Southwest Quantum Information and Technology

22nd Annual SQuInT Workshop February 8-10, 2020
Eugene, Oregon

Program

Full Program | Friday | Saturday | Sunday | Monday | All Sessions | Posters | Talks

Friday Welcome Reception

7:00pm - 9:00pm

Registration/Early Conference Check-In and Reception -- Composer's Conference Center Lobby and 12th Floor, Vistas Ballroom

All General Sessions will be held in Oneill/Williams, Conference Center

Saturday Program

7:30am - 8:20am	Breakfast, Registration & Conference Check-in -- Playwright's Conference Center Lobby, and Oneill/Williams (Breakfast)
8:20am - 8:30am	Opening Remarks
SESSION 1: Superconducting qubits and quantum computational supremacy Chair: Carlton Caves (University of New Mexico)
8:30am - 9:20am	John Martinis (Google and University of California, Santa Barbara) (invited) Quantum supremacy using a programmable superconducting processor
9:20am - 10:00am	Sergio Boixo (Google ) (invited) Quantum supremacy using a programmable superconducting processor
10:00am - 10:30am	Break -- Playwright's Conference Center Lobby
SESSION 2: Near-term quantum devices and implementations Chair: Justin Dressel (Chapman)
10:30am - 11:00am	Sam Gunn (University of Texas, Austin), Scott Aaronson On the classical hardness of spoofing linear cross-entropy benchmarking
11:00am - 11:30am	Eleanor Rieffel (NASA - Ames Research Center), NASA QuAIL team Utilizing NISQ devices for evaluating quantum algorithms
11:30am - 12:00pm	Hristo Djidjev (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Elijah Pelofske, Georg Hahn Peering into the anneal process of a quantum annealer
12:00pm - 1:30pm	Lunch Buffet -- Oneill/Williams
SESSION 3: Quantum characterization and benchmarking Chair: Robin Blume-Kohout (Sandia)
1:30pm - 2:15pm	Steven Flammia (University of Sydney) (invited) Efficient learning of quantum noise
2:15pm - 2:45pm	Seth Merkel (IBM) Benchmarking near-term quantum computers
2:45pm - 3:15pm	Joseph Emerson (University of Waterloo, Quantum Benchmark Inc.), Joel Wallman, Dar Dahlen, Ian Hincks Full reconstruction of all correlated errors in large-scale quantum computers
3:15pm - 3:45pm	Break -- Playwright's Conference Center Lobby
SESSION 4: Solid-state implementations Chair: Thaddeus Ladd (HRL)
3:45pm - 4:30pm	Alicia Kollar (University of Maryland, College Park) (invited) Band engineering for quantum simulation in circuit QED
4:30pm - 5:00pm	Mattias Fitzpatrick (Princeton University), Zhiyang Yuan, Nathalie P. de Leon Charge state instabilities in shallow NV centers for quantum sensing
SESSION 5: Poster Session and Reception
5:00pm - 7:00pm	Poster Session and Reception (Refreshments and bar sponsored by TOPTICA) -- Hellman/Wilder
SESSION 5: Workshop attendees may also view posters on Sunday and Monday

Sunday Program

General Sessions 6, 7, and 8 will be held in Oneill/Williams, Conference Center
Concurrent Sessions 9a, 9b, and 9c will be held in Oneill, Sousa/Joplin/Seeger, and William, Conference Center

