Recent work by Jason Alicea, IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar alum Torsten Karzig and collaborators is featured as a Physics Viewpoint: A Roadmap for a Scalable Topological Quantum Computer. “ … the race to build a quantum computer has many competitors pursuing a variety of approaches, some of which appear to be on the verge of creating [...]
Google Scholar released a new collection of Classic Papers “a collection of highly-cited papers in their area of research that have stood the test of time.” They include the ten most-cited articles published ten years earlier over a broad range of research topics, such as Life Sciences & Earth Sciences, Business, Economics & Management, Physics [...]
A new paper by Ning Bao, DuBridge Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics, and Graduate Student, Nicole Yunger Halpern has been selected as a Physical Review A Editor's selection. In Quantum voting and violation of Arrow's impossibility theorem [a] quantum voting system is proposed in the tradition of quantum game theory. It is shown that this [...]
In a recent interview with Inverse Entertainment Spiros Michalakis, describes his input as a consultant on the Marvel Cinematic Universe series of films including Ant Man, Dr. Strange and Captain Marvel. He introduced the Marvel team to the idea of a quantum realm “This is a place where the nature of reality changes around you. [...]
John Preskill and former IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar, Fernando Pastawski present new work in Code Properties from Holographic Geometries Phys. Rev. X 7, 021022 (2017). An overview is presented in the paper's Popular Summary: This figure illustrates uberholography for the case of a two-dimensional hyperbolic bulk geometry. The inner logical boundary is contained inside the [...]
John Preskill is presenting the third public lecture in the Frontiers of Physics series at the University of Washington. His talk, Quantum Computing and the Entanglement Frontier, will be available via streaming video beginning at 7:30 pm on Thursday, May 11. It will also be available for viewing after the talk. Other talks in the [...]
These images show light patterns generated by a rhenium-based crystal using a laser method called optical second-harmonic rotational anisotropy. At left, the pattern comes from the atomic lattice of the crystal. At right, the crystal has become a 3-D quantum liquid crystal, showing a drastic departure from the pattern due to the atomic lattice [...]
John Preskill will present the 2017 Peterson Public Lecture in Physics at Kansas State University on April 18. The Peterson Public Lecture Series presents an annual public talk concerning cosmology or quantum mechanics. In the talk, "Preskill will explain why he loves quantum entanglement, the elusive feature making quantum information fundamentally different from information in [...]
A recent paper by Xie Chen Symmetry Fractionalization in Two Dimensional Topological Phases is available in Review in Physics. Symmetry fractionalization describes the fascinating phenomena that excitations in a 2D topological system can transform under symmetry in a fractional way. For example in fractional quantum Hall systems, excitations can carry fractional charges while the electrons [...]
John Preskill is presenting the 2017 Oppenheimer Lecture at the University of California Berkeley. The Oppenheimer lecture is a public lecture with a distinguished tradition. Past lecturers have included: Murray Gell-Mann, Kip Thorne, Freeman Dyson, Chen-Ning Yang, Robert Laughlin, Bruno Zumino, Edward Witten, Martin Rees, Michael Fisher, Stephen Hawking, David Mermin, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji , Frank Wilczek, Lisa [...]