Professor Accomplishes Breakthrough Toward Quantum Computing

Friday, July 15, 2011 - 14:00 in Physics & Chemistry

To build a quantum computer, one needs to create and precisely control individual quantum memory units, called qubits, for information processing. Olivier Pfister, a professor of physics in the University of Virginia's College of Arts & Sciences, has just published findings in the journal Physical Review Letters demonstrating a breakthrough in the creation of massive numbers of entangled qubits, more precisely a multilevel variant thereof called Qmodes.

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