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Wednesday, October 12, 2016

Waterloo-led experiment achieves the strongest coupling between light and matter ever recorded

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.

William Slofstra
Tuesday, October 4, 2016

Solving Tsirelson’s problem

William Slofstra, a research assistant professor at IQC, recently announced a solution for one of these problems, called the strong Tsirelson problem, which gets at the nature of how we model entanglement.

Friday, September 16, 2016

Workshop tackles challenges of protecting businesses and governments from a quantum threat

Challenges to protecting information and systems from the massive processing power of quantum computers will be the focus of a workshop that the University of Waterloo’s Institute for Quantum Computing will co-host in Toronto next week.

The technology industry is now facing a Y2Q — years to quantum — challenge. The current deadline is estimated to be 10 years. All security dependent on existing standards is vulnerable.

Friday, June 17, 2016

New experiment clarifies how the universe is not classical

Theorists from Perimeter and experimentalists from the Institute for Quantum Computing have found a new way to test whether the universe is quantum, a test that will have widespread applicability: they’ve proven the failure of noncontextuality in the lab.

What does it mean to say the world is quantum? It’s a surprisingly difficult question to answer, and most casual discussions on the point are heavy on the hand-waving, with references to cats in boxes.