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
(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
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
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
(Session 9b: from 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm)
Building a quantum computer using silicon quantum dots
Presenting Author: Susan Coppersmith, (Wisconsin-Madison)
Abstract
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
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)
Abstract
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
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
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
(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
(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
(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)
Abstract
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
(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
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
(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
(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
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
(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
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)
Abstract
High-fidelity two-qubit quantum gates in a scalable surface ion trap
Presenting Author: Peter Maunz, (Sandia)
Abstract
Applying benchmarking protocols to encoded qubits with non-Markovian errors
Presenting Author: Seth Merkel, (HRL)
Abstract
Quantum computation using genuine two-dimensional symmetry-protected topological order
Presenting Author: Jacob Miller, Miyake group (New Mexico)
Contributing Author(s): Akimasa Miyake
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
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)
Abstract
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)
Abstract
Interfering and entangling individual neutral atoms
Presenting Author: Cindy Regal, (JILA, Colorado)
Abstract
Non-commuting two-local Hamiltonians for quantum error suppression
Presenting Author: Eleanor Rieffel, (NASA Ames)
Contributing Author(s): Zhang Jiang
(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)
(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
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)
Abstract
Towards a model selection rule for quantum state tomography
Presenting Author: Travis Scholten, Blume-Kohout group (Sandia)
Abstract
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
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
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)
Abstract
A Trotter-Suzuki approximation for Lie groups with applications to Hamiltonian simulation
Presenting Author: Rolando Somma, (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Abstract
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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
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)
Abstract
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
(Session 13: from 3:45 pm - 4:15 pm )
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