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

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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.