Schrodingers Cat visits the Manchester Science Festival
Monday 7 November 2011
Researchers from the ATI at the University of Surrey and from the London Centre for Nanotechnology visited the Manchester Science Festival on 29 October with their research into quantum computing.
The stand "Schrodinger's Cat in a Silicon Chip", which also exhibited at the Royal Society in June, was visited by hundreds of families over the course of the day, with children as young as four being introduced to the wonders of the quantum world. Our demonstrators used the analogy of waves on a string guitar to show how an electron can be found in two places at once and visitors were asked to think what they would choose to do if they could be in two places at once.
The research is part of the COMPASSS grant that is funded by the EPSRC.