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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 2

RESEARCH PROGRAM OVERVIEW 4

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS 7

Awards ...........................................................................................................9

MANAGEMENT & MEMBERSHIP 13

Proposed Structure and Governance .......................................................13

Members ........................................................................................................14

PUBLICATIONS 22

Refereed Journals ........................................................................................22

Refereed Conference Proceedings ...........................................................30

Books and Chapters .....................................................................................32

Student Theses .............................................................................................32

Intellectual Property ....................................................................................33

Invited Presentations at Workshops/Conferences .................................34

LINKAGE 38

Collaborations ...............................................................................................38

Visitors ............................................................................................................40

GRADUATE COURSES 41

SERVICES AND OUTREACH 43

Conferences/Workshops .............................................................................43

Professional Services ..................................................................................43

Quantum Public Lecture ..............................................................................45

Outreach Lectures ........................................................................................45

Media Coverage ...........................................................................................46

TRAINEE DESTINATIONS 49

RESEARCH GRANTS 50

OBJECTIVES FOR NEXT YEAR 51

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Alberta has presciently invested in quantum science and technology from the early days when the field’s benefits were mere speculation. Now quantum science and technology is a huge endeavour worldwide, with billions of dollars invested by governments, hundreds of millions of dollars recently investment by Canadian federal agencies, and recruitment of talent by numerous universities. At this critical stage of quantum science and technology maturing from curiosity-driven foundational research to strategic knowledge-transfer activities, Alberta is well poised to take a leadership role, especially building from its computer science, quantum information, nanoscience, quantum materials and quantum optics roots at the Universities of Alberta, Calgary and Lethbridge. Furthermore, Alberta has quantum strengths at CanmetENERGY and the National Institute for Nanotechnology plus companies such as Norcada, Resolved Instruments, FireWater Fuel and Quantum Silicon.

Quantum Alberta embodies quantum activities in the province: the Quantum Alberta initiative is a vehicle that provides voice to the community of science researchers and technologies and a voice to the stakeholders in the quantum science and technology investment. Organizationally, Quantum Alberta emerges from the AITF-funded Institute for Quantum Science and Technology at the University of Calgary; this Institute hosts 14 research groups with a total of around 100 professors and research staff and students. The much larger Quantum Alberta initiative

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has 36 professors and their groups plus industrial and government laboratory personnel working on quantum science and technology. The five themes of the initiative are quantum chemistry and multi-scale modelling, quantum foundations and quantum gravity, quantum materials, quantum nanoscience and technology, and quantum optics and quantum information.

Quantum Alberta is an integral part of the Canadian quantum mosaic. In the past year, three Canada First Research Excellence Fund (CFREF) $75m awards were made in the quantum area: to l’Université de Sherbrooke, the University of Waterloo and the University of British Columbia. The absence of Alberta from this distinguished list reflects the strength of other areas of research in Alberta - a CFREF award for unconventional hydrocarbon resources at the University of Calgary and a CFREF award for future energy systems at the University of Alberta - and not any limitations of Alberta’s quantum strengths. Notably some Quantum Alberta researchers are included in both of these Alberta CFREF awards, but the award of three quantum CFREF awards all outside of Alberta highlights the importance of Quantum Alberta as a means to nurture networking between Alberta’s quantum researchers and industry and provide a face and a voice by this community to Canada and to the world. Without Quantum Alberta, Alberta’s formidable quantum strengths could be lost in the noise.

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The success of Quantum Alberta depends on financial support for its operation, which has historically come from Alberta Innovates Technology Futures and the Universities of Alberta, Calgary and Lethbridge. The operation is modest at this ramping-up stage: one full-time administrator, contractual support for web pages and reports, an annual workshop, and seed funding for cross-provincial collaboration between quantum researchers. The hope for Quantum Alberta is, first, successful networking by Quantum Alberta researchers and industry to create the foundation for great quantum strengths in the province and, second, to leverage this success into a strong collaborative entity nurturing great quantum science and knowledge translation for the benefit of all Albertans.

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Quantum Alberta is an initiative undertaken by quantum scientists at the Universities of Alberta, Calgary and Lethbridge, plus research scientists and entrepreneurs at government laboratories and in industry, with the purpose of collaborating to (i) nurture and showcase Alberta-based quantum research, development and activities, (ii) encourage and support industrial, national, and international partnerships and collaborations, (iii) foster linkage between Alberta’s institutions of higher learning, public laboratories and facilities, and cognate businesses, (iv) provide seed funding for rapid exploitation of extraordinary opportunities in quantum research and development, (v) develop pan-provincial educational and training programs in quantum science, and (vi) provide product and business development support to new startups and existing Alberta ventures. Quantum Alberta operates as an interinstitutional team effort with administrative support that is based at the University of Calgary, and Quantum Alberta maintains web pages www.quantumalberta.ca and creates promotional materials, provincial workshops, interinstitutional research and development collaborations, and joint promotional activities.

Quantum Alberta will nurture collaboration between universities in Alberta, linkage between Quantum Alberta and external quantum institutes and

centres, and fostering nascent quantum companies in Alberta and partnerships with companies outside Alberta. Quantum Alberta provides an organizational structure for Alberta to achieve and maintain global prominence in quantum science and technology. The organization is a network of academic and industry experts who have joined together to elevate quantum science research, development and commercialization in Alberta. Quantum Alberta’s vision is to elevate quantum science and technology in Alberta by empowering research, commercializing technology, and educating our future generations. The mission is to be the catalyst for advancement and commercialization of Alberta-based quantum research in Canada and around the world.

Quantum Alberta has five research themes. These are (a) quantum chemistry and multi-scale modelling led by Alex Brown (UAlberta), (b) quantum foundations and quantum gravity led by Saurya Das (ULethbridge), (c) quantum materials led by Joseph Maciejko (UAlberta), (d) quantum nanoscience and technology led by Paul Barclay (UCalgary) and (e) quantum optics and quantum information led by Christoph Simon (UCalgary). These themes foster opportunities to interconnect Quantum Alberta researchers and technologists who have common interests and complementary skills and infrastructure to build new initiatives.

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In the past year, Quantum Alberta ran a competition for funded proposals in each of the themes. Six proposals for synthesizing research efforts across Alberta were submitted and all were selected for funding. Due to the small amount of funding granted for the year, only $5000 is granted to each of the six theme projects. The funding for the projects are simply indicative of support and endorsement by Quantum Alberta and meant to seed collaborative efforts by quantum researchers in the province.

The six theme projects are detailed below.

� In theme (a) quantum chemistry and multi-scale modelling, the proposal “Nanocomposite materials for efficient photon-to-fuel conversion”, proposed by Simon Trudel, Jillian Buriak and Jonathan Veinot, has the twin objectives of integrating efficient amorphous water-splitting electrocatalysts with nanoscaled light absorbers. They seek to quantify the external quantum efficiency of converting photons to hydrogen and identify which absorber/catalyst architecture is the most efficient. Through the development of nanoscale clean-energy storage systems, this project will advance both nanomaterials manufacturing capacity in Alberta and diversification of the Albertan energy sector. This project represents how Quantum Alberta can enable the clean-energy transition proposed by the Alberta Climate Leadership Plan, improve environmental stewardship, and stimulate cutting-edge nanotechnology development by

fostering provincial-level collaborative research in quantum Chemistry. Also in Theme (a), the proposal “Quantum cascade laser spectroscopy of greenhouse gases” was submitted by Nasser Moazzen-Ahmadi and Kirk Michaelian. The project aims to develop next-generation greenhouse-gas detection methodologies based on the use of quantum cascade lasers and optical parametric oscillators. Complementary methods, including conventional Raman and Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS), will be investigated with regard to their capability for gas detection. This collaboration is between the University of Calgary and CanmetENERGY-Devon, Natural Resources Canada and addresses an important environmental issue.

� With respect to theme (b) quantum foundations and quantum gravity, the proposal “Quantum entanglement in the brain and the physics of consciousness” was submitted by Christoph Simon, Jack Tuszynski and Saurya Das. An objective is to determine whether biophoton sources and receivers exist in the brain suitable for generating entanglement over distances and for timescales relevant for conscious experience.

� Topological states with ultracold atomic gases is being studied under theme (c) quantum materials by a team comprising Lindsay LeBlanc, David Feder, Joseph Maciejko and Frank Marsiglio. This team is a theory-experiment collaboration for realizing symmetry-protected

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topological phases. The project is poised to both generate advances in fundamental science and contribute to the eventual development of a quantum computer.

� In the theme (d) quantum nanoscience and technology, Lindsay LeBlanc and Paul Barclay are pursuing the project “Nanophotonic devices for interfacing telecom photons with cold atoms”, and the aim of this project is to use nanophotonic devices to address cold atoms by signals encoded on light at telecommunication wavelengths. The NanoFab facilities at the University of Alberta are a key part of this endeavour.

� John Davis and Alex Lvovsky proposed state tomography of quantum optomechanical systems in theme (e) quantum optics and quantum information. The objective is to characterize fully the quantum state of a nanomechanical oscillator by transferring it into the quantum state of a travelling electromagnetic field and subsequently measuring this field by means of optical homodyne tomography. This approach is a part of hybridizing quantum technologies and furthers the ambitions of Quantum Alberta by addressing a core problem and developing a valuable technology that will be of wide appeal.


Quantum Alberta members have made significant achievements in the past year. The following exposition of achievements provides a sample of the kinds of activities and breakthroughs seen within Quantum Alberta.

Veinot and Meldrum are co-inventors of a method for depositing silicon nanocrystals in hollow fibres, which was published as a US patent in 2016. Their method includes inserting a hollow glass fiber into a solution of hydrogen silsesquioxane, removing the solvent and heating the hollow glass fiber to a temperature suitable to form silicon nanocrystals, and subsequently cooling the hollow glass fiber. Another significant, practical result from Veinot’s group has been their application of engineered silicon nanoparticles in light-induced advanced oxidation remediation of a water-borne model contaminant. This work, published in ACS Nano, employs photocatalysts to capture and degrade methanol as an example of an organic contaminant.

Thompson is a member of the international ALPHA (Antihydrogen Laser PHysics Apparatus) collaboration based at CERN, which is the European Organization for Nuclear Research. ALPHA creates trapped antihydrogen atoms and performs precise comparison with hydrogen to study symmetries between matter and antimatter. This past year ALPHA reported, in Nature, the first observation of a spectral line in antihydrogen.

Walton studied affine fusion with the adjoint representation, which was published in the Journal

of Mathematical Physics. This work extends the notion that, for simple Lie algebras, elementary and universal formulas determine the decomposition of a tensor product of an integrable highest-weight representation with the adjoint representation. They employ the refined affine depth rule to prove that equally striking results apply to adjoint affine fusion.

Buriak co-invented a technique for synthesizing small molecules and oligomers with high conductivity and absorption for optoelectronic application. Multiple electron rich cores can be linked together through one or more alkynyl linkages and serve as organic photovoltaic materials. Buriak is also a member of the new University of Alberta Future Energy Systems Institute, supported by the Canada First Research Excellence Fund.

Noskov is a co-author of two significant papers appearing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. One of his two papers concerns aspects of tubulin for biomimetic mitochondrial membranes. Tubulin is a component in regulation of membrane permeability, and they study peripheral binding of tubulin to biomimetic membranes of different lipid compositions. The other discovery proposes a molecular mechanism of zinc-ion inhibition of a voltage-gated proton channel with implications for future drug development.

Marsiglio’s group has performed tight-binding calculations for high-temperature superconductivity in H3S and thereby discovered a large peak in the

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electron density of states. This result, published in Physical Review B, provides a plausible explanation for the high critical temperature.

A collaboration between the groups of Tittel and Simon yielded a proof-of-principle demonstration of non-destructive detection of photonic qubits using a Tm:LiNbO3 waveguide. This Nature Communications Paper suggests a new key component of quantum photonics based on rare-earth-ion-doped crystals.

In an Optica paper, Simon and Lvovsky proposed and demonstrated super-resolution imaging with linear optics and homodyne detection without any need for nonlinear optics or near-field imaging. Lvovsky’s group also implemented a method for “breeding” the Schrödinger cat state, which is a superposition of two coherent light waves with opposite amplitudes. The group produce large amplitude cat state from two small-amplitude cat states, which is described in their Nature Photonics article.

LeBlanc’s group has observed Bose-condensation (BEC) in gases of 87Rb atoms and can reliably produce these gases down to about 40 nK. This is the first BEC produced in Canada’s prairie provinces and marks the culmination of two years of lab set-up, allowing us to proceed with experiments in many-body quantum physics.

Wolkow’s group wrote two Nature Communications articles in the past year, both concerning properties of the hydrogen-terminated silicon surface. One

article indicates chemical-bond contrast in atomic-force microscopy images, and the other article shows time-resolved single-dopant charge dynamics in silicon. The first result helps to resolve a controversy concerning the origin of bond-resolved atomic-force microscopy and the second result enables detection of a signal field that would be too weak to detect otherwise.

Gour co-authored an article, recognized as an Editors’ Suggestion, in Physical Review Letters. They critically examined physical consistency of quantum-coherence resource theories. Sanders was a co-author of a Physical Review Letters article as well: this article proposes an optical scheme, employing optical parametric down-converters interlaced with nonlinear sign gates, that completely converts a pump field in a photon-number state to an equal number of signal-idler photon pairs. The proof relies on amplitude amplification, analogous to that employed in Grover search.

In a Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America paper, Kusalik and coworkers obtained evidence from mixed-hydrate nucleation for a funnel model of crystallization. Importantly, they show that the phenomenological similarities between crystallization and protein folding result from similarities between features of these microscopic ordering processes. In another work co-authored by Kusalik and published in ACS Nano, they provide molecular-level insights into self-assembly in metal–organic frameworks.


Their molecular-dynamics simulations elucidate the early stages of the self-assembly mechanism for an important class of nanoporous materials.

Davis and his group enhanced the sensitivity of a mechanical torque sensor as reported in Nature Communications. Their method incorporates cold cavity optomechanics, which co-localizes an optical and a mechanical resonance, which leads to sensitivity only a factor of ten above the quantum limit. Davis and two of his students have founded a company called Resolved Instruments.

These scientific achievements are significant to quantum science and published in top journals. Quantum Alberta is fortunate to have these scientists on board, and these achievements are not a complete list for Quantum Alberta but rather a representative sample of the activities and quality seen in Quantum Alberta research.

AWARDSINTERNATIONAL AWARDS

Burghausen Chemistry Award (DiChem 2016 – International Scientific Symposium)Jillian Buriak Jonathan Veinot

CONACYT ScholarshipJesus Alejandro Marin Calzada

Imperial College of London Doctor of ScienceBarry C. Sanders

The Chinese University of Hongkong’s Global Scholarship Program for Research ExcellenceChristopher Fetterly

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NATIONAL AWARDS

MITACS Globalink

Arun Rajendran Rishabh Shukla Xinxin Tang

NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship – DoctoralRoshan Achal Callum Doolin Bradley D. Hauer Joel Hutchinson David Lake Matthew Mitchell Clinton Potts Hao Wang

NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship – Master’s Clinton Potts (ended December 2016) Matthew Robbins Stephen Wein

NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship – DoctoralVedran Jelic Peter Nguyen Hugh Ramp Elijah Schnitzle

NSERC Postdoctoral FellowshipHoan Bui Dang

NSERC USRASam Anderson Bipinmeet Chawla David Gisu Ham Graham Hornig Aiden Huffman Christian Prosko Scott Wilson Tong Zhang

NSERC Vanier ScholarshipCarlos Enriquez-Victorero

PIMS Postdoctoral FellowshipMehdi Ahmadi Hoan Bui Dang


PROVINCIAL AWARDS

Alberta Innovates Graduate Students ScholarshipCarl Chandler Callum Doolin Bradley D. Hauer Chris Healey Muhammad Amirul Islam Sourabh Kumar David Lake Hon-Wai Lau Thomas Lutz Tamiko Masuda William Miranda Mary Narreto Peter Nguyen Hugh Ramp Regina Sinelnikov Stephen Wein Parisa Zarkeshian

Arthur Bollo-Kamara Graduate ScholarshipEbenezer Owusu-Ansah

UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA AWARDS

Andrew Stewart Memorial Graduate PrizeBradely D. Hauer

Dorothy J. Killam Memorial Graduate PrizeBradely D. Hauer

Faculty of Science Graduate Student Mentoring AwardAl Meldrum

Interdepartmental Science Students’ Society Teaching AwardAl Meldrum

Izaak Walton Killam Memorial ScholarshipBradley D. Hauer

Petro-Canada Young Innovator AwardJohn P. Davis

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Eyes High Doctoral Recruitment ScholarshipAndrew Evans Sourabh Kumar Yasser Novo-Fernandez

Izaak Walton Killam Pre-Doctoral ScholarshipMark Girard

Killam Annual ProfessorBarry C. Sanders

Queen Elizabeth II Graduate ScholarshipAaron Barclay Alex Cameron Keenan Fanning Hamidreza Kaviani Taozhe Wu

Silver Anniversary Graduate FellowshipKyle Hall Marcelo Wu

The Student Union 2017 First and Second Year Dinner Teaching Excellence AwardGilad Gour

UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY AWARDS

Alberta Innovates Technology Futures (AITF)/Eyes High Postdoctoral FellowshipGabriel Aguilar (ended November 2016) Ronnie Banerjee John Patrick Hadden Nikolai Lauk Florian Senn Namrata Shukla Hristina Zhekova

Chancellor’s Graduate MedalNeil Sinclair

Department of Mathematics and Statistics Eric Milner PrizeMark Girard

Department of Physics and Astronomy Internal AwardAbdullah Khalid Pantita Palittapongarnpim Shakib Vedaie Yadong Wu


MANAGEMENT & MEMBERSHIP

PROPOSED STRUCTURE AND GOVERNANCEDaily operation of Quantum Alberta shall be led by the Executive Director, who reports to the Board of Directors. The Executive Director is assisted by the Executive Committee and by the Theme Leaders who are individually responsible for each of the Quantum Alberta research-and-development themes. The Executive Director works with the Finance and Business Advisory Committee.

