Twenty-Sixth Annual SQuInT Workshop
Start Date: Oct 30, 2024 - 08:00 am
End Date: Nov 01, 2024 - 06:00 pm
Host: Center for Quantum Information and Control
Location: Omni Interlocken Hotel in Boulder CO
Program | Talk abstracts | Poster abstracts
We are thrilled to announce the 2024 SQuInT Workshop be held on October 30 (Wed) 2024 - November 1 (Fri), 2024, and it will be held at the Omni Interlocken Hotel in Boulder CO.!
The Southwest Quantum Information and Technology (SQuInT) is a consortium of universities, national labs, and industrial labs, with concentration in the southwestern United States. The SQuInT meeting has a strong tradition of mixing invited talks from world-class leading researchers with talks by junior researchers across the SQuInT network, to promote an interactive environment. The meeting brings together the broad community of researchers in Quantum Information Science, including experimental physicists, theorists, and computer scientists.
The purpose of this network is to facilitate the exchange of resources -- intellectual and human -- amongst the node institutions. Membership in the network is currently focused on, but not limited to, the Southwest region of the United States (hence the name).
We look forward very much to seeing you this October!
Important Dates to Remember:
- Deadline for an abstract submission: August 12th, 2024
- Deadline for an early-bird registration: September 30th, 2024
Instructions for speakers: Contributed talks are 30 minutes (25 + 5 for questions). Please bring your own computer. The presentation screen will support an aspect ratio of 16:9.
Instructions for posters: The width of each poster must not exceed 48 inches, so a landscape poster which is 36 inches by 48 inches should fit well. Other sizes are also fine as long as the width does not exceed 48".
Registration
Early Bird Registration (Deadline September 30, 2024):
Senior: $650.00
Junior: $450.00
Late Registration (Deadline October 30, 2024):
Senior: $750.00
Junior: $550.00
Please register for the workshop via the link below
Early Bird Registration will end on Friday September 30, 2024
For inquiries please write to cquic@unm.edu.
Workshop Location
Omni Interlocken Hotel of Broomfield, discounted hotel reservations can be made using the link below
500 Interlocken Blvd Broomfield, CO 80021
Contact: https://www.omnihotels.com/forms/contact-us
Phone: 1-800-THE-OMNI (800-843-6664)
Abstract Submission
Invited Speakers
- Alexandre Blais (University of Sherbrooke)
- Soonwon Choi (MIT)
- Eden Figueroa (Stony Brook University)
- David Gosset (University of Waterloo)
- David Hayes (Quantinuum)
- Shankari Rajagopal (Stanford University)
- Marianna Safronova (University of Delaware)
- Robert Schoelkopf (Yale University)
- Kevin Singh (Ohio State University)
- Jenny Wu (NIST Boulder)
Organizing Team
Chief Organizer: Akimasa Miyake
Administration: Dwight Zier, Ivan Deutsch
Program Committee: Mohammad Alhejji, John DeBrota
Tour to Quantinuum's office and laboratories at Broomfield
Quantinuum is hosting an invite-only lab tour from 5:30-8:00 pm on Tuesday 10/29. Registration is closed and event at capacity. If you are registered for this event, a shuttle service is planned twice at 5:20 and 5:30pm departure from Omni Interlocken Hotel front entrance.
Halloween celebration at the banquet
As the conference banquet takes place on the Halloween night, quantum random drawing will be arranged for you to earn special gifts donated by the Quantum New Mexico Institute and Quantinuum. You are eligible to enter the drawing if you dress up at the banquet in a suitable fashion to Halloween.
Sponsors
We acknowledge the support of the National Science Foundation through the Center for Quantum Information and Control. 
