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From black holes to quantum computers
From black holes to quantum computers
223nd Lecture Series Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow
Date: Wednesday 30 October 2024
Time: 19:30 - 21:00
Venue: Charles Wilson Building, Lecture Theatre 201
Category: Public lectures
Speaker: Professor Marika Taylor, Birmingham University
Website: www.royalphil.org/
A quantum computer makes use of the quantum states of subatomic particles to store and process information. Quantum computing has the potential to solve certain types of problems much more quickly than standard computers can do, and thus many researchers are working on developing large scale quantum computers. Remarkably, black holes may play a crucial role in understanding how a quantum computer might work: black holes are the most efficient quantum computers that can exist in Nature. In this talk we will explain what black holes might teach us about quantum computing and conversely what quantum information implies for the fundamental properties of black holes.