Southwest Quantum Information and Technology

21st Annual SQuInT Workshop February 10-12, 2019
Hotel Albuquerque at Old Town
800 Rio Grande Blvd NW, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Program

Full Program | Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | All Sessions | Posters | Talks

Saturday Welcome Reception

7:00pm - 9:00pm

Registration/Early Conference Check-In and Reception (North Atrium)

All General Sessions will be held in Alvarado EFGH

Sunday Program

7:30am - 8:20am	Breakfast, Registration & Conference Check-in (East Atrium)
8:20am - 8:30am	Opening Remarks
SESSION 1: Ions Chair: Murray Holland
8:30am - 9:15am	John Bollinger (National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder), Elena Jordan, Kevin Gilmore, Matt Affolter, Arghavan Safavi-Naini, Robert Lewis-Swan, Ana Maria Rey (invited) Quantum control and simulation with large trapped-ion crystals
9:15am - 9:45am	Megan Ivory (University of Washington), Alex Kato, Ramya Bhaskar, Ali Hasanzadeh, Boris Blinov Novel trap for 2D ion crystal experiments
9:45am - 10:15am	Crystal Noel (University of California Berkeley), Maya Berlin-Udi, Clemens Matthiesen, Jessica Yu, Yi Zhou, Vincenzo Lordi, Hartmut Häffner Electric-field noise from thermally-activated fluctuators in a surface ion trap
10:15am - 10:45am	Break (East Atrium)
SESSION 2: Computer science Chair: Elizabeth Crosson
10:45am - 11:30am	Anne Broadbent (University of Ottawa), Sebastien Lord, University of Ottawa (invited) Uncloneable encryption
11:30am - 12:00pm	Yigit Subasi (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Rolando D. Somma, Davide Orsucci Quantum algorithms for systems of linear equations inspired by adiabatic quantum computing
12:00pm - 1:30pm	Lunch Buffet (Alvarado D)
SESSION 3: Measurement-based quantum computation Chair: Rafael Alexander
1:30pm - 2:15pm	Mercedes Gimeno-Segovia (PsiQuantum Corp.) (invited) Photonic quantum computing
2:15pm - 2:45pm	Robert Raussendorf (University of British Columbia), Cihan Okay (UBC), Dong-Sheng Wang (UBC), David T. Stephen (MPQ Garching), Hendrik Poulsen Nautrup (U Innsbruck) A computationally universal phase of quantum matter
2:45pm - 3:15pm	Break (East Atrium)
SESSION 4: Quantum optics Chair: Alberto Marino
3:15pm - 3:45pm	Michael G. Raymer (University of Oregon), Dileep V. Reddy High-efficiency demultiplexing of quantum information in temporal modes
3:45pm - 4:15pm	Steve Young (Sandia National Laboratories), Mohan Sarovar, François Léonard General modeling framework for quantum photodetectors
4:15pm - 4:45pm	Sofiane Merkouche (University of Oregon), Brian J. Smith Entangled-state measurements based on mode-resolved two-photon sum-frequency generation
SESSION 5: Poster Session and Reception (Alvarado ABC)
5:00pm - 7:00pm	Poster Session and Reception (with Cash Bar)
SESSION 5: Workshop attendees may also view posters on Monday and Tuesday in Alvarado ABC

Monday Program

General Sessions 6, 7, and 8 will be held in Alvarado EFGH
Concurrent Sessions 9a, 9b, and 9c will be held in Alvarado D, Alvarado E, and Alvarado FGH

