Fifteenth Annual SQuInT Workshop
Start Date: Feb 21, 2013 - 07:00 am
End Date: Feb 23, 2013 - 07:00 pm
Host: University of New Mexico Center for Quantum Information and Control (CQuIC)
Location: Holiday Inn Goleta, Santa Barbara, California
The 15th Annual SQuInT Workshop was hosted by the University of New Mexico Center for Quantum Information and Control (CQuIC).
Invited Speakers
- John Bollinger, NIST
- Gavin Brennen, Macquarie University
- Tommaso Calarco, University of Ulm
- Andrew Cleland, UC Santa Barbara
- Konrad Lehnert, JILA
- Theresa Lynn, Harvey Mudd
- Gerard Milburn, University of Queensland
- Christian Roos, University of Innsbruck
- Aephraim Steinberg, University of Toronto
- Lorenza Viola, Dartmouth
- Birgitta Whaley, UC Berkeley
- Howard Wiseman, Griffith University
Wednesday Program
| 5:00 - 7:00 pm | Conference Early Registration - Lobby |
Thursday Program
| 7:00 - 8:30 | Conference Breakfast |
| SESSION 1: Quantum Simulation | |
| 8:30 - 9:15 | John Bollinger, National Institute of Standards and Technology (invited) |
| Quantum simulation and many-body physics with hundreds of trapped ions | |
| 9:15 - 9:45 | Phil Richerme, Joint Quantum Institute |
| Quantum Simulation of Frustrated Spin Models with Trapped Ions | |
| 9:45 - 10:15 | Morning Break |
| 10:15 - 11:00 | Gavin Brennen, Macquarie University (invited) |
| Instantaneous Quantum Circuits for Ising Models | |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Akimasa Miyake, Center for Quantum Information and Control, University of New Mexico |
| Relying more on a classical computer during quantum computation | |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Rolando Somma, Los Alamos National Laboratory |
| A real-space renormalization method with applications to frustration-free Hamiltonians | |
| 12:00 - 1:30 | Lunch |
| SESSION 2: Quantum Control | |
| 1:30 - 2:15 | Lorenza Viola, Dartmouth College (invited) |
| Quantum state stabilization with engineered quasi-local Markovian dissipation | |
| 2:15 - 2:45 | Carlton Caves, University of New Mexico |
| Quantum Control: A Circuit-Based Classification | |
| 2:45 - 3:15 | Afternoon Break |
| 3:15 - 3:45 | Brian Anderson, University of Arizona |
| Unitary Transformations in a Large Hilbert Space | |
| 3:45 - 4:30 | Tommaso Calarco, University of Ulm (invited) |
| Quantum Technology Taken to its Limits | |
| SESSION 3: Poster Session | |
| 4:30 - 6:30 | Poster Abstracts |
Friday Program
| 7:00 - 8:30 | Conference Breakfast |
| SESSION 4: Superconductors | |
| 8:30 - 9:15 | Andrew Cleland, University of California - Santa Barbara (invited) |
| Is building a superconducting quantum computer actually feasible? | |
| 9:15 - 9:45 | Stefano Poletto, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, US |
| Entanglement of two superconducting qubits in a three-dimensional architecture via monochromatic two-photon excitation | |
| 9:45 - 10:15 | Morning Break |
| SESSION 5: Nanomechanics | |
| 10:30 - 11:15 | Konrad Lehnert, University of Colorado (invited) |
| Using a mechanical resonator to catch, store, and release propagating microwave fields | |
| 11:15 - 12:00 | Gerard Milburn, The University of Queensland (invited) |
| Single photon optomechanics | |
| 12:00 - 1:30 | Lunch |
| SESSION 6a: Break-Out 1: Quantum Control | |
| 1:30 - 2:00 | Nathan Wiebe, Institute for Quantum Computing |
| Quantum Control and Simulation Using Product Formulas for Exponentials of Commutators | |
| 2:00 - 2:30 | Constantin Brif, Sandia National Laboratories |
| Exploring adiabatic quantum computing trajectories via optimal control | |
| 2:30 - 3:00 | Gerardo Paz Silva, University of Southern California |
| Quantum Control and Fault-tolerant quantum computing | |
| 3:00- 3:30 | Afternoon Break |
| SESSION 6b: Break-out 2: Experimental Implementations | |
| 1:30 - 2:00 | David Pappas, National Institute of Standards and Technology |
| Long-lived, radiation-suppressed superconducting quantum bit in a planar geometry | |
| 2:00 - 2:30 | Mingwu Lu, Stanford University |
| Quantum degenerate Bose and Fermi dipolar gases of dysprosium realized | |
| 2:30 - 3:00 | Jonathan Mizrahi, Joint Quantum Institute, University of Maryland |
| Ultrafast Spin-Motion Entanglement in Single Atomic Qubits | |
| 3:00 - 3:30 | Afternoon Break |
