Twelfth Annual SQuInT Workshop
Start Date: Feb 18, 2010 - 03:00 pm
End Date: Feb 21, 2010 - 11:45 am
Host: University of New Mexico Center for Quantum Information and Control (CQuIC)
Location: Eldorado Hotel, Santa Fe, New Mexico
The 12th Annual SQuInT Workshop was hosted by the University of New Mexico Center for Quantum Information and Control (CQuIC), locally organized by the SQuInT Coordinator Ivan Deutsch
CQuIC Kickoff Keynotes
- Carl Caves (CQuIC Director, UNM)
- Bill Phillips (Joint Quantum Institute)
- Richard Hughes (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Quantum Initiative)
- Gerard Milburn (University of Queensland, Quantum Information Science Initiative)
- Andrew Landahl (Sandia National Laboratories, Quantum Information Science and Technology)
Invited Speakers
- Scott Aaronson (MIT)
- Rainer Blatt (Innsbruck)
- Matt Hastings (Station Q)
- Dieter Meschede (Bonn)
- Keith Schwab (Caltech)
- John Watrous (Waterloo)
Thursday Program
| 3:00 - 4:00 | Conference Registration |
| SESSION 1: CQuIC Kickoff Keynotes | |
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| 4:00 - 4:30 | Carlton Caves, University of New Mexico (invited) Quantum-circuit guide to optical and atomic interferometry |
| 4:30 - 5:15 | Gerard Milburn, The University of Queensland (invited) Quantum control and computation in circuit quantum electrodynamics. |
| 5:15 - 6:45 | Evening Break Buffet |
| 6:45 - 7:30 | William Phillips, Joint Quantum Institute (invited) Simulated Electric and Magnetic Fields for Quantum Degenerate Neutral Atoms |
| 7:30 - 8:15 | Andrew Landahl, Sandia National Laboratories (invited) How to build a fault-tolerant logical qubit with quantum dots |
| 8:15 - 9:00 | Richard Hughes, Los Alamos National Laboratory (invited) Quantum Key Distribution: longer ranges and stronger security with superconducting detectors and decoy states |
Friday Program
| 7:30 - 8:30 | Conference Breakfast and Registration |
| SESSION 2: Trapped Ion QI | |
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| 8:30 - 9:15 | Rainer Blatt, University of Innsbruck Quantum Information Science with Trapped Ca+ Ions |
| 9:15 - 9:45 | David Hanneke, National Institute of Standards and Technology Putting the pieces together: Recent progress with trapped ions at NIST |
| 9:45 - 10:15 | Morning Break |
| 10:15 - 10:45 | David Hayes, Joint Quantum Institute/University of Maryland Entanglement of Atomic Qubits using an Optical Frequency Comb |
| 10:45 - 11:15 | Nikolaos Daniilidis, Unifersity of California, Berkeley Towards wiring up trapped ions |
| 11:15 - 11:45 | Gang Shu, University of Washington Novel Ion Trap for Efficient Fluorescence Collection from Trapped Ion Qubits |
| 11:45 - 1:15 | Conference Lunch |
| SESSION 3: Quantum Information Theory | |
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| 1:15 - 2:00 | Scott Aaronson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology New Evidence that Quantum Mechanics is Hard to Simulate on Classical Computers |
| 2:00 - 2:30 | Jon Yard, Los Alamos National Laboratory An information-theoretic interpretation of topological entanglement entropy |
| 2:30 - 3:00 | Howard Barnum, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics What is special about quantum entropy? |
| 3:00 - 3:30 | Afternoon Break |
| SESSION 4: Nanomechanical Resonators | |
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| 3:30 - 4:15 | Keith Schwab, Caltech Preparation and Detection of an RF Mechanical Resonator Near the Ground State of Motion |
| 4:15 - 4:45 | Tobias Donner, JILA, National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Colorado, Boulder Nanomechanical motion measured with an imprecision below the standard quantum limit |
| SESSION 5: Poster Session | |
| 5:00 - 7:00 | Poster Abstracts |
Saturday Program
| 7:30 - 8:30 | Conference Breakfast |
| SESSION 6: Neutral Atom QI | |
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| 8:30 - 9:15 | Dieter Meschede, Universitaet Bonn "Quantum Interference Experiments with One and More Neutral Atoms" |
