Twentieth Annual SQuInT Workshop
Start Date: Feb 22, 2018 - 12:00 am
End Date: Feb 24, 2018 - 12:00 am
Host: Center for Quantum Information and Control (CQuIC)
Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico
Wednesday Welcome
| 7:00 - 9:00 pm | Registration/Early Conference Check-In (Lobby near La Cantanita) |
All General Sessions will be held in the Lumpkins Ballroom, Second Floor
Thursday Program
| 7:30 am - 8:20 am | Breakfast, Registration & Conference Check-in (Mezzanine, Second Floor) |
| 8:20 am - 8:30 am | Opening Remarks |
SESSION 1: It from ion qubits at SQuInTChair: Isaac Chuang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) | |
| 8:30 am - 9:15 am | David Wineland (NIST, Boulder/University of Oregon) NIST ions at SQuInT |
| 9:15 am - 9:45 am | David Allcock (National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder), Raghavendra Srinivas, Shaun Burd, Daniel Slichter, Andrew Wilson, Dietrich Leibfried, David Wineland Entangling trapped ions with a low-frequency magnetic field gradient |
| 9:45 am - 10:15 am | Break (Mezzanine, Second Floor) |
SESSION 2: Information theory and quantum communicationChair: Philippe Faist (California Institute of Technology) | |
| 10:15 am - 11:00 am | Graeme Smith (University of Colorado Boulder) Progress on the quantum channel capacity problems |
| 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Patrick Coles (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Adam Winick, Norbert Luetkenhaus Reliable numerical key rates for quantum key distribution |
| 11:30 am - 12:00 pm | Kaushik Seshadreesan (University of Arizona), Ludovico Lami and Mark M. Wilde Renyi relative entropies of quantum Gaussian states |
| 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm | Lunch Buffet (La Terraza Banquet Room, Third Floor - capacity 140 & Stiha Room capacity 60 w/overflow seating in Mezzanine)) |
SESSION 3: Qubits in defectsChair: Kai-Mei Fu (University of Washington) | |
| 1:30 pm - 2:15 pm | Nathalie de Leon (Princeton University) New color centers in diamond for long distance quantum networks |
| 2:15 pm - 2:45 pm | Emma Schmidgall (University of Washington), Srivatsa Chakravarthi, Michael Gould, Ian Christen, Karine Hestroffer, Fariba Hatami, Kai-Mei Fu Frequency control of single quantum emitters in integrated photonic circuits |
| 2:45 pm - 3:15 pm | Break (Mezzanine, Second Floor) |
SESSION 4: Quantum algorithms and simulationChair: David Meyer (University of California San Diego) | |
| 3:15 pm - 3:45 pm | Ryan Babbush (Google), Nathan Wiebe, Jarrod McClean, James McClain, Hartmut Neven, Garnet Chan Low depth quantum simulation of electronic structure |
| 3:45 pm - 4:15 pm | Guang Hao Low (Microsoft Research), Isaac Chuang Advances in optimal Hamiltonian simulation |
| 4:15 pm - 4:45 pm | Nathan Wiebe (Microsoft Research), Andres Gilyen, Srinivasan Arunachalam Optimizing quantum optimization algorithms via faster quantum gradient computation |
SESSION 5: Poster Session and ReceptionRooms: New Mexico and Santa Fe, 1st Floor, near restaurant. Rooms will remain open for poster viewing until Saturday, 3pm | |
| 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm | Poster Session and Reception (with Cash Bar) |
Friday Program
General Sessions 6, 7, and 8 will be held in the Lumpkins BallroomConcurrent Sessions 9a, 9b, and 9c will be held in Lumpkins North, Lumpkins South, and Stiha Room
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast (Mezzanine, Second Floor) |
SESSION 6: Superconducting qubitsChair: Seth Merkel (HRL Laboratories) | |
| 8:30 am - 9:15 am | Steven Girvin (Yale University) Schroedinger's cat meets Maxwell's demon: Quantum error correction (that works) |
| 9:15 am - 9:45 am | Juan Atalaya (University of California, Riverside), Shay Hacohen-Gourgy, Leigh S. Martin, Leonid P. Pryadko, Irfan Siddiqi, and Alexander N. Korotkov Correlators in continuous measurement of non-commuting qubit observables and their applications |
| 9:45 am - 10:15 am | Break (Mezzanine, Second Floor) |
SESSION 7: Quantum opticsChair: Alberto Marino (University of Oklahoma) | |
