Sixteenth Annual SQuInT Workshop
Start Date: Feb 20, 2014 - 08:30am
End Date: Feb 22, 2014 - 06:00pm
Host: University of New Mexico Center for Quantum Information and Control (CQuIC)
Location: Inn at Loretto, Sante Fe, New Mexico
Invited Speakers:
- A. Aspuru-Guzik, Harvard
- A. Bleszynski Jayich, UCSB
- R. E. Cleve, U. Waterloo
- P. Hayden, Stanford
- S. Hofferberth, U. Stuttgart
- E. Knill, NIST Boulder
- W.D. Phillips, NIST/JQI
- B. W. Reichardt, USC
- K.C. Schwab, Caltech
- S. Shankar, Yale
- T. Vidick, MIT
- V. Vuletic, MIT
Thursday Program
| SESSION 1: Quantum Information Processing with Trapped Ions | |
| 8:30am - 9:15am | Sebastian Hofferberth, Universität Stuttgart (invited) |
| Single charged impurities inside a Bose-Einstein condensate | |
| 9:15am - 9:45am | John Gaebler, National Institute of Standards and Technology |
| Trapped-ion quantum information processing experiments at NIST | |
| 9:45am - 10:15am | True Merrill, Georgia Tech Research Institute |
| An on-chip toolset for surface-electrode trap based quantum processors | |
| 10:15am - 10:45am | Break |
| SESSION 2: Quantum Algorithms | |
| 10:45am - 11:30am | Richard Cleve, University of Waterloo (invited) |
| Simulating Hamiltonian evolution on a quantum computer | |
| 11:30am - 12:00pm | Rolando Somma, Los Alamos National Laboratory |
| A quantum fractional Fourier transform | |
| 12:00pm - 1:30pm | Lunch |
| SESSION 3: Quantum Optics | |
| 2:15pm - 2:45pm | Francisco Elohim Becerra, University of New Mexico |
| Robust and high-sensitivity nonorthogonal coherent state discrimination | |
| 1:30pm - 2:15pm | Vladan Vuletic, MIT (invited) |
| Strongly interacting photons | |
| 2:45pm - 3:15pm | Michael Raymer, University of Oregon |
| Spectrally Entangled Photon Pairs for Ultrafast Probing of Molecules | |
| 3:15pm - 3:45pm | Break |
| SESSION 4: Quantum Many-Body Physics I | |
| 3:45pm - 4:30pm | Thomas Vidick, UC Berkeley (invited) |
| A polynomial-time algorithm for the ground state of 1D gapped local Hamiltonians | |
| 4:30pm - 5:00pm | Akimasa Miyake, University of New Mexico |
| Symmetry-protected topological ordered phases and their use for quantum computation | |
| SESSION 5: Poster Session | |
| 5:00 pm-7:00 pm | Poster Abstracts |
Friday Program
| SESSION 6: Mesoscopic Quantum Coherence | |
| 8:30am - 9:15am | William Phillips, Joint Quantum Institute/National Institute of Standards and Technology (invited) |
| An atomic superfluid Bose-Einstein condensate in a ring | |
| 9:15am - 10:00am | Keith Schwab, Caltech (invited) |
| Quantum Behavior of Electro-mechanical Structures | |
| 10:00am - 10:30am | Break |
| SESSION 7: Quantum Information Theory I | |
| 10:30am - 11:15am | Patrick Hayden, Stanford University (invited) |
| Spacetime, quantum cloning and black holes | |
| 11:15am - 11:45am | Mankei Tsang, National University of Singapore |
| Mismatched quantum filtering and entropic information | |
| 11:45am - 12:15pm | Beni Yoshida, California Institute of Technology |
| Violation of the Arrhenius law for memory time below magnetic and topological transition temperature | |
| 12:15pm - 1:45pm | Lunch |
| SESSION 8: Quantum Simulation, Digital and Analog | |
| 1:45pm - 2:30pm | Alan Aspuru-Guzik, Harvard University (invited) |
| Towards practical quantum simulators for quantum chemistry | |
| 2:30pm - 3:00pm | Krysta Svore, Microsoft Research |
| Repeat-Until-Success: Non-deterministic decomposition of single-qubit unitaries | |
| 3:00pm - 3:30pm | Heather Partner, Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt |
| Topological defect formation and dynamics in ion Coulomb crystals | |
| 3:30pm - 4:00pm | Break |