QUANTUM ALBERTA BOARD OF DIRECTORS

BRANCH DIRECTORS

BRANCH ADMINISTRATION

SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY COMMITTEE

FINANCE AND BUSINESS ADVISORY

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

OPERATION AND ADMINISTRATION

COMMERCIALIZATION AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

THEME LEADERS

PLANNED ORGANIZATIONAL CHART

A Scientific Advisory Committee shall be established and report directly to the Board of Directors. Each academic institute shall establish a branch and have its own Branch Directors and administration, as appropriate. Quantum Alberta’s Board of Directors shall have representatives from academia, industry, business and government from within and outside Alberta. The board shall have a minimum of 10 members.

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Dr. Paul BarclayAssociate Professor, Physics & Astronomy, University of CalgaryResearch: Quantum NanophotonicsTheme: QNano and QOpticsbarclaylab.ucalgary.ca

Dr. John BeamishProfessor, Physics, University of AlbertaResearch: Low-temperature Quantum Fluids and SolidsTheme: QMaterialswww.ualberta.ca/physics/Faculty/JohnBeamish

Dr. Robert BenkocziAssociate Professor, Mathematics & Computer Science, University of LethbridgeResearch: Optimization of Wireless Networks, Approximation Algorithms, Facility Location and Quantum AlgorithmsTheme: QFoundationswww.cs.uleth.ca/~benkoczi/wordpress/

Dr. Alex BrownProfessor, Chemistry, University of AlbertaResearch: Laser-molecule InteractionsTheme: QChemalexbrown.chem.ualberta.ca

Dr. Jillian BuriakCanada Research Chair, AITF Industry Chair and Professor, Chemistry, University of AlbertaResearch: Nanoscience and Materials ChemistryTheme: QMaterials and QNanoburiak.chem.ualberta.ca

Dr. Saurya DasProfessor, Physics & Astronomy, University of LethbridgeResearch: Quantum Gravity and CosmologyTheme: QFoundationsdirectory.uleth.ca/users/saurya.das

FACULTY MEMBERSPaul BarclayDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of Calgary

Alex BrownDepartment of Chemistry, University of Alberta

Saurya DasDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of Lethbridge

John P. DavisDepartment of Physics, University of Alberta

Hooman HosseinkhannazerDirector of Business Development, Norcada

Lindsay LeBlancDepartment of Physics, University of Alberta

Barry C. SandersDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of Calgary

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Dr. John P. DavisAITF iCORE Strategic Chair and Associate Professor, Physics, University of AlbertaResearch: Quantum Nanoscale SystemsTheme: QNanoualberta.ca/~jdavis/

Dr. Ray DeCorbyProfessor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Alberta Research: Design and Fabrication of Microphotonic Devices Theme: QNano and QOptics www.ece.ualberta.ca/~decorby/

Dr. David FederAssociate Professor, Physics and Astronomy, University of CalgaryResearch: Practical Quantum Computation to Reasearch: Quantum Computation and Condensed Matter Physics Theme: QOpticsphas.ucalgary.ca/profiles/david-feder

Dr. Mark FreemanCanada Research Chair and Professor, Physics, University of AlbertaResearch: Nanoscale Magnetic PhenomenaTheme: QMaterials and QNanowww.ualberta.ca/~freemanm/

Dr. Daya GaurProfessor, Mathematics & Computer Science, University of LethbridgeResearch: Approximation Algorithms for Optimization ProblemsTheme: QOpticswww.cs.uleth.ca/~gaur/

Dr. Gilad GourProfessor, Mathematics & Statistics, University of CalgaryResearch: Quantum Information TheoryTheme: QOpticspeople.ucalgary.ca/~gour/

Dr. Frank HegmannAITF Strategic Chair in Terahertz Science and Technology and Professor, Physics, University of AlbertaResearch: Ultrafast Dynamics and Terahertz SpectroscopyTheme: QMaterials and QNanohegmannthz.wordpress.com

Dr. Shahadat HossainProfessor, Mathematics & Computer Science, University of LethbridgeResearch: Numerical Optimization and Its ApplicationsTheme: QOpticswww.cs.uleth.ca/~hossain/

Mr. Hooman HosseinkhannazerPEng & PMPDirector of Business Development, NorcadaResearch: Development of Quantum-Nano Applications (high-Q mechanical structures, NEMS)Theme: QMaterials and QNanonorcada.com

Dr. Peter HøyerAssociate Professor, Computer Science, University of CalgaryResearch: Quantum ComputingTheme: QFoundations and QOpticspages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~hoyer/

Dr. Wolfgang JägerCanada Research Chair and Professor, Chemistry, University of AlbertaResearch: Nanodrop and Molecular Cluster SpectroscopyTheme: QChem and QNanowww.chem.ualberta.ca/~jaeger/

Dr. Peter KusalikProfessor, Chemistry, University of CalgaryResearch: Molecular SimulationTheme: QChem and QMaterialshomepages.ucalgary.ca/~pkusalik/

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Dr. Lindsay LeBlancCanada Research Chair, AITF Strategic Chair and Assistant Professor, Physics, University of AlbertaResearch: Quantum Simulation with Ultracold Gases and Hybrid Quantum SystemsTheme: QMaterials, QNano and QOpticssites.ualberta.ca/~ljleblan/

Dr. Alex LvovskyProfessor, Physics & Astronomy, University of CalgaryResearch: Quantum Information TechnologyTheme: QOpticspeople.ucalgary.ca/~lvov/

Dr. Joseph MaciejkoCanada Research Chair and Assistant Professor, Physics, University of AlbertaResearch: Topological MaterialsTheme: QMaterialsualberta.ca/~maciejko/

Dr. Frank MarsiglioProfessor, Physics, University of AlbertaResearch: High-temperature Superconductivity and Strongly Correlated Electron SystemsTheme: QMaterialssites.ualberta.ca/~fm3/

Dr. Al MeldrumProfessor, Physics, University of AlbertaResearch: Quantum Dots, Microlasers and SensorsTheme: QMaterialssites.ualberta.ca/~ameldrum/Home.html

Dr. Kirk MichaelianResearch Scientist, Natural Resources CanadaResearch: Raman and Photoacoustic Infrared SpectroscopyTheme: QChem and QMaterialsnrcan.gc.ca/science/scientists/11694

Dr. Nasser Moazzen-AhmadiProfessor, Physics & Astronomy, University of CalgaryResearch: Molecular SpectroscopyTheme: QChem and QMaterialsiqst.ca/people/peoplepage.php?id=345

Dr. Sergei NoskovProfessor, Biological Science, University of CalgaryResearch: Biochemistry and Structural BiologyTheme: QChemcontacts.ucalgary.ca/info/bio/profiles/124-2251

Dr. Dennis SalahubProfessor, Chemistry, Univesity of CalgaryResearch: Multiscale Modelling of Chemistry in Complex EnvironmentsTheme: QChem and QNanoiqst.ca/people/peoplepage.php?id=267

Dr. Barry SandersAITF iCORE Strategic Chair in Quantum Information Science and Professor, Physics and Astronomy, University of CalgaryQianRen Chair Professor, University of Science and Technology of ChinaResearch: Quantum Information ScienceTheme: QOpticsiqst.ca/people/peoplepage.php?id=4

Dr. Yujun ShiAssociate Professor, Chemistry, University of CalgaryResearch: Diagnostics of Chemical Vapour Deposition, Metal Nanoparticle Formation by Laser DewettingTheme: QChem and QNanoucalgary.ca/shiy/

Dr. Christoph SimonProfessor, Physics and Astronomy, University of CalgaryResearch: Theoretical Quantum OpticsTheme: QFoundations, QNano and QOpticsiqst.ca/people/peoplepage.php?id=225


Dr. Robert I. ThompsonProfessor, Physics and Astronomy, University of CalgaryResearch: Trapped Ions and AntimatterTheme: QChem, QFoundations and QOpticsiqst.ca/people/peoplepage.php?id=15

Dr. Wolfgang TittelAITF Strategic Research Chair and Professor, Physics and Astronomy, University of CalgaryResearch: Quantum Cryptography and CommunicationTheme: QNano and QOpticswww.qc2lab.com

Dr. Simon TrudelAssociate Professor, Chemistry, University of CalgaryResearch: Functional NanomaterialsTheme: QNanowww.chem.ucalgary.ca/research/groups/trudels/simon-trudel.html

Dr. Jack TuszynskiProfessor, Oncology, University of AlbertaResearch: Computational Drug Design, Systems Biology of Cancer and Neurodegenerative Diseases, and Pharmacokinetic Models Theme: QFoundationswww.oncology.med.ualberta.ca/AboutUs/FacultyMembers/Pages/ExperimentalOncology.aspx?P=13

Dr. Jonathan VeinotProfessor, Chemistry, University of AlbertaResearch: Nanomaterials and Hybrid NanostructuresTheme: QChem and QNanowww.chem.ualberta.ca/~jveinot/

Dr. Mark WaltonProfessor, Physics & Astronomy, University of LethbridgeResearch: Quantum Mechanics and Conformal Field TheoryTheme: QFoundationsdirectory.uleth.ca/users/walton

Dr. Robert WolkowAITF Strategic Chair and Professor, Physics, University of AlbertaChief Technical Officer, Quantum Silicon Inc.Research: Low-power Atom-scale ElectronicsTheme: QMaterials, QNano and QOpticswww.robertwolkow.com

Dr. Yunjie XuCanada Research Chair and Professor, Chemistry, University of AlbertaResearch: Molecular ChiralityTheme: QChemwww.chem.ualberta.ca/~xu/

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POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSGabriel Aguilar (resigned November 2016 A Assistant Professor, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)Mehdi AhmadiMorteza AmiraniRonnie BanerjeeRhett Clark (completed in 2016 A Instructor/Lab Coordinator, Concordia University, Edmonton)Pablo Diaz BenitoHoan Bui Dang Prasanta DasAngélique FaramusRoohollah GhobadiSandeep Goyal (completed May 2016 A Assistant Professor, Indian Institute for Science Education and Research, Mohal)John Patrick Hadden Matthias Heger Moloud KavianiNikolai LaukShu-Ping LeeChien-Hung LinBruno MartinsHosnay Mobarok (completed in 2016 A Research Manager, Applied Quantum Materials)Van NgoIsil Ozfidan (completed July 2016 A Researcher, D-Wave Systems)Young Choon ParkLaura PerissinottiMoe RashidiErhan SaglamyurekKuburat Saliu Elijah Schnitzler Nathaniel SeifertFlorian Senn (completed October 2016)Namrata ShuklaMauricio Chagas da Silva (completed October 2016)Yusuf SimsekNeil SinclairChukman So Fabien SourisJavix ThomasRim Toukabri (completed September 2016)Lucile Veissier (resigned June 2016 A Postdoctoral Fellow, Universite Paris Sud Orsay) Tianwu WangBinbin YuEhsan Zahedinejad (resigned August 2016 A

Researcher, 1Qbit)Hristina Zhekova

Qiang Zhou (completed March 2017 A Assistant Professor, University of Electronic Science and Technology)

RESEARCH ENGINEERS & RESEARCH ASSISTANTSNaaman Amer Seyed Azmayesh-FardMartin Cloutier Thomas DienelTate HaugerPeter KalisvaartVolodimir Kiselyov (resigned September 2016)Mohammad KoleiniErik LuberDaniel OblakBrian Olsen Jo OnodaJason PittersMojtaba RezaeiMark SalomonsRadovan UrbanPhilip Winter

GRADUATE STUDENTS (PhD PROGRAM)Roshan AchalMaryam AghajamaliSaana Al-SumadieMahmoud AlmadhounMohsen Bagheri MehrabAngela BeltaosTushar S. BiswasMohammad BitarafanIsaac BoatengPasquale BossoStephanie Bovincini Jesus Alejandro Marin CalzadaBing Cao (graduated September 2016 A

Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Alberta)Carl Chandler (graduated November 2016)Ram DahalArchismita DalalKatelynn DalyRaphael DongCallum DoolinCarlos Enriquez-VictoreroAndrew EvansMohsen Falamarzi AskaraniAkihiko Fujii


Jiao Gao Kirsty GardnerMelis GedikFrancesco GentilePeter GhalyGayashani GinigeMark GirardChristina Gonzalez (graduated September 2016 A

Contract Instructor, Concordia University, Edmonton)Sumit GoswamiLida Hadidi (graduated September 2016 A Research Assistant, Applied Quantum Materials Inc.)Kyle HallBradley D. HauerChris HealeyMark Healey (graduated 2016 A Researcher, Government of Alberta)Cameron HoughMinjia HuTaleana HuffJoel HutchinsonMuhammad Amirul IslamSubha JanaMorteza JavadiVedran JelicCong JinHamidreza KavianiAbdullah KhalidBehzad Khanaliloo (graduated December 2016 A

Engineer, Lumerical Inc.)Mohammadsadegh Khazali (graduated December 2016 A Postdoctoral Fellow, Aarhus University)Majid KheirkhahPaul KimFaezeh Kimiaee Asadi Chrissy KnappSourabh KumarDavid LakeStephen LaneHon-Wai LauPascal LefebvreChristopher FetterlyFenglin Liu (graduated September 2016 A

Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Alberta)Thomas LutzArmando Marenco (graduated January 2017)Adam MayerKelly McPheeWilliam MirandaMatthew MitchellAli MohandesiEugene MoiseevJames Moncreiff

Mahshad MoshariYasser Novo-FernandezVarun Narasimhachar (graduated August 2016 A

Postdoctoral Fellow, National University of Singapore)Mary Narreto Peter NguyenMahmood NoweirSara OmarEbenezer Owusu-AnsahEduardo PaezPantita PalittapongarnpimAlireza PoostindouzClinton PottsMarcel.li Grimau Puigibert David PurschkeAnastasia PushkinaHugh RampChengcheng RaoChristopher Jay RobidilloMohammad Alaraby Salem (graduated August 2016 A Lecturer, University of Modern Sciences and Arts, Egypt)Nafiseh Sang-NourpourElijah Schnitzler (graduated June 2016 A Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Alberta)Issaka Seidu (graduated February 2017 A

Postdoctoral Fellow, Carleton University)Neil Sinclair (graduated May 2016 A Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Calgary)Regina SinelnikovBenjamin SmithArina TashchilinaAlyx ThiessenMark ThomAndrei TretiakovRaju ValivarthiPriyaa Varshinee SrinivasanSeyed Shakib VedaieHao WangMarcelo Wu (graduated March 2017 A Postdoctoral Fellow, National Institute for Standards and Technology)Taozhe WuYadong WuHezhen XieDan YangHennadii YerzhakovParisa ZarkeshianXiyu (Zach) Zhang

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GRADUATE STUDENTS (MSc PROGRAM)Sharmin AkterMuhammad Ruhul Amin (graduated January 2017)Eric AmpongPaul AndersonLazima AnsariUmair ArifAaron BarclayClayton BellAlex CameronTommy ClarkLogan CookeJeremy CroshawJacob DavidsonChetan Deshmukh (graduated February 2017 A PhD Student, Institute of Photonic Sciences, Barcelona)Kelsey Deutsch (graduated April 2016)Nuiok DicaireKeenan FanningAlison FultonAbhirup Goswami (graduated September 2016 A

PhD Student, Queensland University of Technology)Masoud Habibi DavijaniTim HarrisonMd Asjad HossainTaras Hrushevskyi (graduated January 2017 A

Research Associate, University of Alberta)Shreyas JalnapurkarCharles Jensen Tasnuba JesminJiawei JiAarat KalraAhmad Imtiaz KhanMojtaba KomeiliMary KuLeo Yuxiu LiErika LloydTamiko MasudaAaron Melnyk (graduated December 2016 A

Researcher, Micralyne)Nasrin Hakim Mithila (graduated December 2016 A

Software Developer, Ceridian)Eugene Moiseev (transferred September 2016 A

PhD Student, University of Calgary)William MorrishMahmudun NabiAimaity NurgulRobert Lee Pavelich (graduated September 2016)Alireza Poostindouz (graduated August 2016 A PhD Student, University of Calgary)

Clinton Potts (graduated December 2016 A PhD Student, University of Alberta)Parijat PurohitMohammad RahmatiAnindya Rastogi Matthew RobbinsPeash Ranjan SahaLohrasp Seify (graduated April 2016 A Trading Analyst, Parker Trading Corp.)Drew ShepherdMarzia Sultana (graduated August 2016 A Software Developer, Constellation Financing Systems)Ashraful Huq Suny (graduated December 2016 A

JAVA Developer, FDM Group)Mara del Sagrario (Maria) Rossano TapiaJacques Thibault Andrei Tretiakov (graduated December 2016 A PhD Student, University of Alberta)Wyatt VineStephen WeinBraden WiensJohn Wood (graduated November 2016)Weihuang XuFan Yang (graduated August 2016 A PhD Student, University of British Columbia)Haoyang (Emmett) Yu

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTSMohamad Al-Jabiri (UofA CHEM401)Sam Anderson (NSERC USRA)Dante Bencivenga (Research Assistant)Burke Brockelbank (UofC PHYS598)Alex Cameron (Summer Research)Bipinmeet Chawla (NSERC USRA)Holly Christiani (Research Assistant)Leonardo Cotta (Research Assistant)Jamie Dublanko (UofA CHEM299)David Gisu Ham (NSERC USRA)Tao He (UARE)Yingjie He (UofA CHEM401 & 403)Paul Herringer (Research Assistant)Graham Hornig (NSERC USRA)Chenxi Huang (Engineering Physics Co-op)Aiden Huffman (NSERC USRA)Cat-Tuong Huynh (UofA CHEM401)Jonathan Kung (UofC CHEM502)David Loewen (UofA CHEM401 & 403)Christopher Mannes (Research Assistant)Duncan McIntyre (Research Assistant)Stephanie McIntyre (Research Assistant)Daniel Mildenberger (Research Assistant)Mengxing Na (UofA PHYS499)


Kimberley Owen (UofC PHYS598)Christian Prosko (NSERC USRA)Arun Rajendran (MITACS Globalink)Charmaine Sablay (UofC CHEM402)Jonathan Shabash (Research Assistant)Qiming Shen (ISWSP)Alexander Shook (UofC PHYS598)Rishabh Shukla (MITACS Globalink)Raunak Singh (UofC CHEM502)Marcus Stack (UofA Undergraduate Research Initiative)James Stevenson (UofC CHEM402)Xinxin Tang (MITACS Globalink)Bryce Taylor (UofC PHYS599)Tracy Tran (UofC CHEM299)Meng Wang (UofA CHEM299)Zhibo Wang (UofA CHEM401 & 403)Scott Wilson (NSERC USRA & Engineering Physics Co-op)Chao Zhang (UofA CHEM401)Tong Zhang (UofA CHEM401 & NSERC USRA)Boyang Zhao (UofA CHEM401)

ADMINISTRATIONJing (Nancy) Lu (Administrator)Kailey RobertsonPriyaa Varshinee Srinivasan (Part-Time Webmaster)Lucia Wang (Administrative Assistant)

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M. Platkevic V. Popa, M. Pozzato, S. Pospisil, A. Rajantie, Z. Sahoun, M. Sakellariadou, S. Sarkar, G. Semenoff, G. Sirri, K. Sliwa, R. Soluk, M. Spurio, R. Staszewski, J. Swain, M. Tenti, V. Togo, M. Trzebinski, J. A. Tuszynski, V. Vento, O. Vives, Z. Vykydal and A. Widom, “Search for magnetic monopoles with the MoEDAL forward trapping detector in 13 TeV proton-proton collisions at the LHC”, Physical Review Letters 118(6): 061801 (6 pp.), February 2017.

