FOM and Microsoft continue research on topological quantum computation
FOM and Microsoft have recently extended their current collaboration in a new Industrial Partnership Programme (IPP). The research team, under the supervision of professor Leo Kouwenhoven (TU Delft) addresses fundamental physics challenges in the development of topological quantum bits (qubits).
This research is based on the Majorana quasi-particles that were discovered in the first, still ongoing IPP with Microsoft. The work on topological quantum computation forms part of the activities of QuTech, a new research centre in Delft that focuses on the development of quantum technology. Over the next five years NWO/FOM will contribute a total of M€ 7.5 to QuTech, in part through this new IPP with Microsoft. QuTech has recently been awarded the prestigious National Icon status.
Industrial Partnership Programmes are research programmes in which FOM links academic knowledge to industrial ambitions through pioneering physics research in close cooperation with industry. Companies involved finance at least half of the research.
Further information:
Video about quantum computing physics@FOM
The lecture of Leo Kouwenhoven at Physics@FOM Veldhoven 2013
About QuTech and the start of QuTech
Quantum computation in the New York Times
For more information please contact Michiel van den Hout, +31 (0)30 600 12 17.