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Zhe Liu, postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) and the Department of Combinatorics and Optimization in the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Waterloo, received the 2016 FNR Outstanding PhD Thesis award for his research on the security of wireless sensor networks (WSNs). The FNR Awards recognize outstanding researchers and science communicators for excellence in research and science communication.

Researchers from the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) at the University of Waterloo led the development of a new extensible wiring technique capable of controlling superconducting quantum bits, representing a significant step towards to the realization of a scalable quantum computer.

Jon Yard joins the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) as Associate Professor from Microsoft’s Research Station Q team. He is jointly appointed with the Department of Combinatorics and Optimization in the Faculty of Mathematics and as an Associate Faculty member with the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (PI).

A new science exhibition from the University of Waterloo’s Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) aims to make quantum science and technology more accessible for everyone.

QUANTUM: The Exhibition features interactive activities, games and videos to engage visitors in quantum concepts including superposition, entanglement and wave/particle duality. It opens to the public on Friday, October 14 at THEMUSEUM in Kitchener and runs until January 2017.

A team led by Thomas Jennewein at the University of Waterloo’s Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC), supported by the National Research Council of Canada’s (NRC) Flight Research Laboratory, has successfully demonstrated quantum key distribution (QKD) between a transmitter on the ground and a receiver payload onboard an airplane. While researchers in Germany and China have previously conducted QKD experiments with quantum transmitters flown on an aircraft and a tethered low-altitude balloon, Jennewein’s team is the first to demonstrate a QKD link with an airborne quantum receiver.

WATERLOO, Ont. (Wednesday, October 12, 2016) – Researchers at the University of Waterloo’s Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) recorded an interaction between light and matter 10 times larger than previously seen. The strength of the interaction between photons and a qubit was so large that it opens the door to a realm of physics and applications unattainable until now.

Alice and Bob are on a game show. They each sit in isolation booths at either ends of the set and can’t communicate in any way. The game show host asks a number of questions. Neither knows what questions are being asked, or the answers the other gives. The judges are shocked that they provide the exact same answer more often than they should. From the judges’ perspectives, Alice and Bob appear to read each others’ minds.

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WATERLOO, Ont. (Monday, September 19, 2016) — The Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo set a world record for creating a Canadian flag measuring about one one-hundredth the width of a human hair.

WATERLOO, Ont. (Tuesday, September 6, 2016) — IQC Canada Excellence Research Chair, David Cory heads up Transformative Quantum Technologies funded by Canada First Research Excellence Fund.