| In a dynamic presentation Australian quantum computing expert Michelle Simmons clearly lays out the concept of quantum computing, and helps to explain how her team in Australia has been able to create breakthroughs in quantum computing at the Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology. |
Simmons has always wanted to undertake the hardest research in the hardest subject: quantum physics. Her eccentric schooling, coupled with the sudden death of her PhD supervisor means she has spent most of her career teaching herself. Michelle is the Director of Australia's Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology.
She has established a large research group dedicated to the fabrication of atomic-scale devices in silicon using the atomic precision of a scanning tunneling microscope. Her group is the only group world-wide that can make atomically precise devices in silicon: they have developed the world’s thinnest conducting doped wires in silicon, and the ability to manipulate and electronically measure devices with atomically precise dopant placement. Simmmons has published more than 300 papers in refereed journals including 25 Physical Review Letters and papers in Nature, Science, Nature Physics and Nature Nanotechnology. In 2005 she was awarded the Pawsey Medal by the Australian Academy of Science and in 2006 became one of the youngest elected Fellows of the Academy.
The centre is an international research effort to develop the science and technology of a global quantum computing information network, encompassing ultra-fast quantum computation, absolutely secure quantum communication and distributed quantum information processing.
Earlier this year, Simmons and her team announced they had made the first ever single atom transistor. They now sit on the threshold of delivering the first ever quantum computer to the world.
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