Twenty-First Annual SQuInT Workshop
Start Date: Feb 10, 2019 - 12:00 am
End Date: Feb 12, 2019 - 12:00 am
Host: Center for Quantum Information and Control (CQuIC)
Location: Hotel Albuquerque
The 21st Annual SQuInT Workshop was organized by the Center for Quantum Information and Control (CQuIC).
Saturday Welcome Reception
| 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Registration/Early Conference Check-In and Reception (North Atrium) |
All General Sessions will be held in Alvarado EFGH
Sunday Program
| 7:30 am - 8:20 am | Breakfast, Registration & Conference Check-in (East Atrium) |
| 8:20 am - 8:30 am | Opening Remarks |
SESSION 1: IonsChair: Murray Holland | |
| 8:30 am - 9:15 am | John Bollinger (National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder), Elena Jordan, Kevin Gilmore, Matt Affolter, Arghavan Safavi-Naini, Robert Lewis-Swan, Ana Maria Rey (invited) Quantum control and simulation with large trapped-ion crystals |
| 9:15 am - 9:45 am | Megan Ivory (University of Washington), Alex Kato, Ramya Bhaskar, Ali Hasanzadeh, Boris Blinov Novel trap for 2D ion crystal experiments |
| 9:45 am - 10:15 am | Crystal Noel (University of California Berkeley), Maya Berlin-Udi, Clemens Matthiesen, Jessica Yu, Yi Zhou, Vincenzo Lordi, Hartmut Häffner Electric-field noise from thermally-activated fluctuators in a surface ion trap |
| 10:15 am - 10:45 am | Break (East Atrium) |
SESSION 2: Computer scienceChair: Elizabeth Crosson | |
| 10:45 am - 11:30 am | Anne Broadbent (University of Ottawa), Sebastien Lord, University of Ottawa (invited) Uncloneable encryption |
| 11:30 am - 12:00 pm | Yigit Subasi (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Rolando D. Somma, Davide Orsucci Quantum algorithms for systems of linear equations inspired by adiabatic quantum computing |
| 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm | Lunch Buffet (Alvarado D) |
SESSION 3: Measurement-based quantum computationChair: Rafael Alexander | |
| 1:30 pm - 2:15 pm | Mercedes Gimeno-Segovia (PsiQuantum Corp.) (invited) Photonic quantum computing |
| 2:15 pm - 2:45 pm | Robert Raussendorf (University of British Columbia), Cihan Okay (UBC), Dong-Sheng Wang (UBC), David T. Stephen (MPQ Garching), Hendrik Poulsen Nautrup (U Innsbruck) A computationally universal phase of quantum matter |
| 2:45 pm - 3:15 pm | Break (East Atrium) |
SESSION 4: Quantum opticsChair: Alberto Marino | |
| 3:15 pm - 3:45 pm | Michael G. Raymer (University of Oregon), Dileep V. Reddy High-efficiency demultiplexing of quantum information in temporal modes |
| 3:45 pm - 4:15 pm | Steve Young (Sandia National Laboratories), Mohan Sarovar, François Léonard General modeling framework for quantum photodetectors |
| 4:15 pm - 4:45 pm | Sofiane Merkouche (University of Oregon), Brian J. Smith Entangled-state measurements based on mode-resolved two-photon sum-frequency generation |
SESSION 5: Poster Session and Reception (Alvarado ABC) | |
| 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm | Poster Session and Reception (with Cash Bar) |
SESSION 5: Workshop attendees may also view posters on Monday and Tuesday in Alvarado ABC | |
Monday Program
General Sessions 6, 7, and 8 will be held in Alvarado EFGHConcurrent Sessions 9a, 9b, and 9c will be held in Alvarado D, Alvarado E, and Alvarado FGH
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast (East Atrium) |
SESSION 6: AMO physicsChair: Grant Biedermann | |
| 8:30 am - 9:15 am | Manuel Endres (California Institute of Technology) (invited) Quantum simulation with alkali and alkaline-earth Rydberg-arrays |
| 9:15 am - 9:45 am | Alex Burgers (California Institute of Technology), Lucas Peng, H. Jeff Kimble Engineering atom-light interactions in photonic crystal waveguides |
