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
Sunday Program
| 07:30-08:30 | Conference Breakfast |
| SESSION 11: Quantum Communication | Session Chair: |
| 08:30-09:15 | Irina Novikova, The College of William & Mary (invited) | Optimal control of light storage and retrieval |
| 09:15-09:45 | Jim Harrington, Los Alamos National Laboratory | Practical long distance quantum key distribution |
| 09:45-10:15 | Shellee Dyer, National Institute of Standards and Technology | Ultra-Low Noise Photon Pair Source in Dispersion Shifted Optical Fiber |
| 10:15-10:45 | Morning Coffee Break |
| SESSION 12: Quantum Processes and Decoherence | Session Chair: Andrew Landahl |
| 10:45-11:15 | David Poulin, California Institute of Technology | Preserved information in quantum processes |
| 11:15-11:45 | Anil Shaji, University of New Mexico | Resources and decoherence in qubit metrology |
| 11:45-12:00 | Pick up Box Lunch |
| SESSION 13: Breakout I - Quantum and Atom Optics | Session Chair: |
| 12:00-12:30 | Kavan Modi, University of Texas | The role of state preparation in quantum process tomography |
| 12:30-13:00 | Cody Leary, Oregon Center for Optics, University of Oregon | Single-Photon Spin-Orbit Coupling for Cluster State Quantum Computation |
| 13:00-13:30 | Rolando Somma, Perimeter Institute | Quantum Simulated Annealing |
| 13:30-14:00 | Fernando Cucchietti, Los Alamos National Laboratory | Polarons in Bose-Einstein condensates |
| SESSION 14: Breakout II - Quantum Information A | Session Chair: |
| 12:00-12:30 | Bei Zeng, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Codeword Stabilized Quantum Codes |
| 12:30-13:00 | Raisa Karasik, University of California, Berkeley | Decoherence-free subspaces and incoherently generated coherences |
| 13:00-13:30 | Sergio Boixo, University of New Mexico | Quantum-limited metrology with product states |
| 13:30-14:00 | Ali Rezakhani, University of Southern California Center for Quantum Information Science and Technology | Superoperator Dynamics Approach for Identification and Control of Hamiltonian Systems |
| SESSION 15: Breakout III - Quantum Information B | Session Chair: |
| 12:00-12:30 | Haitao Quan, Los Alamos National Laboratory | quantum thermodynamic cycles and quantum heat engines |
| 12:30-13:00 | Gilad Gour, Institute of Quantum Information Science | Polygamy of entanglement of assistance: duality for monogamy of entanglement |
| 13:00-13:30 | Paul M. Alsing, University of New Mexico | Spin-induced non-geodesic motion, Wigner rotation and EPR correlations of massive spin-1/2 particles in a gravitational field |
| 13:30-14:00 | Animesh Datta, University of New Mexico | Entanglement is an important resource ??!! |