| 10:15 am - 11:00 am | Brian Smith (University of Oregon) Control and measurement of single-photon pulses |
| 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Matthew DiMario (University of New Mexico CQuIC), Francisco Becerra A robust, single-shot measurement for binary phase-shift keyed coherent state discrimination |
| 11:30 am - 12:00 pm | Timothy Woodworth (University of Oklahoma), Carla Hermann-Avigliano, Kam Wai Clifford Chan, Alberto Marino Reaching the quantum Cramér-Rao bound of transmission measurements |
| 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm | Lunch Buffet (La Terraza Banquet Room, Third Floor - capacity 140 & Stiha Room capacity 60 w/overflow seating in Mezzanine)) |
SESSION 8: IonsChair: Kenneth Brown (Duke University) | |
| 1:30 pm - 2:15 pm | Wesley C. Campbell (University of California, Los Angeles), David Hucul, Anthony Ransford, Michael Ip, Justin Christensen, Conrad Roman, Xueping Long, Andrew M. Jayich, and Eric Hudson Combs and isotopic customization for trapped ion quantum computing |
| 2:15 pm - 2:45 pm | Eli Megidish (University of California Berkeley), Joe Broz, Nicole Greene, Hartmut Haeffner Michelson-Morley analogue for electrons using trapped ions to test Lorentz symmetry |
| 2:45 - 3:15 pm | Pak Hong Leung (Duke University), Kevin Landsman, Caroline Figgatt, Norbert Linke, Kenneth Brown, Christopher Monroe Optimized two-qubit gates in a long, linear ion crystal using continuous frequency modulation |
| 3:15 pm - 3:45 pm | Break (Mezzanine, Second Floor) |
SESSION 9a: AMO theory and applications (Lumpkins Ballroom South)Chair: Rafael Alexander (University of New Mexico) | |
| 3:45 pm - 4:15 pm | Jason Twamley (Macquarie University), Ben Baragiola (Royal Melbourne Institute for Technology) Generating non-classical states of motion using spontaneous emission |
| 4:15 pm - 4:45 pm | Swati Singh (Williams College), Laura DeLorenzo, Igor Pikovski and Keith Schwab Detecting continuous gravitational waves with superfluid helium |
| 4:45 pm - 5:15 pm | David Feder (University of Calgary), Jiawei Ji The Fermi-Hubbard model for universal quantum computation |
| 5:15 pm - 5:45 pm | Ezad Shojaee (University of New Mexico), Christopher S. Jackson, Carlos A. Riofrio, Amir Kalev, Ivan H. Deutsch Realizing the optimal tomography through a sequence of collective weak measurements |
| 5:45 pm - 6:15 pm | Davide Girolami (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Chao Zhang, Benjamin Yadin, Zhi-Bo Hou, Huan Cao, Bi-Heng Liu, Yun-Feng Huang, Reevu Maity, Vlatko Vedral, Chuan-Feng Li, Guang-Can Guo Detecting metrologically useful asymmetry and entanglement by a few local measurements |
SESSION 9b: Error detection, correction, and verification (Lumpkins Ballroom North)Chair: Travis Scholten (University of New Mexico) | |
| 3:45 pm - 4:15 pm | Karl Mayer (National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder), Emanuel Knill Bounding the quantum process fidelity with a minimal set of input states |
| 4:15 pm - 4:45 pm | Kenneth Rudinger (Sandia National Laboratories), Mohan Sarovar, Dylan Langharst, Tim Proctor, Kevin Young, Erik Nielsen, Robin Blume-Kohout Classifying and diagnosing crosstalk in quantum information processors |
| 4:45 pm - 5:15 pm | Tomas Jochym-O'Connor (California Institute of Technology), Nishad Maskara, Aleksander Kubica Advantages of versatile neural-network decoders for topological codes |
| 5:15 pm - 5:45 pm | Rui Chao (University of Southern California), Ben Reichardt Fault-tolerant quantum computation with few qubits |
| 5:45 pm - 6:15 pm | Grant Salton (Stanford University), Jordan Cotler, Patrick Hayden, Brian Swingle, Michael Walter Approximate operator algebra quantum error correction (decoding the hologram in AdS/CFT) |
SESSION 9c: Frontiers of quantum information theory (Stiha Room)Chair: Christopher Jackson (University of New Mexico) | |
| 3:45 pm - 4:15 pm | Lucas Brady (University of California Santa Barbara), Wim van Dam Evolution-time dependence in near-adiabatic quantum evolutions |
