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WFU Physics Colloquium

TITLE: "Physics of Quantum Computing"

SPEAKER: Professor Dmitri Khveshchenko,

Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

TIME: Thursday Apr. 3, 2008 at 4:00 PM

PLACE: Room 101 in Olin Physical Laboratory

Refreshments will be served at 3:30 PM in the Olin Lounge. All interested persons are cordially invited to attend.

ABSTRACT

In this leisurely introduction to the field of quantum information processing, we discuss the main challenges of controlled manipulations with large coherent assemblies of individual qubits and outline some many-body physics-based approaches to the problem of optimal engineering of practical many-qubit registers.

100 Olin Physical Laboratory
Wake Forest University
Winston-Salem, NC 27109-7507
Phone: (336) 758-5337, FAX: (336) 758-6142
E-mail: wfuphys@wfu.edu