It will fund research into small devices, built directly onto computer chips, that could help quantum computers grow larger without overheating.
Quantum computers that use superconducting circuits are seen as one of the most promising ways to solve problems that are too complex for today’s regular computers.
This could remove a major roadblock to building larger superconducting quantum computers and help keep the United States at the forefront of quantum information science.
The first focuses on building devices called Josephson parametric amplifier bolometers, which combine a sensor with a signal booster.
The second part studies a different phenomenon: coordinated microwave signals produced by groups of electrons moving together in specific patterns.