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[Date] Oct 18 [Speaker] Professor Charles Rogers Condensed Matter Physics [Title] 
“Introduction to Quantum Computation and Quantum Information” Quantum computers and the algorithms that run on them can do everything that classical digital computers can do and, in some cases, provide in addition efficient solutions to problems where no classical algorithm is presently known. Thus, quantum computers appear to provide a model for computation that challenges the mechanical Turing Machine model that held for nearly 50 years. In this overview, we will cover briefly the classical models for computation, and then introduce quantum bits, quantum logic gates, and the quantum circuit model for quantum computation. We will discuss a couple of simple algorithms to illustrate how quantum computation works. The field of quantum computation and quantum information processing is active across the world, with research proceeding at university, government, and increasingly at industrial labs. Prospects for practical quantum computers will be briefly discussed.
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