Southwest Quantum Information and Technology
Sixteenth Annual Meeting, February 20-22, 2014
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Full Program | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | All Sessions
Thursday Program
| SESSION 1: Quantum Information Processing with Trapped Ions | |
| 8:30am - 9:15am | Sebastian Hofferberth, Universität Stuttgart (invited) | Single charged impurities inside a Bose-Einstein condensate |
| 9:15am - 9:45am | John Gaebler, National Institute of Standards and Technology | Trapped-ion quantum information processing experiments at NIST |
| 9:45am - 10:15am | True Merrill, Georgia Tech Research Institute | An on-chip toolset for surface-electrode trap based quantum processors |
| 10:15am - 10:45am | Break |
| SESSION 2: Quantum Algorithms | |
| 10:45am - 11:30am | Richard Cleve, University of Waterloo (invited) | Simulating Hamiltonian evolution on a quantum computer |
| 11:30am - 12:00pm | Rolando Somma, Los Alamos National Laboratory | A quantum fractional Fourier transform |
| 12:00pm - 1:30pm | Lunch |
| SESSION 3: Quantum Optics | |
| 2:15pm - 2:45pm | Francisco Elohim Becerra, University of New Mexico | Robust and high-sensitivity nonorthogonal coherent state discrimination |
| 1:30pm - 2:15pm | Vladan Vuletic, MIT (invited) | Strongly interacting photons |
| 2:45pm - 3:15pm | Michael Raymer, University of Oregon | Spectrally Entangled Photon Pairs for Ultrafast Probing of Molecules |
| 3:15pm - 3:45pm | Break |
| SESSION 4: Quantum Many-Body Physics I | |
| 3:45pm - 4:30pm | Thomas Vidick, UC Berkeley (invited) | A polynomial-time algorithm for the ground state of 1D gapped local Hamiltonians |
| 4:30pm - 5:00pm | Akimasa Miyake, University of New Mexico | Symmetry-protected topological ordered phases and their use for quantum computation |
| SESSION 5: Poster Session | |
| 5:00 pm-7:00 pm | Poster Abstracts |
Friday Program
| SESSION 6: Mesoscopic Quantum Coherence | |
| 8:30am - 9:15am | William Phillips, Joint Quantum Institute/National Institute of Standards and Technology (invited) | An atomic superfluid Bose-Einstein condensate in a ring |
| 9:15am - 10:00am | Keith Schwab, Caltech (invited) | Quantum Behavior of Electro-mechanical Structures |
| 10:00am - 10:30am | Break |
| SESSION 7: Quantum Information Theory I | |
| 10:30am - 11:15am | Patrick Hayden, Stanford University (invited) | Spacetime, quantum cloning and black holes |
| 11:15am - 11:45am | Mankei Tsang, National University of Singapore | Mismatched quantum filtering and entropic information |
| 11:45am - 12:15pm | Beni Yoshida, California Institute of Technology | Violation of the Arrhenius law for memory time below magnetic and topological transition temperature |
| 12:15pm - 1:45pm | Lunch |
| SESSION 8: Quantum Simulation, Digital and Analog | |
| 1:45pm - 2:30pm | Alan Aspuru-Guzik, Harvard University (invited) | Towards practical quantum simulators for quantum chemistry |
| 2:30pm - 3:00pm | Krysta Svore, Microsoft Research | Repeat-Until-Success: Non-deterministic decomposition of single-qubit unitaries |
| 3:00pm - 3:30pm | Heather Partner, Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt | Topological defect formation and dynamics in ion Coulomb crystals |
| 3:30pm - 4:00pm | Break |
| SESSION 9a: Break-out 1: Quantum Computation and Fault Tolerance | |
| 4:00pm - 4:30pm | Itay Hen, University of Southern California | Period Finding with Adiabatic Quantum Computation |
| 4:30pm - 5:00pm | Joydip Ghosh, University of Calgary | Understanding the effects of leakage in superconducting quantum error detection circuits |
| 5:00pm - 5:30pm | Mauricio Gutierrez, Georgia Institute of Technology | The effect of realistic noise models on quantum error correction thresholds |
| 5:30pm - 6:00pm | Jonas Anderson, Université de Sherbrooke | Towards an Efficient Decoder for Quantum LDPC Codes |
| SESSION 9b: Break-out 2: Quantum Many-Body Physics II | |
| 4:00pm - 4:30pm | Sukhbinder Singh, Macquarie University, Sydney | Tensor networks and Symmetries |
| 4:30pm - 5:00pm | Fernando Pastawski, California Institute of Technology | Optimal dissipative encoding and state preparation for topological order |
| 5:00pm - 5:30pm | Adolfo del Campo, Los Alamos National Laboratory | Shortcuts to adiabaticity in many-body systems |
| 5:30pm - 6:00pm | Iman Marvian, University of Southern California | Symmetry-Protected Topological Entanglement |
| SESSION 9c: Break-out 3: Atoms and Photons | |
| 4:00pm - 4:30pm | Hector Sosa Martinez, University of Arizona | New Tools for Unitary Control of Cold Atom Qudits |
| 4:30pm - 5:00pm | David Rideout, University of California, San Diego | Quantum optics experiments at Earth-orbital scales and beyond |
| 5:00pm - 5:30pm | Matthias Lang, University of New Mexico | Optimal quantum-enhanced interferometry using a laser power source |
| 5:30pm - 6:00pm | Collin Trail, University of Calgary | On generating macroscopic superpositions via nonlinear dynamics of stopped light in a two-component Bose-Einstein condensate |
| 7:00pm - 9:00pm | Banquet |
Saturday Program
| SESSION 10: Superconducting Qubits | |
| 8:30am - 9:15am | Shyam Shankar, Yale University (invited) | Autonomously stabilized entanglement between two superconducting qubits |
| 9:15am - 9:45am | Pedram Roushan, UCSB | Mapping the topological phase diagram of superconducting qubit systems |
| 9:45am - 10:15am | Break |
| SESSION 11: Quantum Tomography | |
| 10:15am - 10:45am | John Gamble, Sandia National Laboratories | Quantum gate set tomography |
| 10:45am - 11:15am | Carlos Riofrio, Freie Universität Berlin | Tomography of Quantum Fields |
| 11:15am - 11:45am | Amir Kalev, University of New Mexico | Quantum process tomography of near-unitary maps |
| 11:45am - 12:15pm | Scott Glancy, National Institute of Standards and Technology | Practical and Fast Gaussian State Estimation |
| 12:15pm - 1:45pm | Lunch |
| SESSION 12: Quantum Information Theory II | |
| 1:45am - 2:30pm | Emanuel Knill, University of Colorado at Boulder (invited) | Certifying violations of local realism |
| 2:30pm - 3:15pm | Ben Reichardt, University of Southern California (invited) | Classical command of quantum systems |
| 3:15pm - 3:45pm | Jason Twamley, Macquarie University | All-Optical Switching and Router via the Direct Quantum Control of Coupling between Cavity Modes |
| 3:45pm - 4:15pm | Break |
| SESSION 13: Quantum Metrology and Control | |
| 4:15pm - 5:00pm | Ania Bleszynski-Jayich, University of California Santa Barbara (invited) | Quantum assisted sensing with diamond spins |
| 5:00pm - 5:30pm | Joshua Combes, University of New Mexico | Probabilistic protocols in quantum information? Probably not. |
| 5:30pm - 6:00pm | Sergey Knysh, NASA Ames Research Center | True Quantum Precision and Unique Optimal Probes in presence of Decoherence. |