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SUMMARY:Building quantum machines out of light
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Ian Walmsley\, FRS\, Hooke Professor of Experimental Ph
 ysics Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research and Innovation) University of Oxford\n
 Light has the remarkable capacity to reveal quantum features under ambient
  conditions\, making exploration of the quantum world feasible in the labo
 ratory and field. Further\, the availability of high-quality integrated op
 tical components makes it possible to conceive of large-scale quantum stat
 es by bringing together many different quantum light sources and manipulat
 ing them in a coherent manner and detecting them efficiently. By this rout
 e\, we can envisage a scalable photonic quantum network that will facilita
 te the preparation of distributed quantum correlations among many light be
 ams. This will enable a new regime of state complexity to be accessed - on
 e for which it is impossible using classical computers to determine the st
 ructure and dynamics of the system. This is a new regime not only for scie
 ntific discovery\, but also practical purpose: the same complexity of big 
 quantum systems may be harnessed to perform tasks that are impossible usin
 g known future information processing technologies. For instance\, ideal u
 niversal quantum computers may be exponentially more efficiently than clas
 sical machines for certain classes of problems\, and communications may be
  completely secure. Photonic quantum machines will open new frontiers in q
 uantum science and technology. \n \n____Bio_____\nIan Walmsley is the Ho
 oke Professor of Experimental Physics and the Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Rese
 arch and Innovation at the University of Oxford. In September 2018 he will
  take up the post of Provost at Imperial College London. He was educated a
 t Imperial College\, London\, and The Institute of Optics\, University of 
 Rochester\,\nHis work instigated the field of ultrafast quantum optics\, w
 ith the aim to access quantum phenomena in ambient conditions paving the w
 ay to demonstrations of macroscopic quantum features of matter even at roo
 m temperature. \nHis group's research covers a broad range of optical sci
 ence and engineering\, especially in the areas of ultrafast\, nonlinear an
 d quantum optics\, with applications in quantum information processing. Hi
 s group has contributed to the development of methods for characterizing q
 uantum states\, processes and measurements and applied these to the study 
 of the generation and utilization of nonclassical light in quantum sensing
 \, simulation and computing\, and to the control of the interaction of qua
 ntum light and matter. He is known as the inventor of the SPIDER technique
  for ultrafast optical pulse characterization.\nHe is a Fellow of the Roya
 l Society\, the Optical Society (OSA)\, the American Physical Society (APS
 ) and the Institute of Physics (IoP). Currently he is President of the Opt
 ical Society\, a member of the Board of Directors of Oxford University Inn
 ovation and Director of the Networked Quantum information Technologies (NQ
 IT) Hub\, the largest collaboration in the UK National Quantum Technologie
 s Programme. He is a recipient of the APS Keithley Award and the IoP Young
  Medal.\n 
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