Grad studies in quantum information/computing

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Amine - 13 Feb 2008 17:18 GMT

Any suggestions as to which grad schools are active in the field of
quantum information/computation? Preferably in North America but
possibly also in Europe/Australia...

I am asking in view of applying for a Ph.D. in Quantum Information
(not cryptography, though, but more things like teleportation,
entanglement etc). If anybody been there done that, please share your
experience and if you think this field of research is promising enough
to go down the long and dirty road of grad studies. (Whatever
"promising" means...)

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Douglas Eagleson - 15 Feb 2008 20:47 GMT

> Any suggestions as to which grad schools are active in the field of
> quantum information/computation? Preferably in North America but
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> to go down the long =A0and dirty road of grad studies. (Whatever
> "promising" means...)

The University of MD has a new center for quantum information. It
looks like a vibrant place to work from.

Issues there range from teleportation as a subject to cryptography.

http://www.jqi.umd.edu/

The grade requirements for "inside", culture physics at NIST are
substantial. Plan on doing grunt work on suggested avenues of
research.

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Jonathan Thornburg -- remove -animal to reply - 17 Feb 2008 09:54 GMT

On Feb 13, 12:23=A0pm, Amine <tfo...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Any suggestions as to which grad schools are active in the field of
> quantum information/computation? Preferably in North America but
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> (not cryptography, though, but more things like teleportation,
> entanglement etc). [[...]]

Anton Zeilinger (http://www.quantum.at/research.html) has a strong
group in quantum information, teleportation, entanglement, and related
topics at the University of Vienna, in Vienna, Austria. They've had
a string of very high-profile papers over the last N years, often with
grad students as co-authors or even lead authors. (I was particularly
impressed with their detection of diffraction patterns of C60 molecules,
Arndt et al, Nature 401, 680, 14.Oct.1999.) Nature News discussed one
of their recent papers on 22.Nov.2007.

I was a postdoc in Vienna in 1998-2001, and it's a fine place to live.

ciao,

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