university of calgary quantum information science

Welcome to the

Institute for Quantum Information Science

The Institute for Quantum Information Science is a multidisciplinary group of researchers from the areas of Computer Science, Mathematics, and Physics. The goals of Calgary's Institute for Quantum Information Science are to conduct leading research in key theoretical and experimental topics of quantum information science, to provide excellent education and training in quantum information and cognate areas, and to foster linkage between the Institute and other quantum information institutes and with industrial partners. The Institute has the dual objective of applying quantum physics to produce revolutionary advances in information and communication science and technology, and to advance understanding and methods in quantum physics by applying breakthroughs in quantum information research.

Ongoing research in the institute includes theoretical and experimental aspects of quantum algorithms and complexity theory, quantum information theory, experimental realizations of quantum computing devices, quantum cryptography, quantum optics, and quantum networks. The quantum information science program in physics is undertaken within the Quantum Optics group.

What is quantum information science?

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Headlines

Quantum cats are hard to see.
Coherent Schrödinger's cat still confounds: Christoph Simon.

Ben Lavoie is now the proud father of Desmond Nathan Lavoie who was born 9 Nov at 1:21 am.

Dennis Salahub has received a Killam Leadership Award for his outstanding research contributions.

IQIS welcomes new members:

Postdocs: Vlad Gheorghiu & Yang Tan

Graduate Students: Yahya Alfayfi, Behzad Khanaliloo, Mohammad Khazali, Farokh Mivehvar, Dongsheng Wang, Marcelo Wu, and Ehsan Zahedinejad.

Visiting Professors: Andal Narayanan from Raman Research Institute, Marcos Cesar de Oliveira from Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), and Shengjun Wu from University of Science and Technology of China.

Christoph Simon and Sara Hastings-Simon are now the proud parents of Noah Jakob and Benjamin David who were born on 11 August 2011.

Jeong San Kim completed his postdoctoral fellowship in Barry Sanders' group and has just commenced a faculty position at the University of Suwon.

Sadegh Raeisi defended his Masters thesis successfully on 22 August 2011 and will go to the University of Waterloo to commence a PhD program.

Ben Fortescue will leave the Institute at the end of August 2011 and join Mark Byrd's group at Southern Illinois University as a postdoctoral research associate.

The paper "Enhanced feedback iterative decoding of sparse quantum codes" co-authored by Yunjiang Wang and Barry Sanders with collaborators at Xidian University has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.

Christoph Simon's article on quantum repeaters with atomic ensembles appears in Reviews of Modern Physics.

Paul Barclay receives the Alberta Innovates Technology Futures Scholar Award, Alberta Innovates.

In the Media:

UToday, 30 November 2011
Deciding who keeps the car : Wolfgang Tittel
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Physorg.com, 29 November 2011
How to decide who keeps the car: Tossing quantum coins moves closer to reality: Wolfgang Tittel
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Upcoming

Quantum information processing and quantum optics with superconducting circuits

Alexandre Blais
Département de Physique
Université de Sherbrooke

Location: SA 121
Date: 8 November 2011

The quality of experiments involving superconducting qubits has improved tremendously in the past ten years. Since the first experiment at NEC in 1999, coherence times have risen by four orders of magnitudes, several readout mechanisms have reached the single-shot regime and logical gates can be implemented with sub-percent error rates. Highly entangled states can now be generated routinely by several groups and simples quantum algorithms have been implemented. Beyond applications to quantum information processing, superconducting qubits can now also play the role of artificial atoms in quantum optics experiments in the microwave regime. In some cases, these on-chip «photon laboratories» can reach regimes unexplored in traditional quantum optics. In this lecture-style talk, I will review the basic ideas required to understand these experiments.

IQIS Seminar - Ksenia Dolgaleva [Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto], Wednesday 8th February, 2012 at 3.30-4.30pm in SB142
"Manipulating Optical Properties by Local-Field Effects and Nanostructuring"

IQIS Seminar - Charles Adams [Durham University, UK], Wednesday 15th February, 2012 at 3.00-4.00pm in SB142
"Non-linear optics using Rydberg atoms"

Current Visitors

Name	Duration	Office	Home Institution
Jhon Lozada Vera	20 Jan - 30 Jun 2012	SB 312	Depto. de FÃsica da Materia Condensada, Instituto de FÃsica 'Gleb Wataghin' - UNICAMP
Andal Narayanan	1 Aug 2011 - 31 Jul 2012	SB 318	Raman Research Institute
Marcos Cesar de Oliveira	30 Aug 2011 - 29 Aug 2012	SB 317	Universidade Estadual de Campinas
Jiying Zhang	28 Sep 2011 - 27 Sep 2012	SB 306	University of Science and Technology of China
Aeysha Khalique	13 Jan - 31 Dec 2012	SB 115A	National University of Science and Technology (NUST)

Expected Visitors

Name	Duration	Office	Home Institution
Ksenia Dolgaleva	7 - 8 Feb 2012	SB 317	University of Toronto
Charles Adams	15 Feb 2012	SB 317	Durham University
Robert Scholten	22 - 23 Feb 2012	SB 317	University of Melbourne
Vladimir Korepin	2 - 8 Apr 2012	SB 317	State University of New York at Stony Brook

All Visitors

Contact Information:

Institute for Quantum Information Science
University of Calgary
2500 University Drive NW
Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 1N4

Phone: (403) 220-4403
Fax: (403) 210-8876
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