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 |