QC @ MIT: Education

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QC _at_ MITEducation Outreach
NSF CBA Review Meeting, 10-Jun-04

• Isaac Chuang

MIT, Center for Bits and Atoms Department of
Physics
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Education Outreach
How do we train a new generation of quantum
information scientists?

• Teaching materials
• HP/MIT QC course
• MAS.961 / 8.371J course
• MIT 8.14 Junior Experimental Physics Laboratory

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Bulk Spin-Resonance Quantum Computation
( Gershenfeld and Chuang, Science 275, p.350,
1997 Cory, Fahmy, and Havel, PNAS 94, p.1634,
1997 )

• Information (qubits) Nuclear spins
• Interactions Chemical bonds
• Circuits Electromagnetic field pulses

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Quantum Information Processing
Experiment 42
MIT Junior Physics Laboratory
Purpose
This experiment will let you perform a series of
simple quantum computations on a two spin system,
demonstrating one and two quantum-bit quantum
logic gates, and a circuit implementing the
Deutsch-Jozsa quantum algorithm
History

• Founded by Prof. David Cory
• Ran at MIT Media Laboratory in 2002
• Permanent Phys. Dept. 2003-2004

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Quantum Information Processing
Experiment 42
MIT Junior Physics Laboratory
Purpose
This experiment will let you perform a series of
simple quantum computations on a two spin system,
demonstrating one and two quantum-bit quantum
logic gates, and a circuit implementing the
Deutsch-Jozsa quantum algorithm