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The Mike & Ophelia Lazaridis Quantum-Nano Centre (Lazaridis Centre) at the University of Waterloo was selected for the Design Excellence Award by the Ontario Architects Association (OAA).

The annual OAA Awards program celebrates the architectural innovation and design of Ontario architects, students and interns.  After narrowing 140 submissions, 20 finalists were announced for the Design Excellence Award March 6. Today, the Lazaridis Centre and its Toronto-based designers, KPMB Architects, were announced as the winners.

The development of new quantum technologies has the potential to transform markets, create new industries and produce leading edge jobs. The Institute for Quantum Computing is a world-leading Canadian research facility that furthers our understanding of these innovative technologies.” - Budget 2017

IQC postdoctoral fellow Chris Herdman led a demonstration of area law scaling of entanglement entropy in a real quantum fluid for the first time.

“Weird.” Amusing.” “What’s with the cat?” These are all phrases that were heard at the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) on Thursday, February 23.

IQC researchers propose two possible methods for building an optical cavity inside a hollow-core on-chip waveguide, to develop a platform for quantum information processing through photon-photon interactions.

IQC PhD student Hemant Katiyar led the first experiment to violate the Leggett-Garg inequality on a three-level quantum system, demonstrating the possibility of larger violations than previously thought possible.

IQC postdoctoral fellow Katanya Kuntz led the discovery of a new technique for measuring the length of an optical cavity, without any initial calibration.

Waterloo, Ont. (Wednesday, December 21, 2016) — Researchers from the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo in Canada are the first to transmit a quantum key securely from a source on the ground to a receiver on an aircraft. The uplink is a prototype for secure quantum communication and shows the viability of the team’s quantum communication satellite mission (QEYSSat) proposal.

Local artist creates visual project from random BIG Bell Test data

Do atoms behave differently when we are not looking at them?

The Bell test seeks to catch quantum particles “talking” to each other by matching their answers (output), to the questions asked (measurement). Unpredictable and independent input is one condition needed to perform Bell test experiments. Last week, the BIG Bell Test (BBT) brought true human unpredictability and randomness to the first ever human-driven Bell test.