing...on clubhouse?
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Bill Nye reminded us that the Constitution asks Congress to promote science. Article I, Section 8, Clause 8, of the United States Constitution grants Congress the enumerated power "To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and
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LPS and NQCO hold workshop on recruiting QIS talent to the federal government. - National Quantum Initiative
Find the summary here:
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“Let’s quantum together, Happy World Quantum Day!” from the National Quantum Coordination Office, Office of Science and Technology Policy, White House.
#WorldQuantumDay
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Some cool new dual-rail qubit proposals out from Yale & Co this week:
People who know me know that I love encoded qubits in both spins/super qubits, eg:
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That was fast; and completely expected.
[2306.14887] Efficient tensor network simulation of IBM's kicked Ising experiment
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So my daughter (6) asked me tonight: Are girls allowed to be president?
(After having found a placemat of the presidents.) Stopped time for a moment.
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Glad to get the latest NQCO newsletter out...
The State of Quantum – Highlighting the NSF Center for Quantum Networks – National Quantum Initiative
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#apsmarch
The LPS Qubit Collaboratory is hiring!
(
#quantumtwitter
please retweet, also how do you like our logo?)
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Hey, cool, seems like our proposal for quiet acceptor qubits (see figure 3) was realized by Sven's group:
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Something special is happening at LPS 👇. Announcing the LPS Qubit Collaboratory.
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New labs and positions at LPS:
- Quantum Systems for Sensing and/or Transduction
- Disruptive Qubits for Quantum Information Science
- Novel Electromagnetics and RF
- Integrated Photonics for HPC
- Active Devices for Beyond Moore's / Cryologic
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