UCLA-Led Consortium Secures $4 Million NSF Grant for 60 Logical Qubit Trapped-Ion Architecture - Quantum Computing Report

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UCLA-Led Consortium Secures $4 Million NSF Grant for 60 Logical Qubit Trapped-Ion Architecture

Installation of an integrated-photonics surface ion trap into an experimental vacuum system.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has selected a multidisciplinary team led by the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to receive $4 million in funding. Awarded through the NSF’s National Quantum Virtual Laboratory (NQVL) initiative, the grant will support a new project titled FTL: Accelerating Fault-Tolerant Quantum Logic. The project’s central objective is to design a fault-tolerant quantum computer capable of deploying 60 logical (error-protected) qubits, establishing a blueprint for digital quantum simulations that exceed the capabilities of current classical supercomputers.