Thirteenth Annual SQuInT Workshop
Start Date: Feb 17, 2011 - 03:00 pm
End Date: Feb 20, 2011 - 12:00 pm
Host: University of New Mexico Center for Quantum Information and Control (CQuIC) and The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Boulder
Location: Millennium Harvest House, Boulder, Colorado
13th Annual SQuInT Workshop
Boulder, Colorado, February 17-20, 2011
Millennium Harvest House
The 13th 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.
Satellite Workshop on Ion Trap Technology: February 16-17, 2011
Invited Speakers
- Jens Eisert (Potsdam)
- Markus Greiner (Harvard)
- Morgan Mitchell (ICFO, Barcelona)
- Sergey Bravyi (IBM)
- Jonathan Oppenheim (Cambridge)
- David Poulin (Sherbrooke)
- Arno Rauschenbeutel (Vienna)
- Ray Simmonds (NIST)
Thursday Program
| 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm | Conference Registration |
| SESSION 1: Nanomechanics and Superconducting QIP | |
| Session Chair: | |
| 4:00 pm - 4:45 pm | Raymond Simmonds, National Institute of Standards and Technology |
| Quantum-based Measurements with Superconducting Circuits | |
| 4:45 pm - 5:15 pm | Emily Pritchett, University of Waterloo, Institute for Quantum Computing |
| General-Purpose Quantum Simulation with Prethreshold Superconducting Qubits | |
| SESSION 2: Quantum Error Correction | |
| Session Chair: | |
| 5:15 pm - 6:00 pm | Sergey Bravyi, IBM Watson Research Center |
| Subsystem and stabilizer quantum codes with spatially local generators | |
| 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm | Evening Break Buffet |
| 7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Dave Bacon, University of Washington |
| Making Error Correction Spatially Local | |
| 8:00 pm - 8:30 pm | Bryan Fong, HRL Laboratories, LLC |
| Exchange-Only Computation, Leakage Reduction, and Dynamical Decoupling in the Three-Qubit Decoherence Free Subsystem | |
| 8:30 pm - 9:00 pm | Gerardo Paz, University of Southern California |
| Concatenated Stabilizer Dynamical Decoupling | |
Friday Program
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Conference Breakfast and Registration |
| SESSION 3: Neutral Atom QIP | |
| Session Chair: | |
| 8:30 am - 9:15 am | Markus Greiner, Harvard University |
| Quantum simulation of an antiferromagnetic Ising chain with longitudinal and transverse magnetic fields | |
| 9:15 am - 9:45 am | Mark Saffman, University of Wisconsin Madison |
| Towards multi-qubit computing with Rydberg blockade | |
| 9:45 am - 10:15 am | Carlos Riofrio, University of New Mexico |
| Quantum tomography of the full hyperfine manifold of atomic spins via continuous measurement on an ensemble | |
| 10:15 am - 10:45 am | Morning Break |
| 10:45 am - 11:15 am | Jae Hoon Lee, University of Arizona |
| Quantum Control of the Motional and Internal Degrees of Freedom of Neutral Atoms | |
| 11:15 am - 11:45 am | Steven Olmschenk, Joint Quantum Institute, National Institute of Standards and Technology and University of Maryland Department of Physics |
| Randomized benchmarking of atomic qubits and differential light shift cancellation in an optical lattice | |
| 11:45 am - 12:15 pm | Andrea Alberti, Universität Bonn |
| Engineering Coherences at Single-Atom Level | |
| 12:15 pm - 1:45 pm | Conference Lunch |
| SESSION 4: Quantum Information Theory I | |
| Session Chair: | |
| 1:45 pm - 2:30 pm | Jonathan Oppenheim, University of Cambridge |
| Uncertainty, nonlocality, & complementarity | |
| 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Jon Yard, Los Alamos National Laboratory |
| Faithful squashed entanglement with applications to separability testing and quantum complexity | |
| 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Steve Flammia, Caltech |
| Tomography via Compressed Sensing | |
| 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Afternoon Break |
| SESSION 5: Quantum Metrology | |
| Session Chair: | |
| 4:00 pm - 4:45 pm | Morgan Mitchell, Institute of Photonic Sciences |
| Quantum-enhanced magnetometry and nonlinear metrology with atomic ensembles. | |
| 4:45 pm - 5:15 pm | Mankei Tsang, University of New Mexico |
| Fundamental Quantum Limit to Waveform Estimation | |
| SESSION 6: Poster Session | |
| 5:15 pm - 7:15 pm | Poster Abstracts |
Saturday Program
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Conference Breakfast |
| SESSION 7: Atoms in Cavities and Confined Modes | |
| Session Chair: | |
| 8:30 am - 9:15 am | Arno Rauschenbeutel, Institute of Atomic and Subatomic Physics, Vienna University of Technology |
| Trapping and Interfacing Cold Neutral Atoms Using Optical Nanofibers | |
| 9:15 am - 9:45 am | Luis Orozco, Joint Quantum Institute, Dept. Physics and National Institute of Standards and Technology, University of Maryland |
| Light shifts of ground-state quantum beats: A consequence of quantum jumps. | |
| 9:45 am - 10:15 am | Clement Lacroute, California Institute of Technology |
| Atom trapping in the evanescent field of a tapered optical fiber: towards cQED with micro-toroids and trapped atoms. | |
