The lecture will be livestreamed from Aarhus University. Free admission, support your cinema.*

Language: Danish
Break: 20 minutes
Lecturers: by physicist Klaus Mølmer

The microscopic world of atoms and molecules is described by quantum physics. The quantum world described by quantum physics is very different from phenomena in our everyday lives: for example, atomic particles appear to be in several places at once, and measurements on them always give random results.

Quantum physics revolutionized physics at the beginning of the 20th century and shook many physicists' worldviews, but its predictions have since been tested with great precision in all areas of the world of physics and chemistry.

In the lecture you will receive an introduction to quantum physics and a number of existing technologies, and to perspectives for revolutionary future technologies that work precisely by virtue of the quantum physical behavior of atomic particles.

Both in Denmark and internationally, large amounts of money have been invested since the 1990s in the race to develop and utilize quantum computers that use atomic quantum states to calculate many numbers at the same time. In the lecture, you will hear how far we have come in the construction of quantum computers, and what they will be used for when they become fully functional.

This is an updated version of a lecture from spring 2020.

Read more at ofn.au.dk/abstract/172.
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ABOUT THE LECTURE SERIES:
The lecture is streamed live from the Søauditorierne in Aarhus and is part of the series Public Lectures in Natural Sciences , which is organized by Aarhus University in collaboration with several hundred locations across the country. The lecture series is supported by the Carlsberg Foundation.

The lecture lasts two hours including a 20-minute break and a session at the end where the lecturer answers selected questions submitted during the lecture by the audience via SMS.
The lecture is and will not be publicly available on the internet.