The American Physical Society now has a new topical group, Quantum Information, Concepts, and Computation. Here is an article about the topical group. Some quotes
“It is meant to be a broadly inclusive home for researchers whose professional lives may have kicked off in various traditional disciplines, but who nonetheless share an over-arching interest in the foundations and ‘surprising implications’ of quantum mechanics,” said Caltech’s Hideo Mabuchi, GQI’s acting chair.
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Greenberger also feels the field needs an effective lobbying group to represent its interests to federal funding agencies, most notably the National Science Foundation. “Many young people are becoming interested in the field, but there are few opportunities for having their research funded,” he said.
Part of the problem is that quantum theory suffers from the perception that it is a field for “old men,” since the debate dates back to 1935 and the famous Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox. (That paper is still the most downloaded publication from the APS journal archives, 80 years after it was written.) But Greenberger points out that it is, in fact, a vibrant exciting field at the forefront of physics, using all the latest laboratory techniques, and spinning off the newly emerging fields of quantum cryptography and quantum computing.