[Triumf-seminars] TRIUMF Colloquium today at 13:30

[TRIUMF Seminars]

Date/Time: Wed 2018-06-27 at 13:30

Location:  Auditorium          

Speaker:   Richard Harris (D-Wave)

Title:     Quantum magnetism on a chip

Abstract: Feynman's original vision for a quantum computer was of a physical quantum system whose Hamiltonian could be adjusted in situ to simulate the physics of a variety of other quantum systems.  Quantum magnetic systems, with localized spins and short range interactions, are perhaps the simplest such physical quantum system that can be implemented in existing solid state technologies.  This lecture will review how a D-Wave 2000Q quantum annealing processor, an ostensibly 2-dimensional circuit, can be used to realize phase transitions in the transverse field Ising model on a 3-dimensional lattice.

Biography: Richard Harris has been an experimental physicist with D-Wave Systems since 2006.  He earned his PhD in the laboratory of Doug Bonn and Walter Hardy at UBC and was an NSERC postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University prior to joining D-Wave Systems.

Note special time and date!

Part of the Data Science and Quantum Computation Workshop.

Everybody is welcome!

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