Dr. Radu Ionicioiu, Quantum information: turning paradoxes into technology

Thursday 7 Mar 2013, 11:00 → 12:00 Europe/Bucharest

We are at the dawn of the second quantum revolution. By controlling individual quantum objects (photons, atoms, electrons, ions etc) and using quantum mechanical properties we can achieve things no classical system can do. Quantum information science developed exponentially in the last 20 years. Some of the major research areas are quantum computation, quantum communication, quantum control, quantum imaging, quantum lithography and so on. Future quantum technologies (e.g., quantum computing, quantum internet) will depend on our deeper understanding of quantum phenomena on the one hand, and on our ability to engineer and control quantum systems on the other. In this talk I will give an overview of quantum information science and of the quantum paradoxes it originated from. I will discuss the state-of-the-art and the challenges facing the field. Two topics I will focus on are quantum computation and quantum communication.