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Research Priority Area at the University of Amsterdam
Imagine quantum schemes for cryptography that cannot be broken; a future quantum computer that will be able to solve whole classes of tasks that a classical computer cannot. Great impact can be expected from quantum information processing and computing well beyond the confines of physics, as a full understanding of many biological and chemical processes (e.g. photosynthesis) and many tasks in computer science only come within reach when running quantum algorithms on quantum hardware.
Many players in the field agree: the next paradigm shift in information
processing will be the quantum revolution. Equally clear is that this
breakthrough demands a continuous exchange of insights and results between
computer science, experimental and theoretical physics, and mathematics. At UvA,
great strides have been made in these individual disciplines. Recognizing that
the newly approved UvA Research Priority Area (RPA) Quantum Matter &
Quantum Information (QM&QI) is ideally situated right at these
crossroads, the next step is the formation of a single research center. This
will further unite the different disciplines, taking full advantage of the joint
Science Park location.
In the coming few years, resources will be bundled to strive towards the
game-changing goal of quantum computation, and en route the
expectations are high for science of great impact resulting from coordinated and
multidisciplinary efforts in areas in which the Amsterdam consortium already
plays a leading role, such as: multi-particle entanglement, topological
protection, quantum cryptography and theory of strongly interacting quantum
matter. Not only are these themes suited to the aim of speeding the advent of
quantum computation and information processing, they also enable maximal
positive feedback from new quantum-information and information theoretical
approaches into important, difficult problems in physics such as the development
of a predictive description of complex, strongly interacting quantum systems.
Five UvA research groups are active in the area of Quantum Matter &
Quantum Information, bundling the expertise of three UvA research institutes
−Institute of Physics (IoP), Korteweg-de Vries Institute (KdVI), Institute for
Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC)− and involving the NWO's Center for
Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI).
Experimental Physics (IoP-Van der Waals-Zeeman Institute): Quantum Gases
and Quantum Information and Quantum Electron Matter
Theoretical Physics (IoP- Institute for Theoretical Physics
Amsterdam): Low-D Quantum Condensed Matter and Quantum Information
Mathematics (KdVI): Algebra, Geometry and Mathematical Physics
The multidisciplinary approach of the QM&QI RPA is well suited to speed
up breakthroughs in the field and this, in turn, will boost innovation and
valorization. In the long term, quantum information and quantum technologies
will become pervasive and permanent cornerstones of activities across science,
with impact on society as a whole.
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