Talk Abstracts

The promise of variational quantum algorithms

Presenting Author: Ryan Babbush, Martinis group (Google)
Contributing Author(s): Pedram Roushan, Peter O'Malley, Hartmut Neven, John Martinis

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(Session 11: from 11:30 am - 12:00 pm)

Informational completeness in bounded-rank quantum-state tomography

Presenting Author: Charles Baldwin, Deutsch group (New Mexico)
Contributing Author(s): Ivan H. Deutsch, Amir Kalev

Abstract

Read this article online: http://arxiv.org/abs/1510.02736

(Session 3: from 2:45 pm - 3:15 pm)

Efficient tunnelling in quantum adiabatic optimization and its quantum Monte Carlo simulations

Presenting Author: Lucas Brady, van Dam group (UC Santa Barbara)
Contributing Author(s): Wim van Dam

Abstract

Read this article online: http://arxiv.org/abs/1509.02562

(Session 10: from 9:45 am - 10:15 am)

Logical randomized benchmarking

Presenting Author: Joshua Combes, (IQC, Waterloo and Perimeter)
Contributing Author(s): Christopher Granade, Christopher Ferrie, Steven Flammia

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(Session 9b: from 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm)

Building a quantum computer using silicon quantum dots

Presenting Author: Susan Coppersmith, (Wisconsin-Madison)
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(Session 3: from 1:30 pm - 2:15 pm)

Exploring the macroscopic quantum physics of motion with superfluid He-4

Presenting Author: Laura De Lorenzo, Schwab group (IQIM, Caltech)
Contributing Author(s): A. Pearlman, K. Schwab

Abstract

Read this article online: http://authors.library.caltech.edu/45782/7/1367-2630_16_11_113020.pdf

(Session 13: from 4:45 pm - 5:15 pm )

Exploring small quantum error correcting codes with superconducting qubits

Presenting Author: Jay Gambetta, (IBM)
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(Session 12: from 1:30 pm - 2:15 pm)

A significant-loophole-free test of Bell's theorem with entangled photons

Presenting Author: Marissa Giustina, Zeilinger group (Vienna)
Contributing Author(s): Marijn A. M. Versteegh, Soeren Wengerowsky, Johannes Handsteiner, Armin Hochrainer, Kevin Phelan, Fabian Steinlechner, Johannes Kofler, Jan-Ake Larsson, Carlos Abellan, Waldimar Amaya, Valerio Pruneri, Morgan W. Mitchell, Joern Beyer, Thomas Gerrits, Adriana E. Lita, Lynden K. Shalm, Sae Woo Nam, Thomas Scheidl, Rupert Ursin, Bernhard Wittmann, Anton Zeilinger

Abstract

Read this article online: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1511.03190v1.pdf

(Session 2: from 10:30 am - 11:00 am)

Data analysis for "A strong loophole-free test of local realism"

Presenting Author: Scott Glancy, (NIST, Boulder)
Contributing Author(s): Evan Meyer-Scott, Bradley G. Christensen, Peter Bierhorst, Michael A. Wayne, Martin J. Stevens, Thomas Gerrits, Scott Glancy, Deny R. Hamel, Michael S. Allman, Kevin J. Coakley, Shellee D. Dyer, Carson Hodge, Adriana E. Lita, Varun B. Verma, Camilla Lambrocco, Edward Tortorici, Alan L. Migdall, Yanbao Zhang, Daniel R. Kumor, William H. Farr, Francesco Marsili, Matthew D. Shaw, Jeffrey A. Stern, Carlos Abellan, Waldimar Amaya, Valerio Pruneri, Thomas Jennewein, Morgan W. Mitchell, Paul G. Kwiat, Joshua C. Bienfang, Richard P. Mirin, Emanuel Knill, Sae Woo Nam

Abstract

Read this article online: http://arxiv.org/abs/1511.03189

(Session 2: from 11:30 am - 12:00 pm)

Quantum simulation of spin-bath dynamics with trapped ions

Presenting Author: Dylan Gorman, Häffner group (UC Berkeley)
Contributing Author(s): Philipp Schindler, Boerge Hemmerling, Eli Megidish, Jeremy Axelrod, Mohan Sarovar, Hartmut Haeffner

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(Session 9a: from 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm)

Enhanced emission of zero-phonon line photons from a single nitrogen-vacancy center in diamond

Presenting Author: Michael Gould, Fu group (Washington)
Contributing Author(s): Srivatsa Chakravarthi, Ian R. Christen, Shabnam Dadgostar, Fariba Hatami, Kai-Mei Fu

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(Session 13: from 3:15 pm - 3:45 pm)

Fisher symmetry and the geometry of quantum states

Presenting Author: Jonathan A. Gross, Caves group (New Mexico)
Contributing Author(s): Ninnat Dangnian, Howard Barnum, Amir Kalev, Carlton M. Caves

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(Session 9c: from 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm)

From a loophole-free Bell test to a quantum Internet

Presenting Author: Ronald Hanson, (TU Delft)
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(Session 1: from 8:45 am - 9:30 am)

