Professor Dr. Irfan Siddiqi

Dept of Physics, UC Berkley

Title of Talk: Computing with Quantum Entanglement

Abstract: Quantum mechanics predicts that matter can be entangled such that disparate individual objects, such as bits in a computer processor, behave in a highly correlated fashion that cannot be parameterized as a product of independent descriptors. The computational space (number of different physical configurations) afforded by such hardware can thus grow exponentially in the number of quantum bits (qubits), enabling, with suitable algorithms, classically intractable computational tasks as well as simulations of complex physical phenomena in physics, chemistry, and biology. The main challenge in the field is to control and readout quantum information processing hardware without loss of coherence in a resource-efficient manner. I will discuss recent progress in the execution of quantum algorithms with imperfect quantum hardware, identifying promising areas where advancements, both in terms of fundamental quantum science and engineering, are likely to be transformative.

Irfan Siddiqi is a professor in the Department of Physics.He received his AB (1997) in chemistry & physics from Harvard University. He then went on to receive a PhD (2002) in applied physics from Yale University, where he stayed as a postdoctoral researcher until 2005. He joined the physics department at the University of California, Berkeley in the summer of 2006. In 2006, he was awarded the George E. Valley, Jr. prize by the American Physical Society for the development of the Josephson bifurcation amplifier. In 2007, he was awarded the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, the Hellman Family Faculty Fund, and the UC Berkeley Chancellor’s Partnership Faculty Fund. https://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/faculty/irfan-siddiqi

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