Southwest Quantum Information and Technology

Quantum illumination, illuminated

Presenting Author: Rafael Alexander, University of New Mexico CQuIC
Contributing Author(s): Carlton M. Caves

State tomography with photon counting after a beam splitter

Presenting Author: Arik Avagyan, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder
Contributing Author(s): Hilma Vasconcelos, Scott Glancy, Emanuel Knill

Exploring electric-field noise mechanisms through treatments of an ion trap surface

Presenting Author: Maya Berlin-Udi, University of California Berkeley
Contributing Author(s): Clemens Matthiesen, Alberto Alonso, Crystal Noel, Peter T. Lloyd, Vincenzo Lordi, Hartmut Häffner

Quantum supremacy using a programmable superconducting processor

Presenting Author: Sergio Boixo, Google
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Advances in surface code quantum computation

Presenting Author: Benjamin Brown, University of Sydney
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Coherent state phase estimation based on adaptive photon counting

Presenting Author: Matthew DiMario, University of New Mexico CQuIC
Contributing Author(s): Francisco Elohim Becerra

Peering into the anneal process of a quantum annealer

Presenting Author: Hristo Djidjev, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Contributing Author(s): Elijah Pelofske, Georg Hahn

Read this article online: https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.02691

Full reconstruction of all correlated errors in large-scale quantum computers

Presenting Author: Joseph Emerson, University of Waterloo, Quantum Benchmark Inc.
Contributing Author(s): Joel Wallman, Dar Dahlen, Ian Hincks

Charge state instabilities in shallow NV centers for quantum sensing

Presenting Author: Mattias Fitzpatrick, Princeton University
Contributing Author(s): Zhiyang Yuan, Nathalie P. de Leon

Efficient learning of quantum noise

Presenting Author: Steven Flammia, University of Sydney
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Matrix product state simulations on a quantum computer

Presenting Author: Michael Foss-Feig, Honeywell
Contributing Author(s): Andrew Potter, David Hayes

On the classical hardness of spoofing linear cross-entropy benchmarking

Presenting Author: Sam Gunn, University of Texas, Austin
Contributing Author(s): Scott Aaronson

Read this article online: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1910.12085.pdf

Logical cooling for robust analogue quantum simulation

Presenting Author: Craig Hogle, Sandia National Laboratories
Contributing Author(s): Peter Maunz, Jaimie S. Stephens, Kevin Young, Robin Blume-Kohout, Daniel Stick, Susan M. Clark

Encoded logical qubits and reservoir engineering in a trapped-ion mechanical oscillator

Presenting Author: Jonathan Home, ETH, Zurich
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Trapping and manipulating 2D Coulomb crystals for quantum information processing

Presenting Author: Alex Kato, University of Washington
Contributing Author(s): Megan Ivory, Jennifer Lilieholm, Liudmila Zhukas, Xiayu Linpeng, Vasilis Niaouris, Maria Viitaniemi, Kai-Mei Fu, Boris Blinov

Multipartite entanglement and secret key distribution in quantum networks

Presenting Author: Eneet Kaur, Louisiana State University
Contributing Author(s): Masahiro Takeoka, Mark M. Wilde, Wojciech Roga

Scaling up quantum chemistry simulations using density matrix embedding theory

Presenting Author: Yukio Kawashima, 1QB Information Technologies
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Practical figures of merit and thresholds for entanglement distribution in quantum networks

Presenting Author: Sumeet Khatri, Louisiana State University
Contributing Author(s): Corey T. Matyas, Aliza U. Siddiqui, Jonathan P. Dowling

Read this article online: https://journals.aps.org/prresearch/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.1.023032, https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.06881

Engineering a practical quantum computer

Presenting Author: Jungsang Kim, Duke University
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Lower bounds on the non-Clifford resources for quantum computations

Presenting Author: Vadym Kliuchnikov, Microsoft Research
Contributing Author(s): Michael Beverland, Earl Campbell, Mark Howard

Read this article online: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.01124.pdf

Band engineering for quantum simulation in circuit QED

Presenting Author: Alicia Kollar, University of Maryland, College Park
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Native and Trotter errors during intermediate-depth quantum simulations on a small, highly accurate quantum processor

Presenting Author: Kevin Kuper, University of Arizona
Contributing Author(s): Nathan Lysne, Pablo Poggi, Ivan Deutsch, Poul Jessen

Two-photon Fourier transform spectroscopy

Presenting Author: Tiemo Landes, University of Oregon
Contributing Author(s): Amr Tamimi, Jonathan Lavoie, Michael Raymer, Brian Smith, Andrew Marcus

Read this article online: https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.04202

