uri physics colloquium

New Measures of Quantum Information

Friday, 10 December at 4pm in East Hall Room 112 (in person event)

Dr. David Kagan,

Department of Physics
UMass Dartmouth

abstract

Recent advances in quantum computing and communication have brought us to the cusp of the quantum information era. Encoding information by applying the quintessential quantum phenomena of superposition and entanglement has led to new algorithms and protocols that outstrip their classical counterparts. The possibilities are exciting, but limitations and technical hurdles remain, as do critical puzzles about the nature of quantum information: How is it best characterized? How can we describe its flow? In this talk, I will discuss work on new measures of quantum information that help shed light on these questions and provide a clearer picture of quantum information dynamics.