UArizona Engineers Demonstrate a Quantum Advantage In a new paper, researchers in the College of Engineering and James C. Wyant College of Optical Sciences experimentally demonstrate how quantum resources aren t just dreams for the distant future – they can improve the technology of today. By Emily Dieckman, College of Engineering Today
Quantum computing and quantum sensing have the potential to be vastly more powerful than their classical counterparts. Not only could a fully realized quantum computer take just seconds to solve equations that would take a classical computer thousands of years, but it could have incalculable impacts on areas ranging from biomedical imaging to autonomous driving.
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IMAGE: Zheshen Zhang is leading the development of a network of entangled sensors that could improve navigation, communication, medical imaging and more. view more
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Vehicle navigation systems, space communications and health care imaging are all powered by sensors which constantly send and receive information. Quantum entanglement - specifically, of photons - could make these systems vastly more powerful by increasing their sensitivity, accuracy and stability.
A University of Arizona team led by Zheshen Zhang, assistant professor of materials science and engineering and optical sciences, has received a $1 million Convergence Accelerator phase one grant from the National Science Foundation to move his basic quantum research into practice. C-Accel is new program that brings research teams together to address national-scale societal challenges. Zhang s project team is one of 29 in the program s second cohort.