By Dirk Englund, Jamieson Career Development Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Research Laboratory of Electronics
Figure 1: Quantum technologies make use of two central aspects of quantum mechanics: (1) The superposition principle — a system can be in all possible states at the same time; and (2) The No-Cloning Theorem — unknown states cannot be copied. Also shown are key quantum technologies being developed today: Quantum simulation and computing; quantum measurement; and quantum communications.