Southwest Quantum Information and Technology
Fourteenth Annual Meeting, February 16-19, 2012
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Full Program | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday | All Sessions
Thursday Program
| SESSION 1: Tomography - Alvarado "D" | Session Chair: |
| 4:00pm-4:30pm | Steven Flammia, University of Washington | Direct Fidelity Estimation from Few Pauli Measurements |
| 4:30pm-5:00pm | Brian Anderson, University of Arizona | Quantum Control and Quantum State Tomography in the Hyperfine Ground Manifold of Atomic Cesium |
| 5:00pm-5:30pm | Steven van Enk, University of Oregon | Information criteria for quantum state estimation and everything else |
| 5:30pm-7:00pm | Evening Break Buffet - Franciscan Room |
| SESSION 2: Foundations - Alvarado "D" | Session Chair: |
| 7:00pm-7:45pm | Robert Spekkens, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (invited) | Formulating Quantum Theory as a Causally Neutral Theory of Bayesian Inference |
| 7:45pm-8:15pm | Yanbao Zhang, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder | Asymptotically optimal data analysis for rejecting local realism |
| 8:15pm-8:45pm | Jibran Rashid, Institute for Quantum Information Science at the University of Calgary | Quantum Nonlocal Boxes Exhibit Stronger Distillability |
Friday Program
| 7:30am-8:30am | Conference Breakfast - North and East Atriums |
| SESSION 3: Ion Trap QIP - Alvarado "D" | Session Chair: |
| 8:30am-9:00am | Ulrich Warring, NIST Ion Storage Group; National Institute of Standards and Technology | Trapped-ion quantum information processing experiments at NIST* |
| 9:00am-9:30am | Kenton Brown, Georgia Tech Research Institute | Trapped-Ion Physics at GTRI: Towards Large-Scale Integration and Automation |
| 9:30am-10:00am | Heather Partner, Sandia National Labs / University of New Mexico | Magnetic field gradient effects on a trapped ion frequency standard |
| 10:00am-10:30am | Morning Break - North and East Atriums |
| SESSION 4: Quantum Information Theory - Alvarado "D" | Session Chair: |
| 10:30am-11:15am | Luiz Davidovich, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (invited) | Quantum metrology with noisy systems |
| 11:15am-11:45am | Wim van Dam, University of California, Santa Barbara | Mutually unbiased bases for quantum states defined over p-adic numbers |
| 11:45am-12:15pm | Gilad Gour, Institute for Quantum Information Science | Local additivity of the minimum entropy output of a quantum channel |
| 12:15pm-1:45pm | Lunch - Alvarado A, B & C |
| SESSION 5: Quantum Optics - | Session Chair: |
| 1:45pm-2:30pm | Pete Shadbolt, University of Bristol (invited) | Integrated quantum photonics |
| 2:30pm-3:00pm | Michael Raymer, University of Oregon | Quantum Optical Pulse Shaping, Routing, and Frequency Translation by Four-Wave Mixing in Optical Fiber |
| 3:00pm-3:30pm | Jian Yang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Strong Photon-photon Interaction in Cavity-Quantum Dot System |
| 3:30pm-4:00pm | Afternoon Break - North And East Atriums |
| SESSION 6: Quantum Many-Body Physics and QIP - Alvarado "D" | Session Chair: |
| 4:00pm-4:45pm | Norbert Schuch, California Institute of Technology (invited) | Matrix Product States, Projected Entangled Pair States, and the entanglement spectrum of two-dimensional quantum systems |
| 4:45pm-5:15pm | Rolando Somma, Los Alamos National Laboratory | Spectral Gap Amplification |
| SESSION 7: Poster Session - Atrium | |
| 5:15pm-7:15pm | Poster Abstracts - East Atrium |
Saturday Program
| SESSION 8: Superconductors, Resonators, and Optomechanics - Alvarado "D" | Session Chair: |
| 7:30am-8:30am | Conference Breakfast - North and East Atriums |
| 8:30am-9:15am | Robert Schoelkopf, Yale University (invited) | Entanglement and Quantum Algorithms with Superconducting Circuits |
| 9:15am-9:45am | Frederick Strauch, Williams College | Entangled State Synthesis for Superconducting Resonator Qudits |
| 9:45am-10:15am | Lin Tian, University of California, Merced | Transient and Adiabatic Quantum State Transfer in Optomechanical Systems |
| 10:15am-10:45am | Morning Break - North and East Atriums |
| 10:45am-11:30am | Stephanie Wehner, Centre for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore (invited) | Quantum to Classical Randomness Extractors |
| SESSION 9: Quantum Measurement - Alvarado "D" | Session Chair: |
