Southwest Quantum Information and Technology

20th Annual SQuInT Workshop February 22-24, 2018
La Fonda on the Plaza
100 E San Francisco St, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Program

Full Program | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | All Sessions | Posters | Talks

Wednesday Welcome

7:00 - 9:00pm

Registration/Early Conference Check-In (Lobby near La Cantanita)

All General Sessions will be held in the Lumpkins Ballroom, Second Floor

Thursday Program

7:30am - 8:20am	