M. Adcock, P. Høyer and B. C. Sanders, “Quantum computation with coherent spin states and the close Hadamard problem”, Quantum Information Processing 15(4): 1361-1386, April 2016.

M. Aghajamali, M. Iqbal, T. K. Purkait, L. Hadidi, R. Sinelnikov and J. G. C. Veinot, “Synthesis and properties of luminescent silicon nanocrystal/silica aerogel hybrid materials”, Chemistry of Materials 28(11): 3877–3886, May 2016.

M. Ahmadi, B. X. R. Alves, C. J. Baker, W. A. Bertsche, E. Butler, A. Capra, C. Carruth, C. L. Cesar, M. Charlton, S. Cohen, R. Collister, A. Evans, N. Evetts, J. Fajans, T. Friesen, M. C. Fujiwara, D. R. Gill, A. Gutierrez, J. S. Hangst, W. N. Hardy, M. E. Hayden, C. A. Isaac, A. Ishida, M. A. Johnson, S. A. Jones, S. Jonsell, L. Kurchaninov, N. Madsen, M. Mathers, D. Maxwell, J. T. K. McKenna, S. Menary, J. M. Michan, T. Momose, J. J. Munich, P. Nolan, K. Olchanski, A. Olin, P. Pusa, C. Ø. Rasmussen, F.

REFEREED JOURNALSB. Acharya, J. Alexandre, K. Bendtz, P. Benes, J. Bernabeu, M. Campbell, S. Cecchini, J. Chwastowski, Y. Cho, A. Chatterjee, M. de Montigny, D. Derendarz, A. De Roeck, J. R. Ellis, M. Fairbairn, D. Felea, M. Frank, D. Frekers, C. Garcia, G. Giacomelli, M. Giorgini, D. Hasegan, T. Hott, J. Jakubek, A. Katre, D-W Kim, M. G. L. King, K. Kinoshita, D. Lacarrere, S. C. Lee, C. Leroy, A. Margiotta, N. Mauri, N. E. Mavromatos, P. Mermod, V. A. Mitsou, R. Orava, L. Pasqualini, L. Patrizii, G. E. Pavalas, J. L. Pinfold, M. Platkevic, V. Popa, M. Pozzato, S. Pospisil, A. Rajantie, Z. Sahoun, M. Sakellariadou, S. Sarkar, G. Semenoff, G. Sirri, K. Sliwa, R. Soluk, M. Spurio, R. Staszewski, J. Swain, M. Tenti, V. Togo, M. Trzebinski, J. A. Tuszynski, V. Vento, O. Vives, Z. Vykydal, T. Whyntie and A. Widom, “Search for magnetic monopoles with the MoEDAL prototype trapping detector in 8 TeV proton-proton collision at the LHC”, Journal of High Energy Physics 8(67): 1-23, August 2016.

B. Acharya, J. Alexandre, J. Bernabeu, M. Campbell, S. Cecchini, J. Chwastowski, Y. Cho, M. de Montigny, D. Derendarz, A. De Roeck, J. R. Ellis, M. Fairbairn, D. Felea, M. Frank, D. Frekers, G. Giacomelli, M. Giorgini, D. Hasegan, T. Hott, J. Jakubek, A. Katre, D-W Kim, M. G. L. King, K. Kinoshita, D. Lacarrere, S. C. Lee, C. Leroy, A. Margiotta, N. Mauri, N. E. Mavromatos, P. Mermod, V. A. Mitsou, R. Orava, L. Pasqualini, L. Patrizii, G. E. Pavalas J. L. Pinfold,

PUBLICATIONS


Robicheaux, R. L. Sacramento, M. Sameed, E. Sarid, D. M. Silveira, S. Stracka, G. Stutter, C. So, T. D. Tharp, J. E. Thompson, R. I. Thompson, D. P. van der Werf and J. S. Wurtele, “Observation of the 1S–2S transition in trapped antihydrogen”, Nature 541: 506-510, December 2016.

A. F. Ali and S. Das, “Stringent theoretical and experimental bounds on graviton mass”, International Journal of Modern Physics D 25(12): 1644001 (6 pp.), October 2016.

H. M. Alotaibi and B. C. Sanders, “Enhanced nonlinear susceptibility via double-double electromagnetically induced transparency”, Physical Review A 94(5): 053832 (11 pp.), November 2016.

A. Ayoub, A. Rabab, J. Xiao, C. Lewis, T. Tilli, K. Arakawa, Y. Nindita, G. Chan, L. Sun, M. J. N. Glover, M. Klobukowski and J. A. Tuszynski, “Antitumor activity of lankacidin antibiotics is due to microtubule stabilization via a paclitaxel-like mechanism”, Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 59(20): 9532-9540, October 2016.

A. J. Barclay, S. Sheybani-Deloui, K. H. Michaelian, A. R. W. McKellar and N. Moazzen-Ahmadi, “Intermolecular vibrational frequencies of the C-bonded CO2-CO dimer and observation of He-CO2-CO trimers”, Chemical Physics Letters 651: 62-65, May 2016. (Editors’ Choice).

A. J. Barclay, C. Lauzin, S. Sheybani-Deloui, K. H. Michaelian and N. Moazzen-Ahmadi, “Detection of a higher energy isomer of the CO-N2O van der Waals complex and determination of two of its intermolecular frequencies”, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 19(2): 1610-1613, January 2017.

M. Beig-Mohammadi, N. Sang-Nourpour, B. C. Sanders, B. Lavoie and R. Kheradmand, “Hybrid modes tunability in metamaterial nano-waveguides”, Optical Engineering 56(2): 027105 (9 pp.), February 2017.

D. Biswal and P. G. Kusalik, “Probing molecular mechanisms of self-assembly in metal–organic frameworks”, ACS Nano 11(1): 258-268, December 2016.

M. H. Bitarafan, C. A. Potts and R. G. DeCorby, “Cut-off-based dual-taper reflectors in on-chip hollow waveguides”, Optics Express 25(5): 5105-5106, February 2017.

S. Bohloul, Q. Shi, R. A. Wolkow and H. Guo, “Quantum transport in gated dangling-bond atomic wires”, Nano Letters 17(1): 322-327, December 2016.

C. A. Braun, D. Zomerman, I. de Aguiar, Y. Qi, W. T. Delgado, M. J. Ferguson, R. McDonald, G. L. C. de Souza, G. He, A. Brown and E. Rivard, “Probing the nature of peripheral boryl groups within luminescent tellurophenes”, Faraday Discussions 196: 255-268, July 2016.

J. A. J. Burgess, C. M. B. Holt, E. J. Luber, D. C. Fortin, G. Popowich, B. Zahiri, P. Concepcion, D. Mitlin and M. R. Freeman, “Nanoscale structure, dynamics, and aging behavior of metallic glass thin films”, Scientific Reports 6: 30973 (9 pp.), August 2016.

F. Buscemi and G. Gour, “Quantum relative Lorenz curves”, Physical Review A 95(1): 012110 (12 pp.), January 2017.

B. Cao, X. He, C. Fetterly, B. C. Olsen, E. J. Luber and J. M. Buriak, “Role of interfacial layers in organic solar cells: Energy level pinning versus phase segregation”, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces I 8(28): 18238-18248, June 2016.

R. Carter, S. Hossain and M. Sultana, “Efficient detection of Hessian matrix sparsity pattern”, ACM Communications in Computer Algebra 50(4): 151-154, December 2016.

M. Ceriott, W. Fang, P. G. Kusalik, R. H. McKenzie, A. Michaelides, M. A. Morales and T. E. Markland, “Nuclear quantum effects in water and aqueous systems: Experiment, theory, and current challenges”, Chemical Reviews 116(13): 7529-7550, April 2016.

A. Chan and J. A. Tuszynski, “Automatic prediction of tumour malignancy in breast cancer with fractal dimension”, Royal Society Open Science 3: 160558 (10 pp.), December 2016.

C. J. Chandler, C. Prosko and F. Marsiglio, “The effect of next-nearest neighbour hopping in the one, two, and three dimensional Holstein model”, Scientific Reports 6: 32591 (9 pp.), September 2016.

M. Chehelamirani, M. C. da Silva and D. R. Salahub, “Electronic properties of carbon nanotubes complexed with a DNA nucleotide”, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 19(10): 7333-7342, February 2017.

C.-C. Chen, L. Muechler, R. Car, T. Neupert and J. Maciejko, “Fermionic symmetry-protected topological phase in a two-dimensional Hubbard model”, Physical Review Letters 117(9): 096405 (5 pp.), August 2016.

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Z. G. Cheng and J. Beamish, “Compression-driven mass flow in bulk solid 4He”, Physical Review Letters 117(5): 025301 (5 pp.), July 2016.

E. Chitambar and G. Gour, “Critical examination of incoherent operations and a physically consistent resource theory of quantum coherence”, Physical Review Letters 117(3): 030401 (5 pp.), July 2016. (Editors’ Suggestion).

E. Chitambar and G. Gour, “Comparison of incoherent operations and measures of coherence”, Physical Review A 94(5): 052336 (19 pp.), November 2016.

R. J. Clark, M. Aghajamali, C. M. Gonzalez, L. Hadidi, M. A. Islam, M. Javadi, M. H. Mobarok, T. K. Purkait, C. J. T. Robidillo, R. Sinelnikov, A. N. Thiessen, J. Washington, H. Yu and J. G. C Veinot, “From hydrogen silsesquioxane to functionalized silicon nanocrystals”, Chemistry of Materials 29(1): 80-89, October 2016.

J. P. Clemens, C. Sarsons, C. M. Platnich, A. Banerjee, B. Blasiak, B. Tomanek, K. D. Rinker and S. Trudel, “Maltol-functionalized Fe3O4 nanoparticles as T2 magnetic resonance imaging contrast agents”, Chemistry Select 1(8): 1602-1606, June 2016.

S. Das and G. Kunstatter, “The central role of symmetry in physics”, Journal of Applied and Fundamental Sciences 2(2): 69-77, July 2016. (Invited Review).

S. Deb, S. Das and E. C. Vagenas, “Discreteness of space from GUP in a weak gravitational field”, Physics Letters B 755: 17-23, April 2016.

M. Dehghany, M. Rezaei, N. Moazzen-Ahmadi, A. R. W. McKellar, J. Brown, X.-G. Wang and T. Carrington, “Intermolecular vibrations of the CO2-CS2 complex: Experiment and theory agree, but understanding remains challenging”, Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy 330: 188-193, December 2016.

H. Dittmar and P. G. Kusalik, “Ordering effects of conjugate thermal fields in simulations of molecular liquids: Carbon dioxide and water”, Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy 145(13): 134504 (11 pp.), October 2016.

Z. A. Elhouderi, D. P. Beesley, T. T. Nguyen, P. Lai, K. Sheehan, S. Trudel, E. Prenner, D. T. Cramb and M. Anikovskiy, “Synthesis, characterization, and application of Fe3O4/Ag magnetic composites for mercury removal from water”, Materials Research Express 3(4): 045013 (9 pp.), April 2016.

I. A. Fedorov, A. E. Ulanov, Y. Kurochkin and A. I. Lvovsky, “Synthesis of the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen entanglement in a sequence of two single-mode squeezers”, Optics Letters 42(1): 132-134, January 2017.

L. Fent and A. Meldrum, “A foveon sensor/green-pass filter technique for direct exposure of traditional false color images”, Journal of Imaging 2(2): 2020014 (21 pp.), May 2016.

L. A. Ferraz-Albani, A. Baldelli, C. J. Knapp, W. Jäger, R. Vehring, D. S. Nobes, J. S. Olfert and L. W. Kostiuk, “Enhanced evaporation of microscale droplets with an infrared laser”, Journal of Heat Transfer 139(1), 011503 (8 pp.), September 2016.

A. François, N. Riesen, K. Gardner, T. M. Monro and A. Meldrum, “Lasing of whispering gallery modes in optofluidic microcapillaries”, Optics Express 24(12): 12466-12477, May 2016.

J. Gao, N. A. Seifert, J. Thomas, Y. Xu and W. Jäger, “Structure and internal rotation dynamics of the acetone-neon complex studied by microwave spectroscopy”, Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy 330: 228-235, December 2016.

F. Gentile, J. A. Tuszynski and K.H. Barakat, “Modelling DNA repair pathways: Recent advances and future directions”, Current Pharmaceutical Design 22(23): 3527-3546, April 2016.

P. E. Ghaly, R. A. El-Magd, C. Churchill, J. A. Tuszynski and F. G. West, “A new noscapine analogue: Chemical synthesis and biological evaluation”, Oncotarget 7(26): 40518-40530, May 2016.

P. E. Ghaly, C. D. M. Churchill, R. M. Abou-El Magd, Z. Hajkova, P. Draber, F. G. West and J. A. Tuszynski, “Synthesis and biological evaluation of structurally simplified noscapine analogues as microtubule binding agents”, Canadian Journal of Chemistry 95: 649-655, March 2017.

M. Girard and G. Gour, “Entanglement monotones and transformations of symmetric bipartite states”, Physical Review A 95(2): 012308 (15 pp.), January 2017.

C. M. Gonzalez and J. G. C. Veinot, “Silicon nanocrystals for the development of sensing platform”, Journal of Materials Chemistry C 4: 4836-4846, April 2016.

D. Moseguí González, K.N. Raftopoulos, G. He, C. M. Papadakis, A. Brown, E. Rivard and


P. Müller-Buschbaum, “Bandgap-tuning in triple-chalcogenophene polymer films by thermal annealing”, Macromolecular Rapid Communications 38(1): 1700065 (6 pp.), March 2017.

G. Gour and T. Kemp, “The minimum Rényi entropy output of a quantum channel is locally additive”, Letters in Mathematical Physics 107: 1131-1155, December 2016.

G. Grasso; J. A. Tuszynski, U. Morbiducci, G. Licandro, A. Danani and M. A. Deriu, “Thermodynamic and kinetic stability of the Josephin domain closed arrangement: Evidences from replica exchange molecular dynamics”, Biology Direct 12:2 (15 pp.), January 2017.

K. Wm. Hall, C. Perin, P. G. Kusalik, C. Gutwin and S. Carpendale, “Formalizing emphasis in information visualization”, Computer Graphics Forum 35(3): 717-737, June 2016.

K. Wm. Hall, S. Carpendale and P. G. Kusalik, “Evidence from mixed hydrate nucleation for a funnel model of crystallization”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 113(43): 12041-12046, October 2016.

K. Wm. Hall, Z.-C. Zhang and P. G. Kusalik, “Unraveling mixed hydrate formation: Microscopic insights into early stage behavior”, Journal of Physical Chemistry B 120(51): 13218-13223, December 2016.

P. Hayden, S. Nezami, G. Salton and B. C. Sanders, “Spacetime replication of continuous variable quantum information”, New Journal of Physics 18(8): 083043 (30 pp.), August 2016.

T. Hill, B. C. Sanders and H. Deng, “Cooperative light scattering in any dimension”, Physical Review A 95(3): 033832 (5 pp.), March 2017.

J. Hrivnák and M. Walton, “Weight-lattice discretization of Weyl-orbit functions”, Journal of Mathematical Physics 57(8): 083512 (13 pp.), August 2016.

