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Events

Sep

2020

14:30

Prof. Simon Benjamin: "Quantum algorithms and architectures for the NISQ era: Can they really work?"

Weekly seminar

17 Sep 2020

14:30

In this talk I will offer an overview of my Oxford group’s recent work targetting NISQ (noisy intermediate scale quantum) devices. This is an area of tremendous interest at the moment as we are starting to see quantum devices at, or beyond, the practical limits of simulation power of today’s supercomputers. But of course the ability to build a machine that a conventional computer cannot simulate may be a long way from building something useful!

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Sep

2020

14:30

Prof. Waseem Bakr: "Quantum gas microscopy of ultracold fermions in optical lattices"

Weekly seminar

10 Sep 2020

14:30

The normal state of high-temperature superconductors exhibits anomalous transport and spectral properties that are poorly understood. Cold atoms in optical lattices have been used to realize the celebrated Fermi-Hubbard model, widely believed to capture the essential physics of these materials.

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Sep

2020

14:30

Prof. Robert König: "Quantum advantage with noisy shallow circuits "

Weekly seminar

03 Sep 2020

14:30

Prior work has shown that there exists a relation problem which can be solved with certainty by a constant-depth quantum circuit composed of geometrically local gates in two dimensions, but cannot be solved with high probability by any classical constant depth circuit composed of bounded fan-in gates. Here we provide two extensions of this result.

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Aug

2020

15:30

Dr. Yosi Atia: "Quantum Necromancy and the Hardness of Observing Schrodinger's Cat"

Weekly seminar

27 Aug 2020

15:30

When applied to macroscopic scales, the unitarity of quantum mechanics leads to paradoxes such as Schrodinger's cat and Wigner's friend. The question of when and how superpositions of macroscopic states become "effectively measured" is fundamental in quantum mechanics.

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Aug

2020

14:30

Prof. Oliver William: "Engineering Quantum Systems of Superconducting Qubits"

Weekly seminar

20 Aug 2020

14:30

To the recorded seminar Quantum computers are fundamentally different than conventional computers. They promise to address problems that are practically prohibitive and even impossible to solve using today’s supercomputers. The challenge is building one that is large enough to be useful.

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Aug

2020

14:30

Prof. Ido Kaminer: "Free-Electron Quantum Optics"

Weekly seminar

06 Aug 2020

14:30

Research of cavity quantum electrodynamics (CQED) has enabled new capabilities in quantum optics, quantum computation, and various quantum technologies. So far, all the work in this field has included light interacting with bound-electron systems such as atoms, quantum dots, and quantum circuits. In contrast, free-electron systems enable fundamentally different physical phenomena, as their energy distribution is continuous and not discrete, and allow for tunable transitions and selection rules.

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Jul

2020

14:30

Prof. Monika Aidelsburger: "Observation of non-ergodic behavior in the tilted 1D Fermi-Hubbard model"

Weekly seminar

30 Jul 2020

14:30

Thermalization of isolated quantum many-body systems is a fundamental problem that has important connections to quantum information theory

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Jul

2020

14:30

Prof. Steven M. Girvin: "Programmable Quantum Simulation of Molecular Vibrational Spectra using Boson Sampling in Circuit QED".

Weekly seminar

23 Jul 2020

14:30

‘Circuit QED’ is the quantum theory of superconducting qubits strongly interacting with microwave photons in electrical circuits. It is the leading solid-state architecture in the race to develop large-scale fault-tolerant quantum computers

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International Calendar of Events

Research

How does light propagate in integrated circuits on chips?

Researchers at the Technion are answering this question and paving the way to new applications in communication, imaging, and quantum computing. The field of photonic integrated circuits focuses on the miniaturization of photonic elements and their integration in photonic chips – circuits that carry out a range of calculations using..

Yuval Shagam won an ERC grant

Assistant Professor Yuval Shagam from the Schulich Faculty of Chemistry is a member of the Helen Diller Quantum Center. He focuses on understanding molecular chirality: a molecule or ion that cannot be superposed on its mirror image. Such molecules are often distinguished as either “right-handed” or “left-handed.” Molecular chirality plays a central role in many fields, ranging from reaction dynamics to drug development. Molecules of opposite-handedness, known as enantiomers, can have different smells and different medicinal properties among other things.

Toward the discovery of new quantum phenomena that have yet to be observed: Prof. Ido Kaminer of the Technion won an ERC Consolidator grant

Prof. Ido Kaminer of the Viterbi Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering won an ERC Consolidator grant from the European Research Council.ERC Consolidator grants support select scientists who propose pioneering, ground-breaking research ideas. The grant will be used by Prof. Kaminer’s research team to develop a theory and innovative experimental platform for a new field in electron microscopy: Q-in-PINEM. The research will focus on creating new quantum states and identifying unique quantum properties for materials.

Atomic-scale spin-optical laser: new horizon for optoelectronics

Researchers from the Technion have pushed the limits of the possible in the field of atomic-scale spin-optics, creating a spin-optical laser from monolayer-integrated spin-valley microcavities without requiring magnetic fields or cryogenic temperatures

The physical world through the lens of computational complexity

“Computers are physical systems, and so are our brains. Therefore, they are subject to physical laws that determine what they can and cannot calculate,” points out Prof. Itai Arad, a theoretical physicist who researches the field of quantum information. He is determined to better understand physical systems by drawing on tools and insights from a variety of disciplines – including condensed matter physics, information theory, computer science and statistical mechanics. Specifically, Prof.