Colloquium Details
Quantum information and quantum computation, or why quantum mechanics is good for you
| Author: | Carlton M. Caves Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of New Mexico |
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| Date: | November 15, 2000 |
| Time: | 16:00 |
| Location: | 220 Deschutes |
Note: Special Day
Abstract
Recent advances in quantum information science presage a technological revolution. Heretofore scientists and engineers have designed information-processing systems which, though they use quantum structures, perform information-processing tasks that can be described in the familiar language of our everyday experience. Now rapid advances in nanotechnology are providing access to smaller and smaller information-processing units. Quantum information science has shown that what lies at these smaller scales is not just a tiny version of classical information processing, but rather a whole new world of quantum-mechanical information processing based on coherent quantum dynamics. I will review developments in quantum information science and discuss prospects for the future.