Event: Building useful quantum computers with atoms

On Friday 16 August, Christopher Monroe will give a talk about trapped ion quantum computing at an event co-organised by CQT and SGInnovate. Please register to attend the evening talk: the link will take you to Eventbrite. Christopher is visiting Singapore as a member of CQT's Scientific Advisory Board. He is Bice Zorn Professor and Distinguished Professor of Physics and Fellow – Joint Quantum Institute, University of Maryland, and Founder and Chief Scientist, IonQ, Inc.

Shaping the future of quantum technology

Scientists at CQT are pushing the limits of today’s quantum technology, to reveal applications previously never thought of. Get a perspective on CQT's research in this feature by NUS News, with comments from CQT's Director and profiles of our Principal Investigators Alexander Ling, Loh Huanqian and Dimitris Angelakis. NUS News is published by the National University of Singapore, CQT's host university.

A national research centre of excellence

The Centre for Quantum Technologies was established as a national research centre of excellence in Singapore in 2007. We have over 150 scientists and students doing research into the foundations of quantum physics and the ways quantum physics enables new technologies. 

SpooQy launched from the International Space Station

“We are all different nationals, we are entangled together with all the races,” reads an engraving on a panel of SpooQy-1, the quantum satellite built by the CQT group of Alexander Ling and deployed into orbit in June. The artistic payload on the scientific satellite stems from a collaboration between CQT and NUS Centre For the Arts. The quotation is from Mrs Santha Bhaskar, Artistic Director of the NUS Indian Dance group and a recipient of the Singapore Cultural Medallion. It comes from a play that explored messages Singaporeans might want to send into the Universe.

Image: NASA