Montréal, Canada

McGill Quantum Centre

Faculty of Science, McGill University

Advancing quantum science across information, matter, light, and technology.

Meet the Members Research Axes

About us

Our mission

The McGill Quantum Centre brings together researchers across disciplines to advance our understanding and control of quantum systems, and to explore the new scientific and technological possibilities they enable.

Our research spans quantum information and computation, collective phenomena in quantum matter, quantum optics and photonics, measurement and control, and the development of new quantum platforms and technologies. Across these areas, we connect fundamental theory with experiment and bring together ideas, methods, and physical systems that are often separated by traditional disciplinary boundaries.

The Centre serves as a common intellectual home for quantum research at McGill. We foster collaboration across departments and research groups, support interdisciplinary training, develop shared scientific activities and infrastructure, and build connections with the broader quantum community in Quebec, Canada, and internationally.

Research Axes

Four axes of the quantum world

Quantum Information & Computation
We investigate the fundamental principles governing the representation, processing, and extraction of information in quantum systems.

Research in this area includes quantum information theory, quantum computation and algorithms, quantum simulation, quantum error correction, quantum learning, foundations of quantum mechanics, and the information-theoretic limits of quantum technologies.

This axis connects abstract questions about information and computation with the physical systems in which quantum information is created, manipulated, and measured.
Quantum Matter & Many-Body Physics
We study how rich quantum phenomena emerge from interacting particles and collective degrees of freedom.

Research spans strongly correlated quantum systems, superconductivity, magnetism, topological phases, nonequilibrium dynamics, quantum materials, low-dimensional systems, and other manifestations of collective quantum behaviour.

By combining theory, computation, and experiment, researchers seek both to understand new states of matter and to uncover principles that can inform the control and use of complex quantum systems.
Quantum Optics, Photonics & Measurement
We explore the generation, manipulation, interaction, and measurement of quantum states of light and matter.

Research includes quantum optics, quantum photonics, nonlinear and integrated photonics, light–matter interactions, open and driven quantum systems, quantum control, quantum measurement, metrology, and sensing.

This axis connects fundamental questions about quantum dynamics and measurement with experimental capabilities for preparing, transforming, and extracting information from quantum systems.
Quantum Platforms & Technologies
We develop the physical systems, devices, interfaces, and methods that make increasingly complex quantum experiments and technologies possible.

Research spans photonic, atomic, solid-state, superconducting, nanostructured, and hybrid quantum platforms, together with quantum devices, interfaces, control techniques, fabrication, instrumentation, and enabling technologies.

The emphasis ranges from the development of new experimental platforms to the integration of quantum systems into larger architectures for computation, simulation, sensing, communication, and other emerging applications.
   

A connected quantum community

These research axes are intentionally interconnected rather than separate silos.

Many of the most exciting problems in quantum science lie at their intersections: quantum-information concepts can reveal new ways to understand matter and measurement; photonic and atomic systems can provide platforms for computation and simulation; advances in materials and devices can enable new forms of control and sensing; and experimental challenges can motivate new theoretical questions.

The McGill Quantum Centre creates a setting in which these connections can develop across disciplines, physical platforms, and scales—from fundamental principles to experimentally realized quantum systems and emerging technologies.