7:30am - 8:30am	Breakfast -- Oneill/Williams
SESSION 6: AMO for quantum information processing Chair: Ivan Deutsch (University of New Mexico)
8:30am - 9:15am	Giulia Semeghini (Harvard University) (invited) Quantum simulation and computation with programmable Rydberg atom arrays
9:15am - 9:45am	Bethany Little (Sandia National Laboratories), Matthew Chow, Lambert Parazzoli, Jonathan Bainbridge, Grant Biedermann, Jongmin Lee, Brandon Ruzic, Constantin Brif, and Peter Schwindt Entanglement-enhanced interferometry with neutral atoms
9:45am - 10:15am	Break -- Playwright's Conference Center Lobby
SESSION 7: NISQ algorithm and applications Chair: Barbara Jones (IBM)
10:15am - 11:00am	Birgitta Whaley (University of California, Berkeley) (invited) Quantum control for quantum algorithm design
11:00am-11:30am	Nicholas Rubin (Google) Demonstration of a large-scale quantum chemistry calculations using the Sycamore quantum processor
11:30am - 12:00pm	Michael Foss-Feig (Honeywell), Andrew Potter, David Hayes Matrix product state simulations on a quantum computer
12:00pm - 1:30pm	Lunch Buffet -- Oneill/Williams
SESSION 8: Ions Chair: David Allcock (University of Oregon)
1:30pm - 2:15pm	Jonathan Home (ETH, Zurich) (invited) Encoded logical qubits and reservoir engineering in a trapped-ion mechanical oscillator
2:15pm - 2:45pm	Alex Kato (University of Washington), Megan Ivory, Jennifer Lilieholm, Liudmila Zhukas, Xiayu Linpeng, Vasilis Niaouris, Maria Viitaniemi, Kai-Mei Fu, Boris Blinov Trapping and manipulating 2D Coulomb crystals for quantum information processing
2:45pm - 3:15pm	Maya Berlin-Udi (University of California Berkeley), Clemens Matthiesen, Alberto Alonso, Crystal Noel, Peter T. Lloyd, Vincenzo Lordi, Hartmut Häffner Exploring electric-field noise mechanisms through treatments of an ion trap surface
3:15pm - 3:45pm	Break -- Playwright's Conference Center Lobby
SESSION 9a: Usage of NISQ devices -- Oneill Chair: Pablo Poggi (University of New Mexico)
3:45pm - 4:15pm	Kevin Kuper (University of Arizona), Nathan Lysne, Pablo Poggi, Ivan Deutsch, Poul Jessen Native and Trotter errors during intermediate-depth quantum simulations on a small, highly accurate quantum processor
4:15pm - 4:45pm	Andrew Sornborger (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Cristina Cirstoiu, Zoe Holes, Joseph Iosue, Lukasz Cincio, Patrick Coles Variational fast forwarding for quantum simulation beyond the coherence time
4:45pm - 5:15pm	Yukio Kawashima (1QB Information Technologies), "Takeshi Yamazaki, Valentin Senicourt, Rudi Plesch, Lee Huntington, Prakash Verma, Shunji Matsuura, Arman Zaribafiyan" Scaling up quantum chemistry simulations using density matrix embedding theory
5:15pm - 5:45pm	Jaimie S. Stephens (Sandia National Laboratories), William Bolden; Ojas Parekh A hybrid quantum approximate optimization algorithm incorporating classical heuristics
5:45pm - 6:15pm	Arik Avagyan (National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder), Hilma Vasconcelos, Scott Glancy, Emanuel Knill State tomography with photon counting after a beam splitter
SESSION 9b: Quantum network and communication -- Williams Chair: Markus Allgaier (University of Oregon)
3:45pm - 4:15pm	Sumeet Khatri (Louisiana State University), Corey T. Matyas, Aliza U. Siddiqui, Jonathan P. Dowling Practical figures of merit and thresholds for entanglement distribution in quantum networks
4:15pm - 4:45pm	Matthew DiMario (University of New Mexico CQuIC), Francisco Elohim Becerra Coherent state phase estimation based on adaptive photon counting
4:45pm - 5:15pm	Eneet Kaur (Louisiana State University), Masahiro Takeoka, Mark M. Wilde, Wojciech Roga Multipartite entanglement and secret key distribution in quantum networks
5:15pm - 5:45pm	Ashlesha Patil (University of Arizona), Mihir Pant, Don Towsley and Saikat Guha Distance-independent rate for entanglement generation in a quantum network
5:45pm - 6:15pm	Rafael Alexander (University of New Mexico CQuIC), Carlton M. Caves Quantum illumination, illuminated
SESSION 9c: Explorations in quantum information theory -- Sousa/Joplin/Seeger Chair: Christopher Jackson (University of New Mexico)
3:45pm - 4:15pm	Peter J. Love (Tufts University), Michael Kreshchuk, William Kirby, Gary Goldstein, Hugo Beauchemin Simulating quantum field theory in the light-front formulation
4:15pm - 4:45pm	Sepehr Nezami (California Institute of Technology), Adam Brown Hrant Gharibyan Stefan Leichenauer Henry Lin Grant Salton Leonard Susskind Brian Swingle Michael Walter Quantum gravity in the lab: teleportation by size and traversable wormholes
4:45pm - 5:15pm	Chris Sutherland (University of Southern California), Daniel Lidar Todd Brun Non-Markovianity of the post-Markovian master equation
5:15pm - 5:45pm	Tzula Propp (University of Oregon), Steven J van Enk Limits to single photon detection: Amplification
5:45pm - 6:15pm	Paolo Zanardi (University of Southern California), Georgios Styliaris Quantifying the incompatibility of quantum measurements Relative to a Basis
6:20pm - 7:00pm	Steering Committee Meeting -- Studio B/C, Mezzanine
7:15pm - 9:30pm	Banquet -- Oneill/Williams

