Quantum information
Project aim
Create a quantum leap in the field by bringing two elite professors to lead new groups at Bristol and enhance our already world-renowned Quantum Information team.
Target
£5 million.
Recognising significant support
Naming academic Chairs.
Quantum Information is highly interdisciplinary. We’re asking questions that have never been asked before. It’s got a name, but we don’t really know what it is. What are its limits? What can we do with it? It’s a new way of thinking, a totally new way of looking at things.
Noah Linden
Professor of Theoretical Physics
Nobody knows the full potential of Quantum Information. Building on Bristol’s world-renowned research group will boost exploration of this new and dynamic area of science and technology.
Importance
Quantum Information research has resulted in totally new methods of computation, communication and information processing, as well as deep insights into fundamental physics.
It is widely expected to be critical to the future of the UK economy and central to how coming generations of communication systems and computers will be built.
Since 1999, the University has made significant strategic investment in the area and established one of the few research groups that really does set the world agenda in this area.
Bristol's Quantum Information Research Group is among only a handful of elite groups worldwide.
Impact
Through establishing two Chairs, Bristol can develop a substantial, broad programme which will be internationally competitive in the wider field of Experimental Quantum Information Processing (QIP) and further enhance Bristol's distinctive profile in theoretical Quantum Information science.
Goal
We now wish to further increase our standing in this field by making new appointments in Experimental QIP and in Computational Complexity.
This will give Bristol the opportunity to take the lead role in two areas where the UK is comparatively weak and where there are few world-ranking groups.