Joe Lykken
All Engineers Retreat
February 18, 2020
New Engineering Technologies
at Fermilab
• Accelerators and Beams
• AI and Robotics
• Applied materials and Advanced fabrication
• Computing
• Cryogenics
• Detector technology
• Magnet technology
• Quantum technology
• SRF technology
• Targetry technologies
Ten technologies included in the draft
Fermilab Technology Strategy report
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• Accelerators and Beams ✓ ✓
• AI and Robotics ✓
• Applied materials and Advanced fabrication ✓
• Computing ✓ ✓
• Cryogenics ✓
• Detector technology ✓
• Magnet technology ✓ ✓
• Quantum technology ✓
• SRF technology ✓ ✓
• Targetry technologies ✓
Ten technologies included in the draft
Fermilab Technology Strategy report
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✓ = has national and/or DOE strategic importance
✓ = critical technology for Fermilab science program
• Accelerators and Imagers for astronomy beyond cosmology,
planet search for example
• Medical instrumentation, in particular exploring the use of
superconducting sensor technology as well as picosecond time
resolution detectors for medical applications
• Space instrumentation for radiation detector in small satellites
(CubeSat and others)
• Neutron imaging for thermal neutrons and ultra-cold neutrons;
• Quantum metrology (such as quantum realization of the
ampere)
• Gravitational wave and gravitational anomaly detection
• Reactor monitoring with neutrino detectors
Critical technologies for Fermilab also have
broader applications: e.g. detector technology:
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• Accelerators and Beams
• AI and Robotics
• Applied materials and Advanced fabrication
• Computing
• Cryogenics
• Detector technology
• Magnet technology
• Quantum technology
• SRF technology
• Targetry technologies
Ten technologies included in the draft
Fermilab Technology Strategy report
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National Quantum Initiative
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A FOA to establish up to five DOE NQI
centers was issued Jan 10
Goal: Produce high impact quantum science and technology results in
the near term, while building capacity for HEP needs in the long term
Fermilab is engaging with the National Quantum Initiative in ways
appropriate to our role as the main HEP lab:
• Focus on the science
• Exploit existing Fermilab expertise and infrastructure
• Keep Fermilab activities aligned to HEP program needs
• Engage partners who already have leading quantum expertise
• Find out where HEP can have impact on QIS, including tech transfer
• Act as a gateway and hub for the larger HEP community to engage
with quantum science and technology
Fermilab Quantum Science Program
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Lykken | All Engineers Retreat2/18/208 Adapted from a slide by John Preskill
Intersecting Quantum Frontiers
Energy and Intensity CosmicQuantum
Information
Higgs boson: quantum vacuum
Neutrinos: quantum superposition and mixing
Muon g-2: detecting virtual quantum effects
Quantum gravity
Dark energy: quantum vacuum
Dark matter: interactions and identity
Cosmic inflation and cosmic singularities
Gravitational waves
Quantum entanglement
Quantum coherence
Quantum simulation
Spacetime emergent from quantum information
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Website: quantum.fnal.gov
• Task 1: HEP Simulations on Quantum Computers
• Task 2: Quantum Networks and Algorithms
• Task 3: Superconducting Quantum Materials and Devices
• Task 4: Quantum Sensors for Dark Matter
New for FY20: consolidation of the DOE HEP
“QuantISED” research program hosted at Fermilab
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• Caltech
• UC Berkeley
• Stanford
• U. Colorado
• Yale
• Georgia Tech
• U. Chicago
• IIT
• U. Illinois Urbana-Champaign
17 universities currently collaborating with Fermilab
on DOE-funded quantum research
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• Northwestern
• Purdue
• Johns Hopkins
• Harvard
• M.I.T.
• U. Washington
• U. Wisconsin
• U. Liverpool
10 of these collaborations are with non-HEP groups
Many opportunities for new collaborations with university
engineering departments
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recent news about industry partners
Google paper reports how their 53 qubit
superconducting Sycamore system
outperformed Summit, the world’s largest
supercomputer
From Quantum Supremacy to
Quantum Advantage
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White House briefing on Google
quantum supremacy result 10/22/19
Fermilab is working with Google to
explore physics problems where NISQ
era quantum computers might show the
possibility of a quantum advantage
From Quantum Supremacy to
Quantum Advantage
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Running on Google: Variational Quantum Eigensolvers (VQE) for non-relativistic fermion-boson systems, in a codesign activity
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Sept 16-17 2019
Aug 22-23 2019
Fermilab lab for superconducting quantum systems
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Using Fermilab’s world-leading expertise and
infrastructure related to superconducting materials
and RF/microwave cavities, developed originally for
particle accelerators
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QIS state-of-the-art: 7 ms
>300x
Pushing transformational advances in quantum coherence
A. Romanenko, R. Pilipenko, S. Zorzetti, D. Frolov, M. Awida, S. Posen, A. GrassellinoarXiv:1810.03703 to appear in Phys. Rev. Appl.
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Example: gravitationally lensed
images of galaxies
Fermilab collaboration with Lockheed Martin on
quantum AI for object classification
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quantum sensors for HEP discovery
Aaron Chou (Fermilab)Konrad Lehnert (U. Colorado) Reina Maruyama (Yale)David Schuster (U.Chicago)
Quantum sensors for dark matter detection
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Daniel Bowring
R. Khatiwada, A. Dixit,
A. Agrawal, D. Speller
2018 DOE Early Career Award
supported by the DOE HEP QuantISED program
Using superconducting qubits to make a quantum non-demolition measurement of microwave photon number (amplitude) while ignoring the phase
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Has already achieved in situ photon counting sensitivity 17 dB better than the Standard Quantum Limit
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Quantum sensors for axion dark matter detection
• Will be built in the access shaft to
the Fermilab underground
neutrino area
• Requires a 100 meter shielded
large aperture high vacuum
system
• We make these for accelerators…
MAGIS-100 cold atom gradiometer: an incredibly sensitive quantum measuring device, first of its kind
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Linda Valerio
Rob Plunkett
supported by the DOE HEP QuantISED program
Jason Hogan PI (Stanford)
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MAGIS-100 cold atom gradiometer: using atom interferometry to compare
free falling accelerometers
MAGIS will be a quantum measuring device enabled by quantum
coherence over distances of several meters and times of several seconds
• Use the same ultra-cold atoms that are the basis of
the best atomic clocks
• Create quantum superpositions of atoms at the
human scale
• Sensitive to ultralight dark matter
• Technology pathfinder for future gravitational wave
detectors
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quantum communications at Fermilab
• Developing a high fidelity, high rate quantum communications system using quantum teleportation
• Link Fermilab, Argonne, Northwestern including downtown Chicago
• First steps toward a Quantum Internet
FQNET and IEQNET quantum networks
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Panagiotis SpentzourisFermilab
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Panagiotis SpentzourisFermilab
• Developing a high fidelity, high rate quantum communications system using quantum teleportation
• Link Fermilab, Argonne, Northwestern including downtown Chicago
• First steps toward a Quantum Internet
FQNET and IEQNET quantum networks
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Recent INQNET technology advances from Caltech
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The Quantum Internet Project
• DOE is preparing to launch a project with the ultimate goal of
connecting all 17 national labs with a high fidelity high rate
quantum teleportation network
• Feb 5-6 workshop preparing the way for a CD-0
Questions?
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