The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and the Canada Research Chairs (CRC) program has awarded more than $11 million to the University of Waterloo which includes $1.7 million to an affiliate of the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC).
Van Dam and Hayden introduced the concept of approximate embezzlement of entanglement. Even if one allows infinite dimensional resource spaces but requires a bipartite tensor product structure of the resource space, perfect embezzlement is still impossible. But in the commuting operator framework perfect embezzlement is possible. We then introduce unitary correlation sets and relate these ideas to the conjectures of Connes and Tsirelson.
Much of what we understand about the world comes from our eyes, which sense the colors from red to violet that are expressed in the rainbow.
Come get your nerd on and learn about the world of physics with Nerd Nite KW! They will take you through quantum 101, and then see if you were paying attention with some friendly rounds of trivia. Aspiring scientists and experts alike are welcome. Special guest speaker Dr. Shohini Ghose, an Associate Professor of Physics and Computer Science and Director of the Centre for Women in Science at Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada, will also be giving a presentation. Make sure to also check out QUANTUM: The Exhibition while you're there.
Razieh Annabestani of the Department of Physics and Astronomy is defending his thesis:
Collective Dynamics in NMR and Quantum Noise
Razieh is supervised by Professor David Cory.
The neutron, one of the most common building blocks of matter, is also a unique probe for studying materials and fundamental interactions. The only electrically-neutral nucleus, the neutron passes through most materials with ease, even at the lowest energies. Nowadays neutrons, even with their ~ 15 minute lifetime, are used to study problems ranging from charging and discharging of common batteries to cosmological dark energy. Here I will focus on the neutron as a quantum particle.
The Quantum Innovators workshop brings together the most promising young researchers in quantum physics and engineering. Guests are invited for a four-day workshop aimed at exploring the frontier of our field.
Optimizing Plasmonic Nanoantennas for Emitter Enhancement
Correcting ESR Pulse Sequences for Dynamic Nuclear Polarization
Zachary Webb of the Department of Physics and Astronomy is defending his thesis:
The computational power of many-body systems
Zak is supervised by Assistant Professor Andrew Childs.
Two-player one-round games have served to be an instrumental model in theoretical computer science. Likewise, nonlocal games consider this model when the players have access to an entangled quantum state. In this talk, I will consider a broader class of nonlocal games (extended-nonlocal games), where the referee shares an entangled state along with the players.