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