CQIQC Undergraduate Summer Research Program recipient Nicholas Taylor was one of the top-voted posters at the DSI's SUDS Showcase.

Recipients of CQIQC's competitive scholarship program discussed their summer research projects, program experience and their future goals.

Professors Sergio de la Barrera and Xiang Li have recently joined the University of Toronto. The Department of Physics has interviewed them to learn more about their research interests, future plans and past work and school experience.

This medal recognizes significant experimental or theoretical contributions to condensed matter and materials physics. Professor Hae-Young Kee is recognized as one of the world’s foremost theoreticians in identifying new quantum materials with desirable functionalities. Her work has emphasized identifying appropriate model Hamiltonians that have led to new insights and predictions.

For the past 45 years, the IEEE honours a team or individual for their “outstanding technical contributions to quantum electronics, either in fundamentals, applications, or in both”. This year, Professor Lo received this award for his work in quantum cryptography and quantum network.

The U of T-IBM Quantum Computing Conference allowed industry leaders and students to discuss research opportunities in quantum computing

Professors Hoi-Kwong Lo & Li Qian are part of a research team that proposed a Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) scheme without any modulators, which removes a major source of side channels on QKD sources.

Professor Joyce Poon organized the Compute Acceleration Symposium, to gather ideas from industry leaders and researchers on potential novel hardware engines to keep pace with AI’s computational needs.

6 CQIQC Members received $2.3M from the government to support projects in quantum computing, quantum thermometry, and quantum devices.

The winners received a $5,000 scholarship for their publication "Negative Quasiprobabilities Enhance Phase Estimation in Quantum-Optics Experiment".

Celebrating 50 years at U of T!

Professors Li Qian and John Sipe are part of a large international team of researchers in Canada and Europe that will develop a blueprint for future satellite quantum link technology, with applications in quantum cryptography and the quantum internet.

Researchers from the Department of Physics and CQIQC have developed a theoretical model describing the interactions between subatomic particles in non-Fermi liquids.

Toronto-based Xanadu is racing to build the world’s first photonic-based, fault-tolerant quantum computer – a machine that could have applications in everything from drug discovery to climate change mitigation

Co-founded by CQIQC member Professor Hoi-Kwong Lo, the company received a $1 million contract to test its quantum-resistant key distribution solution.

Experts and policymakers gathered at the University of Toronto to discuss Canada’s new National Quantum Strategy and the university’s role in supporting it.

CQIQC Member, Professor Hoi-Kwong Lo has been awarded with the Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Applied Photonics by the Canadian Association of Physicists and Institut National d’Optique.

Professor Thywissen's lab has isolated a pair of atoms to observe p-wave interaction strength for the first time.

Over a hundred leading experts, postdoctoral fellows and students from around the world met at the ninth biennial Centre for Quantum Information & Quantum Control (CQIQC) conference.

Professor Yong-Baek Kim received this honour for his "remarkable contributions in the arts, the humanities and the sciences, as well as in Canadian public life".

CQIQC Members, Professor Li Qian and Professor Hoi-Kwong Lo, are part of a research team that proposed a new quantum fingerprinting protocol, which is used to quickly and securely identify whether information from two sources is the same.

CQIQC's founding member Aephraim Steinberg has been appointed a University Professor, an elite designation bestowed on a few University of Toronto faculty members for distinguished scholarly achievement and pre-eminence in their fields.

Created in 2005, the John Stewart Bell Prize for Research on Fundamental Issues in Quantum Mechanics and their Applications is judged by an international panel of experts and awarded every two years.

Physics World has selected the quantum tunnelling-time experiment as one of their quantum highlights for 2020.

Professor Paul Brumer and postdoctoral fellow Dr. Chern Chuang have created a computational model to better understand how biological chemical processes work under natural sunlight.