UChicago launches landmark initiative with IonQ to advance quantum research and collaboration

Abstraction: UChicago and IonQ partnership advancing quantum computing and networking

Key points:

• IonQ will become the third core partner of the Chicago Quantum Exchange (CQE), joining Boeing and IBM
• The new IonQ Center for Engineering and Science will house UChicago PME and CQE offices; Illinois committed $175M in 2019 for quantum infrastructure
• The fiber quantum testbed connecting UChicago, Argonne, and Fermilab will expand; at 124 miles it is already one of the nation's longest quantum networks
• IonQ's production-grade trapped-ion quantum computers and entanglement-distribution network will be deployed directly on a university campus for the first time
• Nature ranked UChicago first among U.S. universities in quantum research in 2025
• Initiative could seed more than 140 research and technology development projects

Connections: University Of Chicago · Ionq · Chicago Quantum Exchange · Quantum Computing · Quantum Networking · Trapped Ion Qubits

Source: https://news.uchicago.edu/story/uchicago-launches-landmark-initiative-ionq-advance-quantum-research-and-collaboration