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SUMMARY:Many-body entanglement in quantum computing
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Aram Harrow\, MIT\, Massachussetts Institute of Technolo
 gy\nThe idea of quantum computers is that "More is different" when it com
 es to qubits.  One qubit is not so interesting but many of them together
  can create exotic and computationally powerful forms of many-body entang
 lement.\n\nGiven this\, we might expect that many-body physics and quantum
  information would often be related. I will describe two recent examples
 .\n\n1. The Ising model is a simple model of a magnet.  But it turns out 
 to also describe the competition between quantum interactions creating e
 ntanglement and measurements destroying entanglement.  This can tell us 
 about the power of near-term quantum computers.\n\n2. How can a closed sys
 tem reach thermal equilibrium?  There have been many answers to this que
 stion dating back to the 19th century.  I will explain how entanglement 
 is a plausible source of thermalization.
LOCATION:CE 1 3 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==CE%201%203
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