Southwest Quantum Information and Technology

Quantum supremacy

Presenting Author: Scott Aaronson, Texas, Austin
Contributing Author(s): Lijie Chen

Read this article online: https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.05903

Techniques for scaling trapped-ion QIP

Presenting Author: Christopher Ballance, Oxford
Abstract

Experimentally generated random numbers certified by the impossibility of superluminal signaling

Presenting Author: Peter Bierhorst, NIST Boulder
Contributing Author(s): Lynden K. Shalm, Alan Mink, Stephen Jordan, Yi-Kai Liu, Andrea Rommal, Scott Glancy, Bradley Christensen, Sae Woo Nam, and Emanuel Knill

Necessary adiabatic run times in quantum optimization

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

Read this article online: https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.02585

Quantum Gibbs sampling

Presenting Author: Fernando Brandao, IQIM, Caltech
Abstract

Classical simulation of quantum circuits by dynamical localization: analytic results for Pauli-observable propagation in time-dependent disorder

Presenting Author: Adrian Chapman, CQuIC, New Mexico
Contributing Author(s): Akimasa Miyake

Coupled layer construction of three dimensional topological codes with 'Fractons'

Presenting Author: Xie Chen, IQIM, Caltech
Abstract

Quantum light matter interfaces using erbium doped yttrium orthosilicate

Presenting Author: Ioana Craiciu, IQIM, Caltech
Contributing Author(s): Evan Miyazono (co-first author), Jake Rochman, Tian Zhong and Andrei Faraon

Read this article online: http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/apl/108/1/10.1063/1.4939651

Conditional mutual information of bipartite unitaries and scrambling

Presenting Author: Dawei Ding, Stanford
Contributing Author(s): Patrick Hayden, and Michael Walter

Read this article online: https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.04750

Speed limits for quantum control of local spin systems

Presenting Author: Jeffrey Epstein, UC Berkeley
Contributing Author(s): Birgitta Whaley

Protecting quantum information from noise -- a passive approach

Presenting Author: Ryan Epstein, Northrop Grumman
Abstract

Four wave mixing in a cold atomic ensemble for the generation of correlated photons pairs

Presenting Author: Andrew Ferdinand, CQuIC, New Mexico
Contributing Author(s): Francisco Elohim Becerra

Secrets of PRL

Presenting Author: Robert Garisto, Physical Review Letters, APS
Abstract

Single-shot quantum resource theories

Presenting Author: Gilad Gour, Calgary
Abstract

Read this article online: https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.04247

QInfer: Statistical inference software for quantum applications

Presenting Author: Christopher Granade, Sydney
Contributing Author(s): Christopher Ferrie, Ian Hincks, Steven Casagrande, Thomas Alexander, Jonathan Gross, Michal Kononenko and Yuval Sanders

Read this article online: https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.00336

Fundamental percolation thresholds for ballistic linear optical quantum computing

Presenting Author: Saikat Guha, Raytheon BBN Technologies
Abstract

Read this article online: https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.03775

Improved spin squeezing of an atomic ensemble through internal state control

Presenting Author: Daniel Hemmer, Arizona
Contributing Author(s): Senthilnathan Lingasamy, Ezad Shojaee, Ivan Deutsch, and Poul Jessen

Decoherence-free quantum computing in Kondo-coupled optical tweezers

Presenting Author: Leonid Isaev, JILA, NIST, CU Boulder
Contributing Author(s): Y. Lin, B. J. Lester, C. A. Regal, and A. M. Rey

A circuit-based quantum search algorithm driven by transverse fields

Presenting Author: Zhang Jiang, NASA Ames
Abstract

Sub-shot noise measurement strategies for precision atomic sensors

Presenting Author: Mark Kasevich, Stanford
Abstract

Bounding the costs of quantum simulation of many-body physics in real space

Presenting Author: Ian Kivlichan, Harvard
Contributing Author(s): Nathan Wiebe, Ryan Babbush and Alán Aspuru-Guzik

Read this article online: https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.05696

Squeezed state ansatz for quantum Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model and its applications to quantum annealing

Presenting Author: Sergey Knysh, NASA Ames
Abstract

Quantum optimal control of superconducting circuits

Presenting Author: Christiane Koch, Kassel
Abstract

Random bosonic states for robust quantum metrology

Presenting Author: Jan Kolodynski, ICFO
Contributing Author(s): M. Oszmaniec, R. Augusiak, C. Gogolin, A. Acin, and M. Lewenstein

Read this article online: https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.05407

Three-dimensional color code thresholds via statistical-mechanical mapping

Presenting Author: Aleksander Kubica, IQIM, Caltech
Contributing Author(s): Michael Beverland, Fernando Brandao, John Preskill and Krysta Svore

