Cyberattacks and data breaches are an invisible but growing threat that is becoming more commonplace against the landscape of technological growth and development. Quantum cryptography offers data protection in our evolving digital spaces.
As we wrap up 2022, the 20th year of the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC), we're taking the opportunity to reflect on the accomplishments of our community and recognize some of the highlights of the year.
What happens when a computer makes a ‘typo’ or error at the very fundamental level – if a zero accidentally becomes a one? In classical computers, we can use repetition in the binary signals to make computers tolerant to faults such as these.
The creation of a material that absorbs the majority, if not all light, would improve the effectiveness of health-related equipment. Michael Reimer, a faculty member at the Institute for Quantum Computing and researcher in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo, has set his sights on creating an artificially engineered material, known as a metamaterial, to do just that.
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.
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.
Researchers Noah Janzen and Adrian Lupascu from the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) have found a new one-step process to construct tiny bridge structures on microchips with superconducting circuits.
Computational complexity is a field of computer science that aims to understand the resources needed to solve computational problems. Researchers Anirban Chowdhury and David Gosset at the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) have been collaborating with IBM researchers Sergey Bravyi and Pawel Wocjan to explore the exciting interface between computational complexity and quantum many-body physics.
The Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) congratulates Alain Aspect, John F Clauser and Anton Zeilinger who have been awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in physics.