Maryland

In 2020, the University of Maryland joined Berkeley Lab and other renowned research partners to create the $115M Department of Energy-funded Quantum Systems Accelerator (QSA). Over the last five years, the QSA has forged the technological solutions needed to harness quantum information science, including a UMD effort to build and use ion-trap systems, considered a leading candidate for building scalable quantum computers. The QSA has strengthened the nation’s research community to ensure U.S. leadership in quantum R&D and accelerate the transfer of quantum technologies from the lab to the marketplace.