>> SQMS stands for Superconducting
Quantum Materials and System Center.
It's one of the newly awarded
centers under the Department
of Energy National Quantum Initiative.
Fermilab, together with its
partners, has a primary goal
to build a revolutionary quantum computer
here at Fermilab and to also develop
and build new types of quantum sensors that
will allow us to look for elusive particles.
In particular, we may be able to prove or
disprove the existence of dark matter.
One of the main problems that is at the
heart of the SQMS Center is quantum coherence
which means being able to
preserve quantum states
which are very fragile for as long as possible.
The key to the advancement of the field
of quantum computing and quantum sensing,
improving the lifetime of quantum states.
How long quantum states that are created in a device can actually live.
So what we have behind here is superconducting
devices that have demonstrated world record
of seconds of coherence of
quantum states, which is orders
of magnitude above the state-of-the-art.
What does this mean practically?
This means that we can push what we can
achieve in quantum computing because going
from milliseconds or below
to seconds will allow us
to perform complex and useful
quantum computations.
And in quantum sensing, if I'm looking
for elusive particles that is around us,
I can't see it but I want to detect it, the
fact that the quantum states live long enough
in these cavities will allow me to catch
that particle and be able to detect it.
Fermilab is collaborating for the SQMS Center
with several institutions ranging from academia,
national labs and industry,
nationally and internationally.
In particular, we have some core
partners which are Rigetti Computing,
Northwestern University, Ames
National Lab and NASA Ames;
and we have several contributing partners
so national and international universities
and several industry partners such
as Goldman Sachs and Lockheed Martin.
SQMS brings together more than 80 world-class
experts in all the disciplines that are needed
for the advancement for making new
breakthroughs in quantum information science.
In particular, we bring top world experts
in superconductivity, in materials science,
superconducting quantum devices, in
particle physics, in computational science,
in cryogenics, all the science and
technology that is really needed to 
 achieve our goal
of building a revolutionary quantum computer
and to develop and build the new quantum sensors
that will allow us to discover new particles.
Fermilab is the premier US
particle physics laboratory.
Our mission is to understand the world
around us at its most fundamental level.
We, as Fermilab, have developed
unique technologies
such as what stands behind my shoulders
which is superconducting
R-F particle accelerators
which now will become unique building blocks
for quantum computers and quantum sensors.
Fermilab is the place that hosted the Tevatron,
which was for many years the highest
energy particle accelerator in the world
that really brought together for decades many
thousands of collaborators from around the world
and enabled new physics discoveries.
We discovered many new particles.
It's with the same spirit of hosting large
collaborations and unique experiments,
so it's in the spirit of
collaboration and ambition that we go
into hosting this Superconducting
Quantum Materials and System Center.
