Program

LSU SQuInT Event Map

Friday Program

Digital Media Center (Sessions 6-8)
LSU Campus, South Stadium @ East Parker
Julian C. Miller Hall (Sessions 9a, 9b, 9c)
Corner of Highland and South Stadium

7:30am - 8:30amBreakfast (Lobby)

SESSION 6: Quantum information theory I (Theatre)

Chair: Itay Hen (Southern California)
8:30am - 9:15amFernando Brandao (IQIM, Caltech)
Quantum Gibbs sampling
9:15am - 9:45amDawei Ding (Stanford), Patrick Hayden, and Michael Walter
Conditional mutual information of bipartite unitaries and scrambling
9:45am - 10:15amBreak (Lobby)

SESSION 7: Quantum optics experiments and Bell-inequality test (Theatre)

Chair: Elohim Becerra (CQuIC, New Mexico)
10:15am -11:00amLinda Sansoni (Paderborn)
On chip nonlinear quantum devices
11:00am - 11:30amPeter Bierhorst (NIST Boulder), Lynden K. Shalm, Alan Mink, Stephen Jordan, Yi-Kai Liu, Andrea Rommal, Scott Glancy, Bradley Christensen, Sae Woo Nam, and Emanuel Knill
Experimentally generated random numbers certified by the impossibility of superluminal signaling
11:30am - 12:00pmYong Wan (NIST), T. R. Tan, S. Erickson, P. Bierhorst, D. Kienzler, S. Glancy, E. Knill, D. Leibfried, and D. J. Wineland
Chained Bell inequality experiment with high-efficiency measurements
12:00pm - 1:30pmLunch Buffet (Lobby -- Seating in Rms 1034, 1030, 1014, 1008 A & B, 1004, 1002 and 2nd floor)

SESSION 8: Quantum optics theory (Theatre)

Chair: Pablo Barberis Blostein (Univ. Nacional Autonoma de Mexico)
1:30pm - 2:15pmSaikat Guha (Raytheon BBN Technologies)
Fundamental percolation thresholds for ballistic linear optical quantum computing
2:15pm - 2:45pmLeonid Isaev (JILA, NIST, CU Boulder), Y. Lin, B. J. Lester, C. A. Regal, and A. M. Rey
Decoherence-free quantum computing in Kondo-coupled optical tweezers
2:45pm - 3:15pmXiaodong Qi (CQuIC, New Mexico), Jongmin Lee, Yuan-Yu Jau, and Ivan H. Deutsch
Spin squeezing on nanophotonic waveguides
3:15pm - 3:45pmBreak (Lobby)

SESSION 9a: Quantum error correction and prevention (JC Miller Hall, Rm 134)

Chair: Todd Brun (Southern California)
3:45pm - 4:15pmTheodore Yoder (MIT), Isaac H. Kim
The surface code with a twist
4:15pm - 4:45pmAleksander Kubica (IQIM, Caltech), Michael Beverland, Fernando Brandao, John Preskill and Krysta Svore
Three-dimensional color code thresholds via statistical-mechanical mapping
4:45pm - 5:15pmHaoyu Qi (Louisiana State), Jonathan Dowling and Lorenza Viola
Optimal digital dynamical decoupling for general decoherence via Walsh modulation
5:15pm - 5:45pmRyan Epstein (Northrop Grumman)
Protecting quantum information from noise -- a passive approach
5:45pm - 6:15pmSepehr Nezami (Stanford), Patrick Hayden and Grant Salton
Quantum error correction of reference frame information

SESSION 9b: Theoretical tools and analyses (JC Miller Hall, Rm 119)

Chair: Travis Scholten (Sandia, CQuIC New Mexico)
3:45pm - 4:15pmChristopher Granade (Sydney), Christopher Ferrie, Ian Hincks, Steven Casagrande, Thomas Alexander, Jonathan Gross, Michal Kononenko and Yuval Sanders
QInfer: Statistical inference software for quantum applications
4:15pm - 4:45pmAndrzej Veitia (Oregon), Marcu P. da Silva and Steven van Enk
Detecting non-Markovian effects in quantum computing architectures
4:45pm - 5:15pmJan Kolodynski (ICFO), M. Oszmaniec, R. Augusiak, C. Gogolin, A. Acin, and M. Lewenstein
Random bosonic states for robust quantum metrology
5:15pm - 5:45pmFabricio Toscano (Instituto de Fisica, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brasil ), Wellison P. Bastos and Ruynet L. de Matos Filho
Attainability of the quantum information bound in pure state models
5:45pm - 6:15pmGilad Gour (Calgary)
Single-shot quantum resource theories

SESSION 9c: Quantum algorithms and compiling (JC Miller Hall, Rm 232)

Chair: Zhihui Wang (NASA Ames)
3:45pm - 4:15pmZhang Jiang (NASA Ames), Eleanor G. Rieffel and Zhihui Wang
A circuit-based quantum search algorithm driven by transverse fields
4:15pm - 4:45pmCiaran Ryan-Anderson (CQuIC New Mexico, Sandia), Yang Jiao and Ojas Parekh
Investigating the quantum approximate optimization algorithm's advantage over classical algorithms
4:45pm - 5:15pmLucas Brady (UC Santa Barbara), Wim van Dam
Necessary adiabatic run times in quantum optimization
5:15pm - 5:45pmSergey Knysh (NASA Ames)
Squeezed state ansatz for quantum Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model and its applications to quantum annealing
5:45pm - 6:15pmMartin Roetteler (Microsoft), Thomas Haener and Krysta M. Svore
Factoring using 2n+2 qubits with Toffoli based modular multiplication
6:30pm - 7:00pmSteering Committee Meeting (The Club The Club at LSU Union Square, LSU Campus, Corner Raphael Semmes and Highland Road -- CDR)
7:15pm - 9:30pmBanquet (with Cash Bar)
The Club at LSU Union Square
LSU Campus, Corner Raphael Semmes and Highland Road

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

SQuInT Co-Organizer
Mark M. Wilde, Assistant Professor LSU
mwilde@phys.lsu.edu

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

SQuInT Event Coordinator
Karen Jones, LSU
kjones@cct.lsu.edu

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

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