QuantUM Club
This company is the main sponsor of the Qiskit Hackathon at UMich
What is IBM?
Who is Schrodinger?
Though often credited with discovering gravity by getting hit with one, Newton never actually got bonked by this fruit
What is an apple?
These are Michigan's official colors
What are maize and blue?
The Bloch sphere is a way to represent the state of this quantum object
What is a qubit?
He is QuantUM's amazing faculty advisor
Who is Dr. Burgers?
This scientist introduced the principle that the more precisely the position of a particle is known, the less precisely its momentum can be known
Who is Heisenberg?
Einstein never actually failed this subject in school, despite the myth
What is math?
What is "The Victors"?
This particle, with zero rest mass, is the force carrier of the electromagnetic field
What is a photon?
This was the semester the QuantUM Club was created at UMich
What is Fall 2023?
This famous physicist referred to quantum entanglement as "spooky action at a distance"
Who is Einstein?
Napoleon wasn't actually this, though the phrase "Napoleon complex" would make you think so
What is unusually short?
This U of M landmark library, opened in 1920, is named after the University's 8th president
What is the Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library?
In quantum mechanics, measurement causes this sudden change in the wavefunction
What is collapse?
This is QuantUM's instagram handle
What is @quant_umich?
This physicist's oil drop experiment demonstrated quantization of the electric charge
Who is Milikan?
What is August?
When is 1817?
This is one of five main ways to implement physical qubits in a quantum computer
What is (one of the following) superconducting qubits, photon qubits, topological qubits, trapped ion qubits, neutral atom qubits?
This was the winning project in QuantUM's fall hackathon
What is a truly random Spotify shuffler?
This German physicist introduced the idea that the square of the wavefunction represents a probability density, an interpretation that became fundamental in quantum mechanics
Who is Born? (This is the Born rule)
Bananas don't actually grow on trees - they grow on this
What is a giant herb?
This was one of the two names of the live, caged Wolverines Michigan used as a mascot during the 1927 football season
Who is Biff? or Who is Bennie?
This quantum algorithm achieves quadratic speedup in searching an unstructured database
What is Grover's algorithm?