Twenty-Second Annual SQuInT Workshop
Start Date: Feb 08, 2020 - 12:00 am
End Date: Feb 10, 2020 - 12:00 am
Host: University of Oregon
Location: Eugene, Oregon
The 22nd Annual SQuInT Workshop was organized by the Oregon Center for Optical Molecular & Quantum Science
Friday Welcome Reception
| 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Registration/Early Conference Check-In and Reception -- Composer's Conference Center Lobby and 12th Floor, Vistas Ballroom |
All General Sessions will be held in Oneill/Williams, Conference Center
Saturday Program
| 7:30 am - 8:20 am | Breakfast, Registration & Conference Check-in -- Playwright's Conference Center Lobby, and Oneill/Williams (Breakfast) |
| 8:20 am - 8:30 am | Opening Remarks |
SESSION 1: Superconducting qubits and quantum computational supremacyChair: Carlton Caves (University of New Mexico) | |
| 8:30 am - 9:20 am | John Martinis (Google and University of California, Santa Barbara) (invited) Quantum supremacy using a programmable superconducting processor |
| 9:20 am - 10:00 am | Sergio Boixo (Google ) (invited) Quantum supremacy using a programmable superconducting processor |
| 10:00 am - 10:30 am | Break -- Playwright's Conference Center Lobby |
SESSION 2: Near-term quantum devices and implementationsChair: Justin Dressel (Chapman) | |
| 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Sam Gunn (University of Texas, Austin), Scott Aaronson On the classical hardness of spoofing linear cross-entropy benchmarking |
| 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Eleanor Rieffel (NASA - Ames Research Center), NASA QuAIL team Utilizing NISQ devices for evaluating quantum algorithms |
| 11:30 am - 12:00 pm | Hristo Djidjev (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Elijah Pelofske, Georg Hahn Peering into the anneal process of a quantum annealer |
| 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm | Lunch Buffet -- Oneill/Williams |
SESSION 3: Quantum characterization and benchmarkingChair: Robin Blume-Kohout (Sandia) | |
| 1:30 pm - 2:15 pm | Steven Flammia (University of Sydney) (invited) Efficient learning of quantum noise |
| 2:15 pm - 2:45 pm | Seth Merkel (IBM) Benchmarking near-term quantum computers |
| 2:45 pm - 3:15 pm | Joseph Emerson (University of Waterloo, Quantum Benchmark Inc.), Joel Wallman, Dar Dahlen, Ian Hincks Full reconstruction of all correlated errors in large-scale quantum computers |
| 3:15 pm - 3:45 pm | Break -- Playwright's Conference Center Lobby |
SESSION 4: Solid-state implementationsChair: Thaddeus Ladd (HRL) | |
| 3:45 pm - 4:30 pm | Alicia Kollar (University of Maryland, College Park) (invited) Band engineering for quantum simulation in circuit QED |
| 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Mattias Fitzpatrick (Princeton University), Zhiyang Yuan, Nathalie P. de Leon Charge state instabilities in shallow NV centers for quantum sensing |
SESSION 5: Poster Session and Reception | |
| 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm | Poster Session and Reception (Refreshments and bar sponsored by TOPTICA) -- Hellman/Wilder |
SESSION 5: Workshop attendees may also view posters on Sunday and Monday | |
Sunday Program
General Sessions 6, 7, and 8 will be held in Oneill/Williams, Conference CenterConcurrent Sessions 9a, 9b, and 9c will be held in Oneill, Sousa/Joplin/Seeger, and William, Conference Center
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast -- Oneill/Williams |
SESSION 6: AMO for quantum information processingChair: Ivan Deutsch (University of New Mexico) | |
| 8:30 am - 9:15 am | Giulia Semeghini (Harvard University) (invited) Quantum simulation and computation with programmable Rydberg atom arrays |
| 9:15 am - 9:45 am | Bethany Little (Sandia National Laboratories), Matthew Chow, Lambert Parazzoli, Jonathan Bainbridge, Grant Biedermann, Jongmin Lee, Brandon Ruzic, Constantin Brif, and Peter Schwindt Entanglement-enhanced interferometry with neutral atoms |
| 9:45 am - 10:15 am | Break -- Playwright's Conference Center Lobby |
SESSION 7: NISQ algorithm and applicationsChair: Barbara Jones (IBM) | |
