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.

6 CQIQC Members: Professors Amr Helmy, Artur Izmaylov, Young-June Kim, Dvira Segal, Sorin Voinigescu, and John Wei are recipients of the NSERC Alliance National Quantum Strategy grants. They 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".

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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.

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.

Professor Amr Helmy and his team received funding from Canada’s Department of National Defence to develop quantum light sensors for drone detection, biomedical imaging and other relevant fields.

Professor Amr Helmy and his team received funding from Canada’s Department of National Defenceare to develop quantum light sensors for drone detection, biomedical imaging and other relevant fields.

Researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder and the University of Toronto have found a way for quantum materials to undergo transitions between “dynamical phases” by using clouds of ultracold atoms.

CQIQC's Joseph Thywissen led a research team that has discovered new rules governing the behaviour of atoms that collide at temperatures close to absolute zero. They published these findings in Nature Physics.

The second biennial John Stewart Bell Prize for Research on Fundamental Issues in Quantum Mechanics and their Applications is awarded to Sandu Popescu, Professor of Physics at the University of Bristol, UK, for discoveries illuminating the nature of nonlocality and entanglement, the investigation of stronger-than-quantum non-signaling correlations, and the application of quantum theory to thermodynamics.

In 2009, the first biennial John Stewart Bell Prize for Research on Fundamental Issues in Quantum Mechanics and their Applications was awarded to Prof. Nicolas Gisin for his theoretical and experimental work on foundations and applications of quantum physics, in particular: quantum non-locality, quantum cryptography and quantum teleportation.