Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science (QuICS)
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Upcoming Visitors
Yichen Xu|Cornell University|Nov 09, 2025 to Nov 13, 2025
Sam Elman|University of Technology Sydney|Nov 11, 2025 to Nov 11, 2025
Lucas Daguerre|University of California, Davis|Nov 12, 2025 to Nov 14, 2025
Junqiao Lin|CWI|Nov 17, 2025 to Nov 17, 2025
Upcoming Events
- November 11, 2025 11:00 amDissertation Defense
New Directions From Old Codes
Nolan Coble(QuICS)
- November 11, 2025 2:00 pmQuICS Special Seminar
Free fermions beyond Jordan-Wigner
Sam Elman (University of Technology Sydney)
- November 12, 2025 11:00 amQuICS seminar
Fault-tolerant protocols through spacetime concatenation
Yichen Xu(Cornell University)
Our Mission
The Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science (QuICS) is a partnership between the University of Maryland (UMD) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Located at the University of Maryland just outside of Washington, D.C., the center advances research and education in quantum computer science and quantum information theory.
Key Research Areas
News
![Maryland Gov. Wes Moore stands at podium in front of Microsoft and Capital of Quantum sign]()
UMD to Host Microsoft Quantum Research Center in Discovery District
September 18, 2025![A pencil concept sketch of a large round quantum thermodynamics machine.]()
Maryland Quantum-Thermodynamics Hub Secures Funding for Three More Years
September 11, 2025![Light blue straight lines vertically connect small spots, while green, white and red lines swirl and bend against a splotch background on blues, purples, greens and traces of pinks.]()
In Quantum Sensing, What Beats Beating Noise? Meeting Noise Halfway.
September 10, 2025![Researchers have proposed new models of how gravity could result from many quantum particles interacting with massive objects. In the image, the orientation of quantum particles with spin (the blue arrows) are influenced by the presence of the masses (represented by red balls). Each mass causes the spins near it to orient in the same direction with a strength that depends on how massive it is (represented by the difference in size between the red balls). The coordination of the spins favor objects being clo]()
Researchers Imagine Novel Quantum Foundations for Gravity
September 3, 2025
We, as theorists, try to come up with ideas and proposals that not only are interesting from the perspective of applications but also from the perspective of giving experimentalists the motivation to go to the next level and push to add more capabilities to the hardware.
Latest Publications
Measurement-induced entanglement in noisy 2D random Clifford circuits
, , https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12743, (2025)Qudit low-density parity-check codes
, , https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06495, (2025)An Improved Quantum Algorithm for 3-Tuple Lattice Sieving
, , https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08473, (2025)