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JQI Researchers Win 2023 UMD Quantum Invention of the Year Award
To celebrate innovative campus research, the University of Maryland has been recognizing winners of the Inventions of the Year since 1987. In that time, 116 inventions have been awarded the high distinction, selected for their
- technical merit,
- improvements to existing technology,
- commercial potential, and
- overall benefit to society.
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This year Joint Quantum Institute (JQI), a research partnership between the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland, researchers and their colleagues have won in the quantum category for a new method for counting particles of light—photons—without destroying them. Non-destructively counting photons has potential uses in quantum computers and quantum networks that store information in quantum states of light.
The co-inventors nominated for their non-destructive photon counting protocol are:
- Alexey Gorshkov: JQI Fellow, Physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a Fellow of the Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science (QuICS) and Adjunct Professor in the UMD Department of Physics and UMIACS
- Michael J. Gullans: Physicist at NIST, QuICS Fellow and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the UMD Department of Physics and UMIACS
- Trey Porto: JQI Fellow, Physicist at NIST and Adjunct Professor in the UMD Department of Physics
- Chris Fechisin: JQI and QuICS graduate student
- Kunal Sharma: Former QuICS Hartree Postdoctoral Fellow
- Przemyslaw Bienias: Former JQI and QuICS postdoctoral researcher
- Steve Rolston: JQI Fellow and Professor in the UMD Department of Physics
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