Chicago Quantum Exchange

The Chicago Quantum Exchange (CQE) is an intellectual hub and community of researchers with the common goal of advancing academic and industrial efforts in the science and engineering of quantum information across CQE members, partners, and our region. The hub promotes the exploration of quantum information technologies and the development of new applications. The CQE facilitates interactions between research groups of its member and partner institutions and provides an avenue for developing and fostering collaborations, joint projects, and information exchange. The CQE, one of the largest collaborative teams working on quantum science in the world, is a partnership between the University of Chicago, Argonne National Laboratory, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, the University of Illinois Urbana- Champaign, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Northwestern University. It includes industry, nonprofits, and international partner institutions. It is headquartered at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering. This growing intellectual hub of more than 130 researchers is the nation’s leading center for research in quantum information and is training the next generation of quantum scientists and engineers while equipping those already in the workforce to transition to quantum careers. The full impact of quantum technology is beyond our imagination. It’s also within our reach.