Southwest Quantum Information and Technology

Fifteenth Annual Meeting, February 21-23, 2013
Santa Barbara, California


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Friday Program

7:00 - 8:30Conference Breakfast
SESSION 4: Superconductors
8:30 - 9:15Andrew Cleland, University of California - Santa Barbara (invited)
Is building a superconducting quantum computer actually feasible?
9:15 - 9:45Stefano Poletto, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, US
Entanglement of two superconducting qubits in a three-dimensional architecture via monochromatic two-photon excitation
9:45 - 10:15Morning Break
SESSION 5: Nanomechanics
10:30 - 11:15Konrad Lehnert, University of Colorado (invited)
Using a mechanical resonator to catch, store, and release propagating microwave fields
11:15 - 12:00Gerard Milburn, The University of Queensland (invited)
Single photon optomechanics
12:00 - 1:30Lunch
SESSION 6a: Break-Out 1: Quantum Control
1:30 - 2:00Nathan Wiebe, Institute for Quantum Computing
Quantum Control and Simulation Using Product Formulas for Exponentials of Commutators
2:00 - 2:30Constantin Brif, Sandia National Laboratories
Exploring adiabatic quantum computing trajectories via optimal control
2:30 - 3:00Gerardo Paz Silva, University of Southern California
Quantum Control and Fault-tolerant quantum computing
3:00- 3:30Afternoon Break
SESSION 6b: Break-out 2: Experimental Implementations
1:30 - 2:00David Pappas, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Long-lived, radiation-suppressed superconducting quantum bit in a planar geometry
2:00 - 2:30Mingwu Lu, Stanford University
Quantum degenerate Bose and Fermi dipolar gases of dysprosium realized
2:30 - 3:00Jonathan Mizrahi, Joint Quantum Institute, University of Maryland
Ultrafast Spin-Motion Entanglement in Single Atomic Qubits
3:00 - 3:30Afternoon Break
SESSION 6c: Break-out 3: Quantum Information Theory
1:30 - 2:00Jon Yard, Microsoft Research Station Q
On the structure of symmetric quantum measurements
2:00 - 2:30Arjendu Pattanayak, Carleton College
Lyapunov exponents across the quantum-classical transition
2:30 - 3:00Lin Tian, University of California, Merced
Robust entanglement generation via optomechanical quantum interface
2:45 - 3:15Afternoon Break
SESSION 7a: Break-out 1: Quantum Tomography and Measurement
3:30 - 4:00Seth Merkel, IBM Watson Research Center
Self-consistent quantum process tomography
4:00 - 4:30Robin Blume-Kohout, Sandia National Laboratories
Adaptive gate-set tomography
4:30 - 5:00Chris Ferrie, Center for Quantum Information and Control, University of New Mexico
Minimax quantum tomography: the ultimate bounds on accuracy
5:00 - 5:30Leon Loveridge, University of British Columbia
Quantum Measurements Constrained by Symmetry
SESSION 7b: Break-out 2: Quantum Computing
3:30 - 4:00Thomas Wong, UC San Diego
Nonlinear Quantum Search
4:00 - 4:30Olivier Pfister, University of Virginia
Hypercubic cluster entanglement in the optical frequency comb
4:30 - 5:00Chris Cesare, Center for Quantum Information and Control, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of New Mexico
Accurate quantum Z rotations with less magic
5:00 - 5:30Peter Brooks, California Institute of Technology
Magic state distillation with noisy Clifford gates
SESSION 7c: Break-out 3: Quantum Many-body Physics
3:30 - 4:00Asif Shakeel, Haverford College, Haverford, PA.
When is a Quantum Cellular Automaton (QCA) a Quantum Lattice Gas Automaton (QLGA)?
4:00 - 4:30David Feder, University of Calgary
Graph Equitable Partitioning in Quantum Many-Body Physics
4:30 - 5:00Zhang Jiang, University of New Mexico
Quantum many-body problems for identical particles:
The (anti-)symmetrized n-fold product states.
5:00 - 5:30Olivier Landon-Cardinal, Universite de Sherbrooke
Local topological order inhibits thermal stability in 2D
6:00 - 7:00Cocktail Reception
7:00 - 9:00Banquet