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
Saturday Program
| 07:30-08:30 | Conference Breakfast and Registration |
| SESSION 6: Algorithms | Session Chair: Wim van Dam |
| 08:30-09:15 | Edward Farhi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (invited) | A quantum computer can determine who wins a game faster than a classical computer |
| 09:15-9:45 | Jon Yard, Los Alamos National Laboratory | A general quantum algorithm for knot and link polynomials |
| 09:45-10:15 | Morning Coffee Break |
| 10:15-10:45 | David Meyer, University of California at San Diego | When a quantum query is no better than a classical one |
| SESSION 7: Quantum Computing I: Experiment | Session Chair: John Martinis |
| 10:45-11:30 | Raymond Simmonds, National Institute of Standards and Technology (invited) | Engineering coherent quantum states in superconducting systems |
| 11:30-12:00 | Jason Amini, National Institute of Standards and Technology | Scalable Traps and Novel Gates for Quantum Information Processing with Ions |
| 12:00-13:30 | Conference Lunch |
| SESSION 8: Quantum Computing II: Theory | Session Chair: Howard Barnum |
| 13:30-14:15 | Giacomo Mauro D'Ariano, Università di Pavia (invited) | Quantum Circuits Architecture |
| 14:15-14:45 | Robert Raussendorf, University of British Columbia | On measurement-based quantum computation with the toric code states |
| 14:45-15:15 | Barry Sanders, University of Calgary | Quantum walk on a circle in phase space via superconducting circuit |
| 15:15-15:45 | Afternoon Coffee Break |
| SESSION 9: Quantum Error Correction | Session Chair: Dave Bacon |
| 15:45-16:15 | Mark Wilde, University of Southern California | Quantum Convolutional Coding with Entanglement Assistance |
| 16:15-16:45 | Ognyan Oreshkov, University of Southern California | Fault-tolerant holonomic computation on quantum error-correcting codes |
| 16:45-17:15 | Matthew Elliott, University of New Mexico | A graphical description of stabilizer states |
| SESSION 10: Poster Session | |
| 17:15-19:00 | Poster Abstracts |
| 19:00 | Conference Banquet |