Events

Characterizing drift qubits

Timothy Proctor, Sandia National Laboratories

It is essential to benchmark and characterize real-world qubits in order to understand whether they are of sufficient quality for quantum information tasks, and if they are not, so that they can be debugged. Many techniques are designed for qubits that stay constant in time, but in reality almost all qubits suffer from some form of time-dependence.

Efficient quantum memory in naturally trapped Rare-Earth ions

Mahmood Sabooni, IQC

The ability to map, store quantum states of light (e. g. single photon) to matter and later retrieve is one of the important building blocks of quantum information processing. Such a device is called a quantum memory for light.

The Women in Physics Canada (WIPC) conference, hosted by the University of Waterloo, Faculty of Science, Department of Physics & Astronomy and the Institute for Quantum Computing, will bring together early career scientists to present their research and hear plenary talks from leaders in physics.

We welcome attendance by people of all genders.

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Paulina Corona Ugalde of the Department of Physics and Astronomy is defending her thesis:

Experimental Prospects for Detecting the Quantum Nature of Spacetime

Paulina is supervised by IQC associate Robert Mann

Come play in The Quantum Mechanics Golf Tournament and join the fight against cancer

The Quantum Mechanics are asking for your support in the fight against cancer.

The team, made of University of Waterloo, Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) and Perimeter Institute members, is participating in the Grand Ride in honour of Pearl Sullivan, Dean of Engineering and Raymond Laflamme, Executive Director of IQC at the University of Waterloo and all those in our communities who have been touched by cancer.

Dimensionality-driven orthorhombic MoTe₂ at room temperature.

Joey Zhong

Allison Sachs of the Department of Physics and Astronomy is defending her thesis:

Entanglement Harvesting and Divergences in Unruh-DeWitt Detector Pairs

Allison is supervised by IQC associates Robert Mann and Eduardo Martin-Martinez.

Colloquium featuring Heejeong Jeong - Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Optical precursors are transient electromagnetic wave packets propagating precisely at the speed of light in vacuum through a dispersive and absorptive dielectric. Even though its existence was conjectured by Sommerfeld and Brillouin 100 years ago, the detection seemed to be impossible due to its exceedingly small amplitude and femtosecond time scale in ordinary linear dispersive media. 

Helen Percival of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering is presenting her thesis:

Characterization of Lambda Systems Using Superconducting Qubits

Helen is supervised by IQC faculty member Christopher Wilson.

Christopher Pugh of the Department of Physics and Astronomy is presenting his thesis:

Free Space Quantum Key Distribution to Moving Platforms

Christopher is supervised by IQC faculty member Thomas Jennewein.