Seventeenth Annual SQuInT Workshop
Start Date: Feb 19, 2015 - 07:00 am
End Date: Feb 21, 2015 - 06:00 pm
Host: University of New Mexico Center for Quantum Information and Control (CQuIC)
Location: Doubletree Berkeley Marina, Berkeley, California
Invited Speakers
- Daniel Gottesman (Perimeter Institute)
- Chris Monroe (Joint Quantum Institute, University of Maryland)
- Yi-Kai Liu (NIST, Gaithersburg)
- Jason Petta (Princeton University)
- Monika Schleier-Smith (Stanford University)
- Irfan Siddiqi (UC Berkeley)
- Dan Stamper-Kurn (UC Berkeley)
- Leonard Susskind (Stanford University)
- John Teufel (NIST, Boulder)
- Umesh Vazirani (UC Berkeley)
- Lorenza Viola (Dartmouth College)
- Nathan Wiebe (Microsoft)
- Howard Wiseman (Griffith University)
Wednesday Program
| 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm | Early Registration ( Belvedere Foyer) |
Thursday Program
| 7:00 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast ( Belvedere Foyer) |
| 8:15 am - 8:30 am | Opening Remarks |
SESSION 1: Ion Trap QIP, Chair: Peter Maunz ( Ballroom) | |
| 8:30 am - 9:15 am | Christopher Monroe, Joint Quantum Institute and University of Maryland Local and Remote Networks of Trapped Ions |
| 9:15 am - 9:45 am | Daniel Slichter, National Institute of Standards and Technology Recent progress in trapped ion quantum information at NIST |
| 9:45 am - 10:15 am | Spencer Fallek, Georgia Tech Research Institute Taking Surface Electrode Traps to the Next Level |
| 10:15 am - 10:45 am | Break ( Belvedere Foyer) |
SESSION 2: Quantum Complexity and Thermodynamics, Chair: David Meyer ( Ballroom) | |
| 10:45 am - 11:30 am | Umesh Vazirani, U.C. Berkeley Area Laws and the complexity of quantum states |
| 11:30 am - 12:00 pm | Akimasa Miyake, Center for Quantum Information and Control, University of New Mexico How can Maxwell's demon harness quantum many-body correlations? |
| 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm | Lunch ( Bay Grille and Quarter Deck) |
SESSION 3: Solid State QIP, Chair: James Harrington ( Ballroom) | |
| 1:30 pm - 2:15 pm | Jason Petta, Princeton University Fully reconfigurable gate architecture for Si/SiGe spin qubits |
| 2:15 pm - 2:45 pm | Thaddeus Ladd, HRL Laboratories, LLC An Exchange-Only Qubit in Isotopically Enriched 28-Si |
| 2:45 pm - 3:15 pm | Tian Zhong, California Institute of Technology Nanophotonic quantum memory based on rare-earth-doped crystals |
| 3:15 pm - 3:45 pm | Break ( Belvedere Foyer) |
SESSION 4: Quantum Measurement, Chair: Kevin Young ( Ballroom) | |
| 3:45 pm - 4:30 pm | Yi-Kai Liu, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Tamper-Resistant Cryptographic Hardware in the Isolated Qubits Model |
| 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Amir Kalev, Center for Quantum Information and Control, University of New Mexico Informationally complete measurements from compressed sensing methodology |
| 5:00 - 5:30 pm | Rolando Somma, Los Alamos National Laboratory High-precision Quantum Algorithms |
SESSION 5: Poster Session, ( Sierra Nevada Foyer) | |
| 5:30 - 7:30 pm | Poster Session ( Amador, El Dorado, and Mariposa Rooms) |
Friday Program
| 7:00 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast ( Fiesta Room) |
SESSION 6: Quantum Computation, Chair: Andrew Landahl ( Ballroom) | |
| 8:30 am - 9:15 am | Daniel Gottesman, Perimeter Institute Fault-tolerant quantum computation with constant overhead |
| 9:15 am - 9:45 am | Krysta Svore, Microsoft Research Efficient Synthesis of Universal Probabilistic Quantum Circuits |
| 9:45 am - 10:15 am | Break ( Belvedere Foyer) |
SESSION 7: Neutral Atom QIP, Chair: Theresa Lynn ( Ballroom) | |
| 10:15 am - 11:00 am | Dan Stamper-Kurn, University of California, Berkeley Optically measuring and coupling quantum systems in a cavity |
| 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Yuan-Yu Jau, Sandia National Laboratories A Platform of Rydberg-Dressed Cesium Atoms for Quantum Control Applications |
| 11:30 am - 12:00 pm | Kevin Cox, JILA, National Institute of Standards and Technology, and University of Colorado at Boulder Spin Squeezing via Measurement -- a Useful Entanglement Resource |
| 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm | Lunch ( Bay Grille and Quarter Deck) |
SESSION 8: Quantum Control, Chair: Poul Jessen ( Ballroom) | |
| 1:30 pm - 2:15 pm | Lorenza Viola, Dartmouth College Dissipative quantum state preparation with quasi-local resources |
