Students accelerate Quantum Computing

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Grace Young, a Bethesda resident and a student of Potomac School in McLean, VA was recently named a regional finalist in this year’s Siemens Competition for Math, Science, and technology. Young, who is also a part of the robotics team in her school teamed up with senior Jennifer Wang of Montgomery Blair High School on the project “Validation of Parabolic Ian Trap Geometries for Use in Quantum Computing.”

The project is an improvement of the physics work which the pair completed this summer at the Joint Quantum Institute at the University of Maryland. The project demonstrates a method for improving the efficiency of ion trap-based quantum computers by a factor of 2,500 that takes a large-scale quantum computing networks one step closer to reality.

Only 60 projects from across the country were selected as regional finalists, from more than 1,300 entries. The Siemens Competition is known nationwide as one of the most prestigious teen science competitions in the world.