Latest NewsOctober 7, 2025
Quantum tunneling: URochester physicist explains a Nobel Prize–winning discovery
Machiel Blok’s research in superconducting circuits builds on the same quantum effects recognized by the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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About CCQS
The Center for Coherence and Quantum Science (CCQS) is a collaboration of researchers from a range of disciplines across the University of Rochester. By pooling our skills and resources, we push the frontiers of the field of quantum and classical coherence to new areas. We also enable practical applications within the areas of optical science and optical engineering.
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An interdisciplinary academic program providing courses in a number of departments allowing students and researchers to cross conventional disciplinary boundaries in pursuit of solutions to problems.
Regular seminars by local and national speakers, which bring together the center’s members and encourages new and novel collaborations.
Workshops and conferences, as well as short- and long-term visits by researchers at all levels, including students, postdoctoral fellows, and senior visiting faculty.
CCQS Departments
Quantum information science and engineering at the University of Rochester encompass numerous programs and departments such as chemistry, computer science, electrical engineering, mathematics, mechanical engineering, optics, physics and astronomy, and world-class research centers such as the Laboratory for Laser Energetics.
In the news
September 24, 2025
Why the future of computing is quantum
The strengths and limitations of computing advances are pushing the boundaries of what quantum machines can do.
August 8, 2025
New theory may solve quantum ‘jigsaw puzzle’
The theory explains how quantum environments can steer chemical reactions—speeding them up or slowing them down without adding heat or light.
July 8, 2025
Researchers discover more efficient way to route information in quantum computers
Using qudits, Rochester scientists have solved a notoriously difficult problem involving Hilbert space, or the quantum matrix.
Rochester Conference on Coherence and Quantum Science
The Rochester Conference on Coherence and Quantum Science (CQS) (Formerly Rochester Conference on Coherence and Quantum Optics (CQO)) has been held every six years since the inception in 1960, essentially coincident with the first observation of lasing. Topics of interest include all aspects of experimental and theoretical coherence, quantum optics, quantum information and quantum measurement.