Poster Abstracts

1. Learning quantum annealing

Presenting Author: Elizabeth Behrman, Wichita State University
Contributing Author(s): James E. Steck

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2. Diamond nanogratings for detecting external nuclear spins - fabrication and characterization

Presenting Author: Francisco Benito, The University of New Mexico
Contributing Author(s): Nazanin Mosavian1, Pauli Kehayias2, Andrey Jarmola3, Victor M. Acosta1,4 1 Center for High Technology Materials, The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA 2 Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA 3 Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA 4 Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA

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3. Entangling Atomic Spins with a Rydberg-Dressed Spin-Flip Blockade

Presenting Author: Grant Biedermann, Sandia National Laboratories
Contributing Author(s): Jongmin Lee, Yuan-Yu Jau, Tyler Keating, Ivan Deutsch

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Read this article online: http://www.nature.com/nphys/journal/v12/n1/full/nphys3487.html

4. Towards quantum simulations of frustrated spin models with Rydberg-dressed atoms

Presenting Author: Victoria Borish, Stanford University
Contributing Author(s): Ognjen Markovic, Monika Schleier-Smith

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5. Quantum gas assembly using optical tweezers and neutral atom entanglement via local spin-exchange

Presenting Author: Mark Brown, University of Colorado at Boulder; JILA
Contributing Author(s): B. J. Lester, Y. Lin, A. M. Kaufman, M. Foss-Feig, M. L. Wall, A. M. Rey, and C. A. Regal

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Read this article online: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v527/n7577/full/nature16073.html, http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.073003, http://science.sciencemag.org/content/345/6194/306

6. Pump-probe angular dependence of Zeeman electromagnetically induced transparency

Presenting Author: Kaleb Campbell, Miami University
Contributing Author(s): Samir Bali

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7. Suppression of collective quantum jumps in Rydberg atoms by collective spontaneous emission

Presenting Author: Lyndon Cayayan, Miami University
Contributing Author(s): James P Clemens, Perry R Rice

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8. Many-body localization in simulation of fermionic systems

Presenting Author: Adrian Chapman, Center for Quantum Information and Control, University of New Mexico
Contributing Author(s): Akimasa Miyake

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9. Specialized processing using ion traps: SPRINT

Presenting Author: Craig Clark, Sandia National Laboratories
Contributing Author(s): Matt Blain, Todd Barrick, Kevin Fortier, Craig Hogle, Peter Maunz, Eric Shaner, Boyan Tabakov

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10. Investigating cold atom transport in optical lattices and ratchets

Presenting Author: Ethan Clements, Miami University
Contributing Author(s): Preston Ross, Anthony Rapp, Andrew Hachtel, Samir Bali

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11. Unstructured quantum key distribution

Presenting Author: Patrick Coles, Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo
Contributing Author(s): Eric Metodiev, Norbert Lutkenhaus

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Read this article online: http://arxiv.org/abs/1510.01294

12. Quantum channel parameter estimation with noisy initial states

Presenting Author: David Collins, Colorado Mesa University
Contributing Author(s): Jaimie Stephens, University of New Mexico

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Read this article online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.92.032324

13. Single-shot charge readout using a cryogenic heterojunction-bipolar-transistor preamplifier inline with a silicon single-electron-transistor at millikelvin temperatures

Presenting Author: Matt Curry, University of New Mexico
Contributing Author(s): T. D. England, J. R. Wendt, T. Pluym, M. P. Lilly, S. M. Carr, M. S. Carroll

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14. Approximate reversibility in the context of entropy gain, information gain, and complete positivity

Presenting Author: Siddhartha Das, Louisiana State University
Contributing Author(s): Mark M. Wilde

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15. Fault-tolerant quantum memory for systems of non-Abelian anyons

Presenting Author: Guillaume Dauphinais, Université de Sherbrooke
Contributing Author(s): David Poulin

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16. Reduction of the atomic wavefunction in the Stern-Gerlach magnetic field

Presenting Author: Michael Devereux, Retired researcher (LANL and others)
Contributing Author(s):

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Read this article online: https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/69186/1/cjp-2015-0031.pdf

17. Strong converse exponents for the feedback-assisted classical capacity of entanglement-breaking channels

Presenting Author: Dawei Ding, Stanford University
Contributing Author(s): Mark Wilde

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Read this article online: http://arxiv.org/abs/1506.02228

18. Transduction of Entangled Images by Localized Surface Plasmons

Presenting Author: Javad Dowran, University of Oklahoma
Contributing Author(s): Matthew Holtfrerich, University of Oklahoma Raphael C. Pooser, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Benjamin J. Lawrie, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Roderick Davidson, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Alberto M. Marino, University of Oklahoma

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19. Goldilocks probes for noisy interferometry via quantum annealing to criticality

Presenting Author: Gabriel Durkin,
Contributing Author(s):

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20. Resonance fluorescence from an artificial atom in squeezed vacuum

Presenting Author: Andrew Eddins, Quantum Nanoelectronics Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley
Contributing Author(s): D.M. Toyli, Irfan Siddiqi (Department of Physics, UC Berkeley); S. Puri, S. Boutin, and A. Blais (Departement de Physique, Universite de Sherbrooke); D. Hover, V. Bolkhovsky (MIT Lincoln Laboratory) and W.D. Oliver (MIT Lincoln Laboratory; Research Laboratory of Electronics, MIT).