7:30am - 8:30am	Breakfast (East Atrium)
SESSION 6: AMO physics Chair: Grant Biedermann
8:30am - 9:15am	Manuel Endres (California Institute of Technology) (invited) Quantum simulation with alkali and alkaline-earth Rydberg-arrays
9:15am - 9:45am	Alex Burgers (California Institute of Technology), Lucas Peng, H. Jeff Kimble Engineering atom-light interactions in photonic crystal waveguides
9:45am - 10:15am	Murray Holland (University of Colorado JILA), Athreya Shankar, John P. Bartolotta, Matthew A. Norcia, Julia R.K. Cline, James K. Thompson, Elena Jordan, Kevin Gilmore, Arghavan Safavi-Naini, Justin G. Bohnet, John J. Bollinger New frontiers in laser cooling of neutral atoms and trapped ions
10:15am - 10:45am	Break (East Atrium)
SESSION 7: Open-system dynamics and simulation Chair: Todd Brun
10:45am - 11:30am	Howard Carmichael (University of Auckland) (invited) Monitored quantum jumps: The view from quantum trajectory theory
11:30am - 12:00pm	Kathleen Hamilton (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Eugene Dumitrescu, Raphael Pooser Noisy circuit training of generative models with superconducting qubits
12:00pm - 1:30pm	Lunch Buffet (Alvarado D)
SESSION 8: Quantum communication Chair: F. Elohim Becerra Chavez
1:30pm - 2:15pm	Erika Andersson (Herriot-Watt University) (invited) Things you can do with your quantum key distribution setup: signatures and oblivious transfer
2:15pm - 2:45pm	Konrad Banaszek (University of Warsaw), Michal Jachura, Marcin Jarzyna, Michal Lipka, Wojciech Wasilewski Quantum optical fingerprinting without a shared phase reference
2:45pm - 3:15pm	Joseph Chapman (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Trent Graham, Christopher Zeitler, Paul Kwiat Time-bin and polarization superdense teleportation for space applications
3:15pm - 3:45pm	Break (East Atrium)
SESSION 9a: Simulations in the NISQ era (Alvarado D) Chair: Christopher Jackson
3:45pm - 4:15pm	Nathan Lysne (University of Arizona), Kevin Kuper, Poul Jessen, Pablo Poggi, Karthik Chinni, Ivan Deutsch What a small-scale, highly-accurate quantum processor can teach us about analog quantum simulation
4:15pm - 4:45pm	Gopikrishnan Muraleedharan (University of New Mexico CQuIC), Christopher Jackson, Akimasa Miyake, Ivan H Deutsch Quantum computational supremacy in the sampling of Bosonic random walkers on a one-dimensional lattice
4:45pm - 5:15pm	Noah Davis (University of Texas, Austin), Josey Hanish, Antia Lamas-Linares, Brian LaCour Simulating and evaluating the coherent Ising machine
5:15pm - 5:45pm	Lucas Kocia (National Institute of Standards and Technology, Maryland), Peter Love Stationary phase method in discrete Wigner functions and classical simulation of quantum circuits
5:45pm - 6:15pm	Lukasz Cincio (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Yigit Subasi, Andrew Sornborger, Patrick Coles Learning short- and constant-depth algorithms: application to state overlap and entanglement spectroscopy
SESSION 9b: Error mitigation and correction (Alvarado E) Chair: Jim Harrington
3:45pm - 4:15pm	Brandon Ruzic (Sandia National Laboratories), Constantin Brif, Grant Biedermann Characterizing errors in entangled-atom interferometry
4:15pm - 4:45pm	Bibek Pokharel (University of Southern California), Namit Anand, Benjamin Fortman, Daniel Lidar Demonstration of fidelity improvement using dynamical decoupling with superconducting qubits
4:45pm - 5:15pm	Zhang Jiang (Google), Jarrod McClean, Ryan Babbush, Hartmut Neven Quantum simulation of fermions: geometric locality and error mitigation
5:15pm - 5:45pm	Victor V. Albert (California Institute of Technology), R. T. Brierley, Michel H. Devoret, Kasper Duivenvoorden, S. M. Girvin, Alexander Grimm, Liang Jiang, Linshu Li, Shantanu O. Mundhada, Kyungjoo Noh, Philip Reinhold, Chao Shen, Barbara M. Terhal, Steven Touzard, Christophe Vuillot, Dylan J. Young Characterizing and developing bosonic error-correcting codes
5:45pm - 6:15pm	Sepehr Nezami (Stanford University), Philippe Faist, Victor V. Albert, Grant Salton, Fernando Pastawski, Patrick Hayden, John Preskill Continuous symmetries and approximate quantum error correction
SESSION 9c: Quantum information theory and algorithms (Alvarado FGH) Chair: Yigit Subasi
3:45pm - 4:15pm	Mark Wilde (Louisiana State University), Xin Wang (Univ. Maryland) Exact entanglement cost of quantum states and channels under PPT-preserving operations
4:15pm - 4:45pm	Felix Leditzky (University of Colorado JILA), Debbie Leung, Graeme Smith Dephrasure channel and superadditivity of coherent information
4:45pm - 5:15pm	Aniruddha Bapat (University of Maryland Joint Quantum Institute), Stephen Jordan Bang-bang control as a design principle for classical and quantum optimization algorithms
5:15pm - 5:45pm	Arjendu Pattanayak (Carleton College), Sudheesh Srivastava Unusual entanglement dynamics in the quantum kicked top
5:45pm - 6:15pm	Alexander Meill (University of California San Diego), David A. Meyer, Daniel Copeland Entanglement properties of quantum random walks
6:20pm - 7:00pm	Steering Committee Meeting (Fireplace Room)
7:15pm - 9:30pm	Banquet (with Cash Bar) (Alvarado Ballroom, EFGH)

