Southwest Quantum Information and Technology
Twelfth Annual Meeting, February 18-21, 2010
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Full Program | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday
Thursday Program
| 3:00-4:00 | Conference Registration |
| SESSION 1: CQuIC Kickoff Keynotes | Session Chair: |
| 4:00-4:30 | Carlton Caves, University of New Mexico (invited) | Quantum-circuit guide to optical and atomic interferometry |
| 4:30-5:15 | Gerard Milburn, The University of Queensland (invited) | Quantum control and computation in circuit quantum electrodynamics. |
| 5:15-6:45 | Evening Break Buffet |
| 6:45-7:30 | William Phillips, Joint Quantum Institute (invited) | Simulated Electric and Magnetic Fields for Quantum Degenerate Neutral Atoms |
| 7:30-8:15 | Andrew Landahl, Sandia National Laboratories (invited) | How to build a fault-tolerant logical qubit with quantum dots |
| 8:15-9:00 | Richard Hughes, Los Alamos National Laboratory (invited) | Quantum Key Distribution: longer ranges and stronger security with superconducting detectors and decoy states |
Friday Program
| 7:30-8:30 | Conference Breakfast and Registration |
| SESSION 2: Trapped Ion QI | Session Chair: |
| 8:30-9:15 | Rainer Blatt, University of Innsbruck | Quantum Information Science with Trapped Ca+ Ions |
| 9:15-9:45 | David Hanneke, National Institute of Standards and Technology | Putting the pieces together: Recent progress with trapped ions at NIST |
| 9:45-10:15 | Morning Break |
| 10:15-10:45 | David Hayes, Joint Quantum Institute/University of Maryland | Entanglement of Atomic Qubits using an Optical Frequency Comb |
| 10:45-11:15 | Nikolaos Daniilidis, Unifersity of California, Berkeley | Towards wiring up trapped ions |
| 11:15-11:45 | Gang Shu, University of Washington | Novel Ion Trap for Efficient Fluorescence Collection from Trapped Ion Qubits |
| 11:45-1:15 | Conference Lunch |
| SESSION 3: Quantum Information Theory | Session Chair: |
| 1:15-2:00 | Scott Aaronson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | New Evidence that Quantum Mechanics is Hard to Simulate on Classical Computers |
| 2:00-2:30 | Jon Yard, Los Alamos National Laboratory | An information-theoretic interpretation of topological entanglement entropy |
| 2:30-3:00 | Howard Barnum, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics | What is special about quantum entropy? |
| 3:00-3:30 | Afternoon Break |
| SESSION 4: Nanomechanical Resonators | Session Chair: |
| 3:30-4:15 | Keith Schwab, Caltech | Preparation and Detection of an RF Mechanical Resonator Near the Ground State of Motion |
| 4:15-4:45 | Tobias Donner, JILA, National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Colorado, Boulder | Nanomechanical motion measured with an imprecision below the standard quantum limit |
| SESSION 5: Poster Session | |
| 5:00-7:00 | Poster Abstracts |
Saturday Program
| 7:30-8:30 | Conference Breakfast |
| SESSION 6: Neutral Atom QI | Session Chair: |
| 8:30-9:15 | Dieter Meschede, Universitaet Bonn | "Quantum Interference Experiments with One and More Neutral Atoms" |
| 9:15-9:45 | David Moehring, Sandia National Laboratories | Single-Atom Single-Photon Quantum Interface |
| 9:45-10:15 | Morning Break |
| 10:15-10:45 | Brian Mischuck, University of New Mexico | Quantum Control of Neutral Atoms Qudits and Transport |
| 10:45-11:15 | Aaron Smith, University of Arizona | Quantum State Mapping in the Cs 133 Full Hyperfine Ground Manifold |
| 11:15-11:45 | Katharina Gillen, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo | A neutral atom quantum memory created by diffraction of laser light at an array of pinholes |
| 11:45-1:15 | Conference Lunch |
| SESSION 7: Quantum Algorithms | Session Chair: |
| 1:15-2:00 | John Watrous, University of Waterloo | QIP = PSPACE |
| 2:00-2:30 | David Meyer, University of California/San Diego | Multi-query quantum algorithms for summation |
| 2:30-3:00 | Rolando Somma, Los Alamos National Laboratory | Fast Quantum Algorithms for Traversing Paths of Eigenstates |
| 3:00-3:30 | Afternoon Break |
| SESSION 8: Breakout I - Quantum Computing | Session Chair: |
| 3:30-4:00 | Stephen Jordan, California Institute of Technology | Permutational Quantum Computing |
| 4:00-4:30 | Peter Love, Haverford College | Some new constructions for Local Hamiltonian and universal adiabatic quantum computing |
| 4:30-5:00 | Ali Rezakhani, University of Southern California | Geometrization of quantum adiabatic computation |
| 5:00-5:30 | Aaron Denney, University of New Mexico | Distinguishing the Borel subgroups of PSL(2; q) |
| SESSION 9: Breakout II - Metrology and Measurement | Session Chair: |
| 3:30-4:00 | Alexandre Tacla, University of New Mexico | Practical quantum metrology with Bose-Einstein condensates |
| 4:00-4:30 | Collin Trail, University of New Mexico | Quantum Eraser and Phase-Matching for Exponential Spin-Squeezing via Coherent Optical Feedback |
| 4:30-5:00 | Mankei Tsang, University of New Mexico | Time-Symmetric Quantum Smoothing: A General Theory of Optimal Quantum Sensing |
| 5:00-5:30 | Francois Mallet, Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics | Tomographic reconstruction of the Wigner function of an itinerant microwave field. |
| SESSION 10: Breakout III - Quantum Communication | Session Chair: |
| 3:30-4:00 | Artur Scherer, Institute for Quantum Information Science at the University of Calgary | Mathematical model for real-world entanglement swapping and applications to practical long-distance quantum key distribution |
| 4:00-4:30 | Netanel Lindner, Caltech - Institute of Quantum Information | A photonic cluster state machine gun |
| 4:30-5:00 | Hayden McGuinness, University of Oregon | Frequency Translation of Single-Photon States by Four-Wave Mixing in a Photonic Crystal Fiber |
| 5:00-5:30 | Ben Fortescue, Institute for Quantum Information Science, University of Calgary | Quantum secret sharing with qudit graph states |
| 6:30-9:00 | Conference Banquet |
Sunday Program
| 7:30-8:30 | Conference Breakfast |
| SESSION 11: Quantum Information and Condensed Matter | Session Chair: |
| 8:30-9:15 | Matthew Hastings, Microsoft Station Q | Proving Hall Conductance Quantization |
| 9:15-9:45 | Benjamin Lev, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Trapping ultracold dysprosium |
| 9:45-10:15 | Morning Break |
| SESSION 12: Quantum Simulation | Session Chair: |
| 10:15-10:45 | Mohan Sarovar, University of California, Berkeley | Quantum mechanical aspects of photosynthesis |
| 10:45-11:15 | Norbert Schuch, California Institute of Technology | An efficient algorithm to find mean field and Matrix Product State solutions for one-dimensional systems |
| 11:15-11:45 | Michael Biercuk, National Institute of Standards and Technology | Spin Squeezing, Large-Scale Entanglement, and Quantum Simulation in Ion Crystals |