When a radar trap clocked Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) faculty member Joseph Emerson driving too fast on a Quebec road, it occurred to Emerson that quantum mechanics might help him get out of paying the fine.
In a recent issue of Physical Review Letters, a team of researchers including IQC postdoctoral fellow Marco Piani explored a unified framework for all correlations that respect the so-called no-signalling principle.
Students in Grades 10 to 12 have until Friday, May 7, to sign up for a fascinating, week-long summer program in quantum cryptography.
IQC faculty member Jonathan Baugh has been awarded a $139,000 grant to purchase state-of-the-art equipment for quantum information research.
IQC Deputy Director Michele Mosca has been promoted to the prestigious position of Fellow in the Quantum Information Processing program of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR).
Anne Broadbent, a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Quantum Computing, finds balance between her leading-edge scientific research and her family life on a 10-acre farm nicknamed Windy Poplars.
In a feature published last weekend in The Waterloo Region Record, Broadbent said mathematics has an "elegance" that has always attracted her, not unlike the rustic beauty of her homestead northwest of Waterloo.Broadbent introduced readers to her husband, Didier Guignard, their seven-month-old son Danny, and the family pet, a Bernese mountain dog named Berny.
IQC Director Raymond Laflamme will host a special screening of the award-winning documentary The Quantum Tamers in Ottawa on April 28. The screening, part of an alumni reception for University of Waterloo and Carleton graduates, will be followed by a Q&A session with Laflamme, who was a scientific advisor and co-star of the film.
From TEDxWaterloo, Feb. 25, 2010, The Gig Theatre, Kitchener, Ontario.
Creating a large-scale quantum computer is an ambitious but achievable goal requiring research in many experimental fields, says a recent article in Nature co-authored by IQC Director Raymond Laflamme. "As we approach this goal, we will grow accustomed to controlling the counterintuitive properties of quantum mechanics," write Laflamme, Thaddeus Ladd, Fedor Jelezko, Yasunobu Nakamura, Christopher Monroe and Jeremy O'Brien.
Innate curiosity is the driving force behind all great science, IQC director Raymond Laflamme writes in the new issue of Motivated Magazine" a publication that profiles exceptional leaders. "Curiosity is the force that drives everything I do," Laflamme writes in the 1,500-word article, "from getting my hands greasy under the hood of my 1979 VW van to manipulating the subatomic particles of the quantum world. And I love to inspire curiosity in others."