Episode 7: A Quantum Leap in Computing
Professor David Jamieson
Duration: 22 min 59 sec
Format: MP3
Our guest for this episode is Professor David Jamieson, Director of the Melbourne node of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computer Technology
"A standard computer memory consisting of strings of ones and zeros can only store one piece of information at a time. A quantum memory with its quantum bits or qbits could store simultaneously a large number of different numbers and then process them all simultaneously using the laws of quantum mechanics." - Professor David Jamieson
Useful links
Professor Jamieson's web page in the School of Physics
Professor Jamieson's recent publications
- T. Hopf, D.N. Jamieson, C. Yang, A. Cimmino, T. Schenkel, S.E. Andresen, F. Hudson, E. Gauja, A.S. Dzurak, R.G. Clark, Oral Presnetation, Future Developments For The Detection Of Single Ions In Silicon, Poster presentation, 17th Biennial Congress of the Australian Institute of Physics, Brisbane, 3-8 December 2006.
- B.Fairchild, P. Olivero, A. Cimmino, M. Draganski, B. C. Gibson, Andrew D. Greentree, D. Hoxley, S. T. Huntington, J. Rabeau, P. Reichart, S. Rubanov, A. Stacey, J. Salzman, B. Meyler, Y. Bayn, A. Lahav, D. N. Jamieson, S. Prawer, Material issues in the micro-fabrication of sub micron layers in single-crystal diamond, Poster presentation, 17th Biennial Congress of the Australian Institute of Physics, Brisbane, 3-8 December 2006.
- Toby Hopf, Changyi Yang, David N. Jamieson, and Yi-sun Wu, Characterization of silicon avalanche diodes with ion-beam induced-charge for the application of keV single ion detection, Oral presentation, 17th Biennial Congress of the Australian Institute of Physics, Brisbane, 3-8 December 2006.
- D.N. Jamieson, Celebrating Einstein!|s Miraculous Year 1905: The International Year of Physics 2005, The Physicist, Vol 41, No. 3 May/June 2005, pp 81-82.
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