Southwest Quantum Information and Technology
Twelfth Annual Meeting, February 18-21, 2010
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Full Program | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday
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 |