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21. Experimental optimization of four wave mixing in a cold atomic ensemble, towards efficient generation of photon pairs

Presenting Author: Andrew Ferdinand, University of New Mexico
Contributing Author(s): Xijie Luo, Francisco Elohim Becerra

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22. Full controllability of a singlet-triplet qubit coupled to a nuclear spin qubit

Presenting Author: John Gamble, Center for Computing Research, Sandia National Laboratories
Contributing Author(s): Andrew D. Baczewski, N. Tobias Jacobson, Richard P. Muller, Erik Nielsen, Patrick Harvey-Collard, M. S. Carroll

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23. Nonzero classical discord

Presenting Author: Vlad Gheorghiu, Institute for Quantum Science and Technology and Institute for Quantum Computing
Contributing Author(s): Marcos C. de Oliveira, Barry Sanders

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Read this article online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.030403

24. On the robustness of bucket brigade quantum RAM

Presenting Author: Vlad Gheorghiu, Institute for Quantum Computing
Contributing Author(s): Michele Mosca, Srinivasan Arunachalam, Tomas Jochym - O'Connor, Priyaa Varshinee Srinivasan

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Read this article online: http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.03450

25. Effects of addressing laser beam intensity profiles on single qubit gates in neutral atom quantum computing

Presenting Author: Katharina Gillen-Christandl, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Contributing Author(s): Glen D. Gillen (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo), Michal J. Piotrowicz (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Mark Saffman (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

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Read this article online: http://arxiv.org/abs/1510.07708

26. Practical Bayesian tomography

Presenting Author: Christopher Granade, University of Sydney
Contributing Author(s): Joshua Combes, D. G. Cory

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Read this article online: http://arxiv.org/abs/1509.03770

27. Deterministic squeezed states with joint measurements and feedback

Presenting Author: Graham Greve, JILA, NIST, and University of Colorado-Boulder
Contributing Author(s): Kevin Cox, James Thompson

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28. Quantum control and squeezing of collective spins

Presenting Author: Daniel Hemmer, University of Arizona
Contributing Author(s): Enrique Montano, Ben Baragiola, Leigh Norris, Ezad Shojaee, Pascal Mickelson, Ivan Deutsch, Poul Jessen

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29. Detecting State-Measurement Correlations with SPAM Tomography

Presenting Author: Chris Jackson, University of Oregon
Contributing Author(s): Steven van Enk, University of Oregon

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Read this article online: http://journals.aps.org/pra/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevA.92.042312

30. Quantum tomography under prior information

Presenting Author: Amir Kalev, Center for Quantum Information and Control
Contributing Author(s): Charles H. Baldwin, Ivan H. Deutsch

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Read this article online: http://arxiv.org/abs/1511.01433, http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.00536, http://arxiv.org/abs/1510.02736

31. Partial quantum tomography using maximum likelihood estimation

Presenting Author: Adam Keith, NIST Boulder, CU Boulder
Contributing Author(s): Manny Knill, Scott Glancy

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32. A Protocol for Studying Quantum Correlations in Many-Body Systems

Presenting Author: Omid Khosravani, UC Berkeley
Contributing Author(s): Ahmed Abdelrahman, Rhyo Masuda, Manuel Gessner, Andreas Buchleitner, Heinz-Peter Breuer, Dylan Gorman, Michael Ramm, Philipp Schindler, Thaned Pruttivarasin, Hartmut Haeffner

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33. Quantum squeezing of motion in a mechanical resonator

Presenting Author: Chan U Lei, California Institute of Technology
Contributing Author(s): A. J. Weinstein, J. Suh, E. E. Wollman, A. Kronwald, F. Marquardt, A. A. Clerk, K. C. Schwab

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34. Quantum Algorithm Demonstrations on a Fully Reconfigurable Ion Trap Quantum Computer

Presenting Author: Norbert Linke, Joint Quantum Institute, University of Maryland Department of Physics and National Institute of Standards and Technology, College Park, Maryland 20742
Contributing Author(s): Shantanu Debnath, Caroline Figgatt, Kevin Landsman, Ken Wright and Chris Monroe

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35. Realization of robust, high-fidelity gates for single-ion qubits in a surface trap

Presenting Author: Daniel Lobser, Sandia National Labs
Contributing Author(s): Matthew G. Blain, Robin Blume-Kohout, Kevin Fortier, Jonathan Mizrahi, Erik Nielsen, Kenneth Rudinger, Jonathan D. Sterk, Daniel L. Stick, Peter Maunz

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36. Experimental exploration of optimal quantum state and process tomography