Preparation and coherent manipulation of pure quantum states of a single molecular ion

Presenting Author: Dietrich Leibfried, NIST, Boulder
Contributing Author(s): C. W. Chou, C. Kurz, D. B. Hume, P. N. Plessow and D. R. Leibrand

Quantum simulation of complex dynamics in a quantum kicked top

Presenting Author: Nathan Lysne, Arizona
Contributing Author(s): Kevin Kuper, Hannah Knaack and Poul Jessen

Phase-tuned entangled state generation between distant spin qubits

Presenting Author: Clemens Matthiesen, UC Berkeley, Cambridge
Contributing Author(s): Robert Stockill, Megan Stanley, Lukas Huthmacher, Claire Le Gall, Pai Peng, Hartmut Haeffner, and Mete Atature

Faithful conversion of propagating quantum bits to mechanical motion

Presenting Author: Karl Mayer, CU Boulder; NIST
Contributing Author(s): Adam Reed, John Teufel, Matt Reagor, Luke Burkhart, Wolfgang Pfaff, Rob Schoelkopf and Konrad Lehnert

Scaling superconducting qubits: Toward a demonstration of quantum supremacy

Presenting Author: Matthew Neeley, Google
Abstract

Read this article online: arXiv:1608.00263

Quantum error correction of reference frame information

Presenting Author: Sepehr Nezami, Stanford
Contributing Author(s): Patrick Hayden and Grant Salton

Read this article online: https://www.dropbox.com/s/xfo6vh8tmo3xao4/main.pdf?dl=0

Spectroscopy of quantum and non-Gaussian noise

Presenting Author: Leigh Norris, Dartmouth
Contributing Author(s): Gerardo Paz-Silva and Lorenza Viola

Read this article online: http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.150503, https://arxiv.org/pdf/1609.01792v2.pdf

Optimal digital dynamical decoupling for general decoherence via Walsh modulation

Presenting Author: Haoyu Qi, Louisiana State
Contributing Author(s): Jonathan Dowling and Lorenza Viola

Spin squeezing on nanophotonic waveguides

Presenting Author: Xiaodong Qi, CQuIC, New Mexico
Contributing Author(s): Jongmin Lee, Yuan-Yu Jau, and Ivan H. Deutsch

Factoring using 2n+2 qubits with Toffoli based modular multiplication

Presenting Author: Martin Roetteler, Microsoft
Contributing Author(s): Thomas Haener and Krysta M. Svore

Read this article online: https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.07995

Experimental demonstration of robust phase estimation near the Heisenberg limit

Presenting Author: Kenneth Rudinger, Sandia
Contributing Author(s): Shelby Kimmel (QuICS, University of Maryland), Daniel Lobser (Sandia National Laboratories), and Peter Maunz (Sandia National Laboratories)

Investigating the quantum approximate optimization algorithm's advantage over classical algorithms

Presenting Author: Ciaran Ryan-Anderson, CQuIC New Mexico, Sandia
Contributing Author(s): Yang Jiao and Ojas Parekh

On chip nonlinear quantum devices

Presenting Author: Linda Sansoni, Paderborn
Abstract

Attainability of the quantum information bound in pure state models

Presenting Author: Fabricio Toscano, Instituto de Fisica, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brasil
Contributing Author(s): Wellison P. Bastos and Ruynet L. de Matos Filho

Read this article online: https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.09144

Detecting non-Markovian effects in quantum computing architectures

Presenting Author: Andrzej Veitia, Oregon
Contributing Author(s): Marcu P. da Silva and Steven van Enk

Chained Bell inequality experiment with high-efficiency measurements

Presenting Author: Yong Wan, NIST
Contributing Author(s): T. R. Tan, S. Erickson, P. Bierhorst, D. Kienzler, S. Glancy, E. Knill, D. Leibfried, and D. J. Wineland

Experimental time-optimal universal control of spin qubits in solids

Presenting Author: Xiaoting Wang, Louisiana State
Contributing Author(s): Jianpei Geng, Yang Wu, Kebiao Xu, Fazhan Shi, Yijin Xie, Xing Rong and Jiangfeng Du

Read this article online: http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.170501

Elucidating reaction mechanisms on quantum computers

Presenting Author: Nathan Wiebe, Microsoft
Contributing Author(s): Markus Reiher, Dave Wecker, Matthias Troyer, and Krysta Svore

Read this article online: https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.03590

The surface code with a twist

Presenting Author: Theodore Yoder, MIT
Contributing Author(s): Isaac H. Kim

Read this article online: http://web.mit.edu/~tjyoder/Public/surface-code-twist.pdf

A nanophotonic platform integrating quantum memories and single qubits based on rare-earth ions

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