{"id":133884,"date":"2025-04-16T06:26:29","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T06:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/7-reasons-you-should-care-about-world-quantum-day-maryland-today\/"},"modified":"2025-04-16T06:26:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T06:26:29","slug":"7-reasons-you-should-care-about-world-quantum-day-maryland-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/7-reasons-you-should-care-about-world-quantum-day-maryland-today\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Reasons You Should Care About World Quantum Day – Maryland Today"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wednesday, April 16, 2025
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Get \u2018Entangled\u2019 in UMD\u2019s Celebration of the Growing Capital of Quantum
By Chris Carroll<\/a> Gov. Wes Moore announced it as a billion-dollar initiative<\/a> to build on UMD\u2019s expertise in physics, engineering and other aspects of quantum research to grow this burgeoning industry and boost the economy of the state of Maryland while addressing global issues.
Last week, Moore signed into law $52.5 million in funding to kick off the Capital of Quantum initiative; it will support research, education, training, operations and other priorities, as well as help the groundbreaking College Park-based quantum computing company IonQ move into new headquarters in UMD\u2019s Discovery District.
If you\u2019re wondering why quantum science and tech matters to you, read on:
UMD\u2019s not just a top basketball school, it\u2019s a top quantum school.
<\/strong>After our historically strong physics department huddled with the U.S. Department of Commerce\u2019s National Institute of Standards and Technology and the UMD-based Laboratory for Physical Sciences in 2006, the resulting Joint Quantum Institute launched a dynasty: 10 quantum centers and institutes with hundreds of researchers delving into topics ranging from exploration of the quantum foundations of the universe to cutting-edge telecom tech. The university today is renowned as a top center for quantum research, while U.S. News and World Report<\/em> ranked us No. 2 in the nation among public institutions for graduate education in quantum physics.
UMD is building a quantum business ecosystem, meaning more jobs for Marylanders.
<\/strong>The university\u2019s Discovery District is already home to IonQ\u2014which was spun out of UMD labs as the only publicly traded company focused on quantum computing hardware, software and networking. More companies are following in its wake, some affiliated with a UMD business accelerator, the Quantum Startup Foundry<\/a>. The private Quantum Catalyzer (Q-Cat) follows a similar model. This rising tide of business creates more economic opportunity locally, contributing to the growth of a major industry of the future rooted in the state of Maryland.
The first wave of quantum tech already revolutionized society.
<\/strong>MRI machines, lasers, even old-fashioned transistor radios\u2014none of these everyday devices would exist without an earlier wave of quantum discovery stemming from the research of scientific giants like Albert Einstein and Neils Bohr. Plus, the defining technology of our age, the computer microchip processor, is fundamentally quantum mechanical.
The next wave of computing will remake society.
<\/strong>Quantum computers, which are still in their infancy (or toddlerhood, anyway), are expected to be able to use counterintuitive aspects of quantum physics to quickly polish off computations that could take modern supercomputers millions or billions of years to finish. The practical upshot of this is expected to be disruptive innovation and upheaval across a range of sectors including health care, banking and transportation.
Quantum could help cure disease.
<\/strong>We may not even need full-scale, general-use quantum computers to open the door to personalized pharmaceuticals and new, life-saving therapeutics. \u201cQuantum simulation\u201d\u2014a simpler variant of quantum computing that uses quantum information processing to study chemical reactions and other phenomena\u2014could supercharge drug development; an institute headquartered at UMD<\/a> and backed by the National Science Foundation is focused on developing the computer technology that could one day lead to such advances.
Quantum will be central to security discussions of the future.
<\/strong>Current computers can\u2019t crack the public-key encryption that protects everything from your bank account to national secrets\u2014but quantum computers probably will be able to smash through it. That\u2019s why researchers are developing new approaches to \u201cpost-quantum cybersecurity\u201d\u2014and even ways to safeguard encrypted data that has already been harvested by malicious hackers hoping to decrypt it once quantum computers are widely available. But not all the news is worrying\u2014the quantum internet of the future, on which UMD researchers are helping to lead development<\/a>, will be inherently secure, because you can\u2019t eavesdrop on quantum data without destroying it.
Bonus tip: Mind-bending quantum knowledge could make you the star of the party.
<\/strong>You\u2019ll sound like you stepped out of the pages of a French philosophical novel explaining \u201csuperposition<\/a>,\u201d which posits seeming absurdities, like your cat is both alive and dead<\/a> until you check on it (hopefully it survived the period of quantum uncertainty), or atoms can \u201cspin\u201d two ways at once until a quantum computer measures them. And you\u2019ll woo that special someone like never before with another key concept in quantum information science known as \u201centanglement<\/a>,\u201d which links the fates of two particles\u2014or hearts?\u2014across infinite distances.
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A. James Clark School of Engineering <\/a> College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences <\/a>
UMD will Mark World Quantum Day with \u201cQuantum for All: Bridging Science and the Arts at UMD in the International Year of Quantum\u201d from 5-7 p.m. Monday at the Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering.
The program will feature a fireside chat with Nobel Laureate and UMD Distinguished University Professor William D. Phillips, an inside look into why the United Nations designated 2025 the International Year of Quantum, and a sneak peek at UMD\u2019s Quantum & Arts projects. Register online<\/a> in advance.
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