| 4:15 pm - 4:45 pm | Anirban Narayan Chowdhury (University of New Mexico CQuIC), Yigit Subasi, Rolando Diego Somma Improved quantum algorithms using linear combination of unitaries |
| 4:45 pm - 5:15 pm | Alexander Meill (University of California San Diego), David Meyer Entanglement constraints in various symmetric subspaces |
| 5:15 pm - 5:45 pm | Ninnat Dangniam (University of New Mexico CQuIC), Christopher Jackson, Christopher Ferrie, Carlton Caves Quasi-probabilities on a fermionic phase space |
| 5:45 pm - 6:15 pm | Siddhartha Das (Louisiana State University), Sumeet Khatri, Jonathan P. Dowling Robust quantum network architectures and topologies for entanglement distribution |
| 6:20 pm - 7:00 pm | Steering Committee Meeting (Exchange Room, First Floor near Lobby) |
| 7:15 pm - 9:30 pm | Banquet (with Cash Bar) (Lumpkins Ballroom, Second Floor) |
Saturday Program
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast (Mezzanine, Second Floor) |
SESSION 10: Near-term devices and applicationsChair: Michael Nielsen (Y Combinator Research) | |
| 8:30 am - 9:15 am | Dave Bacon (Google) The exciting and scary world of near term quantum computers |
| 9:15 am - 9:45 am | Zhihui Wang (NASA - Ames Research Center), Eleanor Rieffel, Stuart Hadfield, Bryan O'Gorman, Nicholas C Rubin, Zhang Jiang, Davide Venturelli Investigations of the quantum alternating operator ansatz or optimization problems with constraints |
| 9:45 am - 10:15 am | Break (Mezzanine, Second Floor) |
SESSION 11: Solid-state qubits and cavityChair: Emily Pritchett (HRL Laboratories) | |
| 10:15 am - 11:00 am | Simon Gustavsson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Fei Yan, Gianluigi Catelani, Jonas Bylander, Jeffrey Birenbaum, David Hover, Danna Rosenberg, Gabriel Samach, Steven J. Weber, Jonilyn L. Yoder, John Clarke, Andrew J. Kerman, Fumiki Yoshihara, Yasunobu Nakamura, Terry P. Orlando, William D. Oliver Dynamical control techniques with superconducting qubits |
| 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Aaron Jones (HRL Laboratories) Experimental measurement of leakage-error in exchange-only SiGe quantum dot qubits by extending randomized benchmarking |
| 11:30 am - 12:00 pm | Na Young Kim (University of Waterloo), Haining Pan, K. Winkler, C. Schneider, S. Hoefling Engineered hopping integrals in exciton-polariton quantum simulators |
| 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm | Lunch Buffet (La Terraza Banquet Room, Third Floor - capacity 140 & Stiha Room capacity 60 w/overflow seating in Mezzanine)) |
SESSION 12: Complexity and many-body problemsChair: Andrew Landahl (Sandia National Laboratories) | |
| 1:30 pm - 2:15 pm | Shelby Kimmel (Middlebury College) Quantum vs. classical proofs |
| 2:15 pm - 2:45 pm | Isaac Kim (Stanford University), Brian Swingle Robust entanglement renormalization on a noisy quantum computer |
| 2:45 pm - 3:15 pm | Break (Mezzanine, Second Floor) |
SESSION 13: AtomsChair: Poul Jessen (University of Arizona) | |
| 3:15 pm - 3:45 pm | Jacob Lampen (University of Michigan), Huy Nguyen, Matthew Winchester, Lin Li, Paul Berman, Alex Kuzmich State insensitive trapping for ground and Rydberg atoms |
| 3:45 pm - 4:15 pm | Matthew Norcia (University of Colorado JILA), Robert Lewis-Swan, Julia Cline, Bihui Zhu, Ana Maria Rey, James Thompson Exchange interactions in a strontium superradiant laser |
| 4:15 pm - 4:45 pm | Michael Martin (Sandia National Laboratories), Jongmin Lee, Yuan- Yu Jau, Ivan Deutsch, Grant Biedermann A CPHASE gate between Rydberg‐dressed neutral atoms |
| 4:45 pm - 5:15 pm | Bharath H. M. (Georgia Institute of Technology), Matthew Boguslawski, Maryrose Barrios, Lin Xin, Michael Chapman Singular loops and their non-Abelian geometric phases in ultracold spin-1 atoms |
| 5:15 pm - 5:30 pm | Break (Mezzanine, Second Floor) |
SESSION 14: Panel discussionChair: Carlton Caves (University of New Mexico) | |
| 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm | Kenneth Brown (Duke University), Isaac Chuang (MIT), Theresa Lynn (Harvey Mudd), Michael Nielsen, (Y Combinator Research) Panel discussion: Progress of quantum information and SQuInT |
