Institute for Quantum Computing Fact Sheet

 
Research Area/Focus Advancement in fundamental experimental and theoretical knowledge in relevant areas of Engineering, Mathematics and Science to enhance the developments in the field of Quantum Computation and Information Processing
Number of Researchers 99 directories in year 2007
Awards/Recognition/Discoveries
  • Researchers led by Dr. Jonathan Baugh published their experimental implementation of heat-bath algorithmic cooling in the prestigious international science journal Nature
  • Chris Erven was awarded the Best Judged Oral Presentation for the Physical Science, Math & Technology Division at The Graduate Student Research Conference 2007
  • Gregor Weihs, Ashwin Nayak, David Kribs and Jan Kycia received Early Researcher Awards for 2006

Current Examples of Intitiatives

  • Benchmarks for control in solid-state NMR quantum computing
  • Erasure Thresholds For Efficient Linear Optics Quantum Computation
  • Improved Bounds for Approximate Quantum Fourier Transforms
  • Linear Optics Quantum Computation: Creating the Entangled States
  • Measuring Fidelity Decay On An NMR Quantum Computer
  • Numerical Analysis, and an Experimental Proposal, for Heat-bath
    Algorithmic- Cooling
  • Polarization Based Quantum Key Distribution Without Shared Reference Frame
  • Quantum Cellular Automata
  • Superconducting Single Photon Detector (SSPD):Theory, Design, Fabrification and Measurement
  • QFT methods over finite fields
Website http://www.iqc.ca
Address 200 University Ave. W.
Waterloo, ON
N2L 3G1

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