Nuclear-driven electron spin rotations in a coupled silicon quantum dot and single donor system

Presenting Author: Patrick Harvey-Collard, Carroll group (Sandia)
Contributing Author(s): N. Tobias Jacobson, Martin Rudolph, Jason Dominguez, Gregory A. Ten Eyck, Joel R. Wendt, Tammy Pluym, John King Gamble, Michael P. Lilly, Michel Pioro-Ladrière, and Malcolm S. Carroll

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(Session 4: from 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm)

Quantum annealing for constrained optimization

Presenting Author: Itay Hen, (Southern California)
Contributing Author(s): Federico Spedalieri

Abstract

Read this article online: http://arxiv.org/abs/1508.04212

(Session 9a: from 6:00 pm - 6:30 pm)

Instantons in thermally-assisted tunneling and quantum Monte Carlo simulations

Presenting Author: Zhang Jiang, (NASA Ames)
Contributing Author(s): Vadim N. Smelyanskiy, Sergio Boixo, Sergei V. Isakov, Guglielmo Mazzola, Matthias Troyer, and Hartmut Neven

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(Session 10: from 9:15 am - 9:45 am)

Towards satellite-based quantum communication: field testing the QEYSSAT payload

Presenting Author: Sarah Kaiser, Jennewein group (IQC, Waterloo)
Contributing Author(s): Chris Pugh, Jean-Philippe Bourgoin, Brendon Higgins, Thomas Jennewein

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(Session 9a: from 5:30 pm - 6:00 pm)

Measuring entanglement entropy and local observables in a thermalizing many-body state

Presenting Author: Adam Kaufman, Greiner group (Harvard)
Contributing Author(s): Eric Tai, Alex Lukin, Matthew Rispoli, Philipp Preiss, Markus Greiner

Abstract

Read this article online: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v528/n7580/full/nature15750.html

(Session 6: from 9:15 am - 9:45 am)

Arbitrary Dicke-state control of symmetric Rydberg ensembles

Presenting Author: Tyler Keating, Biedermann-Deutsch group (New Mexico/Sandia)
Contributing Author(s): Charles H. Baldwin, Yuan-Yu Jau, Grant W. Biedermann, Ivan H. Deutsch

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(Session 9a: from 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm)

A framework for approximating qubit unitaries

Presenting Author: Vadym Kliuchnikov, QuArC (Microsoft)
Contributing Author(s): Jon Yard, Alex Bocharov, Martin Roetteler

Abstract

Read this article online: http://arxiv.org/abs/1510.03888, http://arxiv.org/abs/1504.04350

(Session 7: from 11:30 am - 12:00 pm)

Quantum algorithms for topological data analysis

Presenting Author: Seth Lloyd, (MIT)
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(Session 10: from 8:30 am - 9:15 am)

High-fidelity two-qubit quantum gates in a scalable surface ion trap

Presenting Author: Peter Maunz, (Sandia)
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(Session 8: from 1:30 pm - 2:15 pm)

Applying benchmarking protocols to encoded qubits with non-Markovian errors

Presenting Author: Seth Merkel, (HRL)
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(Session 3: from 2:15 pm - 2:45 pm)

Quantum computation using genuine two-dimensional symmetry-protected topological order

Presenting Author: Jacob Miller, Miyake group (New Mexico)
Contributing Author(s): Akimasa Miyake

Abstract

Read this article online: http://arxiv.org/abs/1508.02695

(Session 9c: from 5:30 pm - 6:00 pm)

Random number generation for loophole free Bell tests

Presenting Author: Morgan Mitchell, (ICFO)
Contributing Author(s): Carlos Abellán, Waldimar Amaya, Valerio Pruneri

Abstract

Read this article online: http://arxiv.org/abs/1506.02712

(Session 1: from 9:30 am - 10:00 am)

Quantum speedup of backtracking and Monte Carlo algorithms

Presenting Author: Ashley Montanaro, (University of Bristol)
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Read this article online: http://arxiv.org/abs/1509.02374

(Session 7: from 10:15 am - 11:00 am)

Our quantum future

Presenting Author: John Preskill, (IQIM, Caltech)
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(Session 14: from 5:30 pm - 6:15 pm)

Interfering and entangling individual neutral atoms

Presenting Author: Cindy Regal, (JILA, Colorado)
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(Session 6: from 8:30 am - 9:15 am)

Non-commuting two-local Hamiltonians for quantum error suppression

Presenting Author: Eleanor Rieffel, (NASA Ames)
Contributing Author(s): Zhang Jiang

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(Session 9b: from 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm)

Reversible circuit compilation with space constraints

Presenting Author: Martin Roetteler, (Microsoft)
Contributing Author(s): Alex Parent (IQC Waterloo), Krysta M. Svore (Microsoft Research)

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(Session 9c: from 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm)

