Southwest Quantum Information and Technology
Eleventh Annual Meeting, February 19-22, 2009
Seattle, Washington
Full Program | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday
Friday Program
| 7:30-8:30 | Conference Breakfast and Registration |
| SESSION 2: Neutral Atom QI | Session Chair: |
| 8:30-9:15 | David Weiss, Penn State (invited) | Quantum computing with atoms in a 3D optical lattice |
| 9:15-9:45 | Poul Jessen, University of Arizona | Quantum Control of Large Atomic Hyperfine Manifolds |
| 9:45-10:15 | Morning Coffee Break |
| 10:15-10:45 | Benjamin Lev, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Exploring exotic matter through the quantum manipulation of dipolar atoms |
| 10:45-11:15 | Nathan Lundblad, Joint Quantum Institute/NIST/Univ. of Maryland | Optical lattice-based addressing and control of long-lived neutral-atom qubits |
| 11:15-11:45 | Iris Reichenbach, University of New Mexico | Two-qubit quantum logic gates via optical Feshbach resonances in alkaline-earth-like atoms |
| 11:45-1:15 | Conference Lunch |
| SESSION 3: Error Correction | Session Chair: |
| 1:15-2:00 | Barbara Terhal, IBM Research (invited) | No-Go Results for a 2D Quantum Memory Based on Stabilizer Codes |
| 2:00-2:30 | Bei Zeng, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Generalized Concatenated Quantum Codes |
| 2:30-3:00 | Bryan Eastin, National Institute of Standards and Technology | Restrictions on Transversal Encoded Quantum Gate Sets |
| 3:00-3:30 | Afternoon Coffee Break |
| SESSION 4: Entanglement | Session Chair: |
| 3:30-4:00 | Steven van Enk, University of Oregon | Verifying multi-partite mode entanglement of W states |
| 4:00-4:30 | Shohini Ghose, Wilfrid Laurier University | Relationship between 3-qubit entanglement and nonlocality |
| SESSION 5: Poster Session | |
| 5:00-7:00 | Poster Abstracts |