First Annual SQuInT Workshop

Start Date: Apr 30, 1999 - 08:00am
End Date: May 02, 1999 - 02:00pm
Host: University of New Mexico Center for Advanced Studies
Location: Holiday Inn Mountain View, Albuquerque, New Mexico

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
LUNCH: 12:00-2:00
SESSION III: Issues in Quantum vs. Classical Algorithms
Chair: Paul Alsing
- 2:00pm-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
8:00am-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
LUNCH: 12:00-2:00
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
8:00am-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
LUNCH 12:00-2:00
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)