Fourteenth Annual SQuInT Workshop
Start Date: Feb 16, 2012 - 04:00 pm
End Date: Feb 19, 2012 - 12:45 pm
Host: University of New Mexico Center for Quantum Information and Control (CQuIC)
Location: Hotel Albuquerque at Old Town, Albuquerque, New Mexico
14th Annual SQuInT Workshop
Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 16-19, 2012
Hotel Albuquerque at Old Town
The 14th Annual SQuInT Workshop was locally hosted by the University of New Mexico Center for Quantum Information and Control (CQuIC).
Invited Speakers
- Antoine Browaeys (Institut d'Optique)
- Luiz Davidovich (Instituto de Física)
- Jeremy O'Brien (University of Bristol)
- Norbert Schuch (IQI, Caltech)
- Robert Schoelkopf (Yale)
- Robert Spekkens (Perimeter Institute)
- James Thompson (JILA)
- Stephanie Wehner (Center for Quantum Technologies, Singapore)
Thursday Program | ||
| SESSION 1: Tomography - Alvarado "D" | ||
| Session Chair: | ||
| 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | Steven Flammia, University of Washington | |
| Direct Fidelity Estimation from Few Pauli Measurements | ||
| 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Brian Anderson, University of Arizona | |
| Quantum Control and Quantum State Tomography in the Hyperfine Ground Manifold of Atomic Cesium | ||
| 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm | Steven van Enk, University of Oregon | |
| Information criteria for quantum state estimation and everything else | ||
| 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm | Evening Break Buffet - Franciscan Room | |
| SESSION 2: Foundations - Alvarado "D" | ||
| Session Chair: | ||
| 7:00 pm - 7:45 pm | Robert Spekkens, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (invited) | |
| Formulating Quantum Theory as a Causally Neutral Theory of Bayesian Inference | ||
| 7:45 pm - 8:15 pm | Yanbao Zhang, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder | |
| Asymptotically optimal data analysis for rejecting local realism | ||
| 8:15 pm - 8:45 pm | Jibran Rashid, Institute for Quantum Information Science at the University of Calgary | |
| Quantum Nonlocal Boxes Exhibit Stronger Distillability | ||
Friday Program | ||
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Conference Breakfast - North and East Atriums | |
| SESSION 3: Ion Trap QIP - Alvarado "D" | ||
| Session Chair: | ||
| 8:30 am - 9:00 am | Ulrich Warring, NIST Ion Storage Group; National Institute of Standards and Technology | |
| Trapped-ion quantum information processing experiments at NIST* | ||
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Kenton Brown, Georgia Tech Research Institute | |
| Trapped-Ion Physics at GTRI: Towards Large-Scale Integration and Automation | ||
| 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Heather Partner, Sandia National Labs / University of New Mexico | |
| Magnetic field gradient effects on a trapped ion frequency standard | ||
| 10:00 am - 10:30 am | Morning Break - North and East Atriums | |
| SESSION 4: Quantum Information Theory - Alvarado "D" | ||
| Session Chair: | ||
| 10:30 am - 11:15 am | Luiz Davidovich, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (invited) | |
| Quantum metrology with noisy systems | ||
| 11:15 am - 11:45 am | Wim van Dam, University of California, Santa Barbara | |
| Mutually unbiased bases for quantum states defined over p-adic numbers | ||
| 11:45 am - 12:15 pm | Gilad Gour, Institute for Quantum Information Science | |
| Local additivity of the minimum entropy output of a quantum channel | ||
| 12:15 pm - 1:45 pm | Lunch - Alvarado A, B & C | |
| SESSION 5: Quantum Optics - Alvarado "D" | ||
| Session Chair: | ||
| 1:45 pm - 2:30 pm | Pete Shadbolt, University of Bristol (invited) | |
| Integrated quantum photonics | ||
| 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Michael Raymer, University of Oregon | |
| Quantum Optical Pulse Shaping, Routing, and Frequency Translation by Four-Wave Mixing in Optical Fiber | ||
| 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Jian Yang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | |
| Strong Photon-photon Interaction in Cavity-Quantum Dot System | ||
| 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Afternoon Break - North And East Atriums | |
| SESSION 6: Quantum Many-Body Physics and QIP - Alvarado "D" | ||
| Session Chair: | ||
| 4:00 pm - 4:45 pm | Norbert Schuch, California Institute of Technology (invited) | |
| Matrix Product States, Projected Entangled Pair States, and the entanglement spectrum of two-dimensional quantum systems | ||
| 4:45 pm - 5:15 pm | Rolando Somma, Los Alamos National Laboratory | |
| Spectral Gap Amplification | ||
| SESSION 7: Poster Session - Atrium | ||
| 5:15 pm - 7:15 pm | Poster Abstracts - East Atrium | |
Saturday Program | ||
| SESSION 8: Superconductors, Resonators, and Optomechanics - Alvarado "D" | ||
| Session Chair: | ||
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Conference Breakfast - North and East Atriums | |
| 8:30 am - 9:15 am | Robert Schoelkopf, Yale University (invited) | |
| Entanglement and Quantum Algorithms with Superconducting Circuits | ||
| 9:15 am - 9:45 am | Frederick Strauch, Williams College | |
| Entangled State Synthesis for Superconducting Resonator Qudits | ||
| 9:45 am - 10:15 am | Lin Tian, University of California, Merced | |
