The funding has been awarded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and the US National Science Foundation (NSF) through a new joint programme to support eight collaborative US-UK research projects at the interface of Quantum Information Science and Chemistry.
Of these projects, two are Bristol led — strengthening Bristol’s role as a centre of excellence in quantum technologies.
Dr Alex Clark, Associate Professor in the School of Physics and Director of the Quantum Engineering Laboratories, has secured £1 million to work with US collaborators Dr Jonathan Hood and Professor Libai Huang (Purdue University).
Their project aims to isolate the excited triplet states in organic molecules to explore their use as quantum memories that can store quantum states of light and spin-photon interfaces that can create entangled photons.