Opened in 2012, the Mike and Ophelia Lazaridis Quantum-Nano Centre offers some of the world’s most sophisticated laboratories for quantum science and nanotechnology research. Quantum research at Waterloo has the potential to change the way we share and secure information, and nanotechnology discoveries will influence everything from human health to alternative energy. These innovations include advances in cryptography that will keep our digital information safer and nano-materials than can help clean water.
Physicists at the University of Waterloo have led an international team that has come closer to understanding the mystery of how superconductivity, an exotic state that allows electricity to be conducted with practically zero resistance, occurs in certain materials.
Ian Andrews, Kent Fisher, Jean-Philippe MacLean, Michael Mazurek, Aimee Gunther, Angela Olano, and Sarah Kaiser at the opening of the exhibition. Photo credit: Brent Wettlaufer/THEMUSEUM
At the University of Waterloo, innovation is in our DNA. Building one of the world’s top innovation universities takes talent, curiosity, drive, passion and a single-minded focus on creating real-world change.
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A new Angry Birds-style game is set to help launch a new understanding of quantum science.
Some find the concepts of quantum science confusing or unintuitive. Einstein even called quantum effects “spooky.” To help people better understand some of the core concepts of quantum science, the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo is launching a game – the Quantum Cats.
As quantum mechanics fundamentally redefine what is possible in computing, Michele Mosca, co-founder and deputy director of the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo, is working to develop cryptographic tools that will protect the personal information you share over the Internet in the age of quantum computing.
Physicist Raffi Budakian understands the furious excitement about Pluto these days.
In one close swoop earlier this month, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft revealed new things about the dwarf planet. Scientists scurried off to rewrite the Pluto story that had been based on observations from distant Earth since 1930.
A Waterloo graduate student with a rich family history in the Canadian military is among the first to receive an historic scholarship that honours Canada’s role in the liberation of the Netherlands in the Second World War.
Research underway at Canadian universities today will change the way we live tomorrow.
Research2Reality, a new social media and television campaign by six of Canada’s top research institutions — including the University of Waterloo — aims to bring high-impact university research to the living rooms and laptops of millions of Canadians.
Building a quantum computer can be accomplished by following three simple rules — yet it’s viewed by many as the pinnacle of scientific endeavour.
Creating entangled photons is part of the work quantum computing researchers perform in their labs. But for the past 30 years, scientists have been slowed down and frustrated by the large, often finicky machines they’ve had to use to generate them.
Now, a University of Waterloo researcher has invented a device - so small it fits into your hand - that can do the job. And far from being a fussy, difficult machine to operate, the Waterloo device can be tossed around the room - and still work.