Waterloo and Xanadu partner to continue to educate Canada’s quantum-ready workforce and pave the path for future innovators.
Quantum-Nano Centre, 200 University Ave West, Room QNC 1201 Waterloo, ON CA N2L 3G1
Combining the architectures of a dopant-free lateral p-n junction and a single-electron pump in a GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructure material system could yield high-rate, electrically-driven quantum emitters with performances surpassing the competition in quantum sensing, communication and cryptography. Observed drawbacks of the dopant-free p-n junctions are a rapid decay in electroluminescence during operation, as well as delocalized emission that lowers the measured quantum efficiency. This talk details novel measurement protocols and gate architectures implemented by us to overcome these challenges.
Congratulations to Dr. Rajibul Islam, a faculty member at the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) and a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, who has been awarded the 2024 Excellence in Science Teaching Award.
This annual award, selected by the University of Waterloo’s Faculty of Science, recognizes instructors who have demonstrated sustained, high-quality teaching in their undergraduate or graduate courses.
The second annual Quantum Connections Conference highlighted the need for collaboration to address quantum's societal impact.
On April 18, Transformative Quantum Technologies (TQT) awarded six research teams and their design ideas for the Quantum for Environment (Q4Environment) Design Challenge, whose green-tech solutions address global environmental issues. Ideas included using quantum computing to improve medical devices, and sensors that can detect microplastics and toxic nanomaterials in our oceans.
Breakthroughs in understanding how gravity affects quantum mechanics could be on the horizon at the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) with the addition of Dr. Bradley Hauer as IQC's newest faculty member and Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Hauer’s research focuses on studying cavity optomechanical systems and superconducting circuits and their applications in metrology, quantum information and non-classical state preparation.
Each year, the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) invites top undergraduate students from around the world to the University of Waterloo for the opportunity to immerse themselves in quantum information science and technology. This program, the Undergraduate School on Experimental Quantum Information Processing (USEQIP), provides participants with lectures on quantum information theory and experimental approaches to quantum devices, as well as over 30 hours of hands-on laboratory and experimental exploration.
On World Quantum Day, the Institute for Quantum Computing celebrates progress and momentum.
A new collaboration between researchers from the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) at the University of Waterloo, SNOLAB near Sudbury, Ontario, and Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden has been awarded a new grant to investigate the impact of radiation and cosmic rays on quantum technologies.
Join us for Quantum Connections May 1-2, 2024. This year we’re highlighting Quantum Perspectives: the impacts and outlooks driving our future.