Quantum information processing and quantum optics with superconducting qubits/ Traitement de l'information quantique et optique quantique avec les qubits supraconducteurs

量子力学在解释自然界如何运作方面非常成功。它也是革新信息处理和存储方式的技术的基础：激光和晶体管。尽管量子理论取得了巨大的成功，但它经常被认为是奇怪和违反直觉的。这是因为它做出的许多预测与我们的日常经验无关。然而，在过去的20年里，人们认识到，这些奇怪的影响中的一些可以用来创造计算机，这将是指数比目前的更快。对于某些任务，这些量子计算机可能需要几天或几周的时间来解决今天最快的计算机需要数十亿年才能完成的问题。这项研究计划的目标是帮助实现这项技术，同时确保加拿大在这场新兴的量子革命中发挥主导作用。

Quantum mechanics is extremely successful at explaining how nature works. It is also the basis of technologies that has revolutionized how information is processed and stored: the laser and the transistor. Despite all of it success, quantum theory is often regarded as strange and counterintuitive. This is because many of the predictions that it makes are foreign to our daily experience. However, over the last 20 years it was recognized that some of these strange effects could be harnessed to create computers that would be exponentially faster than current ones. For some tasks, these quantum computers could take a few days or weeks to solve problems that would take todays fastest computers billions of years to complete. The goal of this research program is to help in bringing this technology to fruition, while assuring Canada a leading role in this emerging quantum revolution.