Quantum Computation: Why, What, and How

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Speaker(s): Carlton M. Caves

The traditional view of quantum mechanics as restricting what canbe done classically has been turned upside down by quantuminformation science, which explores how coherentquantum-mechanical information processing can be used toaccomplish tasks that would be impossible in a classical world.Implementing quantum information processing protocols promises tobe one of the enduring scientific and technological challenges ofthe 21st Century. I will focus on quantum computation: why it’simportant, what is required to make it work, and how it might beimplemented in physical systems.

Colloquium

Junior and senior physics majors attend our biweekly colloquium series, held on Tuesday afternoons at 4:30 p.m. in Shanahan B460. The talks are open to all students and to the public, and are frequently attended by scientists from the other Claremont Colleges, Cal Poly Pomona, and others. The series features speakers from a broad range of institutions and fields of physics.