Nineteenth Annual SQuInT Workshop
Start Date: Feb 23, 2017 - 12:00 am
End Date: Feb 25, 2017 - 12:00 am
Host: University of New Mexico Center for Quantum Information and Control (CQuIC) and Louisiana State University
Location: Louisiana State University Campus, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Link: http://physics.unm.edu/SQuInT/2017/index.php
Featured Speakers
- Scott Aaronson (Texas, Austin)
- Christopher Ballance (Oxford)
- Fernando Brandao (IQIM, Caltech)
- Xie Chen (IQIM, Caltech)
- Robert Garisto (Physical Review Letters, APS)
- Saikat Guha (Raytheon BBN Technologies)
- Mark Kasevich (Stanford)
- Christiane Koch (Kassel)
- Matthew Neeley (Google)
- Linda Sansoni (Paderborn)
Wednesday Welcome
The Cook Conference Center
3858 West Lakeshore Drive, Baton Rouge, LA 70808
| 6:30 - 8:30 pm | Opening Reception (with Cash Bar) (Abell Room) |
| 6:30 - 8:30 pm | Check in and On-site Registration (Abell Room Vestibule) |
Thursday Program
Digital Media Center
LSU Campus, South Stadium @ East Parker
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast & Check in (Lobby) | |
| 8:30 am - 8:45 am | Opening Remarks | |
SESSION 1: Atoms and squeezing (Theatre)Chair: Ivan Deutsch (CQuIC, New Mexico) | ||
| 8:45 am - 9:30 am | Mark Kasevich (Stanford) Sub-shot noise measurement strategies for precision atomic sensors | |
| 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Daniel Hemmer (Arizona), Senthilnathan Lingasamy, Ezad Shojaee, Ivan Deutsch, and Poul Jessen Improved spin squeezing of an atomic ensemble through internal state control | |
| 10:00 am - 10:30 am | Break (Lobby) | |
SESSION 2: Quantum control (Theatre)Chair: Bryan Eastin (Northrop Grumman) | ||
| 10:30 am - 11:15 am | Christiane Koch (Kassel) Quantum optimal control of superconducting circuits | |
| 11:15 am - 11:45 am | Xiaoting Wang (Louisiana State), Jianpei Geng, Yang Wu, Kebiao Xu, Fazhan Shi, Yijin Xie, Xing Rong and Jiangfeng Du Experimental time-optimal universal control of spin qubits in solids | |
| 11:45 am - 12:15 pm | Jeffrey Epstein (UC Berkeley), Birgitta Whaley Speed limits for quantum control of local spin systems | |
| 12:15 pm - 1:45 pm | Lunch Buffet (Lobby -- Seating in Rms 1034, 1030, 1014, 1008 A & B, 1004, 1002 and 2nd floor) | |
SESSION 3: Superconducting and solid-state QIP (Theatre)Chair: Eyob Sete (Rigetti) | ||
| 1:45 pm - 2:30 pm | Matthew Neeley (Google) Scaling superconducting qubits: Toward a demonstration of quantum supremacy | |
| 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Karl Mayer (CU Boulder; NIST), Adam Reed, John Teufel, Matt Reagor, Luke Burkhart, Wolfgang Pfaff, Rob Schoelkopf and Konrad Lehnert Faithful conversion of propagating quantum bits to mechanical motion | |
| 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Break (Lobby) | |
SESSION 4: Quantum simulation (Theatre)Chair: Eleanor Rieffel (NASA Ames) | ||
| 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Nathan Lysne (Arizona), Kevin Kuper, Hannah Knaack and Poul Jessen Quantum simulation of complex dynamics in a quantum kicked top | |
| 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | Ian Kivlichan (Harvard), Nathan Wiebe, Ryan Babbush and Alán Aspuru-Guzik Bounding the costs of quantum simulation of many-body physics in real space | |
| 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Nathan Wiebe (Microsoft), Markus Reiher, Dave Wecker, Matthias Troyer, and Krysta Svore Elucidating reaction mechanisms on quantum computers | |
SESSION 5: Poster Session (Lobby and Surround) | ||
| 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm | Poster Session and Reception (with Cash Bar) | |
Friday Program
Digital Media Center (Sessions 6-8)
LSU Campus, South Stadium @ East Parker
LSU Campus, South Stadium @ East Parker
Julian C. Miller Hall (Sessions 9a, 9b, 9c)
Corner of Highland and South Stadium
Corner of Highland and South Stadium
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast (Lobby) |
