Ninth Annual SQuInT Workshop
Start Date: Feb 16, 2007 - 07:30 am
End Date: Feb 18, 2007 - 02:00 pm
Host: California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and University of New Mexico Center for Advanced Studies
Location: Caltech Campus, Pasadena, California
SQuInT brings together researchers in theoretical and experimental quantum information science from around the Southwest and beyond. The 9th Annual SQuInT Workshop was hosted by the California Institute of Technology and the University of New Mexico Center for Advanced Studies from February 16-18, 2006. The local organizers for this year's meeting were Hideo Mabuchi and John Preskill with administrative assistance from Sheri Stoll and Ann Harvey.
Program
Friday 16 February 2007
| 07:30 - 08:30 | Conference Breakfast |
| 08:30 - 08:45 | Welcome to SQuInT 2007 |
| SESSION 1 | Quantum Information with Atoms (I) |
| Session Chair: Poul Jessen | |
| 08:45 - 09:30 | Brian Demarco, University of Illinois (invited) |
| Quantum Simulation with Ultra-Cold Atoms | |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Patricia Lee, National Institute of Standards and Technology |
| Subwavelength addressibility and spin-exchange in a double-well optical lattice | |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Morning Coffee Break |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Worawarong Rakreungdet, University of Arizona |
| Progress towards Quantum Logic with Cs Atoms in an Optical Lattice | |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Michael G. Raymer, Univeristy of Oregon |
| Entanglement of mesoscopic optical wave-packets and collective atomic ensembles | |
| 11:30 - 13:00 | Conference Lunch |
| SESSION 2 | Quantum Information with Atoms (II) |
| Session Chair: Trey Porto | |
| 13:00 - 13:45 | Peter Zoller, University of Innsbruck (invited) |
| Dissipative dynamics of atomic Hubbard models coupled to a phonon bath: Dark state cooling in a Bloch band of an optical lattice | |
| 13:45 - 14:15 | James (Chin-wen) Chou, California Institute of Technology |
| Real-time Manipulation of Remote Atomic Ensembles for a Scalable Quantum Network | |
| 14:15 - 14:45 | Ivan Deutsch, University of New Mexico |
| QIP with Nuclear Spins and Quantum Statistics in Group-II Neutral Atoms | |
| 14:45 - 15:15 | Afternoon Coffee Break |
| SESSION 3 | Quantum Error Correction and Fault Tolerance |
| Session Chair: John Preskill | |
| 15:15 - 16:15 | Bryan Eastin, University of New Mexico (invited tutorial) |
| Thresholds for Quantum Computation | |
| 16:15 - 16:45 | Dave Bacon, University of Washington |
| Is Fault-Tolerant Adiabatic Quantum Computation Possible? | |
| 16:45 - 17:00 | Mid-Session Break |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Krysta Svore, Microsoft Research |
| Noise Threshold for a Fault-tolerant Two-dimensional Lattice Architecture | |
| 17:30 - 18:00 | Kaveh Khodjasteh, University of Southern California |
| Dynamical Error Correction without Measurement | |
| SESSION 4 | Poster Session |
| 18:00 - 19:30 | Poster Abstracts |
Saturday 17 February 2007
| 07:30 - 08:30 | Conference Breakfast |
| SESSION 5 | Quantum Metrology and Precision Measurement |
| Session Chair: Krzysztof Wodkiewicz | |
| 08:30 - 09:15 | Dirk Bouwmeester, University of California, Santa Barbara (invited) |
| Quantum state manipulation with photons, solid-state cavity QED systems and micromechanical structures | |
| 09:15 - 09:45 | Rolando Somma, Los Alamos National Labs |
| Optimal Quantum Measurements | |
| 09:45 - 10:15 | Morning Coffee Break |
| 10:15 - 10:45 | Steven T. Flammia, University of New Mexico |
| Generalized Limits for Single-Parameter Quantum Estimation | |
| 10:45 - 11:15 | Ben Lev, JILA |
| Stark decelerated OH: magnetic trapping, precision measurement, and cooling | |
| SESSION 6 | Quantum Information Theory |
| Session Chair: Howard Barnum | |
| 11:15 - 12:00 | Renato Renner, University of Cambridge (invited) |
| Quantum information theory without independence assumptions | |
| 12:00 - 13:30 | Conference Lunch |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Peter Hoyer, University of Calgary |
| Strengthening the quantum adversary method with negative weights | |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Andrew Childs, California Institute of Technology |
| Quantum algorithms for hidden quadratic structures | |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Jon Yard, California Institute of Technology |
| The operational meaning of quantum conditional information | |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Afternoon Coffee Break |
| SESSION 7 | Quantum Control |
| Session Chair: Hideo Mabuchi | |
| 15:30 - 16:30 | Navin Khaneja, Harvard University (invited tutorial) |
| Quantum Control Theory | |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Break |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | JM Geremia, University of New Mexico |
| Optical Quantum State Discrimination with a Closed-Loop Measurement | |
| 17:30 - 18:00 | Souma Chaudhury, University of Arizona |
| Quantum State Control in a Large Spin System | |
| SESSION 8 | Poster Session |
| 18:00 - 19:00 | Additional Poster Viewing Period |
| 19:00 - | Conference Banquet |
Sunday 18 February 2007
| 07:30 - 08:30 | Conference Breakfast |
| SESSION 9 | Quantum Information with Trapped Ions |
| 08:30 - 09:00 | Signe Seidelin, National Institute of Standards and Technology |
| Towards scalable ion trap quantum information processing | |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Dietrich Leibfried, National Institute of Standards and Technology |
| QIP Implementation and Small Algorithms with Trapped Ions at NIST | |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | John Chiavarini, Los Alamos National Labs |
| Progress toward Simulations of Quantum System with Trapped Ions at LANL | |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Morning Coffee Break |
| SESSION 10 | Quantum Communication and Cryptography |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Jim Harrington, Los Alamos National Labs |
| Long distance decoy state quantum key distribution | |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Mark M. Wilde, University of Southern California |
| Coherent Communication with Continuous Variables | |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Pick up box lunches for breakout sessions |
| SESSION 11 | Breakout Sessions During Lunch |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Nickolas Vanmeter Krzysztof Wodkiewicz Peter Love |
| 12:30 - 13:00 | Ronald Pepino A.R.P. Rau Andrew Landahl |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Nathan Babcock Anil Shaji Gilad Gour |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Dimitri Dounas-Frazer Kishor Kapale Bei Zeng |
| SESSION 11a | Breakout: Quantum Information in AMO Physics |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Nickolas Vanmeter, Louisiana State University |
| A General Linear-Optical Quantum State Generator | |
| 12:30 - 13:00 | Ronald Pepino, University of Colorado |
| Atomtronics: Creating ultracold atom analogs of electronic circuits and devices | |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Nathan Babcock, University of Calgary |
| Rapid control and measurement of clock-state qubits in Yb and Sr | |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Dimitri Dounas-Frazer, Colorado School of Mines |
| Tunneling resonances and entanglement dynamics of cold bosons in a double well | |
| SESSION 11b | Breakout: Quantum Entanglement |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Krzysztof Wodkiewicz, University of New Mexico |
| Quantum separability of correlated qutrits in noisy channels | |
| 12:30 - 13:00 | A.R.P. Rau, Louisiana State University |
| Geometric phases and Bloch sphere for two qubits | |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Anil Shajhi, University of New Mexico |
| Multiply constrained bounds on measures of entanglement | |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Kishor Kapale, Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| A Bootstrapping Approach for Generating Maximally Path-Entangled Photon States | |
| SESSION 11c | Breakout: Quantum Information Theory |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Peter Love, Haverford College |
| Quantum cellular automata and quantum simulation | |
| 12:30 - 13:00 | Andrew Landahl, University of New Mexico |
| Printed quantum circuits | |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Gilad Gour, University of Calgary |
| Quantum Resource Theories and Super Selection Rules | |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Bei Zeng, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Transversality versus universality for stabilizer codes | |
| 14:00 | END OF SQuInT 2007 |
