{"id":4715,"date":"2016-09-08T13:45:27","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T17:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/physics\/?page_id=4715"},"modified":"2016-09-08T13:45:27","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T17:45:27","slug":"abstract10-14-16-steven-girvin","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/physics\/abstract10-14-16-steven-girvin\/","title":{"rendered":"Abstract:10.14.16-Steven Girvin"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>URI\u00a0Physics Colloquium<\/h1>\n<h3>Basic Concepts in Quantum Information<\/h3>\n<h5><a href=\"http:\/\/physics.yale.edu\/people\/steven-girvin\" target=\"_blank\">Steven M. Girvin<\/a><\/h5>\n<h5>Department of Physics,\u00a0Yale University<\/h5>\n<h3>Abstract<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">A \u2018second quantum revolution\u2019 is underway based on our new understanding of how information can be stored and manipulated using quantum hardware.\u00a0 This talk will give a simple introduction to the basic concepts of quantum information that underlie this revolution.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Even more remarkable than the concept of quantum computation is the concept of quantum error correction.\u00a0\u00a0 We know that measurement disturbs a quantum state.\u00a0 Nevertheless it is possible to store an unknown quantum state and if it develops errors due to imperfect hardware, we can measure and correct such errors to recover the original quantum information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>URI\u00a0Physics Colloquium Basic Concepts in Quantum Information Steven M. Girvin Department of Physics,\u00a0Yale University Abstract A \u2018second quantum revolution\u2019 is underway based on our new understanding of how information can be stored and manipulated using quantum hardware.\u00a0 This talk will give a simple introduction to the basic concepts of quantum information that underlie this revolution. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4861,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-4715","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4861"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}