Jeremy Levy Co-Edits October 2013 Issue of MRS Bulletin Dedicated to Quantum Computing
Materials Issues for Quantum Computation: The new field of quantum computing uses qubits (quantum bits) in place of classical bits to carry out certain types of computation. Physical systems that act as qubits encompass a wide range of technologies, from ions, to local defect states in crystals, and on to microelectronic devices addressable with wire interconnects. Materials issues arise in all of these, and this issue of MRS Bulletin describes how materials challenges and opportunities arise and have been used to make qubit-based quantum circuits using very different materials systems.
PQI faculty Sergey Frolov co-authors a paper in 
A Quantum Leap For Basketball 'Bracketology': physicists at the University of Maryland are using a super(position) technique to fill in their NCAA men's basketball tournament selections.
PQI faculty Andrew Daley and his colleagues have proposed a scheme for the measurement of entanglement in a system of cold atoms in an optical lattice. Entanglement is an important theoretical concept, but was previously thought to be difficult to measure in microscopic many-particle systems. They tackle the problem by asking how one might track the changes in entanglement in a nonequilibrium many-body system.