Southwest Quantum Information and Technology
Fifteenth Annual Meeting, February 21-23, 2013
Santa Barbara, California
Full Program | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | All Sessions
Saturday Program
| 7:00 - 8:30 | Conference Breakfast |
| SESSION 8: Ion Traps | |
| 8:30 - 9:15 | Christian Roos, Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (invited) | Schrödinger cat state spectroscopy with trapped ions |
| 9:15 - 9:45 | Andrew Wilson, National Institute of Standards & Technology | Trapped-ion quantum information processing experiments at NIST* |
| 9:45 - 10:15 | Morning Break |
| SESSION 9: Quantum Foundations | |
| 10:15 - 11:00 | Howard Wiseman, Griffith University (invited) | Loophole-free steering for quantum cryptography and for testing the subjectivity of atomic quantum jumps |
| 11:00 - 11:45 | Theresa Lynn, Harvey Mudd College (invited) | Distinguishing Hyperentangled Bell States with Linear Evolution and Local Measurement |
| 11:45- 1:15 | Lunch |
| SESSION 10: Quantum Optics | |
| 1:15 - 2:00 | Aephraim Steinberg, University of Toronto (invited) | Weak Measurement, Uncertainty Relationships, and Tradeoffs in Experimental Quantum Measurement |
| 2:00 - 2:30 | Ben Baragiola, Center for Quantum Information and Control, University of New Mexico | Squeezing of Spin Waves in Atomic Ensembles |
| 2:30 - 3:00 | Zilong Chen, JILA and Department of Physics, University of Colorado at Boulder | Cavity-enhanced non-demolition measurements for atom counting and spin squeezing |
| 3:00 - 3:30 | Afternoon Break |
| SESSION 11: Adiabatic Quantum Computation | |
| 3:30 - 4:00 | Sergio Boixo, University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute | Experimental signatures of quantum annealing |
| 4:00 - 4:30 | Aaron Hankin, University of New Mexico | Adiabatic Quantum Computation with Neutral Cesium |
| SESSION 12: Quantum Biology | |
| 4:30 - 5:15 | Birgitta Whaley, UC Berkeley (invited) | Quantum Coherence in Biology |
| 5:15 - 6:00 | Evening Break |
| 6:00 - 7:00 | Nobel Lecture |
| David J. Wineland, National Institute of Standards and Technology (invited) | Superposition, entanglement, and raising Schroedinger's cat. |