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Chris Ferrie, University of Technology Sydney and the Centre for Quantum Software and Information

Although most of us don't actually understand quantum physics, we know that it's mystical and awesome, and if we understood it we'd probably be rich and beautiful and happy, right? After all, there are plenty of people out there trying to sell you quantum crystals to align your quantum energy with your quantum destiny. Can they all be wrong? Yes, yes they can. In this talk, we're going to sniff out the bullshit and break down why it stinks while dispelling the mystery of the quantum.

Developments in device-independent cryptography

Device-independent cryptography connects the foundational topic of Bell inequalities to the operational task of achieving secure cryptography. With significant progress being made in Bell test experiments, various avenues for further developing device-independent cryptography have been opened. I will give an overview of some background and recent developments in the field, as well as some research questions that should be of interest going forward.

IQC Alum Lecture Series: Urbasi Sinha, Raman Research Institute

In this talk, we cover different interesting aspects of experimental photonic quantum information processing that have been recently explored at the Quantum Information and Computing lab at RRI, Bangalore. We discuss our experiment on the first loophole free violation of the Leggett Garg Inequalities (LGI) as well as the Wigner form of the same (WLGI)[1].

Detector Imperfections in QKD

Very often, in theory, device and implementation imperfections are assumed to be ideal to make the theory simpler. However, before we can practically use these devices, these assumptions must either be removed or justified. I will talk about some techniques to rigorously deal with imperfect detectors within the context of QKD.

Ojas Parekh, Sandia National Laboratories

Quantum Max Cut (QMC) is a QMA-hard instance of 2-Local Hamiltonian (2-LH) that is closely related to the well-studied antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model (AFHM). Finding maximal energy states of QMC is equivalent to finding ground states of AFHM; however, the approximability of the former is related to the classical Max Cut problem.

Join us for Quantum Today, where we sit down with researchers from the University of Waterloo’s Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) to talk about their work, its impact and where their research may lead.

Impromptu Poster Session

Students joining will be divided into groups and discuss each other's current work using the whiteboard. 

Join the seminar in QNC 1201!

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RAC Journal Club Series featuring Bhaskaran Muralidharan, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

IQC Alum Lecture Series: Galit Anikeeva, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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The Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) alum Galit Anikeeva will talk about her research since IQC, at Stanford, MIT, and beyond - at first focusing on quantum error correction, and then most recently on tentative connections between chaos and Hamiltonian simulation. She will also highlight how lessons from her time at IQC have shaped her path through undergraduate research and into graduate school, especially welcoming questions from younger students. 

Quantum Linear Solvers and Their Applications

I will talk about the quantum algorithms developed by block-encoding techniques for solving linear system of equations. We will see what sorts of speed-ups have been proved or could be expected, while exploiting a quantum linear solver as a subroutine, for tasks ranging from solving PDEs to sampling from Gibbs distributions.

Join the seminar on Zoom or in QNC 1201!
Meeting link: IQC Student Seminar