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Professor Steve Girvin, Yale: The Second Quantum Revolution and the Race to Build "Impossible" Computers (Stanford-Yale Speaker Series)

Join us for the first event in our new joint Stanford-Yale Faculty Speaker Series.

Professor Steven Girvin is a Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics at Yale, and the Director of the Co-Design Center for Quantum Advantage at Brookhaven National Laboratory.

The first quantum revolution brought us the great technological advances of the 20th century—the transistor, the laser, the atomic clock and GPS, the global positioning system. A ‘second quantum revolution’ is now underway based on our relatively new understanding of how information can be stored, manipulated and communicated using strange quantum hardware that is neither fully digital nor fully analog. We now realize that 20th century hardware does not take advantage of the full power of quantum machines. This talk will give a gentle introduction to the basic concepts that underlie this quantum information revolution and describe recent remarkable experimental progress in the race to build quantum machines for computing, sensing and communication.

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Earlier Event: February 5
Quantum Computing Reading Group
Later Event: February 9
Quantum Pathways Night