An innovative, three-day workshop exploring quantum computing via spins and superconductors begins at IQC on Monday, May 17. Titled Quantum Information Processing with Spins and Superconductors (QISS), the workshop will foster an exchange of ideas and research between researchers working on superconducting systems and electron spins.
When a radar trap clocked Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) faculty member Joseph Emerson driving too fast on a Quebec road, it occurred to Emerson that quantum mechanics might help him get out of paying the fine.
In a recent issue of Physical Review Letters, a team of researchers including IQC postdoctoral fellow Marco Piani explored a unified framework for all correlations that respect the so-called no-signalling principle.
Students in Grades 10 to 12 have until Friday, May 7, to sign up for a fascinating, week-long summer program in quantum cryptography.
IQC faculty member has been awarded a $139,000 grant to purchase state-of-the-art equipment for quantum information research.
IQC Deputy Director Michele Mosca has been promoted to the prestigious position of Fellow in the Quantum Information Processing program of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR).
Anne Broadbent, a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Quantum Computing, finds balance between her leading-edge scientific research and her family life on a 10-acre farm nicknamed Windy Poplars.
In a feature published last weekend in The À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Region Record, Broadbent said mathematics has an "elegance" that has always attracted her, not unlike the rustic beauty of her homestead northwest of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ.Broadbent introduced readers to her husband, Didier Guignard, their seven-month-old son Danny, and the family pet, a Bernese mountain dog named Berny.
IQC Director will host a special screening of the award-winning documentary The Quantum Tamers in Ottawa on April 28. The screening, part of an alumni reception for University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ and Carleton graduates, will be followed by a Q&A session with Laflamme, who was a scientific advisor and co-star of the film.
From TEDxÀ¶Ý®ÊÓƵ, Feb. 25, 2010, The Gig Theatre, Kitchener, Ontario.
Creating a large-scale quantum computer is an ambitious but achievable goal requiring research in many experimental fields, says a recent article in Nature co-authored by IQC Director . "As we approach this goal, we will grow accustomed to controlling the counterintuitive properties of quantum mechanics," write Laflamme, Thaddeus Ladd, Fedor Jelezko, Yasunobu Nakamura, Christopher Monroe and Jeremy O'Brien.