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How do we harness the power of quantum mechanics to improve information processing?

Computing technology has become so much a part of everyday life that most of us never consider just how amazing the technology, or the extent of the technological revolution it has created. The next revolution is around the corner: quantum information science.

Computer science, aided by quantum mechanical inventions such as the transistor and the laser, has developed further in the past 50 years than we would have imagined. But current computers are binary: a switch is either on or off, one or zero. In this way, they are limited in what they can do.

QIS offers the potential to approach quantum mechanics and computer science through a powerful new frame. Potential applications range from cryptography, code-breaking, design and simulation of materials and chemicals, to fast optimization and machine learning techniques.

Many nations are already investing billions of dollars in the field, and spinoff technologies using QIS are already being commercialized, including sensors, amplifiers and detectors with applications ranging from medical imaging to oil exploration.

This program connects theorists and experimentalists who address the field’s most fundamental questions. This approach will pay dividends by encouraging radically new ideas, at the same time it engages with industry in the search for new applications and to maximize the positive impact on society of QIS.


SELECTED PAPERS

Knill, E., R. Laflamme et G.J. Milburn. "A scheme for efficient quantum computation with linear optics." Nature 409 (2001) : 46-52. ABSTRACT

Negrevergne, C. et al. "Benchmarking quantum control methods on a 12-qubit system." Physical Review Letters, 96 (2006) : 170501 ABSTRACT

L. A. Rozema et al., “Quantum Data Compression of a Qubit Ensemble,” Physical Review Letters 113, 16 (2014). ABSTRACT

J. Zhang et al., “Digital quantum simulation of the statistical mechanics of a frustrated magnet,” Nature Communications 3, 880 (2012). ABSTRACT

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Computer science, including quantum computing and theory of computation
Quantum, condensed matter, mathematical and atomic physics
Optics
Electronic and information engineering
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Aephraim M. Steinberg

Program Director

Quantum Information Science
University of Toronto
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David Bacon

Associate Fellow

Quantum Information Science
Google
United States
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Alexandre Blais

Fellow

Quantum Information Science
Université de Sherbrooke
Canada
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Lilian Childress

Fellow

Quantum Information Science
McGill University
Canada
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Jay Gambetta

Associate Fellow

Quantum Information Science
IBM
United States
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David Gosset

Fellow

Quantum Information Science
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
University of Waterloo
Canada
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Patrick Hayden

Fellow

Quantum Information Science
Stanford University
United States
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Stacey Jeffery

Fellow

Quantum Information Science
CWI
QuSoft
The Netherlands
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Ben Lanyon

Fellow

Quantum Information Science
University of Innsbruck
Austria
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Irfan Siddiqi

Fellow

Quantum Information Science
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
United States
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Stephanie Simmons

Fellow

Quantum Information Science
Simon Fraser University
Canada
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Matthias Troyer

Associate Fellow

Quantum Information Science
Microsoft
United States
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Guifré Vidal

Fellow

Quantum Information Science
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
X the Moonshot Factory
Canada
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Thomas Vidick

Fellow
CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar 2017-2019

Quantum Information Science
California Institute of Technology
United States

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Dorit Aharonov

Advisor

Quantum Information Science
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Israel
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Gilles Brassard

Advisor

Quantum Information Science
Université de Montréal
Canada
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Michel Devoret

Advisor

Quantum Information Science
Yale University
United States
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Raymond Laflamme

Advisory Committee Chair

Quantum Information Science
University of Waterloo
Canada
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John Preskill

Advisor

Quantum Information Science
California Institute of Technology
United States

CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars

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Ashok Ajoy

CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars 2022-2024

Quantum Information Science
University of California Berkeley
United States
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Nir Bar-Gill

CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar 2016-2018

Quantum Information Science
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Israel
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Giulio Chiribella

CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar 2016-2018

Quantum Information Science
University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong
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Gerhard Kirchmair

CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar 2016-2018

Quantum Information Science
University of Innsbruck
Austria
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Peter McMahon

CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar 2020-2022

Quantum Information Science
Cornell University
United States
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Christine Muschik

CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar 2020-2022

Quantum Information Science
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
University of Waterloo
Canada
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Alexei Ourjoumtsev

CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar 2020-2022

Quantum Information Science
Collège de France
France
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Paul Skrzypczyk

CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars 2022-2024

Quantum Information Science
University of Bristol
United Kingdom
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Pablo Solano

CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars 2022-2024

Quantum Information Science
Universidad de Concepción
Chile
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Thomas Vidick

Fellow
CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar 2017-2019

Quantum Information Science
California Institute of Technology
United States

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