Southwest Quantum Information and Technology
Fourteenth Annual Meeting, February 16-19, 2012
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Full Program | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday | All Sessions
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" |