Monday Program

7:30am - 8:30am	Breakfast -- Oneill/Williams
SESSION 10: Neutral atoms Chair: Poul Jessen (University of Arizona)
8:30am - 9:15am	Mark Saffman (University of Wisconsin-Madison) (invited) Scalable quantum computing with neutral atoms
9:15am - 9:45am	Hikaru Tamura (University of Michigan), Huy Nguyen, Paul Berman, Alex Kuzmich Phase-matched scattering from a reconfigurable array of trapped neutral atoms
9:45am - 10:15am	Anupam Mitra (University of New Mexico CQuIC), Michael J. Martin, Grant W. Biedermann, Alberto M. Marino, Pablo M. Poggi, Ivan H. Deutsch Generation of high-fidelity Molmer-Sorenson interactions between neutral atoms using adiabatic Rydberg dressing
10:15am - 10:45am	Break -- Playwright's Conference Center Lobby
SESSION 11: Quantum optics Chair: Steven van Enk (University of Oregon)
10:45am - 11:15am	Tiemo Landes (University of Oregon), Amr Tamimi, Jonathan Lavoie, Michael Raymer, Brian Smith, Andrew Marcus Two-photon Fourier transform spectroscopy
11:15am - 11:45am	Dileep Reddy (National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder; University of Colorado, Boulder), Jeff Chiles, Sonia M. Buckley, Adriana E. Lita, Varun B. Verma, Sae Woo Nam, Richard P. Mirin Micron-scale superconducting wires for polarization insensitive, near-unity efficiency single-photon detection
11:45pm - 1:15pm	Lunch Buffet -- Oneill/Williams
SESSION 12: Quantum error correction and fault tolerance Chair: Andrew Landahl (Sandia)
1:15pm - 2:00pm	Benjamin Brown (University of Sydney) (invited) Advances in surface code quantum computation
2:00pm - 2:30pm	Vadym Kliuchnikov (Microsoft Research), Michael Beverland, Earl Campbell, Mark Howard Lower bounds on the non-Clifford resources for quantum computations
2:30pm - 3:00pm	Break -- Playwright's Conference Center Lobby
SESSION 13: Ions for quantum computing and simulation Chair: Hartmut Haeffner (University of California, Berkeley)
3:00pm - 3:30pm	Roee Ozeri (Weizmann Institute of Science), Ravid Shaniv, Tom Manovitz, Nitzan Akerman, Lee Peleg, Lior Gazit, Yotam Shapira and Ady Stern Theory of robust multi-qubit non-adiabatic gates for trapped-ions
3:30pm - 4:00pm	Raghavendra Srinivas (National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder), Shaun Burd, Robert Sutherland, Hannah Knaack, Dietrich Leibfried, David Wineland, Andrew Wilson, David Allcock, Daniel Slichter Laser-free trapped-ion entangling gates
4:00pm - 4:30pm	Craig Hogle (Sandia National Laboratories), Peter Maunz, Jaimie S. Stephens, Kevin Young, Robin Blume-Kohout, Daniel Stick, Susan M. Clark Logical cooling for robust analogue quantum simulation
4:30pm - 5:00pm	Crystal Noel (University of Maryland Joint Quantum Institute), Laird Egan, Marko Cetina, Michael Goldman, Andrew Risinger, Daiwei Zhu, Debopriyo Biswas, and Christopher Monroe A universal quantum computer based on long chains of ions
5:00pm - 5:15pm	Break -- Playwright's Conference Center Lobby
SESSION 14: Engineering and venture company for quantum computers Chair: David Wineland (University of Oregon)
5:15pm - 6:00pm	Jungsang Kim (Duke University) (invited) Engineering a practical quantum computer

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SQuInT Chief Organizer
Akimasa Miyake, Associate Professor
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SQuInT Co-Organizer
Brian Smith, Associate Professor UO
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SQuInT Program Committee
Postdoctoral Fellows:
Markus Allgaier (UO OMQ)
Sayonee Ray (UNM CQuIC)
Pablo Poggi (UNM CQuIC)
Valerian Thiel (UO OMQ)

SQuInT Event Co-Organizers (Oregon)
Jorjie Arden
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Holly Lynn
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Brandy Todd

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Gloria Cordova
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Ivan Deutsch, Regents' Professor, CQuIC Director
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