The University of Bristol's institute for quantum information, covering theory, experiments and applications, based at Beacon House in Bristol.
The Bristol Quantum Information Institute is a University of Bristol research institute that brings together theory, experiment and application in quantum information. Quantum information is the science of storing, sending and processing information using the rules of physics at a tiny scale, and it underpins quantum computers, quantum communications and quantum sensing. The institute describes its work as world-leading theory, experiment and application of quantum information, and lists recent papers on cooling a qubit using other qubits, deterministic teleportation and universal computation without particle exchange, and tests of invariant set theory.
The institute's stated aims are to bring research together from theory to technology, to turn quantum information into practical technologies, to support partnerships with private companies, and to train the next generation of quantum scientists and engineers. It says its team includes founders of the field, with expertise in both theory and experiment.
The institute is at the University of Bristol, Beacon House, Queens Road, Bristol, BS8 1QU. Related groups include the Quantum Information Theory Group and the Quantum Engineering Technology (QET) Labs, and it links to the Quantum Engineering Centre for Doctoral Training, which the university's innovation centre page describes as one of only two such centres in the UK. Next to it, the Quantum Technologies Innovation Centre on the Temple Quarter Enterprise Campus hosts start-ups such as Zero Point Motion, QLM, Phasecraft, KETS Quantum Security and Qontrol.
The academic lead is Professor Noah Linden. The institute runs an annual Bristol Quantum Information Technologies Workshop and a regular seminar series, which suggests a lively research community open to visitors. A founder of Zero Point Motion, Dr Lia Li, called the neighbouring innovation centre a collaborative and supportive environment, but that comment is about the centre rather than the institute. Bristol is also part of wider networks, with its quantum work listed by SETsquared alongside its quantum communications and metrology groups.
Roles at a university institute include academic researchers and postdoctoral researchers, PhD students, laboratory and technical staff who look after optics and electronics equipment, research software developers, and administrators and event organisers who keep the community running. Students interested in the subject can look at postgraduate options in Mathematics, Physics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and the Quantum Engineering Centre for Doctoral Training, all listed on the institute's page.
Website: www.bristol.ac.uk/research/institutes/quantum
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