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Quantum Engineering at Cheltenham Science Festival

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Cheltenham Science Festival

Author: Reece Shaw

As part of the Quantum City stand at Cheltenham Science Festival within the GCHQ Cyber Zone, students from Cohort 5 of the Quantum Engineering CDT informed the public on key quantum concepts and how these may translate into everyday technologies in the future. Over the 8-9th of June, 2019, we demonstrated the fundamental difference between classical and quantum computers, through a ‘Cointum coherence’ demo. We also taught the public about polarisation, and how this can be used to encode information with light, leading to near terms quantum applications such as QKD. There was a great variety of people at the festival with around 500-600 visiting our stand on each day, from keen primary school students to retired professionals, who all managed to leave with more understanding of how quantum may impact them in society. The main visitors were teenagers, who will hopefully be inspired to enter STEM fields in the future! (Other organisations who supported us on the stand over the weekend were NQIT, NPL and the University Of Sussex).

The Quantum City Team, NQIT and the Quantum Engineering CDT.

Cheltenham Science Festival 2019 ‌‌

Source: http://www.bristol.ac.uk/quantum-engineering/news/2019/cheltenham-science-festival-.html

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