| 9:45 am - 10:15 am | Murray Holland (University of Colorado JILA), Athreya Shankar, John P. Bartolotta, Matthew A. Norcia, Julia R.K. Cline, James K. Thompson, Elena Jordan, Kevin Gilmore, Arghavan Safavi-Naini, Justin G. Bohnet, John J. Bollinger New frontiers in laser cooling of neutral atoms and trapped ions |
| 10:15 am - 10:45 am | Break (East Atrium) |
SESSION 7: Open-system dynamics and simulationChair: Todd Brun | |
| 10:45 am - 11:30 am | Howard Carmichael (University of Auckland) (invited) Monitored quantum jumps: The view from quantum trajectory theory |
| 11:30 am - 12:00 pm | Kathleen Hamilton (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Eugene Dumitrescu, Raphael Pooser Noisy circuit training of generative models with superconducting qubits |
| 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm | Lunch Buffet (Alvarado D) |
SESSION 8: Quantum communicationChair: F. Elohim Becerra Chavez | |
| 1:30 pm - 2:15 pm | Erika Andersson (Herriot-Watt University) (invited) Things you can do with your quantum key distribution setup: signatures and oblivious transfer |
| 2:15 pm - 2:45 pm | Konrad Banaszek (University of Warsaw), Michal Jachura, Marcin Jarzyna, Michal Lipka, Wojciech Wasilewski Quantum optical fingerprinting without a shared phase reference |
| 2:45 pm - 3:15 pm | Joseph Chapman (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Trent Graham, Christopher Zeitler, Paul Kwiat Time-bin and polarization superdense teleportation for space applications |
| 3:15 pm - 3:45 pm | Break (East Atrium) |
SESSION 9a: Simulations in the NISQ era (Alvarado D)Chair: Christopher Jackson | |
| 3:45 pm - 4:15 pm | Nathan Lysne (University of Arizona), Kevin Kuper, Poul Jessen, Pablo Poggi, Karthik Chinni, Ivan Deutsch What a small-scale, highly-accurate quantum processor can teach us about analog quantum simulation |
| 4:15 pm - 4:45 pm | Gopikrishnan Muraleedharan (University of New Mexico CQuIC), Christopher Jackson, Akimasa Miyake, Ivan H Deutsch Quantum computational supremacy in the sampling of Bosonic random walkers on a one-dimensional lattice |
| 4:45 pm - 5:15 pm | Noah Davis (University of Texas, Austin), Josey Hanish, Antia Lamas-Linares, Brian LaCour Simulating and evaluating the coherent Ising machine |
| 5:15 pm - 5:45 pm | Lucas Kocia (National Institute of Standards and Technology, Maryland), Peter Love Stationary phase method in discrete Wigner functions and classical simulation of quantum circuits |
| 5:45 pm - 6:15 pm | Lukasz Cincio (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Yigit Subasi, Andrew Sornborger, Patrick Coles Learning short- and constant-depth algorithms: application to state overlap and entanglement spectroscopy |
SESSION 9b: Error mitigation and correction (Alvarado E)Chair: Jim Harrington | |
| 3:45 pm - 4:15 pm | Brandon Ruzic (Sandia National Laboratories), Constantin Brif, Grant Biedermann Characterizing errors in entangled-atom interferometry |
| 4:15 pm - 4:45 pm | Bibek Pokharel (University of Southern California), Namit Anand, Benjamin Fortman, Daniel Lidar Demonstration of fidelity improvement using dynamical decoupling with superconducting qubits |
| 4:45 pm - 5:15 pm | Zhang Jiang (Google), Jarrod McClean, Ryan Babbush, Hartmut Neven Quantum simulation of fermions: geometric locality and error mitigation |
| 5:15 pm - 5:45 pm | Victor V. Albert (California Institute of Technology), R. T. Brierley, Michel H. Devoret, Kasper Duivenvoorden, S. M. Girvin, Alexander Grimm, Liang Jiang, Linshu Li, Shantanu O. Mundhada, Kyungjoo Noh, Philip Reinhold, Chao Shen, Barbara M. Terhal, Steven Touzard, Christophe Vuillot, Dylan J. Young Characterizing and developing bosonic error-correcting codes |
| 5:45 pm - 6:15 pm | Sepehr Nezami (Stanford University), Philippe Faist, Victor V. Albert, Grant Salton, Fernando Pastawski, Patrick Hayden, John Preskill Continuous symmetries and approximate quantum error correction |