| Transient and Adiabatic Quantum State Transfer in Optomechanical Systems | ||
| 10:15 am -10:45 am | Morning Break - North and East Atriums | |
| 10:45 am - 11:30 am | Stephanie Wehner, Centre for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore (invited) | |
| Quantum to Classical Randomness Extractors | ||
| SESSION 9: Quantum Measurement - Alvarado "D" | ||
| Session Chair: | ||
| 11:30 am - 12:00 pm | Adam Meier, National Institute of Standards and Technology | |
| Randomized Benchmarking of Multiple Qubits | ||
| 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm | Alexandre Tacla, University of New Mexico | |
| Entanglement-based perturbation theory for highly anisotropic Bose-Einstein condensates | ||
| 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm | Lunch - Alvarado A, B & C | |
| SESSION 10: Neutral Atom QIP - Alvarado "D" | ||
| Session Chair: | ||
| 2:00 pm - 2:45 pm | Antoine Browaeys, Institut Optique, CNRS (invited) | |
| Entanglement of two atoms using the Rydberg Blockade | ||
| 2:45 pm - 3:15 pm | L. Paul Parazzoli, Sandia National Laboratories | |
| Adiabatic Quantum Computing with Neutral Atoms | ||
| 3:15 pm - 3:45 pm | Jae Hoon Lee, University of Arizona | |
| Sub-wavelength Resonance Imaging and Robust Addressing of Atoms in an Optical Lattice | ||
| 3:45 pm - 4:15 pm | Afternoon Break - North and East Atriums | |
| SESSION 11a: Breakout A - Quantum Control and Measurement - Alvarado "A" | ||
| Session Chair: | ||
| 4:15 pm - 4:45 pm | Constantin Brif, Sandia National Laboratories | |
| Improving robustness of quantum gates to control noise | ||
| 4:45 pm - 5:15 pm | Thaddeus Ladd, HRL Laboratories, LLC | |
| Coherent Control of Si-based Qubits | ||
| 5:15 pm - 5:45 pm | Robert Cook, Center for Quantum Information and Control (CQuIC) and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of New Mexico | |
| Single shot quantum state estimation via continuous measurement in a strong back-action regime | ||
| 5:45 pm - 6:15 pm | Olivier Landon-Cardinal, Université de Sherbrooke | |
| Learning in a variational class of states : efficient tomography method for Matrix Product and Multi Scale Entangled states | ||
| SESSION 11b: Breakout B - Quantum Information Theory - Alvarado "B" | ||
| Session Chair: | ||
| 4:15pm-4:45 pm | Iman Marvian, Perimeter Institute, Institute for quantum computing | |
| Information-theoretic approach to the study of symmetric dynamics | ||
| 4:45pm-5:15 pm | Orest Bucicovschi, University of California San Diego | |
| The achievable values for pairwise concurrences of three qubits | ||
| 5:15pm-5:45 pm | Vlad Gheorghiu, Institute for Quantum Information Sciences and Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Calgary | |
| Optimal hybrid quantum secret sharing schemes via stabilizer codes and twirling of symplectic structures | ||
| 5:45pm-6:15 pm | Kamil Bradler, School of Computer Science, McGill University | |
| Crossing Tsirelsons bound with supersymmetric non-local states | ||
| SESSION 11c: Breakout C - Decoherence, Entanglement and Error Correction - Alvarado "C" | ||
| Session Chair: | ||
| 4:15 pm - 4:45 pm | Zhang Jiang, University of New Mexico | |
| Conditions imposing physical ancillary states in Stinespring dilations | ||
| 4:45 pm - 5:15 pm | Peter Rose, Carleton College | |
| Decoherence Leads to Non-monotonicity in the "Quantumness" of Fock States | ||
| 5:15 pm - 5:45 pm | Chris Cesare, Center for Quantum Information and Control, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of New Mexico | |
| Relationships Between Defect Encodings for Topological Codes | ||
| 5:45 pm - 6:15 pm | Gerardo Paz-Silva, University of Southern California | |
| Open-loop methods for protection of encoded information | ||
| 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Conference Banquet - Alvarado "D" | |
Sunday Program | ||
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Conference Breakfast - Franciscan Room | |
| SESSION 12: Atom-Light Interface - Franciscan Room | ||
| Session Chair: | ||
| 8:30 am - 9:15 am | James Thompson, JILA (invited) | |
| Ensemble Cavity QED & Precision Metrology | ||
| 9:15 am - 9:45 am | Morgan Mitchell, ICFO - Institute of Photonic Sciences | |
| Quantum Technologies for Light-Matter Interaction | ||
| 9:45 am - 10:15 am | Leigh Norris, University of New Mexico | |
| Enhanced Spin Squeezing Through Quantum Control of Qudits | ||
| 10:15 am - 10:45 am | Morning Break - Franciscan Room | |
| SESSION 13: Quantum Computation and Error Correction - Franciscan Room | ||
| Session Chair: | ||
| 10:45 am - 11:15 am | Sergio Boixo, Information Sciences Institute at the University of Southern California | |
| Progress on theoretical studies and practical applications of quantum annealing and D-Wave One | ||
| 11:15 am - 11:45 am | Nathan Wiebe, Institute for Quantum Computing | |
| Improved Error-Scaling for Adiabatic Quantum Evolutions | ||
| 11:45 am - 12:15 pm | Jonas Anderson, University of New Mexico | |
| Homological Stabilizer Codes | ||
| 12:15 pm - 12:45 pm | Matteo Mariantoni, Department of Physics and California NanoSystems Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara | |
| The Photon Shell Game and the Quantum von Neumann Architecture with Superconducting Circuits | ||
