Accomplishments of the Quantum Information Processing Program

• Members of the QIP program successfully transmitted quantum information via teleportation. The original quantum state is destroyed in the process of teleportation but it is recreated exactly at its destination location, leading to practical applications in communications and quantum cryptography
• CIFAR QIP researchers set a record for the long distance transmission of entangled photons. Entanglement particles are linked to each other even when separated by great distances. This has practical usage in communications and quantum cryptography and makes secure satellite-based global communication a near reality.
• In the drive to understand and harness the potential of quantum information processing, CIFAR scientists have benchmarked the operational control of the largest quantum information processor to date, a 12-Qubit system. The ability to process information in this way, at the sub-atomic level, enables us to tackle problems that have been insurmountable in the past, such as the complex structures involved in genetics or process mass amounts of cosmological data.