Fourteenth Annual SQuInT Workshop

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