In September 2000, Caltech's Institute for Quantum Information and Matter ( IQIM ) was born (albeit with a different name, the Institute for Quantum Information, or IQI). At the time, it was one of the world's first centers dedicated to the study of quantum information science—a field that uses the laws of quantum physics to create better computers, sensors, and other probes for studying fundamental physics. Decades earlier, Caltech researchers foresaw that quantum information science would