Events

Quantum Technologies for Cyber Security: from threats to solutions

Bruno Huttner, ID Quantique, Switzerland

Recent developments in quantum computers have spurred renewed interest in quantum-safe solutions for information security [1]. It is now widely accepted that the current public key infrastructures, which are the foundation of cyber security, will not withstand the arrival of the quantum computer [2], [3], and that this arrival will occur with high probability within the next ten to fifteen years. New solutions are called for, and these solutions should at least be partly based on quantum technologies.

Join us at the Institute for Quantum Computing for a two-week introduction to the theoretical and experimental study of quantum information processing.

The Relativistic Quantum Information North (RQI-N) Conference, hosted by the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC), will bring together an interdisciplinary community of researchers at the interface of quantum information science and relativity.

Public lecture by Bill Unruh, The University of British Columbia

On February 11, 2016 it was announced that gravitational  waves have been detected affecting an instrument on earth. In addition to the realization of a 100 year old prediction the astounding sensitivity of the detector demanded the approaching and overcoming of seemingly fundamental quantum limits on measuring the motion of 25Kg masses. Quantum mechanics is usually thought of applying only to the very small (zeptogrammes and nanometers).

Extended nonlocal games and monogamy-of-entanglement games

Vincent Russo, Institute for Quantum Computing

Two-player one-round games have served to be an instrumental model in theoretical computer science. Likewise, nonlocal games consider this model when the players have access to an entangled quantum state. In this talk, I will consider a broader class of nonlocal games (extended-nonlocal games), where the referee shares an entangled state along with the players.

Towards Integrated Photonics for Quantum Computation

Hugo Cable, University of Bristol, UK

I will give an overview of work at the Centre for Quantum Photonics towards implementation of large-scale linear-optical quantum computing (LOQC) using quantum photonics. Our current research addresses the key obstacles to scalable LOQC, namely overcoming nondeterminism, achieving loss tolerance, and manufacturability.