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The Chicago Quantum Exchange (CQE) is a community of researchers from academia, national laboratories, industry, and government working on the science and technology of quantum information. Founded in 2017 and anchored by the University of Chicago, CQE connects Argonne National Laboratory, Fermilab, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Northwestern University, and over 100 corporate partners including Boeing, IBM, Motorola Solutions, Applied Materials, and JPMorganChase. CQE operates the Chicago quantum network testbed, one of the world's most advanced metropolitan quantum networking infrastructures, connecting the University of Chicago campus to Argonne National Laboratory via dedicated quantum optical fibre. The testbed has demonstrated multi-node quantum entanglement distribution and quantum teleportation over metropolitan distances, and it serves as a development platform for US quantum internet protocols. CQE's Bloch Center for Quantum Technology Education trains the quantum workforce through undergraduate, graduate, and professional development programmes. CQE coordinates with SQMS, hosted at Fermilab, and Q-NEXT, hosted at Argonne, two of the five DOE National Quantum Information Science Research Centers, making Chicago the USA's most concentrated quantum research ecosystem. The exchange facilitates industry-academic partnerships that have spun out quantum computing companies and quantum sensing ventures from the Chicago quantum ecosystem. Update 2025-08-14: K1 Semiconductor has joined the Chicago Quantum Exchange to advance wafer technology. Source: https://quantumzeitgeist.com/k1-semiconductor-joins-chicago-quantum-exchange-to-advance-wafer-technology/
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