| 2:15 pm - 2:45 pm | Tommaso Calarco, University of Ulm Steering many-body quantum dynamics |
| 2:45 pm - 3:15 pm | Adam Kaufman, University of Colorado at Boulder, JILA Two-particle quantum interference in tunnel-coupled optical tweezers |
| 3:15 pm - 3:45 pm | Break ( Belvedere Foyer) |
SESSION 9a: Break-out 1, AMO QIP II, Chair: Jae Hoon Lee ( Angel Room) | |
| 3:45 pm - 4:15 pm | Peter Maunz, Sandia National Laboratories Quantum Information Processing in surface electrode ion traps |
| 4:15 pm - 4:45 pm | Enrique Montano, University of Arizona Quantum control and squeezing of collective spin |
| 4:45 pm - 5:15 pm | Kai-Mei Fu, University of Washington Hybrid diamond/gallium phosphide photonics for on-chip entanglement generation |
| 5:15 pm - 5:45 pm | Andrea Alberti, Institut für Angewandte Physik Quantum walks with neutral atoms: from quantum transport phenomena to the falsification of classical trajectory theories |
SESSION 9b: Break-out 2, Tomography and Metrology, Chair: Bryan Eastin ( Belvedere Room) | |
| 3:45 pm - 4:15 pm | Rodney Van Meter, Keio University Distributed Management of Density Matrices |
| 4:15 pm - 4:45 pm | Itay Hen, University of Southern California Role of classical hardness for quantum annealers |
| 4:45 pm - 5:15 pm | Kenneth Rudinger, Sandia National Laboratories Hyper-Accurate Gate Set Tomography |
| 5:15 pm - 5:45 pm | Jonathan Gross, University of New Mexico, Center for Quantum Information and Control On the efficacy of weak measurements for tomography |
SESSION 9c: Break-out 3, Quantum Information Theory, Chair: Ravi Rau ( Treasure Room) | |
| 3:45 pm - 4:15 pm | Mario Berta, Institute for Quantum Information and Matter Caltech Quantum-proof randomness extractors via hierarchies of semidefinite programs |
| 4:15 pm - 4:45 pm | Grant Allen, University of California, San Diego Polynomial Monogamy Relations |
| 4:45 pm - 5:15 pm | Jon Yard, Microsoft Quadratic forms in quantum Hall states |
| 5:15 pm - 5:45 pm | Gilad Gour, Institute for Quantum Science and Technology, University of Calgary The uncertainty principle in the light of quantum information |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Banquet ( Angel/Belvedere/Treasure) |
Saturday Program
| 7:00 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast ( Belvedere Foyer) |
SESSION 10: QIP in Electronics, Chair: Seth Merkel ( Ballroom) | |
| 8:30 am - 9:15 am | John Teufel, National Institute of Standards & Technology Microwave Optomechanical Circuits |
| 9:15 am - 9:45 am | Hartmut Haeffner, University of California, Berkeley Michelson-Morley test for electrons using a decoherence-free subspace for trapped ion |
| 9:45 am - 10:15 am | Break ( Belvedere Foyer) |
SESSION 11: Experimental Studies of Entanglement, Chair: F. Elohim Becerra ( Ballroom) | |
| 10:15 am - 11:00 am | Irfan Siddiqi, University of California, Berkeley Quantum Bath Engineering with Superconducting Qubits |
| 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Morgan Mitchell, ICFO - Institute of Photonic Sciences Experiments to observe the entangled particles inside macroscopic quantum states |
SESSION 12: Quantum Many-body Systems and Entanglement, Chair: Steven Van Enk ( Ballroom) | |
| 11:30 am - 12:15 pm | Nathan Wiebe, Microsoft Research Quantum Bootstrapping via Compressed Quantum Hamiltonian Learning |
| 12:15 pm - 12:45 pm | Mark Wilde, Louisiana State University Fidelity of recovery and geometric squashed entanglement |
| 12:45 pm - 2:15 pm | Lunch ( Bay Grille and Quarter Deck) |
SESSION 13: Quantum Simulation and Many-body Systems, Chair: Robin Blume- Kohout ( Ballroom) | |
| 2:15 pm - 3:00 pm | Monika Schleier-Smith, Stanford University Topology and Non-Local Quantum Engineering with Ultracold Atoms |
| 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Benjamin Lev, Stanford University Neuromorphic photonic computation with multimode cavity QED |
| 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Mohan Sarovar, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore When can we trust analog quantum simulators? |
| 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | Break ( Belvedere Foyer) |
SESSION 14: Foundations of Quantum Information Science, Chair: Carl Caves ( Ballroom) | |
| 4:30 pm - 5:15 pm | Howard Wiseman, Griffith University Causation and the Two Theorems of John Bell |
| 5:15 pm - 6:00 pm | Leonard Susskind, Stanford University Entanglement is not Enough |
