Southwest Quantum Information and Technology
Thirteenth Annual Meeting, February 17-20, 2011
Boulder, Colorado
Full Program | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday | All Sessions
Thursday Program
| 3:00pm-4:00pm | Conference Registration |
| SESSION 1: Nanomechanics and Superconducting QIP | Session Chair: |
| 4:00pm-4:45pm | Raymond Simmonds, National Institute of Standards and Technology | Quantum-based Measurements with Superconducting Circuits |
| 4:45pm-5:15pm | Emily Pritchett, University of Waterloo, Institute for Quantum Computing | General-Purpose Quantum Simulation with Prethreshold Superconducting Qubits |
| SESSION 2: Quantum Error Correction | Session Chair: |
| 5:15pm-6:00pm | Sergey Bravyi, IBM Watson Research Center | Subsystem and stabilizer quantum codes with spatially local generators |
| 6:00pm-7:30pm | Evening Break Buffet |
| 7:30pm-8:00pm | Dave Bacon, University of Washington | Making Error Correction Spatially Local |
| 8:00pm-8:30pm | Bryan Fong, HRL Laboratories, LLC | Exchange-Only Computation, Leakage Reduction, and Dynamical Decoupling in the Three-Qubit Decoherence Free Subsystem |
| 8:30pm-9:00pm | Gerardo Paz, University of Southern California | Concatenated Stabilizer Dynamical Decoupling |
Friday Program
| 7:30am-8:30am | Conference Breakfast and Registration |
| SESSION 3: Neutral Atom QIP | Session Chair: |
| 8:30am-9:15am | Markus Greiner, Harvard University | Quantum simulation of an antiferromagnetic Ising chain with longitudinal and transverse magnetic fields |
| 9:15am-9:45am | Mark Saffman, University of Wisconsin Madison | Towards multi-qubit computing with Rydberg blockade |
| 9:45am-10:15am | Carlos Riofrio, University of New Mexico | Quantum tomography of the full hyperfine manifold of atomic spins via continuous measurement on an ensemble |
| 10:15am-10:45am | Morning Break |
| 10:45am-11:15am | Jae Hoon Lee, University of Arizona | Quantum Control of the Motional and Internal Degrees of Freedom of Neutral Atoms |
| 11:15am-11:45am | Steven Olmschenk, Joint Quantum Institute, National Institute of Standards and Technology and University of Maryland Department of Physics | Randomized benchmarking of atomic qubits and differential light shift cancellation in an optical lattice |
| 11:45am-12:15pm | Andrea Alberti, Universität Bonn | Engineering Coherences at Single-Atom Level |
| 12:15pm-1:45pm | Conference Lunch |
| SESSION 4: Quantum Information Theory I | Session Chair: |
| 1:45pm-2:30pm | Jonathan Oppenheim, University of Cambridge | Uncertainty, nonlocality, & complementarity |
| 2:30pm-3:00pm | Jon Yard, Los Alamos National Laboratory | Faithful squashed entanglement with applications to separability testing and quantum complexity |
| 3:00pm-3:30pm | Steve Flammia, Caltech | Tomography via Compressed Sensing |
| 3:30pm-4:00pm | Afternoon Break |
| SESSION 5: Quantum Metrology | Session Chair: |
| 4:00pm-4:45pm | Morgan Mitchell, Institute of Photonic Sciences | Quantum-enhanced magnetometry and nonlinear metrology with atomic ensembles. |
| 4:45pm-5:15pm | Mankei Tsang, University of New Mexico | Fundamental Quantum Limit to Waveform Estimation |
| SESSION 6: Poster Session | |
| 5:15pm-7:15pm | Poster Abstracts |
Saturday Program
| 7:30am-8:30am | Conference Breakfast |
| SESSION 7: Atoms in Cavities and Confined Modes | Session Chair: |
| 8:30am-9:15am | Arno Rauschenbeutel, Institute of Atomic and Subatomic Physics, Vienna University of Technology | Trapping and Interfacing Cold Neutral Atoms Using Optical Nanofibers |
| 9:15am-9:45am | Luis Orozco, Joint Quantum Institute, Dept. Physics and National Institute of Standards and Technology, University of Maryland | Light shifts of ground-state quantum beats: A consequence of quantum jumps. |
| 9:45am-10:15am | Clement Lacroute, California Institute of Technology | Atom trapping in the evanescent field of a tapered optical fiber: towards cQED with micro-toroids and trapped atoms. |
| 10:15am-10:45am | Morning Break |
