Schedule

Friday April 30, 1999

8:00 am - 8:30 am Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:30 - 8:40 WELCOMING REMARKS

SESSION I: Quantum Information Processing in Cavity QED

Chair: David Wineland

8:40 - 9:10 Serge Haroche: Entanglement knitting in cavity QED: from QND measurement of a single photon to the generation of GHZ atomic states and beyond

 

9:10 - 9:40 H. Jeff Kimble: Cavity QED with Cold Qubits

 

9:40 - 10:10 Hideo Mabuchi: Feedback control of dressed-state cascades: Mollow doublets and active Sysiphus cooling

10:10 - 10:30 Coffee Break

SESSION II: Quantum Information Processing with Trapped Ions

Chair: Dale Tupa

10:30 - 11:00 Chris Myatt: Experimental study of motional decoherence of trapped ions

 

11:00 - 11:30 Richard Hughes: Practical quantum cryptography systems

 

11:30 - 12:00 Ralph Devoe: Quantum logic experiments using trapped barium 137 ions

12:00 - 2:00 LUNCH

SESSION III: Issues in Quantum vs. Classical Algorithms

Chair: Paul Alsing

2:00 pm - 2:30 Ashwin Nayak: Quantum lower bounds for approximating the median and related problems

 

2:30 - 3:00 Paul Kwiat: Entangled states: The good, the bad, and the ugly

 

3:00 - 3:30 Jonathan Dowling: Two-slit diffraction, entanglement, and nonlocality

3:30 - 4:00 Coffee Break and Poster Previews

4:00 - 5:00 Break/Poster Setup

SESSION IV: Poster Session and Reception

5:00 - 7:00

Poster Presenters

• Paul Alsing: Some exact eigenstates for an arbitrary number of atoms in a externally driven cavity: the driven Tavis-Cummings cavity QED Hamiltonian
• David Bacon: Concatenating decoherence free subspaces with quantum error correcting codes
• Gennady Berman: Non-resonant effects and the process of measurement
• Gavin Brennen: Entanglement of neutral atoms using dipole-dipole interactions
• John Grondalski: Spatial correlation diagnostics for atoms in optical lattices
• Mark Gulley: Progress towards quantum logic with trapped calcium ions
• Julia Kempe: Multipartite entanglement and its applications to cryptography
• Brian King: Quantum-state manipulation and quantum logic with trapped 9Be+ ions
• Christian Kurtsiefer: Towards a quantum computing experiment with 137Ba ions
• Debbie Leung: Decoupling and Selective re-coupling in Crystal Lattice Quantum Computer
• Morgan Mitchell: Ground-state quantum computation
• Cris Moore: Parallel quantum computation
• Gilles Nogues: Operation of a quantum logic gate with a single photon control bit
• Denis Pelekhov: Magnetic resonance force microscopy: current status
• Sara Schneider: Quantum gates with "hot" ions
• M. Werner: Giant Kerr nonlinearity and photon blockade
• Nan Yu: Towards a CQED system with trapped ions

Saturday May 1, 1999

8:00 am - 8:40 Continental Breakfast

SESSION V: Quantum Information with Neutral Atoms

Chair: John McIver

8:40 am - 9:10 am Paul Julienne: Atomic collisions in optical lattices

 

9:10 - 9:40 Ivan Deutsch: Entangling atoms in optical lattice with dipole-dipole interactions

 

9:40 - 10:10 Poul Jessen: Atom tunneling in optical double-well potentials: a testbed for decoherence in optical lattices

10:10 - 10:30 Coffee Break

SESSION VI: Quantum Information Processing with NMR

Chair: Emanuel Knill

10:30 - 11:00 David Cory: An introduction to solid state NMR based quantum information processors

 

11:00 - 11:30 Ike Chuang: Zero temperature dynamics from hot systems: logical labeling

 

11:30 - 12:00 Raymond Laflamme: Demonstration of quantum control using NMR

12:00- 2:00 LUNCH

SESSION VII: Quantum Information Processing in Solids

Chair: K. Birgitta Whaley

2:00 pm - 2:30 Jay Gupta: Injection, transport, and storage of spin coherence in semiconductor structures

 

2:30 - 3:00 P. Chris Hammel: Implementing a silicon-based nuclear spin quantum computer

 

3:00 - 3:30 Fumiko Yamaguchi: Crystal lattice quantum computer

 

3:30 - 4:00 Coffee Break

4:00 - 6:00 Break

Banquet and SQuInT Business 6:00-8:00

• Summer retreat at Santa Barbara
• Web page discussion
• New initiatives and funding sources
• The SQuInT Network logo competition

Sunday May 2, 1999

8:00 am - 8:40 Continental Breakfast

SESSION VIII: Quantum Information Theory I

Chair: Christopher Fuchs

8:40 am - 9:10 Alexei Kitaev: Anyons for quantum computation

 

9:10 - 9:40 Wojciech Zurek: Decoherence - An algorithmic point of view

 

9:40 - 10:10 Eric Dennis: Fault-tolerant quantum computation without concatenation

10:10 - 10:30 Coffee Break

SESSION IX: Quantum Information Theory II

Chair: Atac Imamoglu

10:30 - 11:00 David Meyer: Finite precision measurement nullifies the Kochen-Specker theorem

 

11:00 - 11:30 Daniel Lidar: Decoherence-free subspaces and implications for realizing quantum memory and computation

 

11:30 - 12:00 Carl Caves: Classical models for NMR quantum computation

12:00 - 2:00 LUNCH 

Sponsored by

• The Office of Naval Research
• Los Alamos National Laboratory
• The University of New Mexico (Center for Advanced Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, and the Department of Physics and Astronomy)

LOCAL ORGANIZERS

Ivan Deutsch and Carl Caves