Facilities and Instrumentation

The NQISRCs develop and leverage world-class research facilities and instrumentation at the DOE national laboratories and across the national QIS ecosystem. New tools and capabilities developed by the Centers include qubit fabrication and characterization, quantum processors and quantum sensors, experimental platforms, advanced quantum control systems and software, advanced materials and properties characterization for quantum devices, ultralow temperature cryogenic facilities and components testing. By developing and drawing on these resources, the centers connect industry and academic partners with powerful tools found nowhere else in the world, creating bridges across companies, universities, and national labs.

Some of the new flagship facilities developed by the NQISRCs include:

• The SQMS Quantum Garage at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
• Argonne Quantum Foundry, established by Q-NEXT
• The QSC QUIET and LOUD twin underground and above-ground facilities at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
• The SQMS QSET Lab at Northwestern University
• The SQMS Quantum Devices Fabrication and Material Characterization Labs at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
• The SLAC Detector Microfabrication (DMF) Facility at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory supported by Q-NEXT.
• The QSA-developed magnetoARPES capability at the Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

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The DOE quantum research centers also leverage unique facilities and have made investments to upgrade and tailor some of their instruments specifically to advance QIS research, such as:

X-ray light sources to probe atomic and electronic structures, such as:

• Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory.
• The Advanced Light Source at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
• The National Synchrotron Light Source II at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
• The Spallation Neutron Source at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. 
• Microscopy technologies for examining quantum devices such as the SIF at Ames National Laboratory

Advanced lithographic, etching, and deposition tools at the DOE nanocenters:

• Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN) at Brookhaven National Laboratory
• Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT), jointly administered by Los Alamos National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratory
• Center for Nanoscale Materials (CNM), at Argonne National Laboratory
• Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS), at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• The Molecular Foundry (TMF) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Powerful supercomputers for simulating quantum environments and performing complex calculations such as:

• The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
• Argonne Leadership Computing Facility at Argonne National Laboratory
• National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Quantum testbeds:

• Advanced Quantum Computing (AQT) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• QSCOUT at Sandia National Laboratory
• Quantum Network Testbed at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory