QUTIM PHIYSICS SERIES

QUTIM PHIYSICS SERIES

Part one of our series featuring these panels focuses on The Nature of Uncertainty, inspired by Michael Frayn's Tony Award-Winning play, Copenhagen, and Mind and Matter, based on Jacob Berkowitz's play, Entangled.

IDEAS host Nahlah Ayed moderated three panels discussing the issues spinning out of each of the plays. The Theatre and Physics Symposium staged plays inspired by some of the towering figures of theoretical physics - and their fraught, complicated relationships. They would seem to have little to say about the interactions between humans.īut in November 2021, the National Arts Centre in Ottawa mounted an ambitious project to explore the connections between quantum physics and human interactions. time-keeping or electrical measurements.The interactions of unimaginably small subatomic particles seem to be the stuff of science fiction - so bizarre and counterintuitive that even the world's leading quantum physicists struggle to make sense of them. Quantum metrology uses quantum sensors to define the standards for e.g. Quantum sensors use similar technologies as quantum computers and networks: they detect the tiniest disturbances because they are based on e.g., single electrons, the smallest possible charges and magnets. They provide the most accurate measurements and will drastically increase the performance of consumer devices and services, from medical diagnostics and imaging to high-precision navigation, to future applications in the Internet of Things. For point-to-point communication, this is already on the market today and will be developed further into a quantum internet.īesides Quantum Communication, Quantum sensors will arguably be the basis for the first applications of Quantum Technologies. If anything intercepts a single photon it will be noticed, meaning that with quantum technology we can achieve the most secure form of communication known, impossible to intercept without detection. A typical implementation of quantum networks uses single photons. Quantum communication will help protect the increasing amounts of citizens’ data transmitted digitally, for instance health records and financial transactions.

Others imitate the idea of a wind tunnel: while there, small models are used to understand the aerodynamics cars or planes, some quantum simulators use simple model quantum systems (such as an array of single atoms) to understand systems that would be even more difficult to experiment with. Some quantum simulators are specialised quantum computers. They will be key to the design of new chemicals, from drugs to fertilisers for future medicine and agriculture, and of new materials, such as high-temperature superconductors for energy distribution without losses. Closely related to quantum computers are quantum simulators. for digital assistants that help doctors to diagnose diseases and suggest the most promising therapy, or to optimise the routes of all cars in a city simultaneously to avoid traffic jams and reduce emissions.Ĭlosely related to quantum computers are quantum simulators. They may even have the potential to train artificial intelligence systems, e.g. That includes, for example, processing vast amounts of data faster than ever before to search databases, solve equations, and recognise patterns. They are built from “quantum bits” (individual atoms, ions, photons or quantum electronic circuits) and exploit superposition and entanglement, to solve problems we could never solve otherwise. Quantum computers will make enormous computing power available to solve certain problem classes.

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