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QSEC Undergraduate Student to Present Quantum Circuit Research on the WoPhys 2021 Conference

 

QSEC undergraduate student Swan Klein will give an invited presentation on “Two-Qubit Quantum Circuit Synthesis” in the WoPhyS 2021 on Thursday, October 21., The presented research is a part of NSF funded project on quantum algorithms co-advised by QSEC members Dr. Mingzhen Tian and Dr. Michael Jarret. Dr. Maria Emelianenko, the Chair of the Department of Mathematical Sciences and the Associate Director of the QSEC, will also give a keynote address at the conference on her research in materials and quantum circuits.

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QSEC faculty collaborates with NIST, ANL and ORNL to discover a new topological magnetic state

 

QSEC member, Professor Nirmal Ghimire of GMU leads a group of materials science experts from Mason, NIST, ANL, and ORNL to discover a quantum phenomenon that has the potential to become a building block of future electronic technology emerges at high temperatures from a mechanism not before realized, the result of which is published on Science Advances, doi:10.1126/sciadv.abe2680.

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Condense Matter Seminar: Tunneling into emergent topological matter by Dr. Jiaxin Yin of Princeton University 11/16/2020

3 pm, November 16, 2020
Speaker: Dr. Jiaxin Yin, Department of Physics, Princeton University

Topic: Tunneling into emergent topological matter

Location: Zoom

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Featured publication: Density functional theory-based electric field gradient database

 

QSEC members Dr. Igor Mazin, Dr. Karen Sauer and student Jaafar Ansari have recently published their collaborative work of DFT-based EFG calculation, Density functional theory-based electric field gradient database, doi:10.1038/s41597-020-00707-8, on Scientific Data.

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QSEC Quantum Computing Seminar Series: 10/27/2020

12 pm, October 27, 2020
Speaker: Professor Fei Li, GMU Department of Computer Science

Topic: Algorithmic Approaches to the MAX-CUT Problem

Location: Zoom

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QSEC Quantum Computing Seminar Series: 10/20/2020

12 pm, October 20, 2020
Speaker: Xavier Gitiaux, GMU Department of Computer Science; Ian Morris, GMU Department of Physics and Astronomy

Topic: SWAP Test for Arbitrary Number of Quantum States

Location: Zoom

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Science Off Camera Podcast with Prof. Patrick Vora

 

Prof. Patrick Vora, Director of the QSEC, was recently invited by the Science Off Camera Podcast for an interview on quantum materials, their development and methods of characterization, and the role of QSEC in this research area.  The podcast is available here.

The Science Off Camera Podcast is sponsored by Teledyne Princeton Instruments and Teledyne Photometrics and hosted by Dr. Matthew Kose-Dunn and Sebastian Remi, to discuss with scientists and industry leaders in scientific imaging and spectroscopy.

For more information, please explore our website to learn more about our efforts in quantum research and education.

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QSEC Quantum Computing Seminar Series: 09/29/2020

12 pm, September 29, 2020
Speaker: Ian Morris, GMU Department of Physics and Astronomy

Topic: Quantum Computing with Qiskit

Location: Zoom

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[MQA Seminar] Quantum Basics for the Curious: A Fireside Chat with Nobel Laureate Dr. Bill Phillips

2 pm, September 22, 2020
Invited Speaker:
Dr. Bill Phillips, Nobel Laureate,University of Maryland
Laurie Locascio, VP for Research; University of Maryland

Topic: Quantum Basics for the Curious: A Fireside Chat with Nobel Laureate Dr. Bill Phillips

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QSEC Quantum Computing Seminar Series: 09/15/2020

12 pm, September 15, 2020
Invited Speaker: Andrew Glaudell, Booz Allen Hamilton & GMU Mathematical Sciences Department

Topic: Optimal Two-Qubit Circuits for Universal Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation

Location: Zoom