Follow along with this timeline of Yale Quantum Institute milestones
Happy anniversary, Yale Quantum Institute. It’s time for a cake topped with “entangled” candles that are simultaneously lit and unlit.
How else to celebrate a decade of excellence in one of science’s most confounding, yet promising sectors — a decade in which Yale quantum research achieved national prominence and positioned itself as a major force in shaping the economy of tomorrow?
Since 2014, when the Yale Quantum Institute (YQI) convened its first colloquium and board meetings on campus, the institute has been at the center of vital research in this emerging field, which explores the tiniest objects in the universe.
“We have a sense there’s a great, untapped power here,” YQI director Robert Schoelkopf, Sterling Professor of Applied Physics and Physics, said in 2015, when the institute unveiled its newly renovated space on Hillhouse Avenue. “Often, we are focusing on the building of a quantum computer … but in addition to just making computing faster and letting us store more information, there are other applications that could be really impactful in people’s lives: Better ways of sensing minute signals, better ways of transmitting information, better ways of securing people’s privacy. There’s a whole host of things.”
Likewise, YQI has endeavored to bring quantum science to life with visual art representations, a museum exhibit, and even a music album that highlighted quantum concepts.
More milestones await. Over the past couple of years, Yale launched a new campus hub for quantum research and engineering and a partnership with the University of Connecticut to make the state a national center for innovation in quantum science and technology. And, as it happens, 2025 is the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology and YQI will be co-organizer for a conference in Germany celebrating 100 years of quantum mechanics.
As Yale and YQI continue this quantum journey it’s worth a look back at 10 years of scientific progress.
Jim Shelton | Yale News | Original Article↗