SESSION 6: Quantum information theory I (Theatre)Chair: Itay Hen (Southern California) | |
| 8:30 am - 9:15 am | Fernando Brandao (IQIM, Caltech) Quantum Gibbs sampling |
| 9:15 am - 9:45 am | Dawei Ding (Stanford), Patrick Hayden, and Michael Walter Conditional mutual information of bipartite unitaries and scrambling |
| 9:45 am - 10:15 am | Break (Lobby) |
SESSION 7: Quantum optics experiments and Bell-inequality test (Theatre)Chair: Elohim Becerra (CQuIC, New Mexico) | |
| 10:15 am - 11:00 am | Linda Sansoni (Paderborn) On chip nonlinear quantum devices |
| 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Peter Bierhorst (NIST Boulder), Lynden K. Shalm, Alan Mink, Stephen Jordan, Yi-Kai Liu, Andrea Rommal, Scott Glancy, Bradley Christensen, Sae Woo Nam, and Emanuel Knill Experimentally generated random numbers certified by the impossibility of superluminal signaling |
| 11:30 am - 12:00 pm | Yong Wan (NIST), T. R. Tan, S. Erickson, P. Bierhorst, D. Kienzler, S. Glancy, E. Knill, D. Leibfried, and D. J. Wineland Chained Bell inequality experiment with high-efficiency measurements |
| 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm | Lunch Buffet (Lobby -- Seating in Rms 1034, 1030, 1014, 1008 A & B, 1004, 1002 and 2nd floor) |
SESSION 8: Quantum optics theory (Theatre)Chair: Pablo Barberis Blostein (Univ. Nacional Autonoma de Mexico) | |
| 1:30 pm - 2:15 pm | Saikat Guha (Raytheon BBN Technologies) Fundamental percolation thresholds for ballistic linear optical quantum computing |
| 2:15 pm - 2:45 pm | Leonid Isaev (JILA, NIST, CU Boulder), Y. Lin, B. J. Lester, C. A. Regal, and A. M. Rey Decoherence-free quantum computing in Kondo-coupled optical tweezers |
| 2:45 pm - 3:15 pm | Xiaodong Qi (CQuIC, New Mexico), Jongmin Lee, Yuan-Yu Jau, and Ivan H. Deutsch Spin squeezing on nanophotonic waveguides |
| 3:15 pm - 3:45 pm | Break (Lobby) |
SESSION 9a: Quantum error correction and prevention (JC Miller Hall, Rm 134)Chair: Todd Brun (Southern California) | |
| 3:45 pm - 4:15 pm | Theodore Yoder (MIT), Isaac H. Kim The surface code with a twist |
| 4:15 pm - 4:45 pm | Aleksander Kubica (IQIM, Caltech), Michael Beverland, Fernando Brandao, John Preskill and Krysta Svore Three-dimensional color code thresholds via statistical-mechanical mapping |
| 4:45 pm - 5:15 pm | Haoyu Qi (Louisiana State), Jonathan Dowling and Lorenza Viola Optimal digital dynamical decoupling for general decoherence via Walsh modulation |
| 5:15 pm - 5:45 pm | Ryan Epstein (Northrop Grumman) Protecting quantum information from noise -- a passive approach |
| 5:45 pm - 6:15 pm | Sepehr Nezami (Stanford), Patrick Hayden and Grant Salton Quantum error correction of reference frame information |
SESSION 9b: Theoretical tools and analyses (JC Miller Hall, Rm 119)Chair: Travis Scholten (Sandia, CQuIC New Mexico) | |
| 3:45 pm - 4:15 pm | Christopher Granade (Sydney), Christopher Ferrie, Ian Hincks, Steven Casagrande, Thomas Alexander, Jonathan Gross, Michal Kononenko and Yuval Sanders QInfer: Statistical inference software for quantum applications |
| 4:15 pm - 4:45 pm | Andrzej Veitia (Oregon), Marcu P. da Silva and Steven van Enk Detecting non-Markovian effects in quantum computing architectures |
| 4:45 pm - 5:15 pm | Jan Kolodynski (ICFO), M. Oszmaniec, R. Augusiak, C. Gogolin, A. Acin, and M. Lewenstein Random bosonic states for robust quantum metrology |
| 5:15 pm - 5:45 pm | Fabricio Toscano (Instituto de Fisica, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brasil ), Wellison P. Bastos and Ruynet L. de Matos Filho Attainability of the quantum information bound in pure state models |
| 5:45 pm - 6:15 pm | Gilad Gour (Calgary) Single-shot quantum resource theories |
SESSION 9c: Quantum algorithms and compiling (JC Miller Hall, Rm 232)Chair: Zhihui Wang (NASA Ames) | |
| 3:45 pm - 4:15 pm | Zhang Jiang (NASA Ames), Eleanor G. Rieffel and Zhihui Wang A circuit-based quantum search algorithm driven by transverse fields |
