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Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Taking Another Leap For Quantum Computing

Postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Jay Gambetta of the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) and a team of physicists from Yale University recently created a two-qubit superconducting quantum processor, ground-breaking research to be published in Nature next month.
"A quantum processor executes algorithms by applying a programmable sequence of gates to an initialized register of qubits, which coherently evolves into a final state containing the result of the computation," explains Gambetta.
Friday, June 19, 2009

Postdoc Jay Gambetta Receives Junior Fellow Appointment


The Institute for Quantum Computing's (IQC) postdoctoral fellow, Jay Gambetta was recently accepted into the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) Junior Fellow Academy in the Quantum Information Processing program. As a Junior Fellow, Jay will receive the rare opportunity to collaborate with some of the top researchers in his field and be able to connect and exchange ideas with peers throughout the program and receive valuable career mentorship along the way.

Monday, June 8, 2009

Canada Excellence Research Chair

Now accepting applications

The Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) at the University of Waterloo invites applicants for a Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC).
Wednesday, May 13, 2009

TQC 2009 Underway

Bringing brilliant minds together from across the globe 

Friday, May 1, 2009

Taking a Spin Around the Block

Large-scale quantum computing will require the manipulation of quantum states of a physical system with well-behaved internal degrees of freedom. The internal quantum 'spin' states of single electrons confined to tiny potential wells (known as quantum dots) provide one such physical system.
Although the spin states of single electrons are long-lived, they are notoriously difficult to prepare and read out.