The US National Quantum Initiative Origins Impacts And Perspectives

Since the U.S. National Quantum Initiative Act was passed into law in 2018, research and development in quantum information science and technology/engineering (QIST/E) has greatly accelerated. I will review the basic promises of QIST/E and assess areas where rapid progress is expected in the near term. And I will discuss activities in other countries and opportunities for growth in the sector. Michael Raymer is a University of Oregon Physics Professor and a Knight Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences Emeritus. His research is in quantum optics, lasers, atomic and molecular physics, and quantum information science. He earned a PhD at the University of Colorado Boulder. He held a tenured faculty position at the University of Rochester’s Institute of Optics before moving to UO in 1988. He was the founding Director of the UO’s Center for Optical, Molecular, and Quantum Science. He was instrumental in the passage of the National Quantum Initiative Act in 2018. His current research includes the coherent manipulation of single-photon states for use in quantum communication systems and quantum sensors, as well as the use of two-photon entangled states for probing the structure and dynamics of molecular systems of biological interest.