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   COLLOQUIUM OF THE LABORATORY FOR COMPUTER DESIGN OF MATERIALS        
                   School of Computational Sciences	
                           (CSI 898-Sec 001) 
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	    Introduction to Quantum Information Processing

			   Stephen Hellberg
                Center for Computational Materials Science, 
                  Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC           

An introduction to both quantum computation
and quantum cryptography will be given.

A quantum computer exploits exponential parallelism to solve
certain problems, such as factoring large integers, very efficiently.
Difficulty of factorization is the basis of security of most
current classical cryptography schemes.

Quantum cryptography, known more formally as quantum key distribution,
offers complete communication security.
Any eavesdroppers will be detected during key distribution, before the
actual message is sent.

Finally a proposal will be described for quantum information processing
using electrons trapped in quantum dots formed at silicon/ferroelectric
interfaces.

                         Monday , October 1, 2001
                                  4:30 pm
                        Room 206, Science & Tech. I

Refreshments will be served at 4:15 PM.
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