M. Hu, F. Liu and J. M. Buriak, “Expanding the repertoire of molecular linkages to silicon: Si-S, Si-Se, and Si-Te bonds”, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 8(17): 11091-11099, April 2016.

J. Hutchinson and J. Maciejko, “Rashba scattering in the low-energy limit”, Physical Review B 93(24): 245309 (9 pp.), June 2016.

M. Iqbal, T. K. Purkait, G. G. Goss, J. R. Bolton, M. Gamal El-Din and J. G. C. Veinot, “Application

of engineered Si nanoparticles in light-induced advanced oxidation remediation of a water-borne model contaminant”, ACS Nano 10(5): 5405-5412, April 2016.

M. A. Islam, T. K. Purkait, M. H. Mobarok, I. M. D. Hoehlein, R. Sinelnikov, M. Iqbal, D. Azulay, I. Balberg, O. Millo, B. Rieger and J. G. C. Veinot, “Grafting poly(3-hexylthiophene) from silicon nanocrystal surfaces: Synthesis and properties of a functional hybrid material with direct interfacial contact”, Angewandte Chemie (International Edition) 55: 7393-7397, May 2016.

V. Jelic, K. Iwaszczuk, P. H. Nguyen, C. Rathje, G. J. Hornig, H. M. Sharum, J. R. Hoffman, M. R. Freeman and F. A. Hegmann, “Ultrafast terahertz control of extreme tunnel currents through single atoms on a silicon surface”, Nature Physics 13: 591-598, published on line in February 2017.

C. Jin, B. C. Olsen, E. J. Luber and J. M. Buriak, “Nanopatterning via solvent vapor annealing of block copolymer thin films”, Chemistry of Materials 29(1): 176-188, September 2016.

C. Jin, B. C. Olsen, E. J. Luber and J. M. Buriak, “Preferential alignment of incommensurate block copolymer dot arrays forming Moiré superstructures”, ACS Nano 11(3): 3237-3246, February 2017.

C. Jin, B. C. Olsen, N. L. Y. Wu, J. M. Buriak and E. J. Luber, “Sequential nanopatterned block copolymer self-assembly on surfaces”, Langmuir 32(23): 5890-5898, May 2016.

W. H. Kan, R. Dong, J.-S. Bae, S. Adams and V. Thangadurai, “Probing surface valence, magnetic property, and oxide ion diffusion pathway in B-site ordered perovskite-type Ba2Ca0.67M0.33NbO6 − δ (M=Mn, Fe, Co)”, Solid State Ionics 290: 90-97, July 2016.

A. Kuban-Jankowska, K. K. Sahu, M. Gorska, P. Niedzialkowski, J. A. Tuszynski, T. Ossowski and M. Wozniak, “Aurintricarboxylic acid structure modifications lead to reduction of inhibitory properties against virulence factor YopH and higher cytotoxicity”, World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology 31: 163 (8 pp.), August 2016.

A. Khalique and B. C. Sanders, “Long-distance quantum key distribution using concatenated entanglement swapping with practical resources”, Optical Engineering 56(1): 016114 (8 pp.), January 2017.

M. Khazali, H. W. Lau, A. Humeniuk and C. Simon, “Large energy superpositions via Rydberg dressing”,

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Physical Review A 94(2): 023408 (9 pp.), August 2016.

P. Kilcullen, M. Shegelski, M.-X. Na, D. Purschke, F. Hegmann and Matthew Reid, “Terahertz spectroscopy and Brewster angle reflection imaging of acoustic tiles”, Journal of Spectroscopy 2017: 2134868 (6 pp.), March 2017.

P. H. Kim, B. D. Hauer, C. Doolin, F. Souris and J. P. Davis, “Approaching the standard quantum limit of mechanical torque sensing”, Nature Communications 7: 13165 (6 pp.), October 2016.

S. Kumar, K. Boone, J. A. Tuszynski, P. E. Barclay and C. Simon, “Possible existence of optical communication channels in the brain”, Scientific Reports 6: 36508 (13 pp.), November 2016.

H. Labidi, M. Koleini, T. Huff, M. Salomons, M. Cloutier, J. L. Pitters and R. A. Wolkow, “Indications of chemical bond contrast in AFM images of a hydrogen terminated silicon surface”, Nature Communications 8: 14222 (7 pp.), February 2017.

X.-H. Li, M. C. da Silva and D. R. Salahub, “First-principles calculations of the structural, mechanical, electronic and bonding properties of (CrB2)n CrAl with n = 1, 2, 3”, Journal of Alloys and Compounds 698: 291-303, March 2017.

Y. Li, S. Yu, J. G. C. Veinot; J. Linnros, L. Berglund and I. Sychugov, “Luminescent transparent wood”, Advanced Optical Materials 5(16): 1600834 (5 pp.), November 2016.

F. Liu, B. C. Olsen, E. J. Luber and J. M. Buriak, “Polymers, plasmons & patterns – mechanism of plasmon-induced hydrosilylation on silicon”, Chemistry of Materials 28(24): 9158-9168, November 2016.

L. Liu, A. Mandelis, A. Melnikov, K. H. Michaelian, H. Huan and C. Haisch, “Step-scan T-cell Fourier transform infrared photoacoustic spectroscopy (FTIR-PAS) for monitoring environmental air pollutants”, International Journal of Thermophysics 37: 64 (9 pp.), May 2016.

L. Liu, A. Mandelis, H. Huan, K. H. Michaelian and A. Melnikov, “Step scan T-Cell Fourier transform infrared photoacoustic spectroscopy (FTIR-PAS) for detection of ambient air contaminants”, Vibrational Spectroscopy 87: 94-98, November 2016.

L. Liu, A. Mandelis, H. Huan and K. H. Michaelian, “Step-scan differential Fourier transform infrared photoacoustic spectroscopy (DFTIR-PAS): A spectral

deconvolution method for weak absorber detection in the presence of strongly overlapping background absorptions”, Optics Letters 42(7): 1424-1427, March 2017.

X.-C. Liu, M. Wahiduzzaman, A. F. Oliveira, T. Heine and D. R. Salahub, “Density-functional-based tight-binding parameterization of Mo, C, H, O and Si for studying hydrogenation reactions on molybdenum carbide”, Theoretical Chemistry Accounts 135: 168 (14 pp.), June 2016.

X. Liu, D. Hou, J. Thomas, H. Li and Y. Xu, “Ro-vibrational spectrum of H2O-Ne in the v2 H2O bending region: A combined ab initio and experimental investigation”, Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy 330: 236-247, August 2016. (Bob LeRoy special issue).

J. E. Losby and M. R. Freeman, “Spin mechanics”, Physics in Canada 72(2): 71-75, April 2016. (Feature Article).

T. Lutz, L. Veissier, C. W. Thiel, R. L. Cone, P. E. Barclay and W. Tittel, “Modification of phonon processes in nano-structured rare-earth-ion-doped crystals”, Physical Review A 94(1): 013801 (5 pp.), July 2016.

S. Maillette, C. Peyrot, T. Purkait, M. Iqbal, J. G. C. Veinot and K. J. Wilkinson “Heteroagglomeration of nanosilver with colloidal SiO2 and clay” Environmental Chemistry 14(1): 1-8, August 2016.

M. Maninder, D. Singh, T. Mahaddalkar, M. Lopus, P. Winter; A. T. Ayoub, K. Missiaen, T. M. Tilli, M. Pasdar and J. A. Tuszynski, “Chemical synthesis, pharmacological evaluation and in silico analysis of new 2,3,3a,4,5,6-hexahydrocyclopenta[c]pyrazole derivatives as potential anti-mitotic agents”, Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters 26(15): 3855-3861, July 2016.

A. Marinins, Z. Yang, H. Chen, J. Linnros, J. G. C. Veinot, S. Popov and I. Sychugov, “Photostable polymer/Si nanocrystal bulk hybrids with tunable photoluminescence”, ACS Photonics 3(9): 1575-1580, August 2016.

E. Martín-Martínez and B. C. Sanders, “Precise space-time positioning for entanglement harvesting”, New Journal of Physics 18(4): 043031 (10 pp.), April 2016.

A. Melnyk, M. H. Bitarafan, T. W. Allen and R. G. DeCorby, “Air gap resonant tunneling bandpass filter and polarizer”, Optics Letters 41(8): 1845-1848, April 2016.


A. Melnyk, C. A. Potts, T. W. Allen and R. G. DeCorby, “Visible-range hollow waveguides by guided buckling of Ta2O5/SiO2 multilayers”, Applied Optics 55(13): 3645-3649, April 2016.

G. R. Meseck, A. S. Terpstra, A. J. Marenco, S. Trudel, W. Y. Hamad and M. J. MacLachlan, “Chiral nematic mesoporous magnetic ferrites”, Journal of Materials Chemistry C 4: 11382-11386, November 2016.

M. J. Mitchell, B. Khanaliloo, D. Lake, T. Masuda, J. P. Hadden and P. E. Barclay, “Single-crystal diamond low-dissipation cavity optomechanics”, Optica 3(9): 963-970, September 2016.

N. Moazzen-Ahmadi and J. Norooz Oliaee, “The band system of ethane around 7 micron: Frequency analysis of the v6 band”, Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer 180: 7-13, September 2016.

M. H. Mobarok, T. K. Purkait, M. A. Islam, M. Miskolzie and J. G. C. Veinot, “Instantaneous functionalization of chemically etched silicon nanocrystal surfaces”, Angewandte Chemie (International Edition) 55: 1-6, November 2016,

M. R. Momeni and A. Brown, “A local CC2 and TDA-DFT double hybrid study on BODIPY/aza-BODIPY dimers as heavy atom free triplet photosensitizers for photodynamic therapy applications”, Journal of Physical Chemistry A 120(16): 2550–2560, April 2016.

M. R. Momeni, “Intramolecular singlet fission in quinoidal bi- and tetrathiophenes: A comparative study of low-lying excited electronic states and potential energy surfaces, Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 12(10): 5067–5075, September 2016.

W. Morrish, P. West, N. Orlando, E. Klantsataya, K. Gardner, S. Lane, R. G. DeCorby, A. François and A. Meldrum, “Refractometric micro-sensor using a mirrored capillary resonator”, Optics Express 24(22): 24959-24970, October 2016.

V. Narasimhachar and G. Gour, “Resource theory under conditioned thermal operations”, Physical Review A 95(1): 012313 (11 pp.), January 2017.

M. Y. Niu, B. C. Sanders, F. N. C. Wong and J. H. Shapiro, “Unity-efficiency parametric down-conversion via amplitude amplification”, Physical Review Letters 118(12): 123601 (6 pp.), March 2017.

C. O’Brien, T. Zhong, A. Faraon and C. Simon, “Nondestructive photon detection using a single

rare-earth ion coupled to a photonic cavity”, Physical Review A 94(4): 043807 (7 pp.), October 2016.

J. Norooz Oliaee, M. Dehghany, M. Rezaei, A. R. W. McKellar and N. Moazzen-Ahmadi, “Five intermolecular vibrations of the CO2 dimer observed via infrared combination bands”, Journal of Chemical Physics 145(17): 174302 (6 pp.), November 2016.

L. M. F. de Oliveira, R. G. Vicari, A. Brown and G.L.C. de Souza, “A DFT investigation on the structural and antioxidant properties of new isolated interglycosidic O-(1→3) linkage flavonols, Journal of Molecular Modeling 22: 100 (9 pp.), April 2016.

K. J. Ong, L. C. Felix, D. Boyle, J. D. Ede, G. Ma, J. G. C. Veinot and G. G. Goss, “Humic acid ameliorates nanoparticle-induced developmental toxicity in zebrafish”, Environmental Science: Nano 4(1): 127-137, January 2017.

E. Owusu-Ansah, Y. M. Wang and Y. J. Shi, “A theoretical study of the structures and electronic transitions of small silicon nitride clusters (SinNm, n + m ≤ 4)”, Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy 330: 200-210, August 2016.

I. Ozfidan, J.-S. Han and J. Maciejko, “Gapless helical superconductivity on the surface of a three-dimensional topological insulator”, Physical Review B 94(21): 214510 (11 pp.), December 2016.

N. S. Pagadala, K. Syed and J. A. Tuszynski, “Software for molecular docking: A review”, Biophysical Reviews 9(2): 91-102, January 2017.

R. L. Pavelich and F. Marsiglio, “Calculation of 2D electronic band structure using matrix mechanics”, American Journal of Physics 84: 924-935, September 2016.

P. Piazzetta, T. Marino, N. Russo and D. R. Salahub, “Explicit water molecules play a key role in the mechanism of rhodium-substituted human carbonic anhydrase”, ChemCatChem 9: 1047-1053, February 2017.

M. R. Poopari, Z. Dezhahang and Y. Xu, “Stereochemical properties of multi-dentate nitrogen donor ligands and their copper complexes by electronic CD and DFT”, Chirality 28: 545-555, June 2016.

M. Parvez, L. B. Qhanya, N. T. Mthakathi, I. K. R. Kgosiemang, H. D. Bamal, N. S. Pagadala, T. Xie, H. Yang, H. Chen, C. W. Theron, R. Monyaki, S. C. Raselemane, V. Salewe, B. L. Mongale, R. G. Matowane, S. M. H. Abdalla, W. I. Booi, M. van Wyk, D. Olivier, C. E. Boucher, J. A. Tuszynski,

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J. M. Blackburn, J-H Yu, S. S. Mashele, W. Chen and K. Syed, “Molecular evolutionary dynamics of cytochrome P450 monooxygenases across kingdoms: Special focus on mycobacterial P450s”, Scientific Reports 6: 33099 (13 pp.), September 2016.

E. Pradhan and A. Brown, “Neural network exponential fitting of a potential energy surface with multiple minima: Application to HFCO”, Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy 330: 158-164, December 2016. (Potentiology and Spectroscopy in Honor of Robert Le Roy).

E. Pradhan and A. Brown, “Vibrational energies for HFCO using a neural network sum of exponentials potential energy surface”, The Journal of Chemical Physics 144(17): 174305 (9 pp.), May 2016.

T. K. Purkait, M. Iqbal, M. A. Islam, M. H. Mobarok, C. M. Gonzalez, L. Hadidi and J. G. C. Veinot, “Alkoxy-terminated si surfaces: A new reactive platform for the functionalization and derivatization of silicon quantum dots”, Journal of the American Chemistry Society 138(22): 7114-7120, May 2016.

M. Rashidi, J. A. J. Burgess, M. Taucer, R. Achal, J. L. Pitters, S. Loth and R. A. Wolkow, “Time-resolved single dopant charge dynamics in silicon”, Nature Communications 7: 13258 (7 pp.), October 2016.

M. Rashidi, M. Taucer, I. Ozfidan, E. Lloyd, M. Koleini, H. Labidi, J. L. Pitters, J. Maciejko and R. A. Wolkow, “Time-resolved imaging of negative differential resistance on the atomic scale”, Physical Review Letters 117(27): 276805 (5 pp.), November 2016. (Featured in Physics: Focus).

T. Reynolds, N. Riesen, A. Meldrum, X. Fan, J. M. M. Hall, T. M. Monro and A. François, “Fluorescent and lasing whispering gallery mode microresonators for sensing applications”, Laser & Photonics Reviews 11(2): 1600265 (20 pp.), March 2017.

M. Rezaei, J. Norooz Oliaee, N. Moazzen-Ahmadi and A. R. W. McKellar, “Infrared spectra reveal box-like structures for a pentamer and hexamer of mixed carbon dioxideacetylene clusters”, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 18(3): 1381-1385, August 2016. (Cover Article).

M. Rezaei, A. R. W. McKellar and N. Moazzen-Ahmadi, “The infrared spectrum of the Ar-C2D2 complex”, Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy 328: 46-49, October 2016.

E. A. Rietman, J. G. Scott, J. A. Tuszynski and G. L. Klement, “Personalized anticancer therapy

selection using molecular landscape topology and thermodynamics,” Oncotarget 8(12): 18735-18745, October 2016.

A. Ritchie, W. Cao, M. Dasog, T. K. Purkait, C. Senger, Y. F. Hu, Q. F. Xiao, J. G. C. Veinot and S. G. Urquhart, “Silicon 1s near edge X-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy of functionalized silicon nanocrystals”, Journal of Chemical Physics 145(15): 154703 (7 pp.), October 2016.

E. Saglamyurek, M. L. Grimau Puigibert, Q. Zhou, L Giner, F. Marsili, V. B. Verma, S. W. Nam, L. Oesterling, D. Nippa, D. Oblak and W. Tittel, “A multiplexed light-matter interface for fibre-based quantum networks”, Nature Communications 7: 11202 (7 pp.), April 2016.

V. Salari, I. Bókkon, R. Ghobadi, F. Scholkmann and J. A. Tuszynski, “Relationship between intelligence and spectral characteristics of brain biophoton emission: Correlation does not automatically imply causation”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the United States of America 113(38): E5540-E5541, August 2016.

M. A. Salem, I. Twelves, and A. Brown, “Prediction of two-photon absorption enhancement in red fluorescent protein chromophores made from non-canonical amino acids”, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 18: 24408-24416, August 2016.

E. G. Schnitzler, J. M. Gac and W. Jäger, “Coating surface tension dependence of soot aggregate restructuring”, Journal of Aerosol Science 106: 43-55, January 2017.

E. G. Schnitzler, N. A. Seifert, S. Ghosh, J. Thomas, Y. Xu and W. Jäger, “Hydration of the simplest α-keto acid: a rotational spectroscopic and ab initio study of the pyruvic acid-water complex”, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 19: 4440-4446, January 2017.