| SESSION 9a: Break-out 1: Quantum Computation and Fault Tolerance | |
| 4:00pm - 4:30pm | Itay Hen, University of Southern California |
| Period Finding with Adiabatic Quantum Computation | |
| 4:30pm - 5:00pm | Joydip Ghosh, University of Calgary |
| Understanding the effects of leakage in superconducting quantum error detection circuits | |
| 5:00pm - 5:30pm | Mauricio Gutierrez, Georgia Institute of Technology |
| The effect of realistic noise models on quantum error correction thresholds | |
| 5:30pm - 6:00pm | Jonas Anderson, Université de Sherbrooke |
| Towards an Efficient Decoder for Quantum LDPC Codes | |
| SESSION 9b: Break-out 2: Quantum Many-Body Physics II | |
| 4:00pm - 4:30pm | Sukhbinder Singh, Macquarie University, Sydney |
| Tensor networks and Symmetries | |
| 4:30pm - 5:00pm | Fernando Pastawski, California Institute of Technology |
| Optimal dissipative encoding and state preparation for topological order | |
| 5:00pm - 5:30pm | Adolfo del Campo, Los Alamos National Laboratory |
| Shortcuts to adiabaticity in many-body systems | |
| 5:30pm - 6:00pm | Iman Marvian, University of Southern California |
| Symmetry-Protected Topological Entanglement | |
| SESSION 9c: Break-out 3: Atoms and Photons | |
| 4:00pm - 4:30pm | Hector Sosa Martinez, University of Arizona |
| New Tools for Unitary Control of Cold Atom Qudits | |
| 4:30pm - 5:00pm | David Rideout, University of California, San Diego |
| Quantum optics experiments at Earth-orbital scales and beyond | |
| 5:00pm - 5:30pm | Matthias Lang, University of New Mexico |
| Optimal quantum-enhanced interferometry using a laser power source | |
| 5:30pm - 6:00pm | Collin Trail, University of Calgary |
| On generating macroscopic superpositions via nonlinear dynamics of stopped light in a two-component Bose-Einstein condensate | |
| 7:00pm - 9:00pm | Banquet |
Saturday Program
| SESSION 10: Superconducting Qubits | |
| 8:30am - 9:15am | Shyam Shankar, Yale University (invited) |
| Autonomously stabilized entanglement between two superconducting qubits | |
| 9:15am - 9:45am | Pedram Roushan, UCSB |
| Mapping the topological phase diagram of superconducting qubit systems | |
| 9:45am - 10:15am | Break |
| SESSION 11: Quantum Tomography | |
| 10:15am - 10:45am | John Gamble, Sandia National Laboratories |
| Quantum gate set tomography | |
| 10:45am - 11:15am | Carlos Riofrio, Freie Universität Berlin |
| Tomography of Quantum Fields | |
| 11:15am - 11:45am | Amir Kalev, University of New Mexico |
| Quantum process tomography of near-unitary maps | |
| 11:45am - 12:15pm | Scott Glancy, National Institute of Standards and Technology |
| Practical and Fast Gaussian State Estimation | |
| 12:15pm - 1:45pm | Lunch |
| SESSION 12: Quantum Information Theory II | |
| 1:45am - 2:30pm | Emanuel Knill, University of Colorado at Boulder (invited) |
| Certifying violations of local realism | |
| 2:30pm - 3:15pm | Ben Reichardt, University of Southern California (invited) |
| Classical command of quantum systems | |
| 3:15pm - 3:45pm | Jason Twamley, Macquarie University |
| All-Optical Switching and Router via the Direct Quantum Control of Coupling between Cavity Modes | |
| 3:45pm - 4:15pm | Break |
| SESSION 13: Quantum Metrology and Control | |
| 4:15pm - 5:00pm | Ania Bleszynski-Jayich, University of California Santa Barbara (invited) |
| Quantum assisted sensing with diamond spins | |
| 5:00pm - 5:30pm | Joshua Combes, University of New Mexico |
| Probabilistic protocols in quantum information? Probably not. | |
| 5:30pm - 6:00pm | Sergey Knysh, NASA Ames Research Center |
| True Quantum Precision and Unique Optimal Probes in presence of Decoherence. | |