Tuesday Program

7:30am - 8:30am	Breakfast (East Atrium)
SESSION 10: Quantum metrology Chair: Carlton M. Caves
8:30am - 9:15am	Lee McCuller (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), The LIGO laboratory squeezing team (invited) Improving the sensitivity of Advanced LIGO with squeezed light
9:15am - 9:45am	Baochen Wu (University of Colorado JILA), Graham P. Greve Chengyi Luo James K. Thompson Towards spin-squeezed matter-wave interferometry
9:45am - 10:15am	Katherine McCormick (University of Colorado), Jonas Keller, Shaun Burd, David Wineland, Andrew Wilson, Dietrich Leibfried Sensing near the Heisenberg limit with a trapped-ion mechanical oscillator
10:15am - 10:45am	Break (East Atrium)
SESSION 11: Quantum chaos Chair: Justin Dressel
10:45am - 11:30am	Shohini Ghose (Wilfrid Laurier University) (invited) Chaos, stability and quantum-classical correspondence in spin systems
11:30am - 12:00pm	Pablo Poggi (University of New Mexico CQuIC), Manuel Muñoz-Arias, Poul Jessen, Ivan Deutsch Feedback-based simulation of quantum nonlinear dynamics: The Quantum Kicked Top in an ensemble of two-level atoms
12:00pm - 1:30pm	Lunch Buffet (Alvarado D)
SESSION 12: Semiconductor qubits Chair: Kai-Mei Fu
1:30pm - 2:15pm	Jason Petta (Princeton University), Xiao Mi, Felix Borjans, Xanthe Croot, Felix Schupp, Monica Benito, Stefan Putz, David Zajac, Jacob Taylor, and Guido Burkard (invited) Towards microwave assisted spin-spin entanglement
2:15pm - 2:45pm	Tyler Keating (HRL Laboratories) Spin-blockade spectroscopy of Si/SiGe quantum dots
2:45pm - 3:15pm	Break (East Atrium)
SESSION 13: Quantum characterization and tomography Chair: Robin Blume-Kohout
3:15pm - 3:45pm	Scott Aaronson (University of Texas, Austin), Guy Rothblum Gentle measurement of quantum states and differential privacy
3:45pm - 4:15pm	Kristine Boone (University of Waterloo), Arnaud Carignan-Dugas, Joel J. Wallman, Joseph Emerson Randomized benchmarking under different gatesets
4:15pm - 4:45pm	John Gamble (Microsoft Research), Olivia Di Matteo, Chris Granade, Nathan Wiebe Operational, gauge-free quantum tomography
4:45pm - 5:15pm	Timothy Proctor (Sandia National Laboratories), Kenneth Rudinger, Robin Blume-Kohout, Arnaud Carignan-Dugas, Erik Nielsen, Kevin Young Randomized benchmarking of many-qubit devices
5:15pm - 5:30pm	Break (East Atrium)
SESSION 14: New intersections with high energy physics Chair: Ivan Deutsch
5:30pm - 6:15pm	Patrick Hayden (Stanford University) (invited) Quantum error correction in quantum gravity

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SQuInT Chief Organizer
Akimasa Miyake, Associate Professor
amiyake@unm.edu

SQuInT Local Organizers
Rafael Alexander, Postdoctoral Fellow
Chris Jackson, Postdoctoral Fellow

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Gloria Cordova
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Wendy Jay

SQuInT Founder
Ivan Deutsch, Regents' Professor, CQuIC Director
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