Summary
The Synthetic Quantum Nanostructures (SynQuaNon) Disruption Opportunity aims to develop novel classes of superconducting metamaterials for new capabilities in Quantum Information Science (QIS).
Recent years have seen tremendous advances in the use of nanopatterned electronic materials and heterostructures to tune, manipulate, or enhance material properties including phonon-mediated superconductivity and thermal transport.
Building upon these insights, SynQuaNon seeks to demonstrate the 'bottom-up' design and synthesis of functional quantum metamaterials for superconducting nanoelectronics.
The range of devices and applications explored within SynQuaNon include superconducting qubits at elevated temperatures and frequency regimes; single photon detector arrays for new regimes of sensing, imaging, and communication; and quantum-limited millimeter wave signal processing architectures.