Faculty

Tuesday, December 3, 2019 12:00 am - Wednesday, December 4, 2019 12:00 am GMT (GMT +00:00)

The IQC Workshop on Quantum Illumination: From Theory to Practice

The goal of the IQC Workshop on Quantum Illumination is to bring together a wide range of participants from these various domains to discuss the state of the art in laboratory research, the range of possible applications, and paths toward those applications.

Friday, August 30, 2019 11:45 am - 11:45 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

RAC1 Journal Club/Seminar Series

Topological Insulator-Superconductor Heterostructures and Devices

Lin Li, IQC

 A 3D topological insulator (TI) has a fully gapped insulating bulk state but a conducting surface. Such conducting “surface” states are formed with helical Dirac fermions, with spin-momentum strictly locked by spin-orbital coupling. When coupled to a conventional s-wave superconductor (S), the surface state behaves just like the desired p-wave superconductor. It has been predicted that Majorana zero-modes obeying non-Abelian statistics can appear in such a system.

Friday, August 23, 2019 11:45 am - 11:45 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

RAC1 Journal Club/Seminar Series

Academic Writing Workshop #4

Elisabeth van Stam (UW Writing and Communication Centre)

Join us for our last session in the clarity in scientific writing series. During this session, we will apply the principles you have learned in order to improve the clarity and cohesion of your own writing. Please bring a sample of your writing (1-2 pages, double spaced), and be prepared to read, discuss, and revise!

Professor Thomas Jennewein satellite project

Lorsqu’on voit des personnes âgées utiliser des applications de transactions bancaires en ligne pour payer leurs factures, on sait que le monde est devenu numérique. Thomas Jennewein, membre de l’Institut d’informatique quantique (IQC) et professeur au Département de physique et d’astronomie de l’Université de Waterloo, a vu la communication numérique devenir dominante, tout comme les transactions bancaires numériques. Et cela le préoccupe.


Michael Reimer

Une expérience vient de montrer qu’une intrication parfaite à l’aide d’une boîte quantique est possible — à condition d’avoir le bon photodétecteur. Des détecteurs plus rapides ayant une gigue temporelle et des bruits de comptage ultrafaibles pourraient bientôt ouvrir la voie à des applications pratiques de l’intrication.