Program
All are Mountain time
Tuesday, October 29, Welcome
| 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm | Registration/Early Conference Check-In |
Wednesday, October 30, Program
| 7:30 am - 8:20 am | Breakfast, Registration & Conference Check-in |
| 8:20 am - 8:30 am | Opening Remarks |
SESSION 1: Quantum SensingChair: John Bollinger (NIST Boulder) | |
| 8:30 am - 9:15 am | Marianna Safronova (University of Delaware) |
| 9:15 am - 9:45 am | John Wilson (University of Colorado JILA) Optimal Generators for Quantum Sensing |
| 9:45 am - 10:15 am | Break |
SESSION 2: Neutral atoms IChair: Ivan Deutsch (University of New Mexico CQuIC) | |
| 10:15 am - 11:00 am | Kevin Singh (Ohio State University) Dual-Species Neutral Atom Quantum Processors |
| 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Chitose Maruko (University of Colorado JILA) Hamiltonian Engineering of collective XYZ spin models in an optical cavity |
| 11:30 am - 12:00 pm | Matthew Chow (Sandia National Laboratories) Circuit-based leakage-to-erasure conversion in a neutral atom quantum processor |
| 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm | Lunch Buffet |
SESSION 3: Circuit sampling and quantum advantageChair: Rolando Somma (Google) | |
| 1:30 pm - 2:15 pm | David Gosset (University of Waterloo) Classical simulation of peaked shallow circuits |
| 2:15 pm - 2:45 pm | Diego García-Martín (Los Alamos National Laboratory) Gate-based quantum simulation of Gaussian bosonic circuits on exponentially many modes |
| 2:45 pm -3:15 pm | Break |
SESSION 4: Ions and light-matter interactionsChair: Jason Twamley (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology) | |
| 3:15 pm - 4:00 pm | Jenny Wu (NIST Boulder) Quantum Control of Motional States in Mixed-Species Trapped-Ion Crystals |
| 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | Laura McCaslin (Sandia National Laboratories) Quantum Enhanced Remote Sensing of Isotopes |
| 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Carl Thomas (University of Washington) Pulse Shaping Single Photons from a Trapped Ion with Active Feedback for Hybrid Systems |
SESSION 5: Poster Session | |
| 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm | Poster Session and Reception (with Cash Bar) |
Thursday, October 31, Program
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
SESSION 6: Superconducting devices IChair: Robin Blume-Kohout (Sandia National Labs) | |
| 8:30 am - 9:15 am | Alexandre Blais (University of Sherbrooke) The mysterious case of qubit readout in circuit QED |
| 9:15 am - 9:45 am | Malida Hecht (University of Southern California) Beating the Ramsey limit on sensing with deterministic qubit control |
| 9:45 am - 10:15 am | Break |
SESSION 7: Neutral atoms IIChair: Yuan-Yu Jau (Sandia National Labs) | |
| 10:15 am - 11:00 am | Shankari Rajagopal (Stanford University) Dynamical engineering of Rydberg atom systems for quantum-enhanced sensing and simulation |
| 11:00 am - 11:30 pm | David Mason (Infleqtion) A universal neutral-atom quantum computer with individual optical addressing and non-destructive readout |
| 11:30 pm - 12:00 pm | Cameron Wagner (University of Colorado JILA) Many-body gap protection of motional decoherence of an optical clock transition |
| 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm | Lunch Buffet |
SESSION 8a: Benchmarking and characterizationRoom: Ballroom D Chair: John DeBrota (University of New Mexico CQuIC) | |
| 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm | Alicia Magann (Sandia National Laboratories) Single- and few-shot protocols for quantum device calibration and drift mitigation |
| 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | Hunter Nelson (Virginia Tech) Designing error robust control phase gates for neutral atom systems in the blockade regime |
| 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Bibek Bhandari (Chapman University) Symmetrically Threaded SQUIDs As Next Generation Kerr-cat Qubits |
| 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Piper Wysocki (Sandia National Laboratories) Full characterization of multi-qubit parity checks |
SESSION 8b: Quantum error correctionRoom: Ballroom C Chair: Ariel Shlosberg (University of New Mexico CQuIC) | |
| 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm | Christopher Pattison (California Institute of Technology) Efficient soft-output decoders for the surface code |
| 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | M. Sohaib Alam (NASA - Ames Research Center) Dynamical Logical Qubits in the Bacon-Shor Code |
| 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Shixin Wu (University of Southern California) Bias-tailoring single-shot quantum LDPC codes |
| 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Vikas Buchemmavari (University of New Mexico CQuIC) Noise-Tailored Fault Tolerant Quantum Computation in Strontium-87 Spin Qudits |
SESSION 8c: Frontiers of quantum informationRoom: Pine (downstairs) Chair: Mohammad Alhejji (University of New Mexico CQuIC) | |
| 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm | Marco A. Rodríguez-García (University of New Mexico CQuIC) Practical schemes for implementing globally optimal phase measurements |
