Controlling Quantum Devices

　Canada Excellence Research Chair in Quantum Information Processing
　Institute for Quantum Computing & Department of Chemistry,
　University of Waterloo

　and The Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
　Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Quantum devices can outperform their classical counterparts for interesting and important tasks. Although quantum devices are challenging to build, today we can build special purpose devices, particularly as quantum sensors and simulators. However, they are quite challenging to control. I will show examples of how quantum information theory (normally associated with algorithms for quantum computing) can be used to make quantum devices more robust. I will take as an example mater-wave interferometry.

Speaker:

David Cory is a leading global innovator in experimental quantum physics and quantum engineering, whose work is already being used in a range of applications, from the medical field to the oil industry. Before accepting his Canada Excellence Research Chair at the University of Waterloo, Cory was professor of nuclear engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he made significant breakthroughs in quantum information processing and other fields by advancing nuclear magnetic resonance methods. He is also an associate researcher at Canada‘s Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, and is chair of the advisory committee for the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. Cory holds a PhD in physical chemistry from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. He also held two postdoctoral fellowships, through which he developed instrumentation and methods for magnetic resonance and imaging of solids. He held the first at the University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands, and the second as a National Research Council fellow at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C.