The Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) is proud to congratulate Benjamin MacLellan, a PhD student in IQC and Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Waterloo, for being selected as a Vanier Scholar this year.
Scientists recreate properties of light in neutral fundamental particles called neutrons for the first time in experimental history.
Please join us for the IQC Student Seminar on Wednesday Nov 23 at noon. This week’s seminar will take place in the form of an impromptu poster practice session, where students will discuss interesting research on the whiteboard. This is to encourage students to talk about their work in progress, while practicing communication skills by presenting to non-experts. It's also a great way to learn how big the field of quantum research is! No prior preparation is necessary.
As always, pizza lunch will be provided to attendees.
When Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) Research Associate Matthew Day had his lab temporarily closed during the COVID-19 pandemic, the experimentalist found himself at some loose ends. What’s an experimentalist to do without his equipment? For Day, it was a chance for him to ask questions he’d been thinking about for a while. Specifically, Day wanted to know: how does equipment in the lab affect experiments?
A team of researchers at the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) have found a new tunable pathway to manipulate nanoscale magnetic structures known as skyrmions.
Please join us for the IQC Student Seminar on Wednesday Nov 16 at noon. This week’s seminar will take place in the form of an impromptu poster session, where students joining will be divided into groups and discuss each other's current work using the whiteboard. This is to encourage students to talk about their work in progress, while practicing communication skills by presenting to non-experts. It's also a great way to learn how big the field of quantum research is!
A coherent state can be interpreted as a superposition of pseudo-number states with equal weight. Using cross-Kerr nonlinearity two coherent states can be made into a maximal entanglement of pseudo-number states and pseudo-phase states. Some applications of the entanglements of pseudo-number/phase states, such as quDit teleportations, will be discussed.
This talk aims to highlight some mathematical tools that can be used in prob- lems related to quantum computing. We start with monogamy-of-entanglement games and study how to approach them through the Haar measure on unitary matrices. ...
The new Physics course-based MSc with a specialization in Quantum Technology enables students to study quantum concepts in theory, and practice them in a hands-on, collaborative environment.
Quantum mechanics is the most successful theory of physics, giving us the rule book to model phenomenon at the sub-microscopic scale. Knowing the rule book doesn’t necessarily mean it’s easy to follow though. Calculating and modelling quantum systems like complex molecules or materials is computationally demanding for modern computers. However, by mimicking the system of interest with another quantum system, we can explore their properties efficiently and learn a great deal about quantum mechanics itself.