投资与孵化公司罗德runner风险工作室（Roadrunner Venture Studios）将于周二在新墨西哥州阿尔伯克基推出一个新的量子实验室，此时新墨西哥州正致力于巩固美国在全球量子计算竞赛中的地位。
The investment and incubation firm Roadrunner Venture Studios will unveil a new quantum lab Tuesday in Albuquerque, N.M., as New Mexico looks to bolster the U.S.’s position in the global race for quantum computing.
罗德runner量子实验室（Roadrunner Quantum Lab）的开业是该州4.5亿美元量子发展承诺的一部分。根据率先向《国会山报》透露的细节，该项目的负责人表示，它将为企业向量子计算商业化迈进提供资金、基础设施和国家实验室研究支持。
The Roadrunner Quantum Lab will open as part of the state's $450 million commitment to quantum development. Those behind the project say it will provide the capital, infrastructure and national lab research for firms to work towards commercializing quantum computing, according to details first shared with The Hill.
这个占地3.5万平方英尺的实验室将首先对八家量子企业、桑迪亚国家实验室、洛斯阿拉莫斯国家实验室以及新墨西哥州量子研究所开放。
The 35,000-foot lab will first open its doors to eight quantum companies, the Sandia and Los Alamos National Labs and the Quantum New Mexico Institute.
罗德runner风险工作室的联合创始人兼首席执行官亚当·哈默（Adam Hammer）周一对《国会山报》表示：“在国家实验室的环境中，你不会拥有这种组合。你有很多研究人员。你可能会有一些招聘，但你没有资金。在私营部门的环境中，你或许有资金，但你肯定没有所需的基础设施，而且往往也无法获得人才。”
“In a national lab setting, you don't have that mix,” Adam Hammer, the co-founder and CEO of Roadrunner Venture Studios, told The Hill Monday.
与依赖于表示0或1的数据位的传统计算不同，量子计算机使用的是可以同时为0和1的量子比特。利用物理学定律，量子计算解决复杂问题的速度可以比传统计算机快得多。
“You have a lot of researchers. You might have some recruitment, but you don't have capital. In the private sector setting, you have, maybe the capital, but you certainly don't have the infrastructure that's required, and oftentimes you don't have access to the talent." Unlike traditional computing, which relies on bits or pieces of data that are either a zero or one, quantum computers use qubits, which can be both zero and one at the same time.
与人工智能一样，量子计算既可以作为一种防御工具，也能让不法分子具备迅速解开保护计算机加密的能力。
Using the laws of physics, quantum computing can solve complex problems much faster than classical computers.
这项技术仍处于实验或研究阶段，但实际应用和商业化将是下一步。
Like AI, quantum computing can be used as a defensive tool, but it can also give bad actors the ability to quickly untangle the encryption that protects computers.
哈默表示：“如果我们从政策角度来考虑这一点，量子将成为中美之间的大型战场之一，我们今天正在看到这种局面的成形。”
The technology is still in an experimental or research phase, but practical use and commercialization is next.
“全球正在形成的许多讨论，都围绕着美国和中国如何在新一代计算时代进行定位。”在谈到人工智能时，他表示：“中国确实有一些做得非常出色的领域。比如从基础设施层的发电来看，美国落后了，中国领先；但当我们想到芯片发展时，我们领先。”他接着说：“我们在量子技术方面处于领先地位，但领先得并没有那么远。”
“When we think about this from a policy angle, quantum is going to be one of the big battlegrounds between the U.S. and China and we’re seeing this take shape today,” Hammer said. “A lot of conversation taking shape globally is how the United States and China are positioning around this new era of compute.”On AI, “there are elements that China has done really well. Think about even power generation from an infrastructure layer, the United States lags, China’s ahead, but when we think about chip development, we’re ahead,” he said.
“而我们在这个领域取胜必须要做的事情，不是搞出一堆伟大的[研发]，而是打造伟大的产品，”哈默补充道。特朗普政府已将量子计算列为美国政府的优先事项。特朗普总统在6月签署了两项行政命令，其中一项设定了在2030年或2031年之前将某些政府计算系统迁移到后量子密码学的目标。该命令还敦促五角大楼在2028年之前使用量子传感器。
“We are ahead in quantum technologies, but not that far ahead,” he continued.. “And what we have to do to win in this space is not to do a bunch of great [research and development], it's to build great products,” Hammer added. The Trump administration has made quantum computing a priority for the U.S. government. President Trump signed a pair of executive orders in June, one of which sets a goal of moving certain government computing systems to post-quantum cryptography by 2030 or 2031.
新墨西哥州经济发展局局长罗布·布莱克强调，该州长期以来一直是研发领域的领跑者——从微软的起步到曼哈顿计划——但它并没有承载大多数技术的商业化。布莱克周一在接受《国会山报》采访时表示：“当然，我们这里有英特尔，我们有其他企业，我们还有实验室空间。”“但当你想到从桑迪亚和兰el空军研究实验室走出来的许多技术的商业化，以及在这里完成的工作时，这些经济效益都转化为了西雅图以及其他地方的发展。”
It also urges the Pentagon to use quantum sensors by 2028. Rob Black, New Mexico’s secretary of Economic Development, emphasized the state has long been a leader in research and development — from the start of Microsoft to the Manhattan Project — but it has not hosted most commercialization of tech. “Certainly, we have Intel here, we have other things, and we have lab spaces,” Black told The Hill in an interview Monday.
“因此，我们正在对这个行业进行重大押注，因为我们坚信，我们有权为美国、为我们的国家赢得这场竞争，”布莱克说。新墨西哥州拥有全美第二大州主权财富基金，规模约为750亿美元。布莱克表示，该基金中约有20亿美元正投入到全球30家“最佳风险投资”公司中，以便在当地进行投资。
“But when you think about the commercialization of a lot of the technologies that came out of Sandia and Lanel Air Force Research Lab, the work that's been done here, those economic benefits have translated into Seattle, into other other places.”“So we’re taking a major bet into the sector because we believe again we have a right to win this for the U.S. and for our country,” Black said. New Mexico hosts the nation’s second-largest state sovereign wealth fund of about $75 billion.
该州是新墨西哥大学量子研究所所在地，已有约60名量子信息科学专业的博士从这里毕业。哈默说：“从人才角度看，该州的人均博士密度在全美各州中最高。”他解释了在新墨西哥州建设该实验室的决定。首批获准使用该实验室的八家企业包括Diraq、IonQ、Quantum Machines、Conductor Quantum、Mesa Quantum、QBoltz、Photon Queue和Quera。
About $2 billion of this fund is being put into 30 of the “best venture capital" firms in the world to invest in the state, Black said. The state is home to the University of New Mexico’s Quantum Institute, where about 60 doctorates specialized in quantum information sciences have graduated. “From a talent perspective, it’s the highest pHD per capita of any state in America,” Hammer said, explaining the decision to build the lab in New Mexico. The eight firms that will first get access to the lab include Diraq, IonQ, Quantum Machines, Conductor Quantum, Mesa Quantum, QBoltz, Photon Queue and Quera.