| 11:30am-12:00pm | Adam Meier, National Institute of Standards and Technology | Randomized Benchmarking of Multiple Qubits |
| 12:00pm-12:30pm | Alexandre Tacla, University of New Mexico | Entanglement-based perturbation theory for highly anisotropic Bose-Einstein condensates |
| 12:30pm-2:00pm | Lunch - Alvarado A, B & C |
| SESSION 10: Neutral Atom QIP - Alvarado "D" | Session Chair: |
| 2:00pm-2:45pm | Antoine Browaeys, Institut Optique, CNRS (invited) | Entanglement of two atoms using the Rydberg Blockade |
| 2:45pm-3:15pm | L. Paul Parazzoli, Sandia National Laboratories | Adiabatic Quantum Computing with Neutral Atoms |
| 3:15pm-3:45pm | Jae Hoon Lee, University of Arizona | Sub-wavelength Resonance Imaging and Robust Addressing of Atoms in an Optical Lattice |
| 3:45pm-4:15pm | Afternoon Break - North and East Atriums |
| SESSION 11a: Breakout A - Quantum Control and Measurement - Alvarado "A" | Session Chair: |
| 4:15pm-4:45pm | Constantin Brif, Sandia National Laboratories | Improving robustness of quantum gates to control noise |
| 4:45pm-5:15pm | Thaddeus Ladd, HRL Laboratories, LLC | Coherent Control of Si-based Qubits |
| 5:15pm-5:45pm | Robert Cook, Center for Quantum Information and Control (CQuIC) and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of New Mexico | Single shot quantum state estimation via continuous measurement in a strong back-action regime |
| 5:45pm-6:15pm | Olivier Landon-Cardinal, Université de Sherbrooke | Learning in a variational class of states : efficient tomography method for Matrix Product and Multi Scale Entangled states |
| SESSION 11b: Breakout B - Quantum Information Theory - Alvarado "B" | Session Chair: |
| 4:15pm-4:45pm | Iman Marvian, Perimeter Institute, Institute for quantum computing | Information-theoretic approach to the study of symmetric dynamics |
| 4:45pm-5:15pm | Orest Bucicovschi, University of California San Diego | The achievable values for pairwise concurrences of three qubits |
| 5:15pm-5:45pm | Vlad Gheorghiu, Institute for Quantum Information Sciences and Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Universty of Calgary | Optimal hybrid quantum secret sharing schemes via stabilizer codes and twirling of symplectic structures |
| 5:45pm-6:15pm | Kamil Bradler, School of Computer Science, McGill University | Crossing Tsirelsons bound with supersymmetric non-local states |
| SESSION 11c: Breakout C - Decoherence, Entanglement and Error Correction - Alvarado "C" | Session Chair: |
| 4:15pm-4:45pm | Zhang Jiang, University of New Mexico | Conditions imposing physical ancillary states in Stinespring dilations |
| 4:45pm-5:15pm | Peter Rose, Carleton College | Decoherence Leads to Non-monotonicity in the "Quantumness" of Fock States |
| 5:15pm-5:45pm | Chris Cesare, Center for Quantum Information and Control, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of New Mexico | Relationships Between Defect Encodings for Topological Codes |
| 5:45pm-6:15pm | Gerardo Paz-Silva, University of Southern California | Open-loop methods for protection of encoded information |
| 7:00pm-9:00pm | Conference Banquet - Alvarado "D" |
Sunday Program
| 7:30am-8:30am | Conference Breakfast - Franciscan Room |
| SESSION 12: Atom-Light Interface - Franciscan Room | Session Chair: |
| 8:30am-9:15am | James Thompson, JILA (invited) | Ensemble Cavity QED & Precision Metrology |
| 9:15am-9:45am | Morgan Mitchell, ICFO - Institute of Photonic Sciences | Quantum Technologies for Light-Matter Interaction |
| 9:45am-10:15am | Leigh Norris, University of New Mexico | Enhanced Spin Squeezing Through Quantum Control of Qudits |
| 10:15am-10:45am | Morning Break - Franciscan Room |
| SESSION 13: Quantum Computation and Error Correction - Franciscan Room | Session Chair: |
| 10:45am-11:15am | Sergio Boixo, Information Sciences Institute at the University of Southern California | Progress on theoretical studies and practical applications of quantum annealing and D-Wave One |
| 11:15am-11:45am | Nathan Wiebe, Institute for Quantum Computing | Improved Error-Scaling for Adiabatic Quantum Evolutions |
| 11:45am-12:15pm | Jonas Anderson, University of New Mexico | Homological Stabilizer Codes |
| 12:15pm-12:45pm | Matteo Mariantoni, Department of Physics and California NanoSystems Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara | The Photon Shell Game and the Quantum von Neumann Architecture with Superconducting Circuits |