| 10:15 am - 11:00 am | Birgitta Whaley (University of California, Berkeley) (invited) Quantum control for quantum algorithm design |
| 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Nicholas Rubin (Google) Demonstration of a large-scale quantum chemistry calculations using the Sycamore quantum processor |
| 11:30 am - 12:00 pm | Michael Foss-Feig (Honeywell), Andrew Potter, David Hayes Matrix product state simulations on a quantum computer |
| 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm | Lunch Buffet -- Oneill/Williams |
SESSION 8: IonsChair: David Allcock (University of Oregon) | |
| 1:30 pm - 2:15 pm | Jonathan Home (ETH, Zurich) (invited) Encoded logical qubits and reservoir engineering in a trapped-ion mechanical oscillator |
| 2:15 pm - 2:45 pm | Alex Kato (University of Washington), Megan Ivory, Jennifer Lilieholm, Liudmila Zhukas, Xiayu Linpeng, Vasilis Niaouris, Maria Viitaniemi, Kai-Mei Fu, Boris Blinov Trapping and manipulating 2D Coulomb crystals for quantum information processing |
| 2:45 pm - 3:15 pm | Maya Berlin-Udi (University of California Berkeley), Clemens Matthiesen, Alberto Alonso, Crystal Noel, Peter T. Lloyd, Vincenzo Lordi, Hartmut Häffner Exploring electric-field noise mechanisms through treatments of an ion trap surface |
| 3:15 pm - 3:45 pm | Break -- Playwright's Conference Center Lobby |
SESSION 9a: Usage of NISQ devices -- OneillChair: Pablo Poggi (University of New Mexico) | |
| 3:45 pm - 4:15 pm | Kevin Kuper (University of Arizona), Nathan Lysne, Pablo Poggi, Ivan Deutsch, Poul Jessen Native and Trotter errors during intermediate-depth quantum simulations on a small, highly accurate quantum processor |
| 4:15 pm - 4:45 pm | Andrew Sornborger (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Cristina Cirstoiu, Zoe Holes, Joseph Iosue, Lukasz Cincio, Patrick Coles Variational fast forwarding for quantum simulation beyond the coherence time |
| 4:45 pm - 5:15 pm | Yukio Kawashima (1QB Information Technologies), "Takeshi Yamazaki, Valentin Senicourt, Rudi Plesch, Lee Huntington, Prakash Verma, Shunji Matsuura, Arman Zaribafiyan" Scaling up quantum chemistry simulations using density matrix embedding theory |
| 5:15 pm - 5:45 pm | Jaimie S. Stephens (Sandia National Laboratories), William Bolden; Ojas Parekh A hybrid quantum approximate optimization algorithm incorporating classical heuristics |
| 5:45 pm - 6:15 pm | Arik Avagyan (National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder), Hilma Vasconcelos, Scott Glancy, Emanuel Knill State tomography with photon counting after a beam splitter |
SESSION 9b: Quantum network and communication -- WilliamsChair: Markus Allgaier (University of Oregon) | |
| 3:45 pm - 4:15 pm | Sumeet Khatri (Louisiana State University), Corey T. Matyas, Aliza U. Siddiqui, Jonathan P. Dowling Practical figures of merit and thresholds for entanglement distribution in quantum networks |
| 4:15 pm - 4:45 pm | Matthew DiMario (University of New Mexico CQuIC), Francisco Elohim Becerra Coherent state phase estimation based on adaptive photon counting |
| 4:45 pm - 5:15 pm | Eneet Kaur (Louisiana State University), Masahiro Takeoka, Mark M. Wilde, Wojciech Roga Multipartite entanglement and secret key distribution in quantum networks |
| 5:15 pm - 5:45 pm | Ashlesha Patil (University of Arizona), Mihir Pant, Don Towsley and Saikat Guha Distance-independent rate for entanglement generation in a quantum network |
| 5:45 pm - 6:15 pm | Rafael Alexander (University of New Mexico CQuIC), Carlton M. Caves Quantum illumination, illuminated |
SESSION 9c: Explorations in quantum information theory -- Sousa/Joplin/SeegerChair: Christopher Jackson (University of New Mexico) | |
| 3:45 pm - 4:15 pm | Peter J. Love (Tufts University), Michael Kreshchuk, William Kirby, Gary Goldstein, Hugo Beauchemin Simulating quantum field theory in the light-front formulation |
| 4:15 pm - 4:45 pm | Sepehr Nezami (California Institute of Technology), Adam Brown Hrant Gharibyan Stefan Leichenauer Henry Lin Grant Salton Leonard Susskind Brian Swingle Michael Walter Quantum gravity in the lab: teleportation by size and traversable wormholes |
