David G. Cory is a
Professor of
Chemistry
Chemistry is the science, scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a natural science that covers the Chemical element, elements that make up matter to the chemical compound, compounds made of atoms, molecules and ions ...
at the
University of Waterloo[Faculty profile](_blank)
University of Waterloo, retrieved 2014-07-16. where he holds the
Canada Excellence Research Chair in
Quantum Information Processing.
[David Cory](_blank)
Canada Excellence Research Chairs, Government of Canada, accessed 2014-07-16. He works at the
Institute for Quantum Computing
The Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) is an affiliate scientific research institute of the University of Waterloo located in Waterloo, Ontario with a multidisciplinary approach to the field of quantum information processing. IQC was founde ...
, and is also associated with the
Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology.
Education and career
Cory was educated at
Case Western Reserve University
Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) is a private research university in Cleveland, Ohio. Case Western Reserve was established in 1967, when Western Reserve University, founded in 1826 and named for its location in the Connecticut Western Reser ...
, earning a bachelor's degree there in 1981 and a Ph.D. in chemistry in 1987.
He carried out postdoctoral research at
Radboud University Nijmegen in
the Netherlands and at
Naval Research Laboratory
The United States Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) is the corporate research laboratory for the United States Navy and the United States Marine Corps. It was founded in 1923 and conducts basic scientific research, applied research, technological ...
in
Washington, D.C. He was a
Professor of
Nuclear Engineering
Nuclear engineering is the branch of engineering concerned with the application of breaking down atomic nuclei ( fission) or of combining atomic nuclei (fusion), or with the application of other sub-atomic processes based on the principles of n ...
at
Massachusetts Institute of Technology prior to his 2010 appointment at Waterloo.
At MIT, he worked on
NMR, including his work on NMR
quantum computation
Quantum computing is a type of computation whose operations can harness the phenomena of quantum mechanics, such as superposition, interference, and entanglement. Devices that perform quantum computations are known as quantum computers. Though ...
. Together with Amr Fahmy and Timothy Havel he developed the concept of pseudo-pure states and performed the first experimental demonstrations of
NMR quantum computing.
Cory's research also concerns the realization and application of
quantum control
Coherent control is a quantum mechanics-based method for controlling dynamic processes by light. The basic principle is to control quantum interference phenomena, typically by shaping the phase of laser pulses. The basic ideas have proliferated, f ...
in various physical systems and devices. In 2015, he and teams from
University of Waterloo,
National Institute of Standards and Technology and
Boston University demonstrated the generation and control of
orbital angular momentum of
neutron beams using a fork-dislocation
grating, extending the existing work in
optical and
electron beams to neutrons. They subsequently demonstrated the control of both the
spin
Spin or spinning most often refers to:
* Spinning (textiles), the creation of yarn or thread by twisting fibers together, traditionally by hand spinning
* Spin, the rotation of an object around a central axis
* Spin (propaganda), an intentionally b ...
and
orbital angular momentum degrees of freedom
Degrees of freedom (often abbreviated df or DOF) refers to the number of independent variables or parameters of a thermodynamic system. In various scientific fields, the word "freedom" is used to describe the limits to which physical movement or ...
of neutron beams.
See also
*
NMR quantum computer
*
Randomized benchmarking
*
List of University of Waterloo people
References
External links
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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Case Western Reserve University alumni
MIT School of Engineering faculty
Academic staff of the University of Waterloo
21st-century American chemists
Quantum physicists
Canadian chemical engineers
21st-century chemists
21st-century American scientists
Quantum information scientists
Canadian physicists
Physical chemists
Fellows of the American Physical Society
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