QIPIRC

Ancilla-Driven Quantum Computation (ADQC) is a new model of quantum computation that combines the advantages of gate-based and measurement-based quantum computation [1]. ADQC is very well suited to experimental situations as it naturally uses static, long lived qubits as register qubits which are addressed sequentially by a flying, easy to manipulate qubit, called the "ancilla''.

Quantum physics is at once mysterious and highly practical, underlying many inventions we take for granted in everyday life – such as the laser and the semiconductor microchip.  The Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration in Quantum Information Processing (QIP IRC) is a 5-year, £10 million research initiative set up by the UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council to focus UK activity in this area.  Running from 2004 to 2009, the QIP IRC is now nearing its end and researchers gathered with representatives of science, business and government organizations at the Institute of Physics in London on 10 December to hear about what the collaboration has achieved.

QuCoCo workshop recently took place in Oxford with the support of the QIP IRC.  The workshop was aimed at early stage researchers and was attended by a mixture of post-docs and doctoral students, who presented results on the topic of "Quantum Correlations and Computations".   Whilst the QIP IRC is nearing the end of its term, many participants at the workshop were keen to find a way to support future workshops in the same spirit to cement the collaborative networks established by the QIP IRC.

A full booklet of abstracts can be requested by emailing qucocoworkshop@gmail.com.  Here I will summarize a selection of the results presented: