Eleventh Annual SQuInT Workshop
Start Date: Feb 19, 2009 - 12:00 am
End Date: Feb 22, 2009 - 12:00 am
Host: University of Washington and the University of New Mexico Center for Advanced Studies
Location: Hotel Deca, Seattle, Washington
Thursday Program
| 5:00 - 5:50 | Conference Registration and Reception |
| 5:50 - 6:00 | Welcome to SQuInT 2009 |
| SESSION 1: Condensed Matter QI | |
| Session Chair: | |
| 6:00 - 6:45 | Jack Harris, Yale University (invited) |
| Optomechanical systems | |
| 6:45 - 7:15 | Malcolm Carroll, Sandia National Laboratories |
| Development of a Silicon Physical Qubit and Single Logical Qubit Design | |
| 7:15 - 7:45 | Evening Break |
| 7:45 - 8:15 | Thaddeus Ladd, Stanford University |
| Recent Progress in Quantum Computing with Optically Controlled Semiconductors | |
| 8:15 - 8:45 | Haitao Quan, Los Alamos National Laboratory |
| Quantum Fidelity and Thermal Phase Transitions | |
Friday Program
| 7:30 - 8:30 | Conference Breakfast and Registration |
| SESSION 2: Neutral Atom QI | |
| Session Chair: | |
| 8:30 - 9:15 | David Weiss, Penn State (invited) |
| Quantum computing with atoms in a 3D optical lattice | |
| 9:15 - 9:45 | Poul Jessen, University of Arizona |
| Quantum Control of Large Atomic Hyperfine Manifolds | |
| 9:45 - 10:15 | Morning Coffee Break |
| 10:15 - 10:45 | Benjamin Lev, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Exploring exotic matter through the quantum manipulation of dipolar atoms | |
| 10:45 - 11:15 | Nathan Lundblad, Joint Quantum Institute/NIST/Univ. of Maryland |
| Optical lattice-based addressing and control of long-lived neutral-atom qubits | |
| 11:15 - 11:45 | Iris Reichenbach, University of New Mexico |
| Two-qubit quantum logic gates via optical Feshbach resonances in alkaline-earth-like atoms | |
| 11:45 - 1:15 | Conference Lunch |
| SESSION 3: Error Correction | |
| Session Chair: | |
| 1:15 - 2:00 | Barbara Terhal, IBM Research (invited) |
| No-Go Results for a 2D Quantum Memory Based on Stabilizer Codes | |
| 2:00 - 2:30 | Bei Zeng, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Generalized Concatenated Quantum Codes | |
| 2:30 - 3:00 | Bryan Eastin, National Institute of Standards and Technology |
| Restrictions on Transversal Encoded Quantum Gate Sets | |
| 3:00 - 3:30 | Afternoon Coffee Break |
| SESSION 4: Entanglement | |
| Session Chair: | |
| 3:30 - 4:00 | Steven van Enk, University of Oregon |
| Verifying multi-partite mode entanglement of W states | |
| 4:00 - 4:30 | Shohini Ghose, Wilfrid Laurier University |
| Relationship between 3-qubit entanglement and nonlocality | |
| SESSION 5: Poster Session | |
| 5:00 - 7:00 | Poster Abstracts |
Saturday Program
| 7:30 - 8:30 | Conference Breakfast |
| SESSION 6: Ion Trap QI | |
| Session Chair: | |
| 8:30 - 9:15 | Luming Duan, University of Michigan (invited) |
| Large Scale Quantum Computation in a Linear Ion Trap | |
| 9:15 - 10:45 | John Jost, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder |
| Ion Motional Entanglement and Quantum Information Experiments at NIST* | |
| 9:45 - 10:15 | Morning Coffee Break |
| 10:15 - 11:00 | Christopher Monroe, JQI and University of Maryland (invited) |
| Ion Trap Photonic Quantum Networks | |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Matt Dietrich, University of Washington |
| Preparation and detection of a 137Ba+ hyperfine qubit | |
| 11:30 - 1:00 | Conference Lunch |
| SESSION 7: Quantum Measurement | |
| Session Chair: | |
| 1:00 - 1:30 | Anil Shaji, The University of New Mexico |
| Heisenberg limited phase estimation with mode-entangled coherent states | |
