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 + + + + + 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 Y IA IA R DONNY CHEUNG M CHRIS PUGH M ANNE BROADBENT T E E S MASTER’S 2002, PhD 2007 PhD 2017 PDF 2013 D D U A A D Now at Google Canada Now at Brandon University Now at the University of Ottawa C C N I A A 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 .