Basic Physics Concepts in Quantum Computation

Our guest Liviu Zarbo will talk to us about probabilities, state vectors, pure/mixed states and some experiments that paved the way for the quantum description of mater. He'll discuss interference, entanglement and decoherence as well as measurement in quantum mechanics. We'll touch on the no-cloning theorem and with some examples like teleportation. Then we'll finish off with quantum computing gates and measurement from the hardware perspective.

Liviu is a lead researcher at The National Institute For Research and Development of Isotopic and Molecular Technologies in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. He got hid PhD at The University of Delaware and worked as a postdoc at Texas A&M and at The Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. His research is focused on spintronics - encoding information in electron spin. His group is aiding the development solid state qubits like of superconducting and topological qubits.