Two physicists at the CU Boulder and the Colorado School of Mines have received a $1M grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation to develop a first-of-its-kind quantum simulator that could lead to the development of a high-performance quantum computer. One of these physicists, Shuo Sun, assistant professor of physics and an associate fellow at JILA at the University of Colorado Boulder, proposes to build a quantum simulator that’s good at both aspects—the first of its kind.