Entanglement-enhanced interferometry with neutral atoms

Presenting Author: Bethany Little, Sandia National Laboratories
Contributing Author(s): Matthew Chow, Lambert Parazzoli, Jonathan Bainbridge, Grant Biedermann, Jongmin Lee, Brandon Ruzic, Constantin Brif, and Peter Schwindt

Simulating quantum field theory in the light-front formulation

Presenting Author: Peter J. Love, Tufts University
Contributing Author(s): Michael Kreshchuk, William Kirby, Gary Goldstein, Hugo Beauchemin

Quantum supremacy using a programmable superconducting processor

Presenting Author: John Martinis, Google and University of California, Santa Barbara
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Benchmarking near-term quantum computers

Presenting Author: Seth Merkel, IBM
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Generation of high-fidelity Molmer-Sorenson interactions between neutral atoms using adiabatic Rydberg dressing

Presenting Author: Anupam Mitra, University of New Mexico CQuIC
Contributing Author(s): Michael J. Martin, Grant W. Biedermann, Alberto M. Marino, Pablo M. Poggi, Ivan H. Deutsch

Read this article online: https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.04045

Quantum gravity in the lab: teleportation by size and traversable wormholes

Presenting Author: Sepehr Nezami, California Institute of Technology
Contributing Author(s): Adam Brown Hrant Gharibyan Stefan Leichenauer Henry Lin Grant Salton Leonard Susskind Brian Swingle Michael Walter

A universal quantum computer based on long chains of ions

Presenting Author: Crystal Noel, University of Maryland Joint Quantum Institute
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Theory of robust multi-qubit non-adiabatic gates for trapped-ions

Presenting Author: Roee Ozeri, Weizmann Institute of Science
Contributing Author(s): Ravid Shaniv, Tom Manovitz, Nitzan Akerman, Lee Peleg, Lior Gazit, Yotam Shapira and Ady Stern

Read this article online: http://arxiv.org/abs/1911.03073

Distance-independent rate for entanglement generation in a quantum network

Presenting Author: Ashlesha Patil, University of Arizona
Contributing Author(s): Mihir Pant, Don Towsley and Saikat Guha

Limits to single photon detection: Amplification

Presenting Author: Tzula Propp, University of Oregon
Contributing Author(s): Steven J van Enk

Read this article online: https://www.osapublishing.org/oe/abstract.cfm?uri=oe-27-16-23454

Micron-scale superconducting wires for polarization insensitive, near-unity efficiency single-photon detection

Presenting Author: Dileep Reddy, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder; University of Colorado, Boulder
Contributing Author(s): Jeff Chiles, Sonia M. Buckley, Adriana E. Lita, Varun B. Verma, Sae Woo Nam, Richard P. Mirin

Utilizing NISQ devices for evaluating quantum algorithms

Presenting Author: Eleanor Rieffel, NASA - Ames Research Center
Contributing Author(s): NASA QuAIL team

Demonstration of a large-scale quantum chemistry calculations using the Sycamore quantum processor

Presenting Author: Nicholas Rubin, Google
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Scalable quantum computing with neutral atoms

Presenting Author: Mark Saffman, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Quantum simulation and computation with programmable Rydberg atom arrays

Presenting Author: Giulia Semeghini, Harvard University
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Variational fast forwarding for quantum simulation beyond the coherence time

Presenting Author: Andrew Sornborger, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Contributing Author(s): Cristina Cirstoiu, Zoe Holes, Joseph Iosue, Lukasz Cincio, Patrick Coles

Read this article online: https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.04292

Laser-free trapped-ion entangling gates

Presenting Author: Raghavendra Srinivas, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder
Contributing Author(s): Shaun Burd, Robert Sutherland, Hannah Knaack, Dietrich Leibfried, David Wineland, Andrew Wilson, David Allcock, Daniel Slichter

A hybrid quantum approximate optimization algorithm incorporating classical heuristics

Presenting Author: Jaimie S. Stephens, Sandia National Laboratories
Contributing Author(s): William Bolden; Ojas Parekh

Non-Markovianity of the post-Markovian master equation

Presenting Author: Chris Sutherland, University of Southern California
Contributing Author(s): Daniel Lidar Todd Brun

Read this article online: https://journals.aps.org/pra/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevA.98.042119

Phase-matched scattering from a reconfigurable array of trapped neutral atoms

Presenting Author: Hikaru Tamura, University of Michigan
Contributing Author(s): Huy Nguyen, Paul Berman, Alex Kuzmich

Quantum control for quantum algorithm design

Presenting Author: Birgitta Whaley, University of California, Berkeley
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Quantifying the incompatibility of quantum measurements Relative to a Basis

Presenting Author: Paolo Zanardi, University of Southern California
Contributing Author(s): Georgios Styliaris

Read this article online: https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.070401