SPECIAL NOTICE
A -- Logical Qubits (LogiQ) Program Proposers’ Day Announcement - Proposer's Day Announcement
- Notice Date
- 4/16/2015
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 541712
— Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology)
- Contracting Office
- Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, Washington, District of Columbia, 20511, United States
- ZIP Code
- 20511
- Solicitation Number
- IARPA-BAA-15-10
- Archive Date
- 8/31/2015
- Point of Contact
- David Moehring,
- E-Mail Address
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dni-iarpa-baa-15-10@iarpa.gov
(dni-iarpa-baa-15-10@iarpa.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Proposer's Day Announcement for LogiQ Program SYNOPSIS The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) will host a Proposers' Day on 19 May 2015 at the University of Maryland Stamp Student Union to provide information to potential proposers on the objectives of an anticipated Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for the Logical Qubits (LogiQ) program. The Proposers' Day will serve as a forum for potential proposers to discuss synergistic capabilities and explore teaming opportunities; familiarize themselves with IARPA's interest in LogiQ; and obtain answers to their questions regarding the program, potential BAA and solicitation process. This announcement serves as a pre-solicitation notice and is issued solely for informational and planning purposes. The Proposers' Day conference does not constitute a formal solicitation for proposals or proposal abstracts. To maximize the pool of innovative proposal concepts, IARPA encourages participation in these events. However, attendance is voluntary and is not required to propose to future solicitations (if any) associated with this program. PROGRAM OBJECTIVE AND DESCRIPTION The LogiQ program in IARPA's Safe and Secure Operations (SSO) Office is seeking creative technical solutions to the challenge of encoding imperfect physical qubits into a logical qubit that protects against decoherence, gate errors, and deleterious environmental influences. Underpinning the program's strategy to build a logical qubit is a push for higher fidelity in multi-qubit operations, the pursuit of dynamically controlled experiments in multi-qubit systems to remove entropy from the system during computation, and characterization and mitigation of environmental noise and correlated errors. Recognizing that success in building a logical qubit is critically dependent on maintaining the proper balance between basic science and engineering, LogiQ looks to bring together diverse technical skills among leading physicists, engineers, and computer scientists. While quantum information processing has witnessed tremendous advances in high-fidelity qubit operations and an increase in the size and complexity of controlled quantum computing systems, it still suffers from physical-qubit gate and measurement fidelities that fall short of desired thresholds, multi-qubit systems whose overall performance is inferior to that of isolated qubits, and non-extensible architectures-all of which hinder their path toward fault-tolerance. In order to capture the full range of issues that impact the development of a larger quantum processor, it is important to focus on improving all of these aspects concurrently. Moreover, it is essential to develop relevant error budgets and statistics that can robustly estimate system performance from isolated performance metrics. The LogiQ program attempts to tackle these problems by building a logical qubit from constituent physical qubits. This focused effort will combine improved multi-qubit operational fidelity with extensible integration and closed-loop feedback capable of preserving an arbitrary superposition in the logical-qubit code subspace. LogiQ aims to: •Experimentally address the true complexity and requirements for encoding quantum information into a logical subspace; •Ascertain the complete error environment in a system of over ten connected physical qubits; •Characterize temporal and spatial correlations affecting system performance; •Choreograph and optimize open loop control of individual qubits throughout gate operations; •Implement the closed loop feedback needed to compensate for errors and determine the required level of synchronicity and operational scheduling; •Characterize crosstalk and determine the level of mitigation required for high-fidelity logical-qubit operations; •Establish the logical-qubit requirements of classical control infrastructure, latencies, speed and fidelity of measurement, etc.; •Develop classical controllers and measurement devices to manipulate physical qubits appropriate for logical-qubit processing; •Develop the capability for timely physical qubit re-use and ancilla reset, and perform dynamically controlled experiments; •Include extensibility in the logical qubit design to provide flexibility for future, more complex systems. IARPA anticipates releasing a BAA for the LogiQ program. If released, the solicitation will be available on the Federal Business Opportunities website at https://www.fbo.gov. Following the Proposers' Day, any available information may be posted to http://www.iarpa.gov/index.php/working-with-iarpa/open-solicitations. REGISTRATION INFORMATION Attendees must register no later than 5:00 PM EDT on 12 May 2015 through the Proposers' Day website: http://events.signup4.com/LogiQPDRegistration_May2015. Registrations will be approved in the order in which they are received. If there are more registrants than available seats, priority will be given to the first two registrants from each organization. No walk-in registrations will be allowed. Directions to the conference facility and other materials are available on the website. All attendees will be required to present a government-issued photo identification to enter the event. Foreign nationals will need to present a passport. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION The afternoon will include oral talks and poster sessions to provide an opportunity for attendees to present their organizations' capabilities and explore teaming arrangements. Details on presentation and poster formats, and procedures for submitting a request to present, will be available on the website. All contributions must include an abstract. Due to time and space constraints, there will be a limit of 15 5-minute presentations and 15 posters at the event. Presentations and posters will be reviewed and approved in the order in which they are received. Abstracts of all approved contributions, including contributions received after the above-stated limit of posters and presentations, will be included in an abstract book to be distributed at the meeting and online. It is the presenter's responsibility to ensure that all materials submitted are appropriately marked and approved for distribution by their organization. No Government personnel will be present during the presentation and poster session- these sessions are to facilitate teaming, not to solicit feedback from the Government. This Proposers' Day is intended for participants who are eligible to compete on the anticipated BAA. Other Government Agencies, Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs), University Affiliated Research Centers (UARCs), or similar organizations that have a special relationship with the Government that gives them access to privileged or proprietary information, or access to Government equipment or real property, will not be eligible to submit proposals to the anticipated BAA nor participate as team members under proposals submitted by eligible entities. While such entities are not prohibited from attending the Proposers' Day, due to space limitations, preference will be given first to those organizations that are eligible to compete. IARPA will not reimburse costs incurred to participate in this event or otherwise pay for additional information prepared for this event. Questions concerning event and registration can be sent to dni-iarpa-events@iarpa.gov. Contracting Office Address: Office of the Director of National Intelligence Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity Washington, DC 20511 Primary Point of Contact: David L. Moehring, Program Manager dni-iarpa-baa-15-10@iarpa.gov
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