Project 1: Topological Acoustic (TA) Quantum Analogies for Quantum Information Science (QIS)

This project addresses the grant challenge of overcoming the shortcomings of current quantum computing platforms and approaches. Quantum computing is essentially phase-based computing. Many aspects of quantum computing can therefore be tackled with acoustic-based phase computing. New Frontiers of Sound (NewFoS) will address the development of Topological Acoustic (TA) platforms supporting (a) large exponentially-complex scalable spaces of states (Hilbert space) for multiple nonlinear phi-bits (acoustic qubit analogues); (b) coherent superpositions of strongly correlated nonlinear phi-bits; and (c) operations and algorithms on coherent superpositions of large multiple phi-bit systems. 

Project 1 anticipated output is the demonstration of the world-first ambient operation tabletop 50 phi-bit computer. This platform has the potential of operating on complex data strings of up to 2⁵⁰ components, that is ~10¹⁵ complex numbers and this in a millisecond. The outcome of project 1 goes beyond a demonstration platform and establishes robust revolutionary TA-based quantum-inspired computing modalities which do not suffer from quantum fragility. 

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