| 4:45 pm - 5:15 pm | Chris Sutherland (University of Southern California), Daniel Lidar Todd Brun Non-Markovianity of the post-Markovian master equation |
| 5:15 pm - 5:45 pm | Tzula Propp (University of Oregon), Steven J van Enk Limits to single photon detection: Amplification |
| 5:45 pm - 6:15 pm | Paolo Zanardi (University of Southern California), Georgios Styliaris Quantifying the incompatibility of quantum measurements Relative to a Basis |
| 6:20 pm - 7:00 pm | Steering Committee Meeting -- Studio B/C, Mezzanine |
| 7:15 pm - 9:30 pm | Banquet -- Oneill/Williams |
Monday Program
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast -- Oneill/Williams |
SESSION 10: Neutral atomsChair: Poul Jessen (University of Arizona) | |
| 8:30 am - 9:15 am | Mark Saffman (University of Wisconsin-Madison) (invited) Scalable quantum computing with neutral atoms |
| 9:15 am - 9:45 am | Hikaru Tamura (University of Michigan), Huy Nguyen, Paul Berman, Alex Kuzmich Phase-matched scattering from a reconfigurable array of trapped neutral atoms |
| 9:45 am - 10:15 am | Anupam Mitra (University of New Mexico CQuIC), Michael J. Martin, Grant W. Biedermann, Alberto M. Marino, Pablo M. Poggi, Ivan H. Deutsch Generation of high-fidelity Molmer-Sorenson interactions between neutral atoms using adiabatic Rydberg dressing |
| 10:15 am - 10:45 am | Break -- Playwright's Conference Center Lobby |
SESSION 11: Quantum opticsChair: Steven van Enk (University of Oregon) | |
| 10:45 am - 11:15 am | Tiemo Landes (University of Oregon), Amr Tamimi, Jonathan Lavoie, Michael Raymer, Brian Smith, Andrew Marcus Two-photon Fourier transform spectroscopy |
| 11:15 am - 11:45 am | Dileep Reddy (National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder; University of Colorado, Boulder), Jeff Chiles, Sonia M. Buckley, Adriana E. Lita, Varun B. Verma, Sae Woo Nam, Richard P. Mirin Micron-scale superconducting wires for polarization insensitive, near-unity efficiency single-photon detection |
| 11:45 pm - 1:15 pm | Lunch Buffet -- Oneill/Williams |
SESSION 12: Quantum error correction and fault toleranceChair: Andrew Landahl (Sandia) | |
| 1:15 pm - 2:00 pm | Benjamin Brown (University of Sydney) (invited) Advances in surface code quantum computation |
| 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | Vadym Kliuchnikov (Microsoft Research), Michael Beverland, Earl Campbell, Mark Howard Lower bounds on the non-Clifford resources for quantum computations |
| 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Break -- Playwright's Conference Center Lobby |
SESSION 13: Ions for quantum computing and simulationChair: Hartmut Haeffner (University of California, Berkeley) | |
| 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Roee Ozeri (Weizmann Institute of Science), Ravid Shaniv, Tom Manovitz, Nitzan Akerman, Lee Peleg, Lior Gazit, Yotam Shapira and Ady Stern Theory of robust multi-qubit non-adiabatic gates for trapped-ions |
| 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Raghavendra Srinivas (National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder), Shaun Burd, Robert Sutherland, Hannah Knaack, Dietrich Leibfried, David Wineland, Andrew Wilson, David Allcock, Daniel Slichter Laser-free trapped-ion entangling gates |
| 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | Craig Hogle (Sandia National Laboratories), Peter Maunz, Jaimie S. Stephens, Kevin Young, Robin Blume-Kohout, Daniel Stick, Susan M. Clark Logical cooling for robust analogue quantum simulation |
| 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Crystal Noel (University of Maryland Joint Quantum Institute), Laird Egan, Marko Cetina, Michael Goldman, Andrew Risinger, Daiwei Zhu, Debopriyo Biswas, and Christopher Monroe A universal quantum computer based on long chains of ions |
| 5:00 pm - 5:15 pm | Break -- Playwright's Conference Center Lobby |
SESSION 14: Engineering and venture company for quantum computersChair: David Wineland (University of Oregon) | |
| 5:15 pm - 6:00 pm | Jungsang Kim (Duke University) (invited) Engineering a practical quantum computer |
