U.S. Government Provides Grant of $7.5 Million to Research Graphene Based Qubits

The grant is provided by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) for a five year research project titled "Topological Spin Qubits Based on Graphene Nanoribbons". The team will be led by Professor Jeremy Levy of the University of Pittsburgh and include others researchers from the University of Pittsburgh, Michigan State University, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Harvard University and the University of Nebraska - Lincoln. The teams approach will combine advanced “top-down” lithographic capabilities with advanced “bottoms-up” synthetic chemistry protocols, so that atomically precise graphene nanoribbons can be created and manipulated in ways that may be useful for future quantum computing architectures. More information about this grant can be found in a news release on the University of Pittsburgh website here.

March 12, 2021