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Abstract
Quantum Information Science (QIS) is an interdisciplinary field involving mathematics, computer science, and physics. Appealing aspects include an abundance of accessible open problems, active interest and support from government and industry, and an energetic, open, and collaborative international research culture. We describe our student–faculty joint work in QIS that has led to many student co-authored papers in research journals. We address program structure and funding, and describe the work performed by our students.
FUNDING
The work described in this article was supported by National Science Foundation award number PHY-1211594 and Lebanon Valley College faculty research grants.
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1 The National Science Foundation defines Primarily Undergraduate Institutions as “accredited colleges and universities (including two-year community colleges) that award Associate’s degrees, Bachelor’s degrees, and/or Master’s degrees in NSF-supported fields, but have awarded 20 or fewer Ph.D./D.Sci. degrees in all NSF-supported fields during the combined previous two academic years.”
2 Four three-credit courses or 12 contact hours per week.
3 For further reading, an excellent introduction is Nielsen and Chuang’s text [Citation11].
4 For a survey, with links to even more surveys, see Stephen Jordan’s website [Citation6] at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
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David W. Lyons
David W. Lyons is Professor of Mathematics at Lebanon Valley College (LVC) in Pennsylvania, with a Ph.D. in algebraic topology of Lie groups. His research is in quantum information theory, and he co-directs collaborative student-faculty projects in the LVC Mathematical Physics Research Group with colleague Scott N. Walck in physics.