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Welcome to the UMBC Quantum Information Group website. The QIG is led by Jim Franson and Todd Pittman of the UMBC Physics Department. We are primarily interested in optical approaches to quantum information processing. Our current research efforts focus on Linear Optics Quantum Computing and Quantum Zeno Gates.

You may also be interested in the UMBC Quantum Optics Group, led by Yanhua Shih and Mort Rubin.

NEWS!

April 2013: Meimei Lai successfully defends her PhD disseration, "Experiments using sub-wavelength diameter tapered optical fibers in Rubidium vapor". Congrats Dr. Lai!

February 2013: New commentary in Science, "Perspectives: Beating Classical Computing without a Quantum Computer" J.D. Franson, Science 339, 767 (2013) [link]

December 2012: New Preprint, arXiv: 1212.5189 [physics.optics, quant-ph], "Tranmsission degradation and preservation for tapered optical fibers in rubidium vapor".

August 2012: New Preprint , arXiv:1208.4776 [quant-ph], "Time-bin entangled photon holes"

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