| SESSION 6c: Break-out 3: Quantum Information Theory | |
| 1:30 - 2:00 | Jon Yard, Microsoft Research Station Q |
| On the structure of symmetric quantum measurements | |
| 2:00 - 2:30 | Arjendu Pattanayak, Carleton College |
| Lyapunov exponents across the quantum-classical transition | |
| 2:30 - 3:00 | Lin Tian, University of California, Merced |
| Robust entanglement generation via optomechanical quantum interface | |
| 2:45 - 3:15 | Afternoon Break |
| SESSION 7a: Break-out 1: Quantum Tomography and Measurement | |
| 3:30 - 4:00 | Seth Merkel, IBM Watson Research Center |
| Self-consistent quantum process tomography | |
| 4:00 - 4:30 | Robin Blume-Kohout, Sandia National Laboratories |
| Adaptive gate-set tomography | |
| 4:30 - 5:00 | Chris Ferrie, Center for Quantum Information and Control, University of New Mexico |
| Minimax quantum tomography: the ultimate bounds on accuracy | |
| 5:00 - 5:30 | Leon Loveridge, University of British Columbia |
| Quantum Measurements Constrained by Symmetry | |
| SESSION 7b: Break-out 2: Quantum Computing | |
| 3:30 - 4:00 | Thomas Wong, UC San Diego |
| Nonlinear Quantum Search | |
| 4:00 - 4:30 | Olivier Pfister, University of Virginia |
| Hypercubic cluster entanglement in the optical frequency comb | |
| 4:30 - 5:00 | Chris Cesare, Center for Quantum Information and Control, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of New Mexico |
| Accurate quantum Z rotations with less magic | |
| 5:00 - 5:30 | Peter Brooks, California Institute of Technology |
| Magic state distillation with noisy Clifford gates | |
| SESSION 7c: Break-out 3: Quantum Many-body Physics | |
| 3:30 - 4:00 | Asif Shakeel, Haverford College, Haverford, PA. |
| When is a Quantum Cellular Automaton (QCA) a Quantum Lattice Gas Automaton (QLGA)? | |
| 4:00 - 4:30 | David Feder, University of Calgary |
| Graph Equitable Partitioning in Quantum Many-Body Physics | |
| 4:30 - 5:00 | Zhang Jiang, University of New Mexico |
| Quantum many-body problems for identical particles: The (anti-)symmetrized n-fold product states. | |
| 5:00 - 5:30 | Olivier Landon-Cardinal, Universite de Sherbrooke |
| Local topological order inhibits thermal stability in 2D | |
| 6:00 - 7:00 | Cocktail Reception |
| 7:00 - 9:00 | Banquet |
Saturday Program
| 7:00 - 8:30 | Conference Breakfast |
| SESSION 8: Ion Traps | |
| 8:30 - 9:15 | Christian Roos, Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (invited) |
| Schrödinger cat state spectroscopy with trapped ions | |
| 9:15 - 9:45 | Andrew Wilson, National Institute of Standards & Technology |
| Trapped-ion quantum information processing experiments at NIST* | |
| 9:45 - 10:15 | Morning Break |
| SESSION 9: Quantum Foundations | |
| 10:15 - 11:00 | Howard Wiseman, Griffith University (invited) |
| Loophole-free steering for quantum cryptography and for testing the subjectivity of atomic quantum jumps | |
| 11:00 - 11:45 | Theresa Lynn, Harvey Mudd College (invited) |
| Distinguishing Hyperentangled Bell States with Linear Evolution and Local Measurement | |
| 11:45- 1:15 | Lunch |
| SESSION 10: Quantum Optics | |
| 1:15 - 2:00 | Aephraim Steinberg, University of Toronto (invited) |
| Weak Measurement, Uncertainty Relationships, and Tradeoffs in Experimental Quantum Measurement | |
| 2:00 - 2:30 | Ben Baragiola, Center for Quantum Information and Control, University of New Mexico |
| Squeezing of Spin Waves in Atomic Ensembles | |
| 2:30 - 3:00 | Zilong Chen, JILA and Department of Physics, University of Colorado at Boulder |
| Cavity-enhanced non-demolition measurements for atom counting and spin squeezing | |
| 3:00 - 3:30 | Afternoon Break |
| SESSION 11: Adiabatic Quantum Computation | |
| 3:30 - 4:00 | Sergio Boixo, University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute |
| Experimental signatures of quantum annealing | |
| 4:00 - 4:30 | Aaron Hankin, University of New Mexico |
| Adiabatic Quantum Computation with Neutral Cesium | |
| SESSION 12: Quantum Biology | |
| 4:30 - 5:15 | Birgitta Whaley, UC Berkeley (invited) |
| Quantum Coherence in Biology | |
| 5:15 - 6:00 | Evening Break |
| 6:00 - 7:00 | Nobel Lecture |
| David J. Wineland, National Institute of Standards and Technology (invited) | |
| Superposition, entanglement, and raising Schroedinger's cat. | |