Spacetime replication of continuous variable quantum information

Presenting Author: Grant Salton, Hayden group (Stanford)
Contributing Author(s): Patrick Hayden, Sepehr Nezami, Barry Sanders

Abstract

Read this article online: http://arxiv.org/abs/1601.02544

(Session 9c: from 6:00 pm - 6:30 pm)

Extending the lifetime of quantum information through error correction

Presenting Author: Robert Schoelkopf, (Yale)
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(Session 11: from 10:45 am - 11:30 am)

Towards a model selection rule for quantum state tomography

Presenting Author: Travis Scholten, Blume-Kohout group (Sandia)
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(Session 9b: from 6:00 pm - 6:30 pm)

Sub-cycle quantum optics: Direct sampling of vacuum fluctuations in experiment and theory

Presenting Author: Denis Seletskiy, (Konstanz)
Contributing Author(s): Claudius Riek, Andrey S. Moskalenko, Guido Burkard, Alfred Leitenstorfer

Abstract

Read this article online: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/350/6259/420.abstract, http://arxiv.org/abs/1508.06953

(Session 9a: from 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm)

A strong loophole-free test of local realism

Presenting Author: Lynden K. Shalm, Nam group (NIST, Boulder)
Contributing Author(s): Evan Meyer-Scott, Bradley G. Christensen, Peter Bierhorst, Michael A. Wayne, Martin J. Stevens, Thomas Gerrits, Scott Glancy, Deny R. Hamel, Michael S. Allman, Kevin J. Coakley, Shellee D. Dyer, Carson Hodge, Adriana E. Lita, Varun B. Verma, Camilla Lambrocco, Edward Tortorici, Alan L. Migdall, Yanbao Zhang, Daniel R. Kumor, William H. Farr, Francesco Marsili, Matthew D. Shaw, Jeffrey A. Stern, Carlos Abellan, Waldimar Amaya, Valerio Pruneri, Thomas Jennewein, Morgan W. Mitchell, Paul G. Kwiat, Joshua C. Bienfang, Richard P. Mirin, Emanuel Knill, Sae Woo Nam

Abstract

Read this article online: http://arxiv.org/abs/1511.03189

(Session 2: from 11:00 am - 11:30 am)

Illuminating a path forward for silicon donor spin qubits

Presenting Author: Stephanie Simmons, (Simon Fraser)
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(Session 4: from 3:45 pm - 4:30 pm)

A Trotter-Suzuki approximation for Lie groups with applications to Hamiltonian simulation

Presenting Author: Rolando Somma, (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
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(Session 7: from 11:00 am - 11:30 am )

Optimal strategies for quantum state and process tomography: efficiency versus robustness

Presenting Author: Hector Sosa Martinez, Jessen group (Arizona)
Contributing Author(s): Nathan Lysne, Charles Baldwin, Amir Kalev, Ivan Deutsch, Poul Jessen

Abstract

(Session 13: from 4:15 pm - 4:45 pm)

Recent progress on trapped-ion quantum information processing at NIST

Presenting Author: Ting Rei Tan, Wineland group (NIST, Boulder)
Contributing Author(s): John Gaebler, Yiheng Lin, Ryan Bowler, Yong Wan, Robert Jordens, Daniel Slichter, David Allcock, Katharine McCormick, Raghavendra Srinivas, Shaun Burd, Susanna Todaro, Justin Bohnet, Joe Britton, John Bollinger, Andrew Wilson, Dietrich Leibfried, David Wineland

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(Session 8: from 2:15 pm - 2:45 pm)

A DC-SQUID force sensor: an atomtronic proposal

Presenting Author: Eddy Timmermans, (Los Alamos)
Contributing Author(s): Malcolm Boshier

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(Session 12: from 2:15 pm - 2:45 pm)

Towards a new class of trapped ion experiments with ion rings

Presenting Author: Erik Urban, Häffner group, (UC Berkeley)
Contributing Author(s): Hao-Kun Li, Crystal Noel, Boerge Hemmerling, Hartmut Haeffner

Abstract

(Session 8: from 2:45 pm - 3:15 pm)

Detecting memory effects in QIP architectures

Presenting Author: Andrzej Veitia, van Enk group (Oregon)
Contributing Author(s): Marcus da Silva, Steven van Enk

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(Session 9b: from 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm)

Efficient Bayesian phase estimation

Presenting Author: Nathan Wiebe, QuArC (Microsoft)
Contributing Author(s): Christopher Granade, Ilia Zintchenko

Abstract

Read this article online: http://arxiv.org/abs/1508.00869

(Session 9b: from 5:30 pm - 6:00 pm)

Recoverability in quantum information theory

Presenting Author: Mark Wilde, (Louisiana)
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(Session 9c: from 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm)

Broadband nanophotonic quantum interface with a cavity-protected rare-earth ensemble

Presenting Author: Tian Zhong, Faraon Group (IQIM, Caltech)
Contributing Author(s): Jonathan Kindem, Jake Rochman, Andrei Faraon

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(Session 13: from 3:45 pm - 4:15 pm )

 

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