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$8M for nanoscale quantum systems at Sherbrooke, McGill, and Concordia
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Jun 2015:
The Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI), the Quebec government, and
other partners have recently announced support for the New Initiative for
Quantum Information Science and Technology (NIQUIST) of nearly $8M.
The
NIQUIST project aims to push nanofabrication barriers to reveal new
phenomena and enable development of nanoscale devices whose quantum
coherence properties could transform our information, sensing, and
communication technologies.
Led by Profs.
Reulet,
Fournier,
and Pioro-Ladriere at the University of
Sherbrooke, the NIQUIST research team brings together scientists at
Sherbrooke with collaborators at McGill and Concordia, including Profs.
Childress,
Gervais, and
Sankey in McGill's Department of Physics. The
project funding will support a world-class set of nanofabrication and
characterization tools, notably including a new multi-beam focused ion beam
facility at Sherbrooke that will be unique in Canada. McGill's Department
of Physics will gain access to this infrastructure, as well as benefitting
from nearly $0.8M for related equipment in Prof. Childress' and Sankey's
laboratories. Moreover, the NIQUIST project will foster collaborations
between nano-science researchers at the three universities.
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