Ivan Deutsch from the University of New Mexico

4 January 2006

The title of Ivan’s talk is Quantum Information Processing with Ultracold Atomic Qubits

Abstract: The end of the twentieth century saw the coming together of two of its greatest intellectual achievements — digital information processing and quantum mechanics. What lies ahead of Moore’s road map of ever shrinking microprocessor components is not just a tinier version of devises, but a broad new principle based on quantum superpositions and nonlocal entanglement. A particularly promising scheme employs some of the coolest matter around — the optical lattice — neutral atoms trapped in a virtual crystal of light.