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Empowering the pursuit of quantum innovation
An enhanced understanding of the laws of quantum mechanics is enabling a quantum revolution that promises to transform a vast range of technologies critical to American competitiveness.
By hosting a multidisciplinary team of world-renowned researchers, ORNL is empowering scientists to pursue quantum innovation via theoretical and experimental research efforts, from the merger of quantum and classical computing architectures to designing and deploying secure, next-generation networks to developing more precise sensors. Through the lab’s broad quantum expertise and the renewal of DOE’s Quantum Science Center, ORNL is enabling the quantum future and building the diverse quantum workforce of tomorrow.
With diverse capabilities to support materials synthesis, fabrication, and characterization, ORNL researchers are exploring new approaches to storing, measuring, and transferring information via four primary capabilities: quantum computing, quantum materials, quantum networking, and quantum sensing.
Quantum Computing
Equipped with decades of leadership in high-performance computing, ORNL is working toward the integration of classical and quantum computing to assess the potential of quantum architectures and accelerate scientific discovery.
Quantum Materials
Leveraging the lab's suite of world-leading user facilities, such as the Spallation Neutron Source and Frontier supercomputer, ORNL researchers are developing and deploying materials capable of harnessing quantum effects.
Quantum Sensing
Using state-of-the-art quantum optics facilities, ORNL staff are developing next-generation sensors capable of detecting a range of phenomena, including dark matter, that currently elude today’s technology.
Quantum Networking
ORNL is working with cities, utility companies, and other partners to modernize and enhance security of the nation’s electric grid and set the standard for the integration of tomorrow’s quantum networks with today’s infrastructure.
ORNL's Quantum Leaders
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ORNL's Unique Quantum Edge
ORNL's Unique Quantum Edge
Heterogeneous Quantum Systems
Heterogeneous Quantum Systems
HQS aims to enable scalable networks of heterogeneous quantum computing and quantum sensing platforms through coherent transduction of quantum information, enabled by closely coordinated cross-cutting research themes.
Quantum Computing User Program
Quantum Computing User Program
The Quantum Computing User Program, managed by ORNL, provides access to a variety of state-of-the-art commercial quantum computing resources for purposes of discovery and innovation in scientific computing applications.
Quantum Science Center
Quantum Science Center
The Quantum Science Center (QSC) brings together world-leading expertise and unique capabilities from the national laboratories, academic institutions, and industry to realize its ambitious vision of a fault-tolerant quantum high-performance computing (QHPC) ecosystem, which will provide opportunity for unprecedented impacts on quantum computing, its ambitious vision of a fault-tolerant quantum high-performance computing (QHPC) ecosystem, which will provide opportunity for unprecedented impacts on quantum computing.
