Program

Saturday Program

7:00 am - 8:30 amContinental Breakfast (Pavilion Court)

SESSION 10: Quantum computation and quantum tunneling (Pavilion I - III)

Chair: Todd Brun (Southern California)
8:30 am - 9:15 amSeth Lloyd, (MIT)
Quantum algorithms for topological data analysis
9:15 am - 9:45 amZhang Jiang, (NASA Ames)
Instantons in thermally-assisted tunneling and quantum Monte Carlo simulations
9:45 am - 10:15 amLucas Brady, van Dam group (UC Santa Barbara)
Efficient tunnelling in quantum adiabatic optimization and its quantum Monte Carlo simulations
10:15 am - 10:45 amBreak (Pavilion Court)

SESSION 11: Superconductor qubits (experiment) (Pavilion I - III)

Chair: Andrew Landahl (Sandia)
10:45 am - 11:30 amRobert Schoelkopf, (Yale)
Extending the lifetime of quantum information through error correction
11:30 am - 12:00 pmRyan Babbush, Martinis group (Google)
The promise of variational quantum algorithms
12:00 pm - 1:30 pmLunch (Grand Pavilion IV, V, VI)

SESSION 12: Superconductor for QIP (theory) (Pavilion I - III)

Chair: Emily Pritchett (HRL)
1:30 pm - 2:15 pmJay Gambetta, (IBM)
Exploring small quantum error correcting codes with superconducting qubits
2:15 pm - 2:45 pmEddy Timmermans, (Los Alamos)
A DC-SQUID force sensor: an atomtronic proposal
2:45 pm - 3:15 pmBreak (Pavilion Court)

SESSION 13: Atomic, molecular, optical physics (experiment) (Pavilion I - III)

Chair: Poul Jessen (Arizona)
3:15 pm - 3:45 pmMichael Gould, Fu group (Washington)
Enhanced emission of zero-phonon line photons from a single nitrogen-vacancy center in diamond
3:45 pm - 4:15 pm Tian Zhong, Faraon Group (IQIM, Caltech)
Broadband nanophotonic quantum interface with a cavity-protected rare-earth ensemble
4:15 pm - 4:45 pmHector Sosa Martinez, Jessen group (Arizona)
Optimal strategies for quantum state and process tomography: efficiency versus robustness
4:45 pm - 5:15 pm Laura De Lorenzo, Schwab group (IQIM, Caltech)
Exploring the macroscopic quantum physics of motion with superfluid He-4

SESSION 14: Future of QI (keynote talk) (Pavilion I-III)

Chair: Ivan Deutsch (New Mexico)
5:30 pm - 6:15 pmJohn Preskill, (IQIM, Caltech)
Our quantum future

SQuInT Chief Organizer
Prof. Akimasa Miyake
amiyake@unm.edu

SQuInT Co-Organizer
Prof. Elohim Becerra
fbecerra@unm.edu

SQuInT Founder
Prof. Ivan Deutsch
ideutsch@unm.edu

SQuInT Administrator
Gloria Cordova
gjcordo1@unm.edu
505 277-1850

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