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