The University of Queensland's Dr Matthew Broome peering over the BosonSampling quantum computer.

An Australian-American team has shone light — literally — onto the question of whether quantum computers are actually more powerful than conventional counterparts.

21 December 2012

A University of Queensland stem cell researcher will lead a discussion of Year 10 students from around Australia, covering genomics, bioinformatics and stem cell research on Thursday, August 16 for National Science Week.

8 August 2012
By looking for evidence of steering, Bob can check if he and Alice share entanglement, even if the source of light and Alice's detectors are untrustworthy black-boxes (as shown in the image above). Image credit: Alessandro Fedrizzi.

Experiments with entangled photons have led the way in the burgeoning fields of quantum information, communication and computation in the last decade.

11 January 2012