| SESSION 8: Quantum Algorithms | Session Chair: |
| 10:45am-11:30am | David Poulin, Université de Sherbrooke | Quantum Metropolis Sampling: An algorithm to simulate thermal systems with a quantum computer |
| 11:30am-12:00pm | Bryan Eastin, Northrop Grumman Corporation | Simulating Concordant Computations |
| 12:00pm-1:30pm | Conference Lunch |
| 1:30pm-2:15pm | Jens Eisert, University of Potsdam | Relaxation, thermalization, and a quantum algorithm to prepare Gibbs states |
| SESSION 9: Photonic QIP | Session Chair: |
| 2:15pm-2:45pm | Olivier Pfister, University of Virginia | Scaling up entanglement in the optical frequency comb: recent experimental progress |
| 2:45pm-3:15pm | Adriana Lita, National Institute Of Standards and Technology (NIST) Boulder | Superconducting Transition-Edge Sensors Optimized for High-Efficiency Photon-Number Resolving Detectors |
| 3:15pm-4:00pm | Afternoon Break |
| SESSION 10a: Breakout A -- Quantum Tomography, Estimation, Optimization | Session Chair: |
| 4:00pm-4:30pm | Robin Blume-Kohout, Los Alamos National Lab | Confidence intervals for quantum state estimation |
| 4:30pm-5:00pm | Mike Mullan, National Institute of Standards and Technology | Improving Quantum Clocks via Semidefinite Programming |
| 5:00pm-5:30pm | Joshua Combes, Center for Quantum Information and Control, University of New Mexico, USA | Efficient methods for the characterisation of qbit Hamiltonian dynamics |
| 5:30pm-6:00pm | Yu Tomita, Georgia Institute of Technology | Multi-qubit compensation sequences |
| SESSION 10b: Breakout B -- Quantum Error Correction and Algorithms | Session Chair: |
| 4:00pm-4:30pm | Mark Byrd, Southern Illinois University | Pseudo-unitary freedom in the operator-sum representation, positive maps, and quantum error correction |
| 4:30pm-5:00pm | Jim Harrington, HRL Laboratories | Addressable multi-qubit logic via permutations |
| 5:00pm-5:30pm | Ching-Yi Lai, University of Southern California | Entanglement-Assisted Quantum Error-Correcting Codes when the Ebits of Receiver are not Perfect |
| 5:30pm-6:00pm | Asif Shakeel, University of California at San Diego | An Improved Query for the Hidden Subgroup Problem |
| SESSION 10c: Breakout C -- Entanglement and Superpositions | Session Chair: |
| 4:00pm-4:30pm | Miguel-Angel Garcia-March, Colorado School of Mines | Ultracold bosons in 3D double wells: macroscopic superposition of vortex states and the tunneling of atoms carrying vorticity |
| 4:30pm-5:00pm | Jess Riedel, Los Alamos National Laboratory | Quantum Darwinism in an Everyday Environment: Huge Redundancy in Scattered Photons |
| 5:00pm-5:30pm | Peter Love, Haverford College | Convex Roof Optimization from Cartan Decompositions |
| 5:30pm-6:00pm | Gilad Gour, Institute for Quantum Information Science, University of Calgary | Multipartite Entanglement: Classification, Quantification, Manipulation, Evolution and Applications |
| 7:00pm-9:30pm | Conference Banquet |
Sunday Program
| 7:30am-8:30am | Conference Breakfast |
| SESSION 11: Ion Trap QIP | Session Chair: |
| 8:30am-9:00am | Christian Ospelkaus, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder | Quantum information processing with trapped ions at NIST |
| 9:00am-9:30am | Kihwan Kim, Joint Quantum Institute and University of Maryland | Quantum simulation with trapped atomic ions |
| 9:30am-10:00am | Thomas Noel, University of Washington | Rapid Adiabatic Passage on a Trapped Ion with a Noisy Laser |
| 10:00am-10:30am | Morning Break |
| SESSION 12: Quantum Computation | Session Chair: |
| 10:30am-11:00am | David Feder, University of Calgary | Universal Quantum Computation with Non-Interacting Fermions |
| 11:00am--11:30am | Robert Raussendorf, University of British Columbia | The 2D AKLT state is universal for measurement-based quantum computation |
| 11:30am-12:00pm | Wim van Dam, University of California, Santa Barbara | Noise Thresholds for Higher Dimensional Systems using the Discrete Wigner Function |