| 4:15 pm - 4:45 pm | Ciaran Ryan-Anderson (CQuIC New Mexico, Sandia), Yang Jiao and Ojas Parekh Investigating the quantum approximate optimization algorithm's advantage over classical algorithms |
| 4:45 pm - 5:15 pm | Lucas Brady (UC Santa Barbara), Wim van Dam Necessary adiabatic run times in quantum optimization |
| 5:15 pm - 5:45 pm | Sergey Knysh (NASA Ames) Squeezed state ansatz for quantum Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model and its applications to quantum annealing |
| 5:45 pm - 6:15 pm | Martin Roetteler (Microsoft), Thomas Haener and Krysta M. Svore Factoring using 2n+2 qubits with Toffoli based modular multiplication |
| 6:30 pm - 7:00 pm | Steering Committee Meeting (The Club The Club at LSU Union Square, LSU Campus, Corner Raphael Semmes and Highland Road -- CDR) |
| 7:15 pm - 9:30 pm | Banquet (with Cash Bar) The Club at LSU Union Square LSU Campus, Corner Raphael Semmes and Highland Road |
Saturday Program
Digital Media Center
LSU Campus, South Stadium @ East Parker
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast (Lobby) |
SESSION 10: Quantum information theory II (Theatre)Chair: Jonathan Dowling (Louisiana State) | |
| 8:30 am - 9:15 am | Scott Aaronson (Texas, Austin), Lijie Chen Quantum supremacy |
| 9:15 am - 9:45 am | Leigh Norris (Dartmouth), Gerardo Paz-Silva and Lorenza Viola Spectroscopy of quantum and non-Gaussian noise |
| 9:45 am - 10:15 am | Break (Lobby) |
SESSION 11: Ions (Theatre)Chair: Boerge Hemmerling (UC Berkeley) | |
| 10:15 am - 11:00 am | Christopher Ballance (Oxford) Techniques for scaling trapped-ion QIP |
| 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Dietrich Leibfried (NIST, Boulder), C. W. Chou, C. Kurz, D. B. Hume, P. N. Plessow and D. R. Leibrand Preparation and coherent manipulation of pure quantum states of a single molecular ion |
| 11:30 am - 12:00 pm | Kenneth Rudinger (Sandia), Shelby Kimmel (QuICS, University of Maryland), Daniel Lobser (Sandia National Laboratories), and Peter Maunz (Sandia National Laboratories) Experimental demonstration of robust phase estimation near the Heisenberg limit |
| 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm | Lunch Buffet (Lobby -- Seating in Rms 1034, 1030, 1014, 1008 A & B, 1004, 1002 and 2nd floor) |
SESSION 12: Quantum information meets many-body physics (Theatre)Chair: Nicolas Menicucci (Royal Melbourne Inst. Tech.) | |
| 1:30 pm - 2:15 pm | Xie Chen (IQIM, Caltech) Coupled layer construction of three dimensional topological codes with 'Fractons' |
| 2:15 pm - 2:45 pm | Adrian Chapman (CQuIC, New Mexico), Akimasa Miyake Classical simulation of quantum circuits by dynamical localization: analytic results for Pauli-observable propagation in time-dependent disorder |
| 2:45 pm - 3:15 pm | Break (Lobby) |
SESSION 13: Quantum light and matter experiments (Theatre)Chair: Poul Jessen (Arizona) | |
| 3:15 pm - 3:45 pm | Ioana Craiciu (IQIM, Caltech), Evan Miyazono (co-first author), Jake Rochman, Tian Zhong and Andrei Faraon Quantum light matter interfaces using erbium doped yttrium orthosilicate |
| 3:45 pm - 4:15 pm | Andrew Ferdinand (CQuIC, New Mexico), Francisco Elohim Becerra Four wave mixing in a cold atomic ensemble for the generation of correlated photons pairs |
| 4:15 pm - 4:45 pm | Tian Zhong (IQIM, Caltech), Jonathan Kindem, John Bartholomew, Jake Rochman, and Andrei Faraon A nanophotonic platform integrating quantum memories and single qubits based on rare-earth ions |
| 4:45 pm - 5:15 pm | Clemens Matthiesen (UC Berkeley, Cambridge), Robert Stockill, Megan Stanley, Lukas Huthmacher, Claire Le Gall, Pai Peng, Hartmut Haeffner, and Mete Atature Phase-tuned entangled state generation between distant spin qubits |
| 5:15 pm - 5:30 pm | Break |
SESSION 14: Science and publication (Theatre)Chair: Carl Caves (CQuIC, New Mexico) | |
| 5:30 pm - 6:15 pm | Robert Garisto (Physical Review Letters, APS) Secrets of PRL |
