Join us for the opening of the touring exhibition ”The Quantum Revolution: Handcrafted in New Haven” at the NCA&T University Galleries.
In the late 1990s a small revolution started in New Haven, Connecticut. Experimentalists and theorists at Yale University started to focus their attention on quantum mechanics to leverage its properties to build a new type of computer that could, in theory, overpower any of the current computers. After a decade of hard work and several technological breakthroughs, these researchers ran in 2009 the world’s first demonstration of two-qubit algorithms with a superconducting quantum processor inside a dilution refrigerator called Badger.
The exhibition, curated by Florian Carle, captures the history and the handcrafted beauty of the groundbreaking work. Scattered around the gallery are cavities, qubits, and substrates (the nuts and bolts of quantum architecture) and original notebook drawings by YQI Artist-in-Residence Martha W. Lewis.
The exhibition will feature additional artworks from NCA&T students from The Department of Visual and Performing Arts, Visual Arts Program of the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences of North Carolina A&T State University.
We hope this exhibition sparks your interest and encourages you to learn more about quantum technology. You should consider taking full advantages of the quantum science resources available to you at N.C. A&T.
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This exhibition is possible thanks to the support of the ASCEND HBCU Quantum Information Science and Engineering Short Course Series grant.
Special thanks to Roymieco A. Carter and all the N.C. A&T University Galleries staff. The student collaborative component of the exhibition is possible thanks to the Department of Visual and Performing Arts, Visual Arts program and the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences.