Australian Institute of Physics |
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South Australian Branch |
Australian Institute of Physics |
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South Australian Branch |
Public Lecture
Australian Institute of Physics - S.A. Branch
Tuesday, May 14th, 2002, at 7:30pm
Union Hall, University of Adelaide
Quantum Information Science
by Michael Nielsen
Principal Research Fellow, Department of Physics, University of Queensland
Program Manager (Quantum Information Theory), Centre for Quantum Computer Technology
- Abstract:
What is information? Quantum information science begins with the insight that quantum mechanics may be harnessed to perform information processing tasks. Quantum processors are strikingly different from conventional devices. In this lecture I describe how this has led to deep new understandings both of information and quantum mechanics.
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