On December 16, 2019, the Swiss federal government and the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) announced six new National Centres of Competence in Research (NCCRs), including NCCR SPIN: Spin Qubits in Silicon. The SNSF allocated CHF 17 million (~USD 17.4 million) for the center’s first funding phase from 2020 to 2023, according to the University of Basel’s Department of Physics.
NCCR SPIN aims to develop reliable, fast, compact, and scalable spin qubits in silicon and germanium, with the long-term goal of contributing to the creation of a universal quantum computer with more than a thousand logical qubits. The center is led by the University of Basel as its leading house, with partners including ETH Zurich, EPFL, and IBM Research in Ruschlikon.
Research teams from physics, materials science, engineering, and computer science collaborate across the full stack of quantum computing, from hardware fabrication to software and error correction. NCCR SPIN is the fourth quantum-related NCCR funded by the SNSF since 2001, following earlier programs in nanoscale science, quantum photonics, and quantum science and technology.