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New Perspective Blends Quantum and Classical to Understand Quantum Rates of Change March 8, 2022 In a paper published in the journal Physical Review X, QuICS Fellow Alexey Gorshkov and postdoctoral scholar Luis Pedro García-Pintos provide a new perspective for investigating quantum changes. |
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QuICS Researchers Have a Dozen Papers Accepted to QIP March 3, 2022 In addition to paper presentations and poster sessions, QuICS researchers will help lead two of the three highly competitive plenary talks at this year’s conference. |
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QuICS Graduate Student Is Finalist for Hertz Fellowship February 18, 2022 First-year doctoral student Elizabeth Bennewitz is one of 45 finalists with a chance of receiving up to $250,000 in support from the Fannie and John Hertz Foundation. |
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Newest QuICS Fellow Ponders Quantum Mechanics, Thermodynamics, and Everything Else February 2, 2022 Nicole Yunger Halpern brings a vast intellectual curiosity to physics, from tackling abstract theory to collaborating with experimentalists, all the while drawing distinct connections between diverse disciplines of physics. |
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Katz Named ACM Fellow January 19, 2022 The computer scientist and QuICS Fellow is active in post-quantum cryptography, provable security for symmetric-key primitives, and security for outsourced data storage in the cloud. |
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Enhancing Simulations of Curved Space with Qubits January 18, 2022 QuICS Fellow Alexey Gorshkov co-authored a paper that explores a theoretical framework for adding qubits—the basic building blocks of quantum computers—to serve as matter in a curved space made of a circuit full of flowing microwaves. |
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QuICS Researchers Receive 2021 NISQ Computing Paper Award December 20, 2021 The researchers were formally recognized with the award at the Practical Quantum Computing conference, also known as Q2B, held from December 7–9 in Santa Clara, California. |
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Hartree Fellow Cultivates New Perspectives on Quantum Computing November 29, 2021 Dominik Hangleiter, one of the newest Hartree Postdoctoral Fellows, develops theoretical frameworks to identify problems where quantum computers can be proven to dominate. |
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QuICS Receives Renewed Federal Funding from NIST October 13, 2021 The interdisciplinary center focused on quantum computation, communication and cryptography is expected to receive up to $12.2 million over the next five years. |
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Wu Part of $7.5M MURI Award to Develop a Scalable Quantum Random Access Memory Architecture September 20, 2021 The QuICS Fellow is collaborating with researchers from Yale University and the University of Chicago on the five-year project funded the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. |
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QuICS Team Discovers New Quantum Algorithm for Nonlinear Differential Equations September 15, 2021 Jin-Peng Liu led a team of researchers in a search for quantum algorithms that can make quick work of differential equations. |
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UMD Leads New $25M NSF Quantum Leap Challenge Institute for Robust Quantum Simulation September 2, 2021 The new institute—with QuICS Fellow Andrew Childs as director—will significantly add to the vibrant quantum research ecosystem established in the mid-Atlantic region. |
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After a Three-Decade Odyssey, Noted Quantum Error Correction Theorist Returns to Maryland August 29, 2021 Daniel Gottesman has returned to his native Maryland after a career that has taken him across North America and through different areas of quantum information science. |
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New Approach to Information Transfer Reaches Quantum Speed Limit August 4, 2021 A team of researchers led by QuICS Fellow Alexey Gorshkov has found a quantum protocol that reaches the theoretical speed limits for certain quantum tasks. Their result provides new insight into designing optimal quantum algorithms and proves that there hasn’t been a lower, undiscovered limit thwarting attempts to make better designs. |
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Daniel Gottesman Joins UMD as the First Brin Family Endowed Professor in Theoretical Computer Science July 9, 2021 His research focuses on quantum computation and quantum information, including work in quantum error correction, fault-tolerant quantum computation, quantum cryptography and quantum complexity. |