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Four innovators will lead the first Ideas that Travel event in partnership with TEDxSydney aboard a Qantas flight from Sydney to San Francisco 鈥� and two of those are associated with the University of Sydney 鈥� including quantum physicist .

Associate Professor Biercuk 鈥� a 2015 Eureka Prize winner for Outstanding Early Career Researcher 鈥� along with Jo Burston, who sits on the advisory board for the University鈥檚 Business School and Innovation and Entrepreneur Advisory Group, will address entrepreneurs and technologists en route to silicon valley this afternoon as part of a series that will also be screened during TEDxSydney in May.

Harvard-trained Associate Professor Biercuk 鈥� a Chief Investigator at the Australian Research Council鈥檚 Centre of excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems (EQuS) 鈥� moved to Australia in 2010 to head a group of quantum physicists at the University of Sydney undertaking research with the potential to transform society fundamentally.

鈥淭he potential for quantum tech to change the world is real and now within reach,鈥� he will say in a speech aboard .

The earliest advances in harnessing the fundamental rules of nature - quantum physics - have already had major impacts, he will demonstrate, but these are only the first steps in the development of a powerful new generation of quantum technologies.

鈥淲e are laying the groundwork for a new blossoming of innovation based on advanced hardware, harnessing quantum physics.聽

鈥淭oday, this鈥� requires incredible infrastructure 鈥� like the new at the University of Sydney, which provides some of the most precise laboratory environments on earth,鈥� Associate Professor Biercuk will say.聽

鈥淚n the innovation ecosystem, by and large only Universities are making this kind of capital-intensive, long-term investment in research infrastructure.

鈥淎t the University of Sydney, we are not only working to learn how to harness quantum physics, we are also working to build the ecosystem of future innovators and entrepreneurs seeking to turn our discoveries into next generation startups and major commercial products.鈥澛�

Associate Professor Biercuk鈥檚 team is focused on capturing individual atoms and using them to learn how we can coax quantum systems into performing useful tasks.聽 For instance, they are working to merge basic science with concepts from engineering, in an effort to overcome the challenging obstacles currently standing between us and a quantum future.

鈥淥ne critical problem we can study is the way electrons in solid materials can exhibit extremely unusual behavior, such as the onset of superconductivity, in which electricity flows without resistance,鈥� his speech reads.聽

鈥淒espite decades of research we still don鈥檛 understand how one class of superconductors, High-Temperature superconductors, work 鈥� because the underlying phenomenology comes from quantum physics, which is notoriously difficult to model on a conventional computer.聽

鈥淏y building a quantum scale model that mimics the material of interest in a , we鈥檙e hoping to crack this problem, with truly profound consequences.

鈥淚magine the ability to pipe electricity anywhere, over any distance, with negligible loss.聽 What would the world look like?聽 The information revolution came in large part because of our ability to send data over huge distances in fiber optics with nearly no loss鈥�. could we imagine something similar with lossless energy distribution?鈥�

Asociated Professor Biercuk will point out that quantum technology will be to 21^st century innovation what microprocessors and computers were to the previous 肠别苍迟耻谤测.听

The biggest leaps, however, may well be beyond our imagination: 鈥淗istory has taught us that the biggest impacts of new technologies are often those least anticipated.鈥