Program

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 - 8:30amBreakfast (East Atrium)

SESSION 6: AMO physics

Chair: Grant Biedermann
8:30am - 9:15amManuel Endres (California Institute of Technology) (invited)
Quantum simulation with alkali and alkaline-earth Rydberg-arrays
9:15am - 9:45amAlex Burgers (California Institute of Technology), Lucas Peng, H. Jeff Kimble
Engineering atom-light interactions in photonic crystal waveguides
9:45am - 10:15amMurray 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 - 10:45amBreak (East Atrium)

SESSION 7: Open-system dynamics and simulation

Chair: Todd Brun
10:45am - 11:30amHoward Carmichael (University of Auckland) (invited)
Monitored quantum jumps: The view from quantum trajectory theory
11:30am - 12:00pmKathleen Hamilton (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Eugene Dumitrescu, Raphael Pooser
Noisy circuit training of generative models with superconducting qubits
12:00pm - 1:30pmLunch Buffet (Alvarado D)

SESSION 8: Quantum communication

Chair: F. Elohim Becerra Chavez
1:30pm - 2:15pmErika Andersson (Herriot-Watt University) (invited)
Things you can do with your quantum key distribution setup: signatures and oblivious transfer
2:15pm - 2:45pmKonrad Banaszek (University of Warsaw), Michal Jachura, Marcin Jarzyna, Michal Lipka, Wojciech Wasilewski
Quantum optical fingerprinting without a shared phase reference
2:45pm - 3:15pmJoseph Chapman (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Trent Graham, Christopher Zeitler, Paul Kwiat
Time-bin and polarization superdense teleportation for space applications
3:15pm - 3:45pmBreak (East Atrium)

SESSION 9a: Simulations in the NISQ era (Alvarado D)

Chair: Christopher Jackson
3:45pm - 4:15pmNathan 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 - 4:45pmGopikrishnan 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 - 5:15pmNoah Davis (University of Texas, Austin), Josey Hanish, Antia Lamas-Linares, Brian LaCour
Simulating and evaluating the coherent Ising machine
5:15pm - 5:45pmLucas 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 - 6:15pmLukasz 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 - 4:15pmBrandon Ruzic (Sandia National Laboratories), Constantin Brif, Grant Biedermann
Characterizing errors in entangled-atom interferometry
4:15pm - 4:45pmBibek Pokharel (University of Southern California), Namit Anand, Benjamin Fortman, Daniel Lidar
Demonstration of fidelity improvement using dynamical decoupling with superconducting qubits
4:45pm - 5:15pmZhang Jiang (Google), Jarrod McClean, Ryan Babbush, Hartmut Neven
Quantum simulation of fermions: geometric locality and error mitigation
5:15pm - 5:45pmVictor 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 - 6:15pmSepehr 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 - 4:15pmMark Wilde (Louisiana State University), Xin Wang (Univ. Maryland)
Exact entanglement cost of quantum states and channels under PPT-preserving operations
4:15pm - 4:45pmFelix Leditzky (University of Colorado JILA), Debbie Leung, Graeme Smith
Dephrasure channel and superadditivity of coherent information
4:45pm - 5:15pmAniruddha Bapat (University of Maryland Joint Quantum Institute), Stephen Jordan
Bang-bang control as a design principle for classical and quantum optimization algorithms
5:15pm - 5:45pmArjendu Pattanayak (Carleton College), Sudheesh Srivastava
Unusual entanglement dynamics in the quantum kicked top
5:45pm - 6:15pmAlexander Meill (University of California San Diego), David A. Meyer, Daniel Copeland
Entanglement properties of quantum random walks
6:20pm - 7:00pmSteering Committee Meeting (Fireplace Room)
7:15pm - 9:30pmBanquet (with Cash Bar) (Alvarado Ballroom, EFGH)

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

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

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

SQuInT Assistant
Wendy Jay

SQuInT Founder
Ivan Deutsch, Regents' Professor, CQuIC Director
ideutsch@unm.edu

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