| 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | Yanbao Zhang (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) An efficient method for spot-checking quantum properties with sequential trials |
| 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Yuan Liu (North Carolina State University) Hybrid Oscillator-Qubit Quantum Processors: Instruction Set Architectures, Abstract Machine Models, and Applications |
| 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Sankara Sai Chaithanya Rayudu (University of New Mexico CQuIC) Constrained local Hamiltonians: quantum generalizations of Vertex Cover |
| 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Break |
SESSION 9a: Quantum simulation and many-body physicsRoom: Ballroom D Chair: John DeBrota (University of New Mexico CQuIC) | |
| 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | Faisal Alam (Los Alamos National Lab) Random Matrix Product States are Pseudoentangled |
| 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Andrew Zhao (Sandia National Laboratories) Nearly Heisenberg-limited Hamiltonian learning with few assumptions |
| 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm | Soorya Rethinasamy (LSU) Neutron-nucleus dynamics simulations for quantum computers |
| 5:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Yuan Shi (University of Colorado) Simulating nonlinear optical processes on superconducting quantum device |
SESSION 9b: Quantum algorithmsRoom: Ballroom C Chair: Ariel Shlosberg (University of New Mexico CQuIC) | |
| 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | Luis Pedro García-Pintos (Los Alamos National Lab) Resilience-Runtime Tradeoff Relations for Quantum Algorithms |
| 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | Christoph Sünderhauf (Riverlane) Block-encoding structured matrices for data input in quantum computing |
| 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm | Ivan Novikau (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) Quantum algorithm for solving nonunitary truncated Koopman - von Neumann equation |
| 5:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Robbie King (California Institute of Technology) Shadow Hamiltonian Simulation |
SESSION 9c: Quantum networksRoom: Pine (downstairs) Chair: Mohammad Alhejji (University of New Mexico CQuIC) | |
| 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm | Robert Lanning (US Department of Defense) Quantum Time Transfer: A Method for Space Earth Links |
| 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm | Damián Pitalúa-García (University of Cambridge) Security analyses for practical mistrustful quantum cryptography based on quantum state discrimination games |
| 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm | David Meyer (University of California San Diego) The parameterized Tsirel'son bound and generalizations |
| 5:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Dhruv Devulapalli (University of Maryland) Quantum Routing through Vertex Bottlenecks |
| 6:10 pm - 6:50 pm | Steering Committee Meeting Room: Birch (downstairs) |
| 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Banquet (Location) |
Friday, November 1, Program
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
SESSION 10: Quantum sensing from computing perspectivesChair: Steve Rolston (University of Maryland JQI) | |
| 8:30 am - 9:15 am | Soonwon Choi (MIT) Quantum Computing Enhanced Sensing |
| 9:15 am - 9:45 am | Kendall Mehling (University of Colorado JILA) Universal Gate Set for Optical Lattice Based Atom Interferometry |
| 9:45 am - 10:15 am | Break |
SESSION 11: Superconducting devices IIChair: Justin Dressel (Chapman University) | |
| 10:15 am - 11:00 am | Robert Schoelkopf (Yale University) Error Detection and Error Correction with a Superconducting Dual-Rail Architecture |
| 11:00 am - 11:30 pm | Raymond Simmonds (NIST Boulder) Harnessing Parametric Interactions for Superconducting Quantum Systems |
| 11:30 pm - 12:00 pm | Wei-Ju Lin (University of Maryland Joint Quantum Institute) 24 days-stable CNOT-gate on fluxonium qubits with over 99.9% fidelity |
| 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm | Lunch Buffet |
SESSION 12: Quantum opticsChair: F. Elohim Becerra Chavez (University of New Mexico CQuIC) | |
| 1:30 pm - 2:15 pm | Eden Figueroa (Stony Brook University) Building physics-centric Quantum Networks |
| 2:15 pm - 2:45 pm | Pria Dobney (University of Toronto) Optimal quantum multi-parameter estimation with few-photon states |
| 2:45 pm - 3:15 pm | Break |
SESSION 13: Quantum control and simulation with ionsChair: Juan Pino (Quantinuum) | |
| 3:15 pm - 3:45 pm | David Allcock (Oxford Ionics) Scalable, high-fidelity all-electronic control of trapped-ion qubits |
| 3:45 pm - 4:15 pm | Justin Niedermeyer (National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder) Entangled States of Motion in a Two-Dimensional Ion Microtrap Array |
| 4:15 pm - 4:45 pm | Isabel Sacksteder (University of California Berkeley) Towards resistive cooling of electrons in a cryogenic Paul trap |
| 4:45 pm - 5:15 pm | Bryce Bullock (NIST Boulder) Simulating the Dicke model with hundreds of ions in a Penning trap |
| 5:15 pm - 5:30 pm | Break |
SESSION 14: Ion-trap quantum computingChair: Ivan Deutsch (University of New Mexico CQuIC) | |
| 5:30 pm - 6:15 pm | David Hayes (Quantinuum) The quantum computers at Quantinuum |
