Dr. John Donohue, Scientific Outreach Manager at the Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo will present "The Second Quantum Revolution" on March 1 from 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm at the Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering building in FSDE 202. Dr. Donahue will overview the field of quantum information science, from its background and history to current experimental progress and early industrial adoption. He will explain how the fundamental unit of quantum information, the qubit, can be experimentally realized using structured superconducting circuits; discuss how one of the fundamental tenets of quantum mechanics, the measurement-disturbance relationship, can be used as a tool to guarantee secure communications; and introduce how an information-theoretic approach to quantum measurement can provide new tools with real-world applications.

The 2019CAP National Lecture Series is brought to you by the Canadian Association of Physicists (www.cap.ca) and is hosted by the UPEI Department of Physics.