J. G. Sheff, F. Farshidfar, O. F. Bathe, K. Kopciuk, F. Gentile, K. Barakat and D. C. Schriemer, “Novel allosteric pathway of Eg5 regulation identified through multivariate statistical analysis of HX-MS ligand screening data”, Molecular Cell Proteomics 16: 428-437, March 2017.

P. Shekhar, M. Malac, V. Gaind, N. Dalili, A. Meldrum and Z. Jacob, “Momentum-resolved electron energy loss spectroscopy for mapping the photonic density of states”, ACS Photonics, 4(4): 1009-1014, March 2017.

Y. J. Shi, L. Tong and S. Mulmi, “Characterization of thin film deposits on tungsten filaments in


catalytic chemical vapor deposition using 1,1-dimethylsilacyclobutane”, Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A 34(5): 051517 (7 pp.), August 2016. (Featured Article and Cover Article).

N. Sinclair, K. Heshami, C. Deshmukh, D. Oblak, C. Simon and W. Tittel, “Proposal and proof-of-principle demonstration of non-destructive detection of photonic qubits using a Tm:LiNbO3 waveguide”, Nature Communications 7: 13454 (6 pp.), November 2016.

N. Sinclair, D. Oblak, C. W. Thiel, R. L. Cone and W. Tittel, “Properties of a rare-earth-ion-doped waveguide at sub-Kelvin temperatures for quantum signal processing”, Physical Review Letters 118(100): 100504 (5 pp.), March 2017.

B. Sotillo, V. Bharadwaj, J. P. Hadden, M. Sakakura, A. Chiappini, T. T. Fernandez, S. Longhi, O. Jedrkiewicz, Y. Shimotsuma, L. Criante, R. Osellame, G. Galzerano, M. Ferrari, K. Miura, R. Ramponi, P. E. Barclay and S. M. Eaton, “Diamond photonics platform enabled by femtosecond laser writing”, Scientific Reports 6: 35566 (9 pp.), October 2016.

B. Sotillo, V. Bharadwaj, J. P. Hadden, S. Rampini, A. Chiappini, T. T. Fernandez, C. Armellini, A. Serpengüzel , M. Ferrari, P. E. Barclay, R. Ramponi and S. M. Eaton, “Visible to infrared diamond photonics enabled by focused femtosecond laser pulses”, Micromachines 8(2): 60 (10 pp.), February 2017.

G. L. C. de Souza and A. Brown, “The ground and excited states of HBrO2 [HOOBr, HOBrO, and HBr(O)O] and HBrO3 (HOOOBr and HOOBrO) isomers”, Theoretical Chemistry Accounts 135(7): 1-13, July 2016.

T. X. R. Souza and F. Marsiglio, “Systematic study of the superconducting critical temperature in two- and three-dimensional tight-binding models: A possible scenario for superconducting H3S”, Physical Review B 94(18): 184509 (14 pp.), November 2016.

S. Sun and A. Brown, “Effects of hydrogen bonding with H2O on the resonance Raman spectra of uracil and thymine”, Computational and Theoretical Chemistry 1100, 70-82, January 2017.

T. M. Tilli, C. da Silva Castro, J. A. Tuszynski and N. Carels, “A strategy to identify housekeeping genes suitable for analysis in breast cancer diseases”, BMC Genomics 17: 639 (11 pp.), August 2016.

T. M. Tilli, N. Carels, M. Pasdar and J. A. Tuszynski, “Validation of a network-based strategy for the optimization of combinatorial target selection in breast cancer therapy: siRNA knockdown of a network of targets in MDA-MB-231 cells as an in vitro model for inhibition of tumor development”, Oncotarget 7(39): 63189-63203, August 2016.

J. Thomas, N. A. Seifert, W. Jäger and Y. Xu, “A direct link from the gas to the condensed phase: A rotational spectroscopic study of 2,2,2-Trifluoroethanol trimers”, Angewandte Chemie (International Edition) 56: 1-6, February 2017.

J. Thomas, M. J. Carillo, A. Serrato III, E. G. Schnitzler, W. Jäger, Y. Xu, and W. Lin, “Conformational analysis of 3,3,3-trifluoro-2-(trifluoromethyl)propanoic acid”, Chemical Physics Letters 661: 210-214, September 2016.

J. Thomas, E. Mariona and Y. Xu, “Rotational spectra of two six-membered heterocyclic N-methyl-piperidinol compounds: Conformations by OH rotation, N-methyl inversion, and ring puckering”, Journal of Chemical Physics 146(10): 104303 (8 pp.), March 2017.

J. A. Tuszynski, C. Wenger, D. E. Friesen and J. Preto, “An Overview of sub-cellular mechanisms involved in the action of TTFields”, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 13(11): 1128 (23 pp.), November 2016.

L. V Titova1, T. L. Cocker, S. Xu, J.-M. Baribeau, X.-H. Wu, D. J. Lockwood and F. A. Hegmann, “Ultrafast carrier dynamics and the role of grain boundaries in polycrystalline silicon thin films grown by molecular beam epitaxy”, Semiconductor Science and Technology 31(10): 105017 (9 pp.), September 2016.

A. E. Ulanov, I. A. Fedorov, D. Sychev, P. Grangier and A. I. Lvovsky, “Loss-tolerant quantum enhanced metrology and state engineering via the reverse Hong-Ou-Mandel effect”, Nature Communications 7: 11925 (6 pp.), June 2016.

R. Urban, H. Moritani , R. A. Wolkow and J. L. Pitters, “Reactive gas ion beam generation using single atom W(111) gas field ion sources”, Microscopy and Microanalysis 22: 616-617, July 2016.

A. Urichuk and M. Walton, “Adjoint affine fusion and tadpoles”, Journal of Mathematical Physics 57(6): 061702 (16 pp.), June 2016.

V. R. R. Valivarthi, M. L. Grimau Puigibert, Q. Zhou, G. Aguilar, V. B. Verma, F. Marsili, M. D. Shaw, S. W. Nam, D. Oblak and W. Tittel, “Quantum teleportation

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across a metropolitan fibre network”, Nature Photonics 10: 676-680, September 2016.

L. Veissier, C. W. Thiel, T. Lutz, P. E. Barclay, W. Tittel and R. L. Cone, “Optical decoherence and spectral diffusion in an erbium-doped silica glass fiber featuring long-lived spin sublevels”, Physical Review B 94(19): 195138 (6 pp.), November 2016.

L. Veissier, C. W. Thiel, T. Lutz, P. E. Barclay, W. Tittel and R. L. Cone, “Quadratic Zeeman effect and spin-lattice relaxation of Tm3+:YAG at high magnetic fields”, Physical Review B 94(20): 205133 (9 pp.), November 2016.

W. Wang, H. Zhang, X. Wang, J. Patterson, P. Winter, K. Graham, S. Ghosh, J. C. Lee, C. D. Katsetos, J. Mackey, J. A. Tuszynski, G. K-S Wong and R. F. Ludueña, “Novel mutations involving βI-, βIIA-, or βIVB-tubulin isotypes with functional resemblance to βIII-tubulin in breast cancer”, Protoplasma 254(3): 1163-1173, December 2016.

S. Wein, K. Heshami, C. Fuchs, H. Krovi, Z. Dutton, W. Tittel and C. Simon, “Efficiency of an enhanced linear optical Bell-state measurement scheme with realistic imperfections”, Physical Review A 94(3): 032332 (13 pp.), September 2016.

D. White, D. Coombe, V. Rezania and J. A. Tuszynski, “Building a 3D virtual liver: Methods for simulating blood flow and hepatic clearance on 3D structures”, PLoS One 11(9): e0162215 (24 pp.), September 2016.

M. D. Wiens, Y. Shen, X. Li, M. A. Salem, N. Smisdom, W. Zhang, A. Brown and R. E. Campbell, “A tandem green-red heterodimeric fluorescent protein with high FRET efficiency”, ChemBioChem 17(24): 2361–2367, December 2016.

M. Wu, N. L.-Y. Wu, T. Firdous, F. F. Sani, J. E. Losby, M. R. Freeman and P. E. Barclay, “Nanocavity optomechanical torque magnetometry and RF susceptometry”, Nature Nanotechnology 12: 127-131, October 2016. (Featured in Globe and Mail).

F. Yang, A. Tashchilina, E. S. Moiseev, C. Simon and A. I. Lvovsky, “Far-field linear optical superresolution via heterodyne detection in a higher-order local oscillator mode”, Optica 3(10): 1148-1152, October 2016.

P. Ye, T. L. Hughes, J. Maciejko and E. Fradkin, “Composite particle theory of three-dimensional gapped fermionic phases: Fractional topological insulators and charge-loop excitation symmetry”, Physical Review B 94(11): 115104 (23 pp.), September 2016.

E. Zahedinejad, J. Ghosh and B. C. Sanders, “Designing high-fidelity single-shot three-qubit gates: A machine-learning approach”, Physical Review Applied 6(5): 054005 (18 pp.), November 2016.

N. Zerf, C.-H. Lin and J. Maciejko, “Superconducting quantum criticality of topological surface states at three loops”, Physical Review B 94(20): 205106 (17 pp.), November 2016. (Editors’ Suggestion).

W.-W. Zhang, S. K. Goyal, F. Gao, B. C. Sanders and C. Simon, “Creating cat states in one-dimensional quantum walks using delocalized initial states”, New Journal of Physics 18(9): 093025 (14 pp.), September 2016.

X.-H. Zhang, B. Blasiak, A. J. Marenco, S. Trudel, B. Tomanek and F. C. J. M. van Veggel, “Design and regulation of NaHoF4 and NaDyF4 nanoparticles for high-field magnetic resonance imaging”, Chemistry of Materials 28(9): 3060-3072, April 2016.

Y. Zhang, M. R. Poopari, X. Cai, A. Savin, Z. Dezhahang, J. Cheramy and Y. Xu, “IR and vibrational circular dichroism spectroscopy of matrine- and artemisinin-type herbal products: Stereochemical characterization and solvent effects”, Journal of Natural Products 79(4): 1012–1023, April 2016.

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A. de la Lande, F. Cailliez and D. R. Salahub, “Electron transfer reactions in enzymes: Seven things that might break down in vanilla Marcus theory and how to fix them if they do”, section in book: Simulating Enzyme Reactivity: Computational Methods in Enzyme Catalysis, I. Tunon, V. Moliner, eds., Chapter 4: pp. 89–149, published by Royal Society of Chemistry in 2016.

M. A. Salem, M. Gedik and A. Brown, “Two-photon absorption in biological molecules, section in Handbook of Computational Chemistry, J. Leszczynski, eds, pp.1–19, published by Springer in 2016.

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K. Deutsch, “Electronic and optical properties of functionalized silicon nanocrystals” (MSc Thesis), April 2016.

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A. Melnyk, “Fabrication of visible-range hollow waveguides” (MSc Thesis), December 2016.

N. H. Mithila, “On the determination of sparse Hessian matrices using multi-coloring” (MSc Thesis), December 2016.


INTELLECTUAL PROPERTYT. W. Clements, C. Sarsons, P. Lai, E. J. Prenner, B. Blasiak, B. Tomanek, K. D. Rinker and S. Trudel, “Maltol-coated magnetite nanoparticles, compositions and methods comprising same”, patent: US20170014534 A1, January 2017.

R. G. DeCorby, “Tapered waveguide coupler and spectrometer”, patent: CA2653710, March 2017.

S. M. Ibrahim Al-Rafia, T. C. Hauger, J. M. Buriak and A. Tevtia, “Synthesis of new small molecules/oligomers with high conductivity and absorption for optoelectronic application”, patent: US9444060 B2, September 2016.

S. Trudel and C. Berlinguette, “Electrocatalytic materi-als and methods for manufacturing same”, patent: US20160369410 A1, December 2016.

J. A. Tuszynski, J. Y. Mane, J. T. Huzil, B. Tomanek and D. Bartusik, “Colchicine derivatives, methods and uses thereof”, patent: US9458101 B2, October 2016.

J. A. Tuszynski, “Novel colchicine derivatives, methods and uses thereof”, PCT/CA2010/001199, June 2016.

J. Veinot, J. R. Rodriguez, P. Bianucci and A. Meldrum, “Method for depositing silicon nanocrystals in hollow fibers”, patent: US9452446 B2, September 2016.

B. Worfolk, Q. Chen and J. M. Buriak, “Methods for tailoring electrode work function using interfacial modifiers in organic electronics”, patent: US9431612 B2, August 2016.

R. L. Pavelich, “Calculation of bulk material electronic band structure using matrix mechanics: A pedagogical approach” (MSc Thesis), September 2016.

C. Potts, “Integrated devices for on-chip quantum optics” (MSc Thesis), December 2016.

M. A. Salem, “Computational study of two photon absorption in fluorescent protein chromophores” (PhD Thesis), August 2016.

I. Seidu, “Excited-state studies with the constricted Variational Density Functional Theory (CV-DFT) method” (PhD Thesis), April 2016.

N. Sinclair, “Optical quantum memory and signal processing using a rare-earth-ion-doped waveguide” (PhD Thesis), April 2016.

M. Sultana, “On the efficient determination of Hessain matrix sparsity structure – algorithm and data structures” (MSc Thesis), August 2016.

A. H. Suny, “Coloring and degeneracy for determining very large and sparse derivative matrices” (MSc Thesis), December 2016.

A. Tretiakov, “Versatile apparatus for ultracold atomic hybrid systems” (MSc Thesis), December 2016.

J. Wood, “Silicon dangling bond chains” (MSc Thesis), November 2016.

M. Wu, “Nanophotonic optomechanical devices for torque magnetometry” (PhD Thesis), November 2016.

F. Yang, “Far-field linear optical superresolution via heterodyne detection in a higher-order local oscillator mode” (MSc Thesis), August 2016.

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INVITED PRESENTATIONS AT WORKSHOPS/CONFERENCES29 Apr 2016, G. Gour, “On local multiplicativity of the Lp norms of a quantum channel”, Alberta Mathematics Dialogue 2016, Calgary, Canada, 28 Apr 2016–29 Apr 2016.

4 May 2016, D. R. Salahub, “deMon quo vadis?”, deMon Developer Workshop, Zhengzhou, People’s Republic of China, 4 May 2016–7 May 2016.

4 May 2016, J. G. C. Veinot, “Exploration of Si nanocrystal surface chemistry: Optical and electronic properties and so much more”, Spring European Materials Research Society Meeting 2016, Lille, France, 2 May 2016–6 May 2016.

13 May 2016, A. J. Mayer, D. Frekers, M. Wieser, R. I. Thompson and J. Dilling, “Gleaning the ßß decay half-life of 96Zr from billion year old zircons”, 17th Annual Meeting of the APS Northwest Section, Penticton, Canada, 12 May 2016–14 May 2016.

13 May 2016, W. Tittel, “Quantum networks: Merging quantum communication and computation”, Quantum Alberta Workshop 2016, Banff, Canada, 13 May 2016.

14 May 2016, L. J. LeBlanc, “Mimicking spin-orbit coupling in ultracold quantum gases”, American Physical Society Northwest Section Meeting, Penticton, Canada, 13 May 2016–14 May 2016.

23 May 2016, G. Gour, “Invariant polynomials in multipartite entanglement”, Multipartite Entanglement Workshop, Benasque, Spain, 22 May 2016–27 May 2016.

25 May 2016, F. Hegmann, “Nanoscale imaging with terahertz scanning tunneling microscopy”, International Symposium on Advanced Spectroscopy and Imaging with Nano-scale Resolution, 2016 Annual Meeting of the Spectroscopical Society of Japan, University of Osaka, Japan, 24 May 2016–26 May 2016.

26 May 2016, D. L. Feder, “The power of indistinguishable particles in quantum computation”, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics Long Term Workshop 2016: Quantum Information in String

Theory and Many-Body Systems Meeting, Kyoto, Japan, 23 May–24 Jun 2016.

1 Jun 2016, J. G. C. Veinot, “Adventure in Si nanocrystal surface chemistry … controlling optical properties and so much more”, 229th Electrochemical Society (ECS) Meeting, San Diego, United States of America, 29 May 2016–2 Jun 2016.

7 Jun 2016, J. G. C. Veinot, “Silicon Nanocrystals: An attractive non-toxic material for biological imaging … But we need to control and understand surface chemistry”, 99th Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition, Halifax, Canada, 5 Jun 2016–9 Jun 2016.

3 Jun 2016, M. Walton, “Adjoint affine fusion and tadpoles”, Doppler Institute-CRM Workshop on the Occasion of 80th Birthdays of Jiri Patera and Pavel Winternitz, Praque, Czech Republic, 30 May 2016–3 Jun 2016.

5 Jun 2016, D. R. Salahub, “Beyond structure – molybdenum carbide nanoparticles as catalysts for hydrogenation reactions - between clusters and the bulk”, Canadian Society for Chemistry Symposium in Memory of Tom Ziegler, Halifax, Canada, 5 Jun 2016–9 Jun 2016.

5 Jun 2016, D. R. Salahub, “Humic and fulvic substances - beyond structure – a ReaxFF study”, Canadian Society for Chemistry Symposium in Honour of Benoit Roux, Halifax, Canada, 5 Jun 2016–9 Jun 2016.

7 Jun 2016, S. Trudel, “Water oxidation catalysis: A new family of amorphous metal-oxide oxygen-evolution catalysts”, 99th Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition, Halifax, Canada, 5 Jun 2016–9 Jun 2016.

7 Jun 2016, M. Wu, N. L.-Y. Wu, T. Firdous, J. E. Losby, F. F. Sani, M. R. Freeman and P. E. Barclay, “Optomechanical torque magnetometry”, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO:2016), San Jose, United States of America, 6 Jun 2016–10 Jun 2016.

