Quantum computing

Tuesday, November 12, 2024 8:30 am - 4:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00) Wednesday, November 13, 2024 8:30 am - 4:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00) Thursday, November 14, 2024 8:30 am - 4:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00) Friday, November 15, 2024 8:30 am - 4:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Quantum Innovators 2024

Quantum Innovators is a five-day workshop offered by the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) since 2012 bringing the most promising postdoctoral fellows in quantum information science and technology together.

Thursday, October 27, 2022 10:00 am - 11:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Molecular single photon sources for quantum communication and enhanced sensing

IQC Seminar featuring Michael Wilke, McGill University

The pioneering experiments by Hanbury and Twiss are considered by many as the beginnings of experimental quantum optics. These experiments are now particularly relevant in the context of quantum photonics and the characterization of single photon sources.
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Thursday, October 8, 2020 3:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Quantum Frontiers Distinguished Lecture

From Laser Cooling to Quantum Chemistry

Alan JamisonLasers are used in factories for burning through metal and in movies for blowing up space ships. But in the lab, we use them to cool atoms down to within one billionth of a degree of absolute zero.

Monday, March 18, 2019 11:00 am - 11:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Operating noisy quantum computers

Joel Wallman, University of Waterloo

Significant global efforts are currently underway to build quantum computers. The two main goals for near-term quantum computers are finding and solving interesting problems in the presence of noise and developing techniques to mitigate errors. In this talk, I will outline and motivate an abstraction layer needed to reliably operate quantum computers under realistic noise models, namely, a cycle consisting of all the primitive gates applied to a quantum computer within a specified time period.

Wednesday, February 20, 2019 11:00 am - 11:00 am EST (GMT -05:00)

A microwave optomechanical circuit with parametric mechanical driving

Shun Yanai, Delft University of Technology

Microwave optomechanical circuits have been demonstrated in the past years to be powerful tools for both, exploring fundamental physics of macroscopic and massive quantum objects as well as being promising candidates for novel on-chip quantum limited microwave devices. In this work, we explore a microwave optomechanical device consisting of a coplanar microwave cavity coupled to a mechanical high quality factor nanobeam resonator.

Friday, February 8, 2019 2:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

The potential applications of quantum computation in exploration geophysics

IQC and the Department of Physics at the University of Waterloo welcome Shahpoor Moradi, University of Calgary

Quantum computation has been developed as a computationally efficient paradigm to solve problems that are intractable with conventional classical computers. Quantum computers have the potential to support the simulation and modeling of many complex physical systems, not just quantum ones, significantly more rapidly than conventional supercomputers.