IQC DIRECTOR’S REPORT
KEVIN RESCH,
INTERIM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OUR MISSION
TO DEVELOP AND ADVANCE QUANTUM INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AT THE HIGHEST INTERNATIONAL LEVEL THROUGH THE COLLABORATION OF COMPUTER SCIENTISTS, ENGINEERS, MATHEMATICIANS AND PHYSICAL SCIENTISTS. CORE RESEARCH AREAS
QUANTUM COMPUTING QUANTUM QUANTUM SENSING QUANTUM MATERIALS COMMUNICATION Using atoms, molecules Using the laws of quantum Engineering materials that and particles of light to Developing ultrasecure mechanics to develop new exhibit quantum properties create new bits of computer communication channels, sensors with exponential for robust quantum information – qubits, which low-noise transmission precision, sensitivity, information processors can be 0 and 1 at the same protocols and satellite-based selectivity and efficiencies. and other devices. time – for computing. global networks by harnessing the power of the quantum world. FACULTY
Michal Bajcsy Jonathan Baugh Raffi Budakian Kyung Soo Choi Richard Cleve David Cory Joseph Emerson K. Rajibul Islam Thomas Jennewein Na Young Kim Electrical and Computer Chemistry Physics and Physics and Cheriton School of Chemistry Applied Physics and Astronomy Physics and Electrical and Engineering Astronomy Astronomy Computer Science Mathematics Astronomy Computer Engineering
Raymond Laflamme Debbie Leung Adrian Lupaşcu Norbert Lütkenhaus Matteo Mariantoni Guo-Xing Miao Michele Mosca Christine Muschik Ashwin Nayak Vern Paulsen Physics and Combinatorics Physics and Physics and Physics and Electrical and Combinatorics Physics and Combinatorics Pure Mathematics Astronomy and Optimization Astronomy Astronomy Astronomy Computer Engineering and Optimization Astronomy and Optimization
Dmitry Pushin Michael Reimer Kevin Resch Crystal Senko William Slofstra Wei Tsen John Watrous Christopher Wilson Jon Yard Physics and Astronomy Electrical and Computer Physics and Physics and Pure Mathematics Chemistry Cheriton School of Electrical and Combinatorics and Engineering Astronomy Astronomy Computer Science Computer Engineering Optimization SINCE FACULTY HIRES 2016 FACULTY GROWTH INFRASTRUCTURE RESEARCH EXCELLENCE
29 Faculty 153 Graduate Students 39 Postdoctoral Fellows
Annual publications and cumulative citations
1,501 publications since 2002
173 publications in 2016
29,876 cumulative citations
138 publications since 2012 in Science, Nature Family of Journals, Physical Review Letters, FOCS and STOC RECENT RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS
RESEARCHERS SUCCESSFULLY ESTABLISH QUANTUM INNOVATION DEMONSTRATE PROTOTYPE FOR SPACE-BASED SOLVING TSIRELSON’S PROBLEM (QUIN) LAB FOR SEMICONDUCTOR AND QUANTUM-SECURED COMMUNICATION NANOSCALE QUANTUM DEVICES RESEARCH AWARDS
ACTIVE NOTABLE RESEARCH CHAIR 200+ GRANTS AWARDS 7 APPOINTMENTS
INCLUDING: CANADA EXCELLENCE RESEARCH CHAIR LAUREATE EARLY RESEARCHER DAVID CORY (June 2017) NSERC FUNDED 6 AWARDS RESEARCH GRANTS CANADA RESEARCH CHAIR 41 AMERICAN PHYSICAL KEVIN RESCH (2013-2018) 3 SOCIETY FELLOWS RAYMOND LAFLAMME (2002-2022) CFI FUNDED RESEARCH GRANTS OUTSTANDING UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CHAIR 6 3 PERFORMANCE DEBBIE LEUNG (2015-2022) AWARDS MICHELE MOSCA (2012-2019) CFREF GRANT FELLOWS OF THE MIKE AND OPHELIA LAZARIDIS “JOHN VON NEUMANN” 1 3 ROYAL SOCIETY CHAIR IN QUANTUM INFORMATION RAYMOND LAFLAMME (2017-2027) CAP-CRM PRIZE IN 1 THEORETICAL AND NANOTECHNOLOGY (WIN) ENDOWED CHAIR IN MATHEMATICAL SUPERCONDUCTIVITY PHYSICS RAFFI BUDAKIAN (2014-2019) INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS
EUROPE ASIA 746 363
NORTH AMERICA SOUTH 422 AMERICA 20 AUSTRALIA/ AFRICA OCEANIA 6 137
Over 70% of co-authored papers are with international collaborators NATIONAL COLLABORATIONS RESEARCH POWERED BY INTERDISCIPLINARY COLLABORATION
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PAPER PAPER PAPER
ENTANGLEMENT AREA LAW GROWTH AND CHARACTERIZATION DYNAMICAL CASIMIR EFFECT IN CIRCUIT IN SUPERFLUID 4HE OF EPITAXIAL ALUMINUM LAYERS ON QED FOR NONUNIFORM TRAJECTORIES GALLIUM-ARSENIDE SUBSTRATES FOR SUPERCONDUCTING QUANTUM BITS GRADUATE AND PDF PROGRAMS
MORGAN MASTROVICH JEAN-PHILIPPE BOURGOIN MASTER’S STUDENT (PHYSICS, QI) POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW
38 courses offered through the Quantum Information Graduate Program IQC ALUMNI
Master’s Program PhD Program PDF Program
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64% 76% 68% ACADEMIA ACADEMIA ACADEMIA
25% 21% INDUSTRY 17% INDUSTRY INDUSTRY
1% 1% 6% GOVERNMENT GOVERNMENT GOVERNMENT 10% 6% 5% UNKNOWN UNKNOWN UNKNOWN UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH ASSISTANTS
URAs supervised by IQC faculty
377 URAs since 2012
70%+ of USEQIP students stay for a URA (2016; 2017) SCIENTIFIC OUTREACH
318 participants since 2012 135 participants since 2012 173 participants since 2012
230 participants since 2012 82 participants since 2015 TAKING QUANTUM BEYOND BORDERS
QUANTUM EXHIBITION AND POP-UPS
151,443 5,000+ visitors across visitors in 5 overseas Canada countries EARNED MEDIA
769 MEDIA MENTIONS SINCE APRIL 2017