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Physical Society Colloquium

CAP Lecture

Quantum Computation - or How To Take Advantage
of Quantum Strangeness

Alexandre Blais

Université de Sherbrooke

Quantum computers would take advantage of the most bizarre aspects of quantum mechanics (superposition of states and entanglement) in order to, in principle, perform calculations exponentially faster than any classical computer could. The experimental realization of such a quantum computer is however an enormous challenge. Assuming no knowledge of quantum mechanics, I will present some of the fundamental ideas of quantum information. I will also discuss how these ideas could be realized experimentally.

This seminar is oriented mainly towards undergraduate audience. The seminar will be followed by a meeting with Prof Blais for the undergraduate students beginning at 16:00 in RPB room 105 (free donuts and coffee).

This talk is sponsored by the Canadian Association of Physicists

Thursday, March 29th 2007, 14:00
Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)