University of Waterloo
Waterloo, ON, Canada
Interdisciplinary Quantum Information graduate program (MMath/MSc/MASc/PhD) run jointly by the Faculties of Science, Mathematics, and Engineering through the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) — home to 30 faculty members and one of the largest concentrations of quantum computing researchers in North America. IQC collaborates closely with the neighboring Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (a separate, affiliated research institute) and has a formal partnership with Xanadu on quantum computing education and open-source tooling.
Faculty
Quantum computation and quantum information, computational complexity, and design/analysis of quantum algorithms
Microwave quantum optics, circuit quantum electrodynamics, and quantum memories/interfaces
Trapped-ion quantum simulation and computation, including qudit encoding for logical information
Quantum algorithms, classical simulation of quantum computation, and computational complexity of quantum many-body systems
Quantum cryptography, quantum communications, measurement-based quantum computation, and fault-tolerant quantum computation/error correction
Quantum computational complexity theory and quantum interactive proof systems (including the QIP=PSPACE result); Director of Education and Training at IQC, formerly a Tier II Canada Research Chair in Quantum Computing
Trapped-ion quantum simulation and computation, building quantum simulators of interacting many-particle systems
Extensible superconducting quantum computing architectures and high-quality superconducting qubits
Quantum algorithms and cryptography
Quantum communication and cryptography
Classical and quantum complexity theory
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