Southwest Quantum Information and Technology
Tenth Annual Meeting, February 14-17, 2008
University of New Mexico, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Full Program | Thursday Tutorials | Friday | Saturday | Sunday
Friday Program
| 07:30-08:30 | Conference Breakfast and Registration |
| 08:30-08:45 | Welcome to SQuInT 2008 |
| SESSION 1: Quantum and Atom Optics | Session Chair: JM Geremia |
| 08:45-09:30 | Serge Haroche, Ecole Normale Supérieure (invited) | Quantum Non-Demolition counting of photons in Cavity QED |
| 09:30-10:00 | Thomas Gerrits, National Institute of Standards and Technology | Generation of optical Cat States by squeezed photon subtraction |
| 10:00-10:30 | Morning Coffee Break |
| 10:30-11:00 | Steve Flammia, Perimeter Institute | Ultracompact Generation of Continuous-Variable Cluster States |
| SESSION 2: Laser Trapping and Cooling | Session Chair: Poul Jessen |
| 11:00-11:30 | Nathan Lundblad, National Institute of Standards and Technology | Ultracold atoms in a radiofrequency-dressed optical lattice |
| 11:30-13:00 | Conference Lunch |
| 13:00-13:45 | Alex Kuzmich, Georgia Institute of Technology (invited) | A Nuclear Clock |
| SESSION 3: Information Theory | Session Chair: Cris Moore |
| 13:45-14:30 | Patrick Hayden, McGill University (invited) | Black Holes as Mirrors |
| 14:30-15:00 | Afternoon Coffee Break |
| 15:00-15:30 | Gregory Crosswhite, University of Washington, Department of Physics | Using the cutting edge of matrix product state techniques to slice infinitely large entangled systems down to size |
| 15:30-16:00 | Jon Walgate, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics | Generic local distinguishability and completely entangled subspaces |
| SESSION 4: Quantum Control | Session Chair: Todd Brun |
| 16:00-16:30 | Brad Chase, University of New Mexico | Efficient feedback controllers for continuous-time quantum error correction |
| 16:30-17:00 | Afternoon Coffee Break |
| 17:00-17:30 | Seth Merkel, University of New Mexico | Optimal Control of Large Spin-Atomic Systems with Coherent Electromagnetic Fields |
| 17:30-18:00 | Souma Chaudhury, University of Arizona | A Quantum Kicked Top with Cold Atomic Spins |
| SESSION 5: Poster Session | |
| 18:00-20:00 | Poster Abstracts |