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An Odyssey from Quantum Mechanics through the Path of Quantum Information Processing
| Speaker: | Dr. H.F. Chau |
| Affiliation: | Department of Physics, The University of Hong Kong |
| Date: | November 5, 2010 |
| Time: | 5:00pm |
| Venue: | Lecture Theatre T4, 1/F, Meng Wah Complex |
Abstract:
This talk gives an overview of quantum information processing, perhaps the latest child of quantum mechanics conceived about two decades ago, and how ideas of quantum information processing help to attack and answer some fundamental problems in quantum mechanics. I will also present some of the recent findings in my own journey along the path of quantum information processing to quantum mechanics, namely, results related to quantum speed limit, non-commutativity and certain unitary matrix
inequalities.
About the Speaker:
Dr. H. F. Chau obtained his B.Sc. and Ph.D. from HKU. He did his postdoctoral work in University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton before joining HKU again. Currently, he is an associate professor in the Physics Department. He has been working in quantum computation and related areas since 1994 shortly after the discovery of the famous Shor's algorithm. His contributions in quantum information processing include a no-go theorem on the impossibility of quantum bit commitment, an unconditional security proof of entanglement-based quantum key distribution, discovery of certain quantum error-correcting codes on qudits and discovery of the most errortolerant prepared-and-measured-based qubit quantum key distribution scheme known to date. He is now interested to see how quantum information processing ideas can be used to study fundamental problemsin quantum mechanics.
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