Eighth Annual SQuInT Workshop
Start Date: Feb 17, 2006 - 12:00 am
End Date: Feb 19, 2006 - 12:00 am
Host: University of New Mexico Center for Advanced Studies
Location: Hotel Albuquerque at Old Town, Albuquerque, New Mexico
The 8th Annual Workshop of SQuInT (Southwest Quantum Information and Technology) will be held at the Hotel Albuquerque at Old Town, New Mexico from February 17-19, 2006. The Workshop will gather together researchers from member institutions who work on theoretical, experimental, and computational aspects of quantum information science. The Workshop is hosted by the University of New Mexico's Center for Advanced Studies. Chairs Profs. Ivan Deutsch and JM Geremia.
Invited Research Talks
- Thad Walker, University of Wisconsin
- Terry Rudolph, Imperial College London
- Third Speaker -- TBA
Invited Tutorials
- Hans Briegel, Innsbruck, "One-way quantum computation"
- John Preskill, Caltech, "Topological Quantum Computing"
Sponsors
- Center for Advanced Studies
- ARO
NIST- LANL QI
- Sandia National Lab
Program
| DAY 1 | Friday, February 17, 2006 |
| 07:30 - 08:30 | Breakfast (provided) |
| 08:30 - 08:45 | Welcome to SQuinT 2006 |
| SESSION 1 | Optical Quantum Computing and Networking |
| 08:45 - 09:30 | Terry Rudolph (Imperial College-Invited Talk) Toward Optical Quantum Computation with Realistic Devices |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | James Chin-wen Chou (Caltech) Measurement Induced Entanglement for Excitation Stored in Remote Atomic Ensembles |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Morning Break |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Thaddeus Ladd (Stanford) Practical Quantum Repeater Using Intense Coherent Light |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Danna Rosenberg (Los Alamos National Laboratory) Quantum Key Distribution with Noise-Free Detectors |
| 11:30 - 13:00 | Lunch (provided) |
| SESSION 2 | Quantum Measurement and Metrology |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Hans Briegel (Innsbruck -Invited Tutorial) |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Michael DiRosa (Los Alamos National Laboratory) Quantum Nondemolition Detection of Photons |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Afternoon Break |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Ognyan Oreshkov (University of Southern California) Weak Measurements and Differential Conditions on Entanglement Monotones |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Diego Dalvit (Los Alamos National Laboratory) Sub-Planck Structures and Heisenberg-Limited Measurements |
| 16:00 - 16:15 | Afternoon Break |
| SESSION 3 | Qubits in Condensed Matter |
| 16:15 - 17:00 | Eva Weig (University of California, Santa Barbara-Invited Talk) |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Wang Yao (University of California, San Diego) Electronic Spin Decoherence by Interacting Nuclear Spins in Quantum Dots |
| 17:30 - 18:00 | Frank Verstraete (Caltech) Strongly Correlated Quantum Many Body Systems: A Quantum Information Perspective |
| 18:00 - 19:30 | Poster Session |
| DAY 2 | Saturday, February 18, 2006 |
| 07:30 - 08:30 | Breakfast (provided) |
| SESSION 4 | Quantum Algorithms |
| 08:30 - 09:00 | Christopher Moore (University of New Mexico) Hidden Subgroups and Fourier Sampling: A Tutorial |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Dave Bacon (University of Washington) New Algorithms for the Nonabelian Hidden Subgroup Problem |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Morning Break |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Andrew Landahl (University of New Mexico) An Improved Quantum Algorithm for the Ordered Search Problem |
| 10:3 0- 11:00 | Jonathan Walgate (Calgary) Quantum Buried Treasure |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Tony Dutoi (University of California-Berkeley) Simulated Quantum Computation of Molecular Energies |
| 11:30 - 13:15 | Lunch (provided) |
| SESSION 5 | Quantum Information Science with Atoms and Ions |
| 13:15 - 14:00 | Thad Walker (University of Washington-Madison-Invited Talk) Quantum Manipulation of Atoms Using Rydberg States |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Poul Jessen (University of Arizona) Progress Towards Quantum Logic and Real-Time Quantum State Estimation |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Matt Blain (Sandia National Laboratory) Microfabrication and Packaging of Ion Trap Chips for Quantum Simulation |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Afternoon Break |
| SESSION 6 | Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing |
| 15:30 - 16:30 | John Preskill (California Institute of Technology-Invited Tutorial) Topological Quantum Computation |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Break |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Bryan Eastin (University of New Mexico) Thresholds for Arbitrary Error Channels Using Perfect Ancillae |
| 17:30 - 18:00 | Robert Raussendorf (California Institute of Technology) A Fault-Tolerant One-Way Quantum Computer |
| 18:00 - 19:00 | Additional Poster Viewing |
| 19:00 - | Conference Banquet |
| DAY 3 | Sunday, February 19, 2006 |
| 07:30 - 08:30 | Breakfast (provided) |
| SESSION 7 | Trapped Ion Quantum Information |
| 08:30 - 09:00 | Roee Ozeri (National Institute of Standards and Technology) Steps Toward Scalable Trapped-Ion QIP at NIST |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Peter Maunz (University of Michigan) Quantum Information Processing with Ultrashort Pulses |
| SESSION 8 | Fundamental Quantum Information Science |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | A.R.P. Rau (Louisiana State University) Geometric Phase and General Solution for N-level Systems |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Morning Break |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Brian Smith (University of Oregon) Photon Wave Mechanics |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Shohini Ghose (Wilfrid Laurier University) Non-Gaussian Ancilla States for Continuous Variable Quantum Information Process |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Masoud Mohensi (University of Southern California Direct Characterization for Open Quantum Systems Dynamics |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Lunch |
| 12:30 - 13:00 | Kurt Jacobs (Louisiana State University) Complementarity Between Work, Entanglement, and Reference Frame Ability |
| 13:00 -13:30 | Peter Love (DWave, Inc.) Entanglement in Four Superconducting Qubits |