Presenting Author: Nathan Lysne, University of Arizona
Contributing Author(s): Hector Sosa Martinez, Charles Baldwin, Amir Kalev, Ivan Deutsch, Poul Jessen

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37. Optimizing control parameters for three-qubit gates

Presenting Author: Karl Mayer, National Institute of Standards and Technology & University of Colorado Boulder
Contributing Author(s):

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38. The quantum-classical transition for nonlinear system: Uniquely quantal chaos

Presenting Author: Moses Misplon, Carleton College
Contributing Author(s): Walter Lynn, Bibek Pokharel, Peter Duggins, Kevin Hallman, Dustin Anderson, Arie Kapulkin, Arjendu K. Pattanayak

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39. Steerability of local quantum coherence

Presenting Author: Debasis Mondal, Harish-Chandra Research Institute
Contributing Author(s): Tanumoy Pramanik, Arun Kumar Pati

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Read this article online: http://arxiv.org/abs/1508.03770

40. Flexible experimental control for high-fidelity trapped-ion quantum information

Presenting Author: Vlad Negnevitsky, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich
Contributing Author(s): Matteo Marinelli, David Nadlinger, Ludwig de Clercq, Christa Fluehmann, Robin Oswald, Hsiang-Yu Lo, Daniel Kienzler, Ben Keitch, Jonathan Home

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Read this article online: http://arxiv.org/abs/1512.01838

41. The holographic entropy cone

Presenting Author: Sepehr Nezami, Stanford Institute For Theoretical Physics
Contributing Author(s): Ning Bao, Hires Ooguri, Bogdan Stoica, James Sully, Michael Walter

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Read this article online: http://arxiv.org/abs/1505.07839

42. Random tensor networks as models of holography

Presenting Author: Sepehr Nezami, Stanford Institute For Theoretical Physics
Contributing Author(s): Patrick Hayden, Xiao-Liang Qi, Nathaniel Thomas, Michael Walter, Zhao Yang

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43. Studying sources of anomalous heating

Presenting Author: Crystal Noel, UC Berkeley
Contributing Author(s): Ishan Talukdar, Maya Lewin-Berlin, William Tokumaru, Nikos Daniilidis

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44. Towards laser cooling of trapped ions with telecom light

Presenting Author: Steven Olmschenk, Denison University
Contributing Author(s): Patrick Becker, Zach Pewitt

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45. Generalized Multimode Single Photon Metrology

Presenting Author: Jonathan Olson, Louisiana State University
Contributing Author(s): Keith R. Motes, Nick M. Studer, Margarite LaBorde, Todd Mulder, Peter P. Rohde, and Jonathan P. Dowling

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46. Dispersive response theory and its applications to QND measurement and spin squeezing with an ensemble of atoms trapped nearby a nanofiber

Presenting Author: Xiaodong Qi, University of New Mexico
Contributing Author(s): Ben Q. Baragiola, Poul S. Jessen, Ivan H. Deutsch

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Read this article online: https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.02625

47. Enabling fault tolerance with GST

Presenting Author: Kenneth Rudinger, Sandia National Laboratories Center for Computing Research
Contributing Author(s): Robin Blume-Kohout, Erik Nielsen, John Gamble, Peter Maunz, Kevin Young

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48. Entanglement in a 2-qubit system is related to the classical nonlinear dynamics

Presenting Author: Joshua Ruebeck, Carleton College
Contributing Author(s): Jie Lin, Arjendu K. Pattanayak

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49. A method of extracting operating parameters of a quantum circuit

Presenting Author: Eyob Sete, Rigetti Quantum Computing
Contributing Author(s): M. Block, M. Scheer, C. Zanoci, M. Vahidpour, D. Thompson, C.T. Rigetti

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50. Creation and measurement of quantum correlations

Presenting Author: Ezad Shojaee, PhD Candidate, UNM and CQuiC
Contributing Author(s): Amir Kalev, Ivan Deutsch

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51. Simulating highly nonlocal Hamiltonians with less nonlocal Hamiltonians

Presenting Author: Yigit Subasi, University of Maryland at College Park
Contributing Author(s): Christopher Jarzynski

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52. Locally covariant approach to relativistic quantum metrology

Presenting Author: Jim van Meter, National Institute for Standards and Technology
Contributing Author(s): Anthony Downes, Gerard Milburn, Carlton Caves, Emanuel Knill

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53. Quantum annealing in hybrid scheduling algorithms

Presenting Author: Zhihui Wang, Quantum Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, NASA Ames Research Center; Universities Research Space Association
Contributing Author(s): Tony Tran, Eleanor Rieffel

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54. Quantum brachistochrone curves as geodesics

Presenting Author: Xiaoting Wang, Louisiana State University
Contributing Author(s): Michele Allegra, Kurt Jacobs, Seth Lloyd, Cosmo Lupo, Masoud Mohseni

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Read this article online: http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.170501

55. Optimizing n-to-1 stabilizer circuits for producing non-stabilizer qubits

Presenting Author: Raymond Wong, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara
Contributing Author(s): Wim van Dam

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