Quantum mechanics describes the behaviour of our world at microscopic scales. It features many mysterious and counter-intuitive phenomena which rarely impinge on our everyday lives—yet, the ability to control these effects at scale would yield new information technologies that have enormous potential for scientific and societal impact. While progress in building such quantum devices over the last several years has been extremely rapid, there is much theoretical work required to understand how best to design, test, and use these platforms, for which insights from multiple scientific disciplines will be required. In this talk, I will describe how concepts from condensed matter and many-body physics can bring about progress in quantum information science, in particular as we scale up towards the ‘many-qubit’ regime. Through understanding the emergent collective behaviour exhibited by many-body quantum systems, I will show how new protocols for quantum information processing can be developed, and how our understanding of the power of quantum computers can be advanced.
Bio:
Max McGinley is a Junior Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge, working at the interface of quantum information theory and many-body physics. He received his PhD under the supervision of Prof. Nigel Cooper in 2020, before holding a postdoctoral position at the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, at Oxford University.
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2025-05-22T11:00:002025-05-22T12:00:00Collective quantum informationEvent Information:
Abstract:
Quantum mechanics describes the behaviour of our world at microscopic scales. It features many mysterious and counter-intuitive phenomena which rarely impinge on our everyday lives—yet, the ability to control these effects at scale would yield new information technologies that have enormous potential for scientific and societal impact. While progress in building such quantum devices over the last several years has been extremely rapid, there is much theoretical work required to understand how best to design, test, and use these platforms, for which insights from multiple scientific disciplines will be required. In this talk, I will describe how concepts from condensed matter and many-body physics can bring about progress in quantum information science, in particular as we scale up towards the ‘many-qubit’ regime. Through understanding the emergent collective behaviour exhibited by many-body quantum systems, I will show how new protocols for quantum information processing can be developed, and how our understanding of the power of quantum computers can be advanced.
Bio:
Max McGinley is a Junior Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge, working at the interface of quantum information theory and many-body physics. He received his PhD under the supervision of Prof. Nigel Cooper in 2020, before holding a postdoctoral position at the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, at Oxford University.
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