Abstract: David Hanneke

 A Programmable Quantum Information Processor
Quantum information processing promises significant gains for some important computational tasks as well as the potential to simulate interesting physical systems. All the basic techniques required for QIP have been demonstrated using the internal states of trapped atomic ions as a storage medium for quantum bits (qubits). Recent advances in the field include further development and integration of these techniques with the aim of creating large-scale quantum processors. I will describe the current state of the art, including the demonstration of the first programmable two-qubit quantum processor.