Yale Officials Say $4 Million NSF Grant Will Boost Unique Approach to Quantum Computing

Insider BriefPRESS RELEASE — A Yale-led project — aided by a national community of researchers — has reached the next step in its effort to develop the first large-scale, error-correcting quantum computer.More than a year ago, the ERASE project — Erasure Qubits and Dynamic Circuits for Quantum Advantage — was one of six pilot projects awarded $1 million grants by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Those pilot projects all drew upon the expertise of the National Quantum Virtual Laboratory, an online group of researchers in computer applications and algorithms, software, and systems architecture.On June 24, the NSF announced a new, $4 million grant that will support ERASE’s second phase of work and is expected to advance efforts to expand the quantum workforce in New Haven.In this new phase, ERASE will develop an initial blueprint for the hardware and software necessary for its unique approach to quantum computing, the project’s leaders say. It will also expand its efforts to develop a quantum tech workforce in Connecticut, along with industry partner D-Wave Quantum, which in January acquired the Yale start-up company Quantum Circuits, Inc.At the heart of the project is a new way to tackle error correction, featuring “erasure flag” quantum bits that identify errors when they occur, making them easier to fix, said Yale’s Steven Girvin, the principal investigator for ERASE.“The particular hardware architecture we are developing with D-Wave Quantum is quite different from existing architectures because the dual-resonator, or erasure, qubits can raise a flag when the dominant error occurs,” said Steven Girvin, who is also Sterling Professor of Physics in Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) and professor of applied physics at Yale School of Engineering and Applied Science (Yale Engineering).“To take full advantage of this capability, we will need the help of a national community of researchers from physics, computer science and related fields who can experiment at all levels of the system ‘stack’ to find the best ways to utilize this error flag information,” Girvin said. “We will need new algorithms, new software, new compilers, and new quantum error correction protocols.”Co-PIs on the project are Michael Hatridge, an associate professor of applied physics at Yale Engineering, Christine Broadbridge of Southern Connecticut State University, Margaret Martonosi of Princeton, and Xiaodi Wu of the University of Maryland.Additional senior members of the project from Yale include Yongshan Ding, assistant professor of computer science and applied physics at Yale Engineering; Shruti Puri, assistant professor of applied physics at Yale Engineering and assistant professor of physics at FAS; and Aleksander Kubica, assistant professor of applied physics at Yale Engineering.The second phase of the ERASE project will last two years, Hatridge said.“What will happen in this phase is that we will expand our research and workforce and education efforts, build out our interface between our physical hardware and researchers who want to work on algorithms, compilation, and error correction in our unique erasure-qubit hardware, and develop a detailed plan for the hardware we plan to build in phase 3,” Hatridge said.He added that D-Wave Quantum’s research and development component of the project will be based in New Haven. “D-Wave Quantum will be substantially expanding the New Haven workforce,” he said.TopicsShare Get the latest research, company news, and market intelligence every week. MENTIONED IN THE ARTICLED-Wave is a full stack technology provider. They provide cloud services, application development tools, and other services that support end to end quantum computing for enterprises and developers. The business focuses on superconducting qubits (both annealing and gate based implementations)Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut that was founded in 1701. It is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution.Princeton University is a private Ivy League research institution located in Princeton, New Jersey. It traces its roots back to 1746 when it was established as the College of New Jersey in Elizabeth. Being one of the United States' oldest higher education institutions, it's now recognized as the fourth-oldest. The university transitioned through various locations, finally settling in its current site. It achieved university status in 1896 and was later renamed Princeton University.The University of Maryland, College Park, situated in Maryland, is a public research university. Established in 1856, it holds the position of being the main campus of the University System of Maryland. It also holds the distinction of being the biggest university in both the state and the Washington metropolitan area.More in Research 2026 © Resonance Alliance Inc.

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