What if checking for monsters under your bed doomed a parallel you to a grisly end? A story that explores this fear of a girl aged six and three quarter years has won the 2015 Quantum Shorts international competition for flash fiction inspired by quantum physics.
Researchers have successfully integrated an on-demand light source in a silicon-based chip, the first fully integrated quantum optics approach that is compatible with current technology in the semiconductor industry, such as existing computer processors and memories.
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Five of Canada’s leading science outreach organizations launch Innovation150, a national program that celebrates our country’s innovative past and sparks ideas and discoveries to propel our future.
Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) Professor Thomas Jennewein has received a $500,000 contract from the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) to advance the crucial Detector Assembly subsystem of a Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) payload for the proposed Quantum Encryption and Science Satellite (QEYSSat) mission.
by Aephraim M. Steinberg, University of Toronto
An international team of researchers from the University of Toronto, Griffith University (Brisbane), and the Institute for Quantum Computing (Waterloo) demonstrate "surrealistic" quantum trajectories in the lab.
Postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) Aharon Brodutch and Eliahu Cohen (Tel Aviv University, University of Bristol) have developed a new method for designing complex quantum measurements.
A team lead by researchers from the Institute for Quantum Computing and the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Waterloo has successfully detected the presence of single photons while preserving their quantum states.
IQC PhD student John Donohue, along with Elie Wolfe from the Perimeter Institute of Theoretical Physics, has determined the required complexity of a quantum system and how many bits of shared classical information are needed between two parties to generate a general probability distribution with a known set of quantum correlations.
Focused on quantum materials, Tsen looks to integrate low-dimensional materials that exhibit exotic quantum phenomena into novel electronic devices.
One of the tasks that quantum computing promises is algorithmic speedups over classical computing for certain types of problems – one of which is quantum searching. To achieve this, it’s important to build a robust quantum memory, more specifically, a memory that can store information which can be addressed quantum mechanically.