8 Jun 2016, F. Hegmann, “Nanoscale imaging with terahertz pulses” (tutorial talk), Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO 2016), San Jose, United States of America, 6 Jun 2016–10 Jun 2016

9 Jun 2016, P. G. Kusalik, “Molecular simulations of crystallization: Past, present and future” (keynote), Multiscale Modelling of Materials and Molecules 2016 (eSSENCE 2016), Uppsala, Sweden, 7 Jun 2016–9 Jun 2016.


13 Jun 2016, F. Hegmann, “Nanoscale imaging with ultrafast terahertz scanning tunneling microscopy” (Plenary), 7th International Conference on Optical, Optoelectronic and Photonic Materials and Applications (ICOOPMA 2016), Montreal, Canada, 12 Jun 2016–17 Jun 2016.

19 Jun 2016, D. R. Salahub, “Towards multiscale modeling of (bio)catalysis”, International Conference on the Theoretical Aspects of Catalysis (ICTAC), Zakopane, Poland, 9 Jun 2016–23 Jun 2016.

21 Jun 2016, Y. Shi, “Growth of crystalline metal carbides on the catalyst surface in hot wire chemical vapor deposition”, Collaborative Conference on 3D & Materials Research (CC3DMR) 2016, Seoul, South Korea, 24 Jun 2016–26 Jun 2016.

22 Jun 2016, B. C. Sanders, “Precise space-time positioning for entanglement harvesting”, Conference on Relativistic Quantum Information North (RQI-N2016), Waterloo, Canada, 21 Jun 2016–24 Jun 2016.

23 Jun 2016, A. Brown, “New phosphorescent materials: Insights from computational chemistry”, Collaborative Conference on 3D & Materials Research (CC3DMR) 2016, Seoul, South Korea, 24 Jun 2016–26 Jun 2016.

28 Jun 2016, F. Marsiglio, “Superconductivity in H2S and in other superconductors; many band or band of many?”, Superstripes 2016 Physics in Quantum Matter: Superconductivity, Magnetism and Ferroelectricity, Ischia, Italy, 23 Jun 2016–29 Jun 2016.

27 Jun 2016, A. E. Ulanov, I. A. Fedorov, D. Sychev, A. A. Pushkina, Y. Kurochkin, T. C. Ralph, P. Grangier and A. I. Lvovsky, “Two loss-tolerant protocols for quantum communications and metrology”, 23rd Central European Workshop on Quantum Optics (CEWQO’16), Kolymabari, Greece, 27 Jun 2016–1 Jul 2016.

30 Jun 2016, G. Gour, “The conditional uncertainty principle”, 3rd Seefeld Workshop on Quantum Information, Seefeld, Austria, 26 Jun 2016–1 Jul 2016.

30 Jun 2016, B. C. Sanders, “Accurate modelling of practical long-distance quantum and quantum key distribution through multiple entanglement-swapping stations”, Trustworthy Quantum Information 2016, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China, 27 Jun 2016–1 Jul 2016.

4 Jul 2016, A. Brown and E. Pradhan, “Ground and excited states of HFCO: Potential energy fitting

and quantum dynamics in MCTDH”, Twenty-first International Workshop on Quantum Systems in Chemistry, Physics, and Biology (QSCP-XXI), Vancouver, Canada, 2 Jul 2016–9 Jul 2016.

5 Jul 2016, D. R. Salahub, “Beyond structure – molybdenum carbide nanoparticles as catalysts for hydrogenation reactions – between clusters and the bulk”, CECAM Workshop on Structure Prediction of Nanoclusters from Global Optimization Techniques: Computational Strategies and Connection to Experiments, Pau, France, 5 Jul 2016–8 Jul 2016.

8 Jul 2016, G. Gour, “The conditional uncertainty principle”, The Life and Science of Jacob D. Bekenstein: A Celebration of His Life and Achievements in Science, Mitzpe Ramon, Israel, 3 Jul 2016–8 Jul 2016.

10 Jul 2016, D. R. Salahub, “Multiscale modeling of chemical reactions in complex environments”, CSTCC – Canadian Symposium on Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Regina, Canada, 10 Jul 2016–15 Jul 2016.

11 Jul 2016, A. E. Ulanov, I. A. Fedorov, A. A. Pushkina, D. Sychev, P. Grangier and A. I. Lvovsky, “Loss-tolerant N00N states and hybrid quantum teleportation”, 25th Annual International Laser Physics Workshop (LPHYS’16), Yerevan, Armenia, 11 Jul 2016–15 Jul 2016.

12 Jul 2016, J. Maciejko, “Nematic order in fractional quantum Hall liquids”, Workshop on Connecting Few-Body and Many-body Pictures of Fractional Quantum Hall Physics”, Cambridge, United States of America, 11 Jul 2016–13 Jul 2016.

18 Jul 2016, A. I. Lvovsky, “Hybrid quantum optical technologies for communications and metrology”, 6th International Conference Frontiers of Nonlinear Physics (FNP 2016), Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, 17 Jul 2016–23 Jul 2016.

19 Jul 2016, F. Hegmann, “Nanoscale imaging with terahertz scanning tunneling microscopy (THz-STM)”, OSA Advanced Photonics Congress 2016, Vancouver, Canada, 18 Jul 2016–20 Jul 2016.

21 Jul 2016, G. Gour, “Local additivity of minimum output entropies”, Beyond IID in Information Theory 4, Barcelona, Spain, 18 Jul 2016–22 Jul 2016.

21 Jul 2016, Y. Shi, “Development of laser ionization mass spectrometric methods and its application to the investigation of chemical vapor deposition chemistry”, The 2nd International Conference on

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Current Trends in Mass Spectrometry, Chicago, United States of America, 20 Jul 2016–22 Jul 2016.

3 Aug 2016, M. Wu, N. L.-Y. Wu, T. Firdous, J. E. Losby, F. F. Sani, M. R. Freeman and P. E. Barclay, “Optomechanical torque magnetometry”, International Conference on Optical MEMS and Nanophotonics (OMN 2016), Singapore, 31 Jul 2016–4 Aug 2016.

8 Aug 2016, B. C. Sanders, “Learning in quantum control: High-dimensional global optimization for noisy quantum dynamics”, Quantum Machine Learning Conference, Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Canada, 8 Aug 2016–12 Aug 2016.

19 Aug 2016, J. Maciejko, “Novel gapless Fermi systems in topological materials” (review talk), Conference on Quantum Criticality and Topology in Itinerant Electron Systems, Albuquerque, United States of America, 15 Aug 2016–19 Aug 2016.

24 Aug 2016, J. M. Buriak, “Neopatterning of semiconductor surfaces with self-assembling block copolymers: Polymers and plasmonics”, ACS Publications Symposium: Innovation in Molecular Science, Beijing, People’s Republic of China, 23 Oct 2016–25 Oct 2016.

24 Aug 2016, J. Maciejko, “Superconducting quantum criticality of Dirac fermions” Low Energy Challenges for High Energy Physicists II, Waterloo, Canada, 22 Aug 2016–26 Aug 2016.

6 Sep 2016, Y. J. Shi, “Study of decomposition of methyl-substituted silane molecules on hot metal surfaces and in the gas phase”, The 9th International Conference on Hot Wire (Cat) and Initiated Chemical Vapor Deposition (HWCVD 9), Philadelphia, United States of America, 6 Sep 2016–9 Sep 2016.

6 Sep 2016, R. A. Wolkow, “Building atom scale circuitry”, Trends in Nanotechnology International Conference (TNT2016), Fribourg, Switzerland, 5 Sep 2016–9 Sep 2016.

8 Sep 2016, J. G. C. Veinot, “Nanocrystal synthesis, surface chemistry, and applications”, European Physical Society: Condensed Matter Conference (CMD26), Groningen, the Netherlands, 4 Sep 2016–9 Sep 2016.

15 Sep 2016, F. Marsiglio, “Dynamic Hubbard model and superconductivity in H2S”, 11th International Conference on New Theories, Discoveries, Applications of Superconductors and Related Materials (Nes3SC-11), Bled, Slovenia, 11 Sep 2016–16 Sep 2016.

22 Sep 2016, R. A. Wolkow, “The role of multi-probe transport measurements in building atom scale circuitry”, International Workshop: Charge Transport at Surfaces and Nanostructures with Multi-probe, Jülich, Germany, 21 Sep 2016–23 Sep 2016.

27 Sep 2016, V. Jelic, “Ultrafast THz-STM of Si(111)-7×7 with atomic resolution”, 41st International Conference on Infrared, Millimeter and Terahertz Waves (IRMMW-THz 2016), Copenhagen, Denmark, 25 Sep 2016–30 Sep 2016.

3 Oct 2016, F. Hegmann, “Terahertz scanning tunneling microscopy: Past, present, and future”, The Seventh International Symposium on Terahertz Nanoscience (TeraNano 7), Porquerolles, France, 2 Oct. 20162–8 Oct 2016.

18 Oct 2016, D. R. Salahub, “Multiscale modeling of chemical reactions in complex environments”, Symposium in Honour of the 70th Birthday of Pavel Hobza, Prague, Czech Republic, 18 Oct 2016.

20 Oct 2016, R. Valivarthi, M. G. Puigibert, Q. Zhou, G. Aguilar, D. Oblak, V. Verma, F. Marsili, M. Shaw and S. W. Nam, “Quantum teleportation across the Calgary fibre network”, Frontier in Optics 2016, Rochester, United States of America, 17 Oct 2016–21 Oct 2016.

23 Oct 2016, A. I. Lvovsky, “Three ways to skin an optical Schrödinger cat”, Quantum Optics VIII, Maresias, Brazil, 23 Oct 2016–28 Oct 2016.

24 Oct 2016, J. M. Buriak, “Nanopatterning of semiconductor surfaces with self-assembling block copolymers: Polymers and plasmonics”, ACS Publications Symposium: Innovation in Molecular Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China, 23 Oct 2016–25 Oct 2016.

31 Oct 2016, J. M. Buriak, “The role(s) of interfaces in organic photovoltaics”, KAUST Research Conference 2016: Emerging Concepts and Materials in Solar Energy Conversion, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, 31 Oct 2016–2 Nov 2016.

10 Nov 2016, D. R. Salahub, “Multiscale modeling of chemical reactions in complex environments”, Symposium on Physical Chemistry for Energy and Medicine Research (American Chemical Society Southwest Regional Meeting), Galveston, United States of America, 10 Nov 2016–13 Nov 2016.

14 Nov 2016, B. C. Sanders, “Spacetime replication of continuous-variable quantum information”, Conference on Coherent States and their


Applications: A Contemporary Panorama, Marseille, France, 14 Nov 2016–18 Nov 2016.

3 Dec 2016, G. Gour, “Semidefinite programming and quantum resource theories”, 2016 CMS Winter Meeting, Niagara Falls, Canada, 2 Dec 2016–5 Dec 2016.

7 Dec 2016, J. M. Buriak, “Nanoscience lives here: Molecules, materials, & mechanisms” (plenary), Chemistry as Innovating Science (CHAINS) 2016, Veldhoven, the Netherlands, 6 Dec 2016–7 Dec 2016.

20 Dec 2016, B. C. Sanders, “Spacetime replication of continuous-variable quantum information”, The First International Conference on Topological Orders and Emergent Spacetime on Quantum Simulators, Fudan University, People’s Republic of China, 19 Dec 2016–23 Dec 2016.

5 Jan 2017, B. C. Sanders, “Multiphoton multichannel interferometry for quantum information processing”, 2017 Zhejiang University Workshop on Tensor Networks and Related Topics in Quantum Information Theory, Hangzhou, People’s Republic of China, 4 Jan 2017–7 Jan 2017.

11 Jan 2017, R. A. Wolkow, “Toward atom scale ultra-low power classical circuitry and quantum circuitry”, Workshop on Simulation and Modeling of Emerging Electronics, Hong Kong, People’s Republic of China, 11 Jun 2016–13 Jun 2016.

12 Jan 2017, F. Yang, A. Tashchilina, E. S. Moiseev, C. Simon and A. I. Lvovsky, “Super-resolution microscopy utilizing heterodyne detection”, The 47th Winter Colloquium on the Physics of Quantum Electronics (PQE 2017), Snowbird, United States of America, 8 Jan 2017–13 Jan 2017.

29 Jan 2017, D. R. Salahub, “Towards multiscale modeling of chemical reactions in complex environments – overview of the Salahub lab activities”, 8th Kananaskis Symposium on Molecular Simulation, Kananaskis, Canada, 29 Jan 2017–31 Jan 2017.

2 Feb 2017, W. Tittel,”Rare-earth-doped crystals for quantum communications: How to store, and detect, a photon”, SPIE Photonics West, San Francisco, United States of America, 28 Jan 2017–2 Feb 2017.

5 Feb 2017, F. Hegmann, “Advances in terahertz scanning probe microscopy”, Third International Workshop on Terahertz Technology (IWOTT 2017), Salt Lake City, United States of America, 3 Feb 2017–6 Feb 2017.

21 Feb 2017, P. E. Barclay, “Nanophotonic optomechanical devices: Towards coupling photons, phonons and spins”, Spin Mechanics 4, Fairmont Château Lake Louise, Canada, 20 Feb 2017–25 Feb 2017.

23 Feb 2017, J. P. Davis, “Cavity-optomechanical torque sensors”, Spin Mechanics 4, Banff, Canada, 20 Feb 2017–25 Feb 2017.

7 Mar 2017, D. R. Salahub, “Beyond structure – molybdenum carbide nanoparticles as catalysts for hydrogenation reactions – between clusters and the bulk”, Intel Symposium on High-Performance Computing, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China, 7 Mar 2017.

18 Mar 2017, B. C. Sanders, “Machine learning for hard quantum control”, 12ème Colloque National de Recherche en Physique, Hammanet, Tunisie, 18 Mar 2017–21 Mar 2017.

21 Mar 2017, J. Maciejko, “Superconducting quantum criticality on the surface of 3D Tis”, Conference on Topological States of Matter”, Natal, Brazil, 21 Mar 2017–28 Mar 2017.

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COLLABORATIONSINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONSAarhus University, Denmark Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg, GermanyArgonne National Laboratory, United States of AmericaBahcesehir University, Turkey Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, People’s Republic of ChinaBenha University, Egypt Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, IsraelCalifornia Institute of Technology, United States of America Charles University, Czech RepublicChinese Academy of Science’s Institute of Geology and Geophysics, People’s Republic of ChinaChinese Academy of Science’s Institute for Coal Research, People’s Republic of ChinaChinese University of Hong Kong, People’s Republic of China Clarkson University, United States of AmericaCzech Academy of Sciences, Czech RepublicCzech Technical University, Czech Republic Durham University, United Kingdom École Polytechnique Fedérale de Lausanne, Switzerland European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), SwitzerlandFudan University, People’s Republic of ChinaHarvard University, United States of America

Indian Institute of Science Education and Research – Mohali, IndiaIndian Instiute of Tehcnology – Guwahati, IndiaInstitute of Science and Technology AustriaInstitute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Tehran, IranInstitut Charles Gerhardt (CNRS), FranceInstitut d’Optique, France Istituto di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie (IFN-CNR), ItalyIstituto Italiano di Tecnologia, ItalyJacobs University, Germany Jilin University, People’s Republic of ChinaKoç University, TurkeyKTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Kuwait University, KuwaitKyoto University, Japan Laboratoire de Chimie Physique (CNRS), FranceMarquette University, United States of AmericaMassachusetts Institute of Technology, United States of America Max Planck Institute for Structure and Dynamics of Matter, GermanyMax Planck Institute for Solid State Physics, GermanyMontana State University, United States of America Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia Nagoya University, JapanNational Institutes of Health, United States of America National Institute for Standards and Technology, United States of America National University of Defense Technology, People’s Republic of ChinaNational University of Sciences and Technology, PakistanOswaldo Cruz Institute, BrazilP. N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia Politecnico di Milano, Italy Princeton University, United States of AmericaPublic Authority for Applied Education and Training, KuwaitPurdue University, United States of America Ruprecht-Karls-Universität, GermanyShanghai Jiao Tong University, People’s Republic of China Southern Illinois University, United States of AmericaStanford University, United States of AmericaStockholm University, Sweden Swansea University, United Kingdom Szeged University, HungaryTechnical University of Denmark, DenmarkTechnische Universität München, Germany The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel The Russian Quantum Center, Russia

LINKAGE


Tuffs University, United States of AmericaTyndall National Institute, IrelandUniversität Göttingen, Germany Universität Heidelberg, Germany Universität Regensburg, Germany Université de Pau et des Pays de I’Adour, FranceUniversité Catholique de Louvain, BelgiumUniversidade Estadual de Maringá, Brazil Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Brazil Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, BrazilUniversidade Federal de Sergipe, BrazilUniversidad de Valparaiso, ChileUniversitá della Calabria, ItalyUniversitá di Pisa, ItalyUniversity of Adelaide, Australia University of Alabama, United States of AmericaUniversity of Borås, SwedenUniversity College Dublin, IrelandUniversity of California at Berkeley, United States of AmericaUniversity of California at Davis, United States of AmericaUniversity of California at San Diego, United States of AmericaUniversity of Electronic Science and Technology, People’s Republic of ChinaUniversity of Havana, CubaUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States of AmericaUniversity of Manchester, United KingdomUniversity of Liverpool, United Kingdom University of Leipzig, GermanyUniversity of Manchester, United KingdomUniversity of Miami, United States of AmericaUniversity of Michigan, United States of AmericaUniversity of Minas Gerais, BrazilUniversity of New South Wales, AustraliaUniversity of Notre Dame, United States of AmericaUniversity of Oxford, United KingdomUniversity of Queensland, AustraliaUniversity of Science and Technology of China, People’s Republic of ChinaUniversity of South Australia, AustraliaUniversity of Tabriz, IranUniversity of Texas at Austin, United States of AmericaUniversity of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio, United States of AmericaUniversity of Tokyo, JapanUniversity of Wisconsin at Madison, United States of America University of Wisconsin at Millwaukee, United States of AmericaUniversity of York, United Kingdom Warsaw University of Technology, Poland

Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel Worcester Polytechnic Institute, United States of America Zhejiang University, People’s Republic of China

NATIONAL INSTITUTIONSCanadian Institute for Advanced Research Concordia University of EdmontonMcGill UniversityMcMaster University National Institute for NanotechnologyNational Research Council of Canada, Ottawa Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics Queen’s UniversityTrent University TRIUMF University of British ColumbiaUniversity of MontrealUniversity of Northern British ColumbiaUniversity of SaskatchewanUniversity of Toronto University of VictoriaUniversity of Waterloo University of WinnipegYork University

INDUSTRIAL & GOVERNMENTBBN Raytheon Technologies Boreal LaserKLA-TencorMass General HospitalNASA Jet Propulsion LaboratorySandia National Labs

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VISITORSNAME INSTITUTION

Antoine Aerts Université libre de Bruxelles

Hessa Alotaibi Public Authority for Applied Education and Training, Kuwait

Gustavo Amaral Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro

Mohammad Amin D-Wave Systems

Simon Apers Ghent University

Andrew Cameron University of Prince Edward Island

Li Chen Hefei University of Technology

Paul Corkum University of Ottawa

Dan Dalacu National Research Council of Canada

Timothy Duty University of New South Wales

Matthew Fisher University of California at Santa Barbara

Greg Gabrenya D-Wave Systems

Mercedes Gimeno-Segovia

University of Bristol

Eduardo Guendelman Ben Gurion University

Yu Guo Shanxi Datong University

Lizandra Barrios Herrera Instituto Superior de Tecnologias y Ciencias Aplicadas, Cuba

Loïc Herviou École Polytechnique

Garrett Hickman University of Maryland

Jeremy Hilton D-Wave Systems

Jorge Eduardo Kirsch University of California at San Diego

Scott Hopkins University of Waterloo

Said Jalife Jacobo Centro de investigacion y de estudios avanzados (Cinvestav)

David Jennings Imperial College London

Ebrahim Karimi University of Ottawa

Andew King D-Wave Systems

Junko Kiriyama-Taniguichi

University of Electro-Communications, Japan

Harish Kugel University of British Columbia

Gabor Kunstatter University of Winnipeg

NAME INSTITUTION

Marco Lepre Politecnico de Torino

Arturo Lezama Universidad de la República, Uruguay

Xiaohong Li Henan University of Science and Technology

Guilhem Madiot Université Paris-Sud

Barun Majumder Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar

Josh Mutus Google

Matthew Posner University of Southampton

Liang Qiu China University of Mining and Technology

Dongxiao Quan Xidian University

Arun Rajendran Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

Mark Saffman University of Wisconsin at Madison

Yuval Sanders Macquarie University

Rishabh Skukla Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati

Alp Sipahigil Harvard University

Michail Skoteiniotis Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Hennie Snyman Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University

Wanjun Su Fuzhou University

Xinxin Tang University of Science and Technology of China

Hailin Wang University of Oregon

John Washington Concordia University of Edmonton

Nathan Wiebe Microsoft Research

Colin Williams D-Wave Systems

Haider Zia University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

Haimin Zheng China University of Petroleum

http://www.ubc.ca


COURSE NAME INSTRUCTOR DESCRIPTION

UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTAECE770 Optics for Microsystems

R. G. DeCorby Fundamental aspects of the physics of light: waves, beams and polarization, optical materials and interfaces, coherence and interference. Interferometers, resonant cavities, multilayers and interference filters. Reflective, refractive, and diffractive micro-optics: micro-mirrors and micro-lenses. Guided-wave optics: dielectric waveguides and components. Advanced topics and applications: micro-optics in lab-on-a-chip and micro-electromechanical systems, photonic crystals, plasmonics and metamaterials.

PHYS541 Condensed Matter Physics I

J. Maciejko Crystal structure and symmetries; electrons and band structure; semiconductors and heterostructures; lattice vibrations and thermal properties

CHEM544/444 Characterization Methods in Nanoscience

J. G. Veinot Introduction to techniques in determining the composition and structure of materials on the nanometer scale. Characterization of atomic, meso-, and microstructure of materials including impurities and defects. Major topics will include electron microscopy (transmission, scanning, and Auger) and associated spectroscopies (EDX, EELS), surface sensitive spectroscopies (e.g., XPS, AES, IR) and spectrometry (SIMS), synchrotron techniques, X-ray absorption, fluorescence and emission, and scanned probe microscopies (AFM, STM, etc.). The techniques will be examined through real-world nanotechnology case studies.

PHYS595/495 Physical Principles Nanotechnology

R. Wolkow A broad range of topics will be studied in order gain an understanding of the principles and tools that we can deploy to create revolutionary nanotechnologies. Simultaneously, we will consider the state of the art of some current technologies in order to appreciate what might constitute a viable and lucrative new technology. No textbook is assigned. Lessons and readings are pulled from diverse and often primary sources. Truly state of the art methods and results will be covered in numerous of the areas examined.

GRADUATE COURSES

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COURSE NAME INSTRUCTOR DESCRIPTION

UNIVERSITY OF CALGARYCHEM689 Molecular Driving Forces

P. G. Kusalik In this introduction to statistical mechanics we will explore the basis from which to understand molecular driving forces. We will also examine how this formalism is applied within computer simulations of liquids, solids and solutions. The emphasis will be on physical models and interpretations, with applications to systems of chemical and biochemical interest. Selected topics from the recent literature will also be included. We will closely follow the required text, Molecular Driving Forces by Dill and Bromberg

CHEM689 Modeling Multiscale Systems

D. R. Salahub The course will build on a basic knowledge of classical and quantum mechanics to explore modern methods of simulating complex systems in chemistry, physics, biology and materials science. The student will acquire an understanding of the main approaches in quantum chemistry, molecular dynamics and the kinetics of coupled systems of chemical equations (e.g. the Kinetic Monte Carlo method). Hands-on experience with some of the techniques will be obtained and the student will be able to taylor the applications to his or her areas of interest, for example, heterogeneous, homogeneous or enzymatic catalysis, genetic regulatory networks, integrated nano-systems, etc.

PHYS507 Solid State Physics

P. E. Barlcay Crystal structure. Classification of solids and their bonding. Fermi surface. Elastic, electric and magnetic properties of solids.

PHYS615 Advanced Quantum Mechanics

D. Feder Formalism of quantum mechanics. Entangled systems and their applications. Quantum nonlocality, Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox, Bell theorem. Interpretations of quantum mechanics. Second quantization. Quantum theory of the electromagnetic field. Addition of angular momenta, Clebsch-Gordan coefficients, Wigner-Eckart theorem.

PHYS543 Quantum Mechanics II

N. Moazzen-Ahmadi

Theory of angular momentum and applications, perturbation theory and applications. Identical particles. Introduction to relativistic wave equations.

PHYS677 Implementations of Quantum Information

B. C. Sanders Proposals and realizations of quantum information tasks including quantum computation, quantum communication, and quantum cryptography in optical, atomic, molecular, and solid-state systems.

UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGEPHYS5300 Theoretical Physics I

S. Das & M. Walton (instructor of two modules)

Advanced topics in theoretical physics relevant to current research.

PHYS7300 Theoretical Physics I

S. Das (instructor of one module)

Advanced topics in theoretical physics relevant to current research.


CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPSMEMBERS COMMITTEE CONFERENCE/WORKSHOP LOCATION DATES

A. Brown Chair, Physical, Theoretical, and Computational Chemistry Program

101st Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition

Edmonton, Canada

27–31 May 2018

J. Buriak Organizer ACS Publications Symposium: Innovations in Molecular Science

Beijing, People’s Republic of China

23–25 Oct 2016

J. Maciejko Co-organizer Workshop on Geometrical Degrees of Freedom in Topological Phases

Banff, Canada 21–26 Aug 2016

A. Meldrum Co-organizer 2016 Annual Meeting of the Microscopical Society of Canada

Edmonton, Canada

7–10 Jun 2016

PROFESSIONAL SERVICESNAME ROLE JOURNAL/SOIECTY/INSTITUTION

P. E. Barclay Chair, Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics

Canadian Association of Physicists

P. E. Barclay Associate Editor Optics Express

A. Brown Secretary-Treasurer Canadian Association of Theoretical Chemists

J. Buriak Member, Editorial Board ACS Nano

J. Buriak Member, Editorial Board Advanced Materials

J. Buriak Editor-in-Chief Chemistry of Materials

S. Das Member, Editorial Board Heliyon Journal

S. Das Member, Editorial Board Journal of Fundamental and Applied Sciences

SERVICES AND OUTREACH

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NAME ROLE JOURNAL/SOIECTY/INSTITUTION

S.Hossain Secretary Canadian Operations Research Society Calgary Chapter

P. G. Kusalik Chair, Chemistry/Biochemistry Resource Allocation Committee

Compute Canada

L. LeBlanc Secretary, Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics


A. I. Lvovsky Member, International Advisory Board Journal of Physics B

A. I. Lvovsky Member, NSERC Strategic Partnership Grants for Projects, Information and Communication Selection Panel

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada

A. I. Lvovsky Deputy Editor Optics Express

A. Meldrum Member, Advisory Board Biomimicry Alberta

A. Meldrum Co-Editor Journal of Sensors (Special Issue)

A. Meldrum Reviewer Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada

K. Michaelian Chair, Division of Instrumentation and Measurement Physics


S. Noskov Associate Editor BBA-Biomembranes

S. Noskov Associate Editor BMC Pharmacology and Toxicology

S. Noskov Volume Editor Current Topics in Membrane Science

S. Noskov Member, Editorial Board European Journal of Biophysics

S. Noskov Review Editor Frontiers in Pharmacology

S. Noskov Member, ANTON Allocation Committee National Academy of Sciences (NAS-USA)

D. R. Salahub Member, Editorial Board Advances in Physical Chemistry

D. R. Salahub Member, Editorial Board Advances in Quantum Chemistry

D. R. Salahub Member, Editorial Board Computation

D. R. Salahub Vice Chair, Editorial Board Interdisciplinary Science: Computational Life Sciences

D. R. Salahub Member, Editorial Board Journal of Computational Chemistry

D. R. Salahub Member, Academic Editorial Board PLOS-One

B. C. Sanders Member, Editorial Board IOP eBooksTM

B. C. Sanders Chair, Steering Committee Quantum Africa Conference Series

B. C. Sanders Editor-in-Chief New Journal of Physics

Y. J. Shi Associate Editor Canadian Journal of Chemistry

R. I. Thompson Director, Student Affairs Canadian Association of Physicists

R. I. Thompson Member, Editorial Board Physics in Canada

R. I. Thompson University of Calgary Representative, Board of Management

TRIUMF National Laboratory

R. I. Thompson General Faculties Council, Board of Governors

University of Calgary

R. I. Thompson Chair, Graduate College Steering Committee University of Calgary

W. Tittel Member, Editorial Board Quantum Science and Technology


NAME ROLE JOURNAL/SOIECTY/INSTITUTION

S. Trudel Chair, Materials Chemistry Division Chemical Institute of Canada

J. G. Veinot Associate Editor Canadian Journal of Chemistry

J. G. Veinot Research Ambassador DAAD Akademischer Austausch Dienst

J. G. Veinot Ambassador Technische Universität München

QUANTUM PUBLIC LECTUREThe Quantum Public Lectures serve to convey leading breakthroughs in quantum science and technology to the general public. The public appetite is indeed high for learning the latest advances in the quantum world. Professor Paul Corkum from University of Ottawa delivered a public lecture titled “A molecule takes a selfie while creating the world’s shortest light pulses” to about 200 persons on 24 November 2016, and this event was supported by the Faculty of Science Alumni Relations team as a joint outreach effort. The lecture was broadcast by interactive video to the University of Lethbridge. This public lecture is Quantum Alberta’s main province-wide outreach activity.

OUTREACH LECTURES10 May 2016, D. R. Salahub, “50 years of trying to understand natural and life sciences – learning from giants”, Faculty of Science, Henan University of Technology, People’s Republic of China (lecture to 250 undergraduate).

23 Aug 2016, B. C. Sanders, “Building a quantum computer”, Russian Quantum Center Summer School 2016, Moscow, Russia, 22 Aug 2016–27 Aug 2016.

19 Nov 2016, P. E. Barclay, “From engineering to physics: adventures in STEM,” Ignite 2016: Science Expo Alberta Conference, Calgary.

24 Nov 2016, P. E. Barclay, “Quantum technology for fun, profit, and discovery,” Wild Rose Brewery Nerd Nite Calgary.

7 Feb 2017, D. R. Salahub, “Computational chemistry at work in the oil sands”, Sir Winston Churchill High School (Chemistry Club), Calgary.

16 Feb 2017, D. Oblak, R. Valivarthi, Q. Zhou, M. Grimau Puigibert, G. H. Aguilar and W. Tittel, “Quantum teleportation - What it is, what it’s not, and what it’s good for!”, Calgary Nerdnite Psi, Calgary, Canada.

21 Feb 2017, W. Tittel, “Well connected”, PetchaKucha Night, Calgary, Canada.

25 Mar 2017, N. Sinclair, “Quantum technology- putting the weird to work”, University of Calgary, Rothney Astrophysical Observatory (public lecture).

29 Mar 2017, D. R. Salahub, “50 years of trying to understand natural and life sciences – learning from giants”, Henan University of Technology, People’s Republic of China (lecture to 250 graduate students).

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MEDIA COVERAGE

SOURCE TITLE OF ARTICLE DATE

Maclean’s Trudeau versus the experts: Quantum computing in 35 seconds: Barry C. Sanders

19 Apr 2016

CBC News The debate over preserving Calgary’s architectural heritage: Barry C. Sanders

15 May 2016

Physicsworld.com

The June 2016 issue of Physics World is now out: Barry C. Sanders 1 Jun 2016

Eureka Alert Russian physicists create a high-precision “quantum ruler”: Alex Lvovsky 23 Jun 2016

Science Daily Physicists create a high-precision “quantum ruler”: Alex Lvovsky 23 Jun 2016

TASS.com Russian physicists create highly precise “quantum ruler”: Alex Lvovsky 23 Jun 2016

UToday Physicist exploring new ways to think about science and how to teach it: Barry C. Sanders

8 Jul 2016

Lenta.ru Environmentalists described the quantum tunnels in the human brain: Christoph Simon, Paul Barclay

19 Jul 2016

→→→ →→→→→→→ Scientists spoke about the quantum tunnels in the human brain: Christoph Simon, Paul Barclay

20 Jul 2016

Capital TV Dr. Barry Sanders’ public lecture on Dr. Abdus Salam: Barry C. Sanders 30 Jul 2016

Daily Jehan-e-Pakistan

Habib University hosts Dr. Barry Sanders’ public lecture: Barry C. Sanders 30 Jul 2016

Daily Ausaf Habib University hosts Dr. Barry Sanders’ public lecture: Barry C. Sanders 30 Jul 2016

Daily Jang Habib University hosts four-day quantum information summer school: Barry C. Sanders

30 Jul 2016

Newa-e-Waqt Habib University hosts four-day quantum information summer school: Barry C. Sanders

30 Jul 2016

Pakistanblogs.com

Habib University hosts QISS, aims for development of a national collaboration in Pakistan: Barry C. Sanders

30 Jul 2016

thenews.com.pk Physicists laud Dr. Abdus Salam’s contributions: Barry C. Sanders 31 Jul 2016

Pakobserver.net Habib University hosts Summer School: Barry C. Sanders 5 Aug 2016

pstimes.com Habib University hosts QISS, aims for development of a national collaboration in Pakistan: Barry C. Sanders

5 Aug 2016

CTV Canadian researchers lead the way towards unhackable internet communication: Wolfgang Tittel

19 Sep 2016

Mail on Sunday Quantum teleportation breakthrough as scientists send data across cities – and it could lead to UNBREAKABLE encryption for computer networks: Wolfgang Tittel

19 Sep 2016

BBC Teleportation step toward quantum internet: Wolfgang Tittel 20 Sep 2016

Calgary Herald University of Calgary manages to teleport photons, paving way for quantum Internet: Wolfgang Tittel

20 Sep 2016


Calgary Sun How Calgary researchers solved a quantum conundrum using city hall and a photon: Wolfgang Tittel

20 Sep 2016

CBC Calgary Teleportation across Calgary marks “major step” toward creation of “quantum internet”: Wolfgang Tittel

20 Sep 2016

Metronews.ca U of C researcher teleports photons across Calgary: Wolfgang Tittel 20 Sep 2016

Motherboard Scientists set a new distance record for quantum teleportation: Wolfgang Tittel

20 Sep 2016

The Christian Science Monitor

Could quantum teleportation help ensure online privacy?: Wolfgang Tittel 20 Sep 2016

UToday Beam me up Scotty! Researchers teleport particle of light six kilometres: Wolfgang Tittel

20 Sep 2016

UToday University of Calgary physicists create nano-sized device with huge potential in field of quantum computing: Paul Barclay

20 Sep 2016

CBC Homestretch

Calgary Jenny Howe gets to the bottom of teleportation: Wolfgang Tittel 21 Sep 2016

Global TV Why teleportation could one day be a reality: Wolfgang Tittel 22 Sep 2016