| 1:30 - 2:00 | John Sidles, University of Washington |
| Renewing and Uniting Two Challenges of John von Neumann and Richard Feynman: Atomic-Resolution Biomicroscopy and Simulating Quantum Physics with Computers | |
| 2:00 - 2:30 | Kevin Young, University of California - Berkeley |
| Optimal experiment design for parameter estimation as applied to dipole- and exchange-coupled qubits | |
| 2:30 - 3:00 | Robert Cook, University of New Mexico |
| Continuous measurement of a quantum phase transition in a collective atomic system weakly coupled to a single optical mode | |
| 3:00 - 3:30 | Afternoon Coffee Break |
| SESSION 8: Breakout I - Quantum Information Theory | |
| Session Chair: | |
| 3:30 - 4:00 | Rodney Van Meter, Keio University |
| Resource Handling for Quantum Networks of Arbitrary Topology | |
| 4:00 - 4:30 | Sevag Gharibian, Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo |
| Strong NP-Hardness of the Quantum Separability Problem | |
| 4:30 - 5:00 | Soraya Taghavi, University of Southern California |
| Channel-Optimized Quantum Error Correction | |
| 5:00 - 5:30 | Beni Yoshida, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Duality theorem and topological properties in local stabilizer codes | |
| SESSION 9: Breakout II - Resources for Quantum Information | |
| Session Chair: | |
| 3:30 - 4:00 | Joseph Renes, Technical University of Darmstadt |
| Measurement-Based Quantum Computation in Realistic Spin-1 Chains | |
| 4:00 - 4:30 | Xie Chen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Gapped Two-body Hamiltonian whose Unique Ground State is Universal for One-way Quantum Computation | |
| 4:30 - 5:00 | Dmitry Uskov, Tulane/LSU |
| Designing Optimal States and Transformations for Quantum Optical Communication and Metrology | |
| 5:00 - 5:30 | Samuel Gasster, The Aerospace Corporation |
| Resource Requirements for Fault-Tolerant Quantum Simulation: The Transverse Ising Model Ground State | |
| SESSION 10: Breakout III - Decoherence | |
| Session Chair: | |
| 3:30 - 4:00 | Mark Byrd, Southern Illinois University |
| Creating and manipulating quantum decoherence-free, or noiseless, systems of qudits | |
| 4:00 - 4:30 | Michael Biercuk, NIST - Ion Storage Group |
| Dynamical Decoupling in a Model Quantum Memory | |
| 4:30 - 5:00 | Sergio Boixo, California Institute of Technology |
| Quantum computing through decoherence | |
| 5:00 - 5:30 | Cesar Rodriguez-Rosario, Harvard University |
| Non-Markovian Environmental Contributions to the Efficiency of Energy Transfer | |
| 6:30 - 8:30 | Conference Banquet |
Sunday Program
| 7:30 - 8:30 | Conference Breakfast |
| SESSION 11: Quantum Algorithms | |
| Session Chair: | |
| 8:30 - 9:15 | Andrew Childs, University of Waterloo (invited) |
| The relationship between continuous- and discrete-time quantum walk | |
| 9:15 - 9:45 | Alan Aspuru-Guzik, Harvard University |
| The Role of Coherence in Photosynthetic Energy Transfer | |
| 9:45 - 10:15 | Robert Koenig, California Institute of Technology |
| Simplifying quantum double Hamitonians using perturbative gadgets | |
| 10:15 - 10:45 | Morning Coffee Break |
| SESSION 12: Quantum Communication | |
| Session Chair: | |
| 10:45 - 11:15 | Jon Yard, Los Alamos National Laboratory |
| Quantum communication with zero-capacity channels | |
| 11:15 - 11:45 | Patrick Rice, Los Alamos National Lab |
| Comparison between continuous wave and pulsed laser EQKD | |
| 11:45 - 12:15 | Min-Hsiu Hsieh, Quantum Computation and Information Project, Solution Oriented Research for Science and Technology |
| The Classically-Enhanced Father Protocol | |
| 12:15 | Box Lunch |
