The discovery that quantum physics allows fundamentally new modes of information processing has required the existing theories of computation, information and cryptography to be superseded by their quantum generalisations. The Centre for Quantum Computation, part of the University of Cambridge, and based within the Department for Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics, conducts theoretical research into all aspects of quantum information processing, and into the implications of the quantum theory of computation for physics itself.
Photo: D. K. L. Oi (2006)

Forthcoming Events

New Leigh Trapnell Professor of Quantum Physics

Professor Richard Jozsa, currently Professor of Computer Science at the University of Bristol, has been elected as the second holder of the Leigh Trapnell Chair in Quantum Physics.

Richard Jozsa is regarded as one of the founders of the subject of quantum information science and has made many fundamental contributions to that field. The importance of his work was acknowledged by the award of the 2004 Naylor Prize of the London Mathematical Society.

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