The Loop Moving around of information: Wolfgang Tittel 22 Sep 2016

CBC Radio: Quirks and Quarks

Quantum teleportation: Wolfgang Tittel 24 Sep 2016

Matter News Quantum teleportation: It’s being in two places at once. Really: Wolfgang Tittel

24 Sep 2016

CIFAR New distance record for quantum teleportation: Wolfgang Tittel 7 Oct 2016

UofA Faculty of Science News

Less is more when it comes to atomic-scale manufacturing: Robert Wolkow 28 Oct 2016

UToday 2016 Killam Scholars and award winners celebrated at annual reception: Barry C. Sanders

28 Oct 2016

The Globe and Mail

Tiny Alberta-made sensor may open door to hand-held drug tests: Paul Barclay, Mark Freeman

31 Oct 2016

UToday PhD grad aims to take the mystery out of quantum science: Neil Sinclair, Wolfgang Tittel, Barry C. Sanders

14 Nov 2016

National Post Does the mind use fibre optics? Calgary team floats “out-there” theory of light communication in the brain: Christoph Simon

20 Nov 2016

Calgary Herald Does the mind use fibre optics? Calgary team floats “out-there” theory of light communication in the brain: Christoph Simon

21 Nov 2016

Newstlak770 Fibre optics and the brain: Christoph Simon 21 Nov 2016

UToday A molecule takes a selfie: Paul Corkum 24 Nov 2016

Youtube: SciHerald

Brain optics, THz identification of cancer DNA, and “hairy” black holes: Christoph Simon, Paul Barclay, Sourabh Kumar

1 Dec 2016

The Wall Street Journal

After 1,000 year slumber, China vows to invent again: Barry. C. Sanders 6 Dec 2016

UToday Researchers explore the possibility of a “fibre optic network” in the brain: Christoph Simon

7 Dec 2016

The Globe and Mail

Canadians solve key puzzle for future of encryption: Wolfgang Tittel 20 Dec 2016

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UToday Top research stories of 2016: Teleportation, bear attacks, and an app for people with celiac disease: Wolfgang Tittel

23 Dec 2016


Physicists solve decades-old scientific mystery: Robert Wolkow 5 Jan 2017


What’s cooler than being cool?: Lindsay LeBlanc 25 Jan 2017

UToday International research team shines light on mystery of antimatter: Rob Thompson, Andrew Evans

3 Feb 2017

UToday UCalgary researchers awarded NSERC Strategic Partnership Grants for high-priority impacts: Paul Barclay

15 Feb 2017

Nanowerk New window into the nanoworld: Frank Hegmann 21 Feb 2017

Phys.Org Scientists combine the ultra-fast with the ultra-small to pioneer microscopy at terahertz frequencies: Frank Hegmann

21 Feb 2017

Science Daily New window into the nanoworld: Frank Hegmann 21 Feb 2017

ChemEurope.com

New window into the nanoworld: Frank Hegmann 22 Feb 2017

Space Daily Combining the ultrafast with the ultrasmall: Frank Hegmann 22 Feb 2017

Physicsworld.com

Block copolymers form moiré superstructures: Jillian Buriak 17 Mar 2017

ScienceNews Millions of atoms entangled in record-breaking quantum tests: Christoph Simon, Wolfgang Tittel

27 Mar 2017

UToday Project expands research collaborations in Pan-Africa, Pakistan and Peru: Barry. C. Sanders

29 Mar 2017


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Compute Canada [5.71%]

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Canadian Institute for Advanced Research [1.39%]

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PAUL BARCLAY � Demonstrate optomechanically induced

transparency in a diamond device.

� Demonstration of optomechanical control of diamond spins.

� Evaluation of the possibility of observing room temperature quantum effects in diamond optomechanical devices.

� Demonstration of doubly resonant photon down-conversion from 780 nm band to the 1550nm band using a microcavity.

� Implant and characterize spectral properties of SiV defects in diamond chips.

� Together with Freeman and other NINT researchers, enhance sensitivity of silicon photonics nanocavity torque magnetometer technology.

� Publish proposal for detecting optical angular momentum states of light using optomechanical devices.

JOHN BEAMISH � Characterize and compare mass transport in

Fermi and Bose quantum solids (3He and 4He).

� Measure the mobility of impurity atoms in quantum solids with spin (bcc and hcp 3He).

� Apply acoustic emission and high-speed stress measurements to understand the microscopic nature of plastic flow in solid helium, particularly the dislocation avalanches that occur at temperatures below 0.5 K.

� Measure the low-temperature behaviour (dielectric and piezoelectric constants, creep and hysteresis) of technological materials used for cryogenic positioning in scanning tunnelling microscopy and other applications.

ROBERT BENKOCZI & DAYA GAUR � Simulate adiabatic quantum computations.

ALEX BROWN � Explore one- and two-photon absorption

in fluorescent proteins and small molecule biofluorophores.

� Investigate environmental effects (hydrogen-bonding/base-stacking) on two-photon absorption.

� Develop software for spectral simulations and surface hopping dynamics.

� Examine phosphorescence in tellurophenes/development of new phosphorescent molecules.

� Conduct computational study of nuclear magnetic resonance for new materials.

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JILLIAN BURIAK � Understand the driving force behind self-

assembled Moiré nanopatterns on silicon.

� Develop new earth-abundant nanomaterials for solar energy conversion.

� Determine mechanism of new silicon-chalcogenide linkages on silicon for molecular electronics.

� Capture a ‘snapshot’ of the electric field of plasmonic nanostructures through surface chemistry.

SAURYA DAS � Implement minimum measurable length in a

Lorentz covariant way in quantum mechanics and quantum field theory.

� Re-examine Higgs mechanism in general relativity and study its implications for quantum gravity.

� Study the role of adiabatic quantum computation in quantum computers, in collaboration with QA-Lethbridge computer scientists.

JOHN P. DAVIS � Achieve quantum ground state occupation of

nanomechanical resonators.

� Explore microwave to optical conversion using a variety of systems.

� Demonstrate superfluid microwave cavity optomechanical resonators.

� Prepare superfluid 3He for the first time in decades in Canada.

RAY DECORBY � Refine our processes for on-chip open-

access microcavity arrays, with the goal of demonstrating high-cooperativity operation in various wavelength regions relevant to cavity QED.

� Develop processes for locating ‘atomic’ emitters (both gas-phase and solid-state) into our microcavity platform.

� Develop processes for integrating optomechanical elements and microwave circuitry with our on-chip optical microcavities.

DAVID FEDER � Explore how to perform universal measurement-

based quantum computation with symmetry protected many-body states.

� Understand the violation of entanglement area laws in fermionic matter.

� Attempt to construct universal resources for measurement-based quantum computation with interacting fermionic particles on lattices.

� Explore novel phases for ultracold atoms confined in optical cavities and optical lattices.

MARK FREEMAN � Perform mechanical measurement of spin-lattice

relaxation via torque-mixing magnetic resonance spectroscopy.

� Continue developing a suite of quantum optics experiments for senior undergraduate and beginning graduate experimental physics laboratory.

GILAD GOUR � Determine necessary and sufficient conditions

for converting one state to another under symmetric operations.

� Derive necessary and sufficient conditions for converting an incoherent athermal state to an athermal state with coherence in the energy basis.

� Find an explicit example for non-additivity of the Holevo capacity of a quantum channel.

� Generalize the uncertainty principle from a lone system to a system entangled with quantum memory with applications to quantum cryptography.

FRANK HEGMANN � Perform ultrafast terahertz scanning tunneling

microscopy (THz-STM) on single silicon nanocrystals and single molecules.

� Explore potential for driving nanomechanical oscillators with intense THz pulses.

� Explore ultrafast dynamics of quantum wave functions in a single quantum dot.


SHAHADAT HOSSAIN � Formulate sparsity detection problem for sparse

Jacobian matrices using statistical machine learning.

� Determine computational complexity for matrix colouring heuristics.

� Develop computational methods for high-performance sparse linear algebra required in nonlinear optimization and solving system of nonlinear equations with special structures such as symmetry (matrix) and super-symmetry (3D tensors).

PETER HØYER � Develop algorithms for generalized quantum

walks systems.

� Determine necessary and sufficient conditions for speed up of generalized quantum walks.

WOLFGANG JÄGER � Utilize helium nanodroplets as a quantum solvent

to study chemical reactions at low temperatures.

� Develop pulse sequences to manipulate energy level populations of isolated molecules in the microwave region.

� Explore the specific roles of hydrogen bonding in atmospheric processes involved in the formation of aerosol particles using time-domain spectroscopy and quantum chemical calculations.

� Perform photo-reaction chamber experiments to study ageing of atmospheric soot nano-particles.

� Develop a quantum-cascade-laser-based atmospheric trace gas sensor for deployment on a high-altitude balloon.

PETER KUSALIK � Develop and test an effective interaction potential

for OH radical in water that faithfully reproduces the structural features observed from ab initio simulations.

� Explore the behaviour of OH radical at the surfaces of water and ice.

� Determine the stability and reactivity of hemi-bonded complexes of OH radical with Cl- or Br- anions.

� Develop and test empirical and coarse-grain potential models appropriate for simulations studies of self-assemble processes in Zn/carboxylate MOFs.

� Determine the key factors impacting the nucleation process of gas clathrate hydrates from gas mixtures of varying compositions.

� Examine in influences of surfaces on the nucleation of gas hydrates from water-in-oil emulations, in complimentary simulations and experimental studies.

LINDSAY LEBLANC � Complete construction and commissioning of

“hybrid quantum systems” apparatus.

� Perform optical transport of ultracold Rb atoms over large (30 cm) distances.

� Integrate cold atoms with on-chip electronic and optical devices.

� Perform experiments in quantum memory with ultracold rubidium atoms.

� Perform experiments with artificial spin-orbit coupling to probe many-body physics with ultracold rubidium atoms.

� Produce ultracold samples of 39K atoms.

ALEX LVOVSKY � Build an entangled state between a Schrödinger

cat and the polarization of a single photon.

� Obtain superresolution with pairs of point objects that are separated by a few tens of nm.

� Demonstrate complete reconstruction of an image with sub-diffraction resolution.

JOSEPH MACIEJKO � Understand novel dualities of Majorana fermions

and use them to discover novel universality classes of quantum phase transitions.

� Construct exactly soluble models of interacting Majorana fermions on the lattice.

� Demonstrate theoretically the possibility of a fractional quantum Hall nematic phase in systems of Rydberg atoms.

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FRANK MARSIGLIO � Study superconductivity in H3S.

� Reduce Kronig-Penney models to tight-binding.

� Characterize superconductivity in the Dynamic Hubbard model in the presence of spin-orbit coupling.

� Investigate inhomogeneous superconductivity near surfaces with spin-orbit coupling.

AL MELDRUM � Demonstrate microscale lasing sensors.

� Show the best detection limits for lasing micro-sensor devices.

� Create a white microlaser (a white-light laser smaller than a hair).

KIRK MICHAELIAN � Develop instrumentation and signal recovery in

photoacoustic spectroscopy.

� Perform characterization of hydrocarbon.

� Understand synchrotron infrared spectroscopy.

NASSER MOAZZEN-AHMADI � Record and analyse laboratory infrared spectra

of hydrocarbons relevant to the methane cycle in the atmospheres of Titan and the Giant Planets.

� Construct highly-accurate potential energy surfaces for characterization of intermolecular forces.

� Measure low-frequency intramolecular vibrational fundamentals of molecular clusters via combination bands.

� Provide high resolution spectroscopic data to test the onset of superfluidity in CH3COOH-(He)4 as the smallest superfluid cluster.

� Record and analyse laboratory spectra of H2- and He-hydrocarbons for elucidation of collisional processes between molecular hydrogen and rare gas with hydrocarbon trace species for planetary applications.

� Perform structural determination of complexes formed from carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide.

SERGEI NOSKOV � Advance modelling methodologies enabling

rational design of membrane proteins with applications to early cancer detection and non-invasive imaging. Extend developed methods for understanding molecular transport in model systems such as solid-state nanopores and mitochondrial transport complexes.

� Develop quantum-mechanical/molecular-modelling approaches and novel polarizable force fields for metalloproteins and anion-moving membrane transporters for applications to receptor-level modelling of cell signaling in cardiac tissues.

� Continue multi-scale approach connecting receptor (ion channels) level dynamics to cellular and tissue responses with particular emphasis on emergent electrical properties of ventricular membranes.

� Develop computational platform utilizing a panel of machine-learning algorithms to analyze metabolomics and toxicology datasets.

DENNIS SALAHUB � Advance multi-scale modelling methodologies

and their implementation in efficient computer codes, with an immediate focus on and implementation of the GGA+U methodology for strongly correlated systems, dispersion corrections and quantum capping potentials for QM/MM calculations.

� Develop multiscale modelling of nanocatalysis for oil sands upgrading by extending our work on molybdenum carbide to include mixed-valence ceria-metal catalysts to split water, using the produced hydrogen for hydrocracking over molybdenum carbide.

� Perform multiscale QM/MM studies of the mechanism of action of important enzymes; continue studies of the heme peroxidases in order to verify, or falsify, the presence of electron density circuits.


BARRY C. SANDERS � Develop a wavelet-based quantum algorithm for

quantum computer simulation of a multi-scale renormalizable quantum field theory.

� Operationalize fundamental quantum protocols.

� Formalize the machine-learning description of quantum control.

� Determine how to postselect a controlled-controlled-not gate with ten-photon entangled state.

� With Wolkow at the University of Alberta and with Quantum Silicon Incorporated, design and test all-silicon proof of concept atom-scale circuitry for quantum adiabatic annealing.

YUJUN SHI � Investigate chemical vapor deposition chemistry

of silicon nitride using aminosilanes as novel precursors.

� Explore the pulsed laser dewetting method for the formation of bimetallic nanoparticles.

� Advance the development of a theoretical model in characterizing the temperature profile in the process of pulsed laser dewetting.

� Develop methods using chemical vapor deposition to form Si-based nanostructures.

CHRISTOPH SIMON � Develop proposals for room-temperature

quantum photonics involving defects in diamond and opto-mechanical systems.

� Work on quantum networks with rare-earth ions, pursuing both approaches based on single ions and on ensembles.

� Study transducers between superconducting qubits and photonic qubits, based on defects in solids and on opto-mechanical systems.

� Study potential sources of bio-photons in the brain, with a focus on singlet oxygen and the possible role of spin.

� Study entangled-photon microscopy, in particular using nano-diamonds.

ROBERT THOMPSON � Observe optical transition in trapped atomic

antihydrogen.

� Use geochemical techniques to determine double-ß half-life for 96Zr.

� Finalize design of the ALPHA-g apparatus.

WOLFGANG TITTEL � Develop and demonstrate key components

for quantum repeater-based quantum key distribution especially quantum memory for light, measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution, and quantum teleportation.

� Explore how to map quantum information between superconducting qubits and telecommunication-wavelength photons.

SIMON TRUDEL � Investigate photochemical formation of

nanoparticles for water electrolysis.

� Develop in situ and in oprando methods for x-ray based spectroscopy at the Canadian Light Source.

� Develop novel magnetic nanoparticles for magnetic resonance imaging.

JACK TUSZYNSKI � Undertake computational drug design for a DNA

Repair Enzyme Inhibitor.

� Investigate effects of TTFields on microtubules and cancer cells.

� Build a database of ion channel modulators.

� Explore electromagnetic effects in protein conformational changes.

JONATHAN VEINOT � Develop methods for rendering silicon

nanocrystals water soluble while maintaining photoluminescent response and demonstrate targeted, gated biological imaging (i.e., luminescence, MRI, PET).

� Investigate the NMR characteristics of functionalized silicon nanocrystals and evaluate for MRI imaging.

� Develop methods to render the optical response of silicon nanocrystals stable toward humidity and thermal stressing.

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� Evaluate the influence of size/structure on SiNC lithium ion battery performance.

� Develop methods for preparing Ge nanocrystals and optimize their optical response.

� Develop methods for preparing silicon and germanium nanosheets (small and large areas).

� Explore photocatalytic properties of semiconductor nanoparticles.

MARK WALTON � Generalize the transition-operator formalism

relating different phase-space quantizations of the same system in order to describe different quantum systems.

� Implement unitary group to subgroup branching rules and generating functions for Kronecker coefficients as computational tools for the quantum marginal problem.

� Derive the Leggett-Garg inequalities by adapting the proof of the uncertainty principle in phase-space quantum mechanics.

� Extend the relation between conformal field theories and Weyl-orbit functions to boundary conformal field theories.

ROBERT WOLKOW � In cooperation with Quantum Silicon

incorporated, continue the development of atom-scale circuitry for binary computation that is incomparably fast and low power consuming.

� With Sanders at the University of Calgary and with Quantum Silicon Incorporated, design and test all-silicon proof of concept atom-scale circuitry for quantum adiabatic annealing.

� Fabricate ultra-sharp, single-atom-terminated tips for diverse applications, including scan probed imaging, atom-scale fabrication, efficient refrigeration technology, ion-propulsion devices, ion and electron sources for emerging charged particle microscopies.

YUNJIE XU � Develop and evaluate a novel method for chirality

and enantiomeric excess determination based on rational spectra of chiral contact pair.

� Investigate a new chirality transfer mechanism using Raman optical activity.

� Examine and understand new phenomena related to resonance and near-resonance Raman optical activity.

� Complete the development of a hybrid mass-laser spectroscopic instrument for chirality recognition of key species in solution.

� Explore chirality recognition and induction phenomena at liquid-liquid interfaces in collaboration with Zeng and Tang in the Engineering Faculty.

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