| 9:15 - 9:45 | David Moehring, Sandia National Laboratories Single-Atom Single-Photon Quantum Interface |
| 9:45 - 10:15 | Morning Break |
| 10:15 - 10:45 | Brian Mischuck, University of New Mexico Quantum Control of Neutral Atoms Qudits and Transport |
| 10:45 - 11:15 | Aaron Smith, University of Arizona Quantum State Mapping in the Cs 133 Full Hyperfine Ground Manifold |
| 11:15 - 11:45 | Katharina Gillen, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo A neutral atom quantum memory created by diffraction of laser light at an array of pinholes |
| 11:45 - 1:15 | Conference Lunch |
| SESSION 7: Quantum Algorithms | |
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| 1:15 - 2:00 | John Watrous, University of Waterloo QIP = PSPACE |
| 2:00 - 2:30 | David Meyer, University of California/San Diego Multi-query quantum algorithms for summation |
| 2:30 - 3:00 | Rolando Somma, Los Alamos National Laboratory Fast Quantum Algorithms for Traversing Paths of Eigenstates |
| 3:00 - 3:30 | Afternoon Break |
| SESSION 8: Breakout I - Quantum Computing | |
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| 3:30 - 4:00 | Stephen Jordan, California Institute of Technology Permutational Quantum Computing |
| 4:00 - 4:30 | Peter Love, Haverford College Some new constructions for Local Hamiltonian and universal adiabatic quantum computing |
| 4:30 - 5:00 | Ali Rezakhani, University of Southern California Geometrization of quantum adiabatic computation |
| 5:00 - 5:30 | Aaron Denney, University of New Mexico Distinguishing the Borel subgroups of PSL(2; q) |
| SESSION 9: Breakout II - Metrology and Measurement | |
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| 3:30 - 4:00 | Alexandre Tacla, University of New Mexico Practical quantum metrology with Bose-Einstein condensates |
| 4:00 - 4:30 | Collin Trail, University of New Mexico Quantum Eraser and Phase-Matching for Exponential Spin-Squeezing via Coherent Optical Feedback |
| 4:30 - 5:00 | Mankei Tsang, University of New Mexico Time-Symmetric Quantum Smoothing: A General Theory of Optimal Quantum Sensing |
| 5:00 - 5:30 | Francois Mallet, Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics Tomographic reconstruction of the Wigner function of an itinerant microwave field. |
| SESSION 10: Breakout III - Quantum Communication | |
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| 3:30 - 4:00 | Artur Scherer, Institute for Quantum Information Science at the University of Calgary Mathematical model for real-world entanglement swapping and applications to practical long-distance quantum key distribution |
| 4:00 - 4:30 | Netanel Lindner, Caltech - Institute of Quantum Information A photonic cluster state machine gun |
| 4:30 - 5:00 | Hayden McGuinness, University of Oregon Frequency Translation of Single-Photon States by Four-Wave Mixing in a Photonic Crystal Fiber |
| 5:00 - 5:30 | Ben Fortescue, Institute for Quantum Information Science, University of Calgary Quantum secret sharing with qudit graph states |
| 6:30 - 9:00 | Conference Banquet |
Sunday Program
| 7:30 - 8:30 | Conference Breakfast |
| SESSION 11: Quantum Information and Condensed Matter | |
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| 8:30 - 9:15 | Matthew Hastings, Microsoft Station Q Proving Hall Conductance Quantization |
| 9:15 - 9:45 | Benjamin Lev, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Trapping ultracold dysprosium |
| 9:45 - 10:15 | Morning Break |
| SESSION 12: Quantum Simulation | |
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| 10:15 - 10:45 | Mohan Sarovar, University of California, Berkeley Quantum mechanical aspects of photosynthesis |
| 10:45 - 11:15 | Norbert Schuch, California Institute of Technology An efficient algorithm to find mean field and Matrix Product State solutions for one-dimensional systems |
| 11:15 - 11:45 | Michael Biercuk, National Institute of Standards and Technology Spin Squeezing, Large-Scale Entanglement, and Quantum Simulation in Ion Crystals |