SESSION 9c: Quantum information theory and algorithms (Alvarado FGH)Chair: Yigit Subasi | |
| 3:45 pm - 4:15 pm | Mark Wilde (Louisiana State University), Xin Wang (Univ. Maryland) Exact entanglement cost of quantum states and channels under PPT-preserving operations |
| 4:15 pm - 4:45 pm | Felix Leditzky (University of Colorado JILA), Debbie Leung, Graeme Smith Dephrasure channel and superadditivity of coherent information |
| 4:45 pm - 5:15 pm | Aniruddha Bapat (University of Maryland Joint Quantum Institute), Stephen Jordan Bang-bang control as a design principle for classical and quantum optimization algorithms |
| 5:15 pm - 5:45 pm | Arjendu Pattanayak (Carleton College), Sudheesh Srivastava Unusual entanglement dynamics in the quantum kicked top |
| 5:45 pm - 6:15 pm | Alexander Meill (University of California San Diego), David A. Meyer, Daniel Copeland Entanglement properties of quantum random walks |
| 6:20 pm - 7:00 pm | Steering Committee Meeting (Fireplace Room) |
| 7:15 pm - 9:30 pm | Banquet (with Cash Bar) (Alvarado Ballroom, EFGH) |
Tuesday Program
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast (East Atrium) |
SESSION 10: Quantum metrologyChair: Carlton M. Caves | |
| 8:30 am - 9:15 am | Lee McCuller (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), The LIGO laboratory squeezing team (invited) Improving the sensitivity of Advanced LIGO with squeezed light |
| 9:15 am - 9:45 am | Baochen Wu (University of Colorado JILA), Graham P. Greve Chengyi Luo James K. Thompson Towards spin-squeezed matter-wave interferometry |
| 9:45 am - 10:15 am | Katherine McCormick (University of Colorado), Jonas Keller, Shaun Burd, David Wineland, Andrew Wilson, Dietrich Leibfried Sensing near the Heisenberg limit with a trapped-ion mechanical oscillator |
| 10:15 am - 10:45 am | Break (East Atrium) |
SESSION 11: Quantum chaosChair: Justin Dressel | |
| 10:45 am - 11:30 am | Shohini Ghose (Wilfrid Laurier University) (invited) Chaos, stability and quantum-classical correspondence in spin systems |
| 11:30 am - 12:00 pm | Pablo Poggi (University of New Mexico CQuIC), Manuel Muñoz-Arias, Poul Jessen, Ivan Deutsch Feedback-based simulation of quantum nonlinear dynamics: The Quantum Kicked Top in an ensemble of two-level atoms |
| 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm | Lunch Buffet (Alvarado D) |
SESSION 12: Semiconductor qubitsChair: Kai-Mei Fu | |
| 1:30 pm - 2:15 pm | Jason Petta (Princeton University), Xiao Mi, Felix Borjans, Xanthe Croot, Felix Schupp, Monica Benito, Stefan Putz, David Zajac, Jacob Taylor, and Guido Burkard (invited) Towards microwave assisted spin-spin entanglement |
| 2:15 pm - 2:45 pm | Tyler Keating (HRL Laboratories) Spin-blockade spectroscopy of Si/SiGe quantum dots |
| 2:45 pm - 3:15 pm | Break (East Atrium) |
SESSION 13: Quantum characterization and tomographyChair: Robin Blume-Kohout | |
| 3:15 pm - 3:45 pm | Scott Aaronson (University of Texas, Austin), Guy Rothblum Gentle measurement of quantum states and differential privacy |
| 3:45 pm - 4:15 pm | Kristine Boone (University of Waterloo), Arnaud Carignan-Dugas, Joel J. Wallman, Joseph Emerson Randomized benchmarking under different gatesets |
| 4:15 pm - 4:45 pm | John Gamble (Microsoft Research), Olivia Di Matteo, Chris Granade, Nathan Wiebe Operational, gauge-free quantum tomography |
| 4:45 pm - 5:15 pm | Timothy Proctor (Sandia National Laboratories), Kenneth Rudinger, Robin Blume-Kohout, Arnaud Carignan-Dugas, Erik Nielsen, Kevin Young Randomized benchmarking of many-qubit devices |
| 5:15 pm - 5:30 pm | Break (East Atrium) |
SESSION 14: New intersections with high energy physicsChair: Ivan Deutsch | |
| 5:30 pm - 6:15 pm | Patrick Hayden (Stanford University) (invited) Quantum error correction in quantum gravity |