| 10:15 am - 10:45 am | Morning Break |
| SESSION 8: Quantum Algorithms | |
| Session Chair: | |
| 10:45 am - 11:30 am | David Poulin, Université de Sherbrooke |
| Quantum Metropolis Sampling: An algorithm to simulate thermal systems with a quantum computer | |
| 11:30 am - 12:00 pm | Bryan Eastin, Northrop Grumman Corporation |
| Simulating Concordant Computations | |
| 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm | Conference Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 2:15 pm | Jens Eisert, University of Potsdam |
| Relaxation, thermalization, and a quantum algorithm to prepare Gibbs states | |
| SESSION 9: Photonic QIP | |
| Session Chair: | |
| 2:15 pm - 2:45 pm | Olivier Pfister, University of Virginia |
| Scaling up entanglement in the optical frequency comb: recent experimental progress | |
| 2:45 pm - 3:15 pm | Adriana Lita, National Institute Of Standards and Technology (NIST) Boulder |
| Superconducting Transition-Edge Sensors Optimized for High-Efficiency Photon-Number Resolving Detectors | |
| 3:15 pm - 4:00 pm | Afternoon Break |
| SESSION 10a: Breakout A -- Quantum Tomography, Estimation, Optimization | |
| Session Chair: | |
| 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | Robin Blume-Kohout, Los Alamos National Lab |
| Confidence intervals for quantum state estimation | |
| 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Mike Mullan, National Institute of Standards and Technology |
| Improving Quantum Clocks via Semidefinite Programming | |
| 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm | Joshua Combes, Center for Quantum Information and Control, University of New Mexico, USA |
| Efficient methods for the characterisation of qbit Hamiltonian dynamics | |
| 5:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Yu Tomita, Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Multi-qubit compensation sequences | |
| SESSION 10b: Breakout B -- Quantum Error Correction and Algorithms | |
| Session Chair: | |
| 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | Mark Byrd, Southern Illinois University |
| Pseudo-unitary freedom in the operator-sum representation, positive maps, and quantum error correction | |
| 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Jim Harrington, HRL Laboratories |
| Addressable multi-qubit logic via permutations | |
| 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm | Ching-Yi Lai, University of Southern California |
| Entanglement-Assisted Quantum Error-Correcting Codes when the Ebits of Receiver are not Perfect | |
| 5:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Asif Shakeel, University of California at San Diego |
| An Improved Query for the Hidden Subgroup Problem | |
| SESSION 10c: Breakout C -- Entanglement and Superpositions | |
| Session Chair: | |
| 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | Miguel-Angel Garcia-March, Colorado School of Mines |
| Ultracold bosons in 3D double wells: macroscopic superposition of vortex states and the tunneling of atoms carrying vorticity | |
| 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Jess Riedel, Los Alamos National Laboratory |
| Quantum Darwinism in an Everyday Environment: Huge Redundancy in Scattered Photons | |
| 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm | Peter Love, Haverford College |
| Convex Roof Optimization from Cartan Decompositions | |
| 5:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Gilad Gour, Institute for Quantum Information Science, University of Calgary |
| Multipartite Entanglement: Classification, Quantification, Manipulation, Evolution and Applications | |
| 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm | Conference Banquet |
Sunday Program
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Conference Breakfast |
| SESSION 11: Ion Trap QIP | |
| Session Chair: | |
| 8:30 am - 9:00 am | Christian Ospelkaus, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder |
| Quantum information processing with trapped ions at NIST | |
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Kihwan Kim, Joint Quantum Institute and University of Maryland |
| Quantum simulation with trapped atomic ions | |
| 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Thomas Noel, University of Washington |
| Rapid Adiabatic Passage on a Trapped Ion with a Noisy Laser | |
| 10:00 am - 10:30 am | Morning Break |
| SESSION 12: Quantum Computation | |
| Session Chair: | |
| 10:30 am - 11:00 am | David Feder, University of Calgary |
| Universal Quantum Computation with Non-Interacting Fermions | |
| 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Robert Raussendorf, University of British Columbia |
| The 2D AKLT state is universal for measurement-based quantum computation | |
| 11:30 am - 12:00 pm | Wim van Dam, University of California, Santa Barbara |
| Noise Thresholds for Higher Dimensional Systems using the Discrete Wigner Function | |
