RISE OF THE QUANTUM ENGINEER

The programme prepares students to enter the emerging quantum-technology industry, which has begun to develop devices that use individual atoms, electrons, photons and other components exhibiting quantum properties. Compared with state-of-the-art supercomputers, quantum computers are thought to more...

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Published inNature (London) Vol. 623; no. 7987; pp. 653 - 655
Main Author Chen, Sophia
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London Nature Publishing Group 16.11.2023
Subjects
Colleges & universities
Computers
Core curriculum
Diamonds
Education
Employment
Engineering
Engineering education
Engineers
Learning
Magnets
Photons
Quantum computers
Quantum computing
Quantum dots
Quantum mechanics
Quantum physics
Students
Teaching
Workforce
Australia
United States > US
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Summary:The programme prepares students to enter the emerging quantum-technology industry, which has begun to develop devices that use individual atoms, electrons, photons and other components exhibiting quantum properties. Compared with state-of-the-art supercomputers, quantum computers are thought to more efficiently and accurately simulate molecules, which are inherently quantum mechanical in nature. "In traditional quantum mechanics courses, you [might] spend a day talking about applications, but it's not the focus of the course," says physicist Lex Kemper, who is developing an undergraduate quantum engineering course at North Carolina State University in Raleigh. Students can use magnets and a laser to observe and measure effects resulting from the diamond's quantum spin.
ISSN:0028-0836
1476-4687
DOI:10.1038/d41586-023-03511-7