Southwest Quantum Information and Technology
Eleventh Annual Meeting, February 19-22, 2009
Seattle, Washington
Full Program | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday
Saturday Program
| 7:30-8:30 | Conference Breakfast |
| SESSION 6: Ion Trap QI | Session Chair: |
| 8:30-9:15 | Luming Duan, University of Michigan (invited) | Large Scale Quantum Computation in a Linear Ion Trap |
| 9:15-10:45 | John Jost, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder | Ion Motional Entanglement and Quantum Information Experiments at NIST* |
| 9:45-10:15 | Morning Coffee Break |
| 10:15-11:00 | Christopher Monroe, JQI and University of Maryland (invited) | Ion Trap Photonic Quantum Networks |
| 11:00-11:30 | Matt Dietrich, University of Washington | Preparation and detection of a 137Ba+ hyperfine qubit |
| 11:30-1:00 | Conference Lunch |
| SESSION 7: Quantum Measurement | Session Chair: |
| 1:00-1:30 | Anil Shaji, The University of New Mexico | Heisenberg limited phase estimation with mode-entangled coherent states |
| 1:30-2:00 | John Sidles, University of Washington | Renewing and Uniting Two Challenges of John von Neumann and Richard Feynman: Atomic-Resolution Biomicroscopy and Simulating Quantum Physics with Computers |
| 2:00-2:30 | Kevin Young, University of California - Berkeley | Optimal experiment design for parameter estimation as applied to dipole- and exchange-coupled qubits |
| 2:30-3:00 | Robert Cook, University of New Mexico | Continuous measurement of a quantum phase transition in a collective atomic system weakly coupled to a single optical mode |
| 3:00-3:30 | Afternoon Coffee Break |
| SESSION 8: Breakout I - Quantum Information Theory | Session Chair: |
| 3:30-4:00 | Rodney Van Meter, Keio University | Resource Handling for Quantum Networks of Arbitrary Topology |
| 4:00-4:30 | Sevag Gharibian, Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo | Strong NP-Hardness of the Quantum Separability Problem |
| 4:30-5:00 | Soraya Taghavi, University of Southern California | Channel-Optimized Quantum Error Correction |
| 5:00-5:30 | Beni Yoshida, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Duality theorem and topological properties in local stabilizer codes |
| SESSION 9: Breakout II - Resources for Quantum Information | Session Chair: |
| 3:30-4:00 | Joseph Renes, Technical University of Darmstadt | Measurement-Based Quantum Computation in Realistic Spin-1 Chains |
| 4:00-4:30 | Xie Chen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Gapped Two-body Hamiltonian whose Unique Ground State is Universal for One-way Quantum Computation |
| 4:30-5:00 | Dmitry Uskov, Tulane/LSU | Designing Optimal States and Transformations for Quantum Optical Communication and Metrology |
| 5:00-5:30 | Samuel Gasster, The Aerospace Corporation | Resource Requirements for Fault-Tolerant Quantum Simulation: The Transverse Ising Model Ground State |
| SESSION 10: Breakout III - Decoherence | Session Chair: |
| 3:30-4:00 | Mark Byrd, Southern Illinois University | Creating and manipulating quantum decoherence-free, or noiseless, systems of qudits |
| 4:00-4:30 | Michael Biercuk, NIST - Ion Storage Group | Dynamical Decoupling in a Model Quantum Memory |
| 4:30-5:00 | Sergio Boixo, California Institute of Technology | Quantum computing through decoherence |
| 5:00-5:30 | Cesar Rodriguez-Rosario, Harvard University | Non-Markovian Environmental Contributions to the Efficiency of Energy Transfer |
| 6:30-8:30 | Conference Banquet |