QuantumWorks is an NSERC-funded Innovation Platform that links Canadian researchers with industrial and government agency partners to lead Canada into the next technological revolution - that of Quantum Information Processing (QIP).
Our mission is to aggressively explore and advance the application of quantum mechanical systems to a vast array of relevant information processing techniques. We will accomplish this by creating a truly unique environment that fosters cutting-edge research and collaboration between researchers in the areas of computer, engineering, mathematical and physical sciences.
Head: Juan Pablo Paz
Institution: University of Buenos Aires
The potential of QIPC in Poland led to a decision to create on 29-th June 2007 National Quantum Information Centre of Gdańsk - a joint research unit formed together by University of Gdańsk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Lodz University, Jagiellonian University, Adam Mickiewicz University, Technical University of Gdańsk and Wroclaw University (http://www.kcik.univ.gda.pl).
Four faculty members in theoretical quantum optics and quantum information: Prof Steve Barnett, Dr John Jeffers, Dr Daniel Oi, Dr Shashank Virmani.
Cold atoms group headed by Prof Erling Riis.
Links to experimental optics group at University of Glasgow (Prof. Miles Padgett).
