Quantum Science
What is the fundamental unit of quantum information called?
What is a qubit?
How many floors in McKeldin?
What is 7?
Finish the quote: Spooky action at a _.
What is distance?
Who wrote the book titled Quantum Steampunk that won the PROSE Award for Best Book in Popular Science and Popular Mathematics (Hint: she's a UMD prof)?
Who is Dr. Nicole Yunger Halpern?
What qubit systems uses electromagnetic fields to suspend individual charged atoms?
What is trapped ion computing?
In what year was the university founded (originally as Maryland Agricultural College)?
What is 1856?
Who theorized a quantum computer for simulating physics?
Who is Feynman?
What quantum computing company was co-founded with a UMD prof?
What quantum phenomenon allows a system to exist in multiple states simultaneously until measured?
What is superposition?
What gender is Testudo?
What is a girl?
Who proposed the famous thought experiment involving a cat that is simultaneously alive and dead?
Who is Schrödinger?
What is the name of the quantum partnership formed between NIST and UMD?
What is JQI?
What principle states that you cannot simultaneously measure the exact position and momentum of a particle?
What is the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle?
How many libraries on campus?
What is 6?
Who introduced energy quanta in 1900 to explain blackbody radiation, becoming the father of quantum mechanics?
Who is Max Planck?
What UMD facility opened in 2013 specifically designed to house advanced quantum physics research labs?
What is the Physical Sciences Complex (PSC)?
What phenomenon allows quantum particles to pass through a potential barrier they classically couldn't overcome?
What is Quantum Tunneling?
What specific species of turtle serves as UMD's mascot (Hint: 2 words)?
What is a diamondback terrapin?
Which 1927 conference in Brussels is famous for bringing together 29 physics pioneers to discuss early quantum mechanics (Hint: includes a number)?
What is the Fifth Solvay Conference?
What UMD professor won the Nobel prize for work in quantum physics?
Who is William Daniel Phillips?