Southwest Quantum Information and Technology
Thirteenth Annual Meeting, February 17-20, 2011
Boulder, Colorado
Full Program | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday | All Sessions
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 |