NSF to Provide Supplemental Funding for Quantum Computing Platform Access

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has issued a "Dear Colleague Letter" offering supplemental funding for currently active NSF awards to support quantum research using quantum cloud resources available from IBM Quantum, Microsoft Quantum, and Amazon Braket. Each funding request could be for an amount of up to $50,000 which would pay for the costs for the use of quantum simulators and hardware platforms as well as support for a graduate student for a period of one year. The research must be in one of the following areas:

1. Quantum algorithms and their experimental realization;

2. Quantum compiler and run-time infrastructure design;

3. Fault-tolerant computing and other methods to boost the performance of existing quantum-computing hardware;

4. Benchmarking of architectures, systems, algorithms, and scalable error-correction techniques;

5. Quantum simulations, optimizations, cryptography, and machine learning; and

6. Demonstrations of feasibility for applications of quantum algorithms.

The deadline for a Principal Investigator (PI) to submit a funding request for this program is July 8, 2022. Additional details can be seen in the "Dear Colleague Letter" located on the NSF website here.

June 4, 2022