Penn QUIEST supports research in the following key areas:
Synthesis, characterization and optimization of materials for the storage, manipulation or transduction of quantum information.
Realization of new qubits, quantum sensors and quantum interconnects, especially in combination with integrated electronics and photonics architectures.
Theory of quantum information processing, new architectures for intermediate-scale and fault-tolerant quantum processors, and quantum networking.
Optimization of quantum sensors for materials science, chemistry, biology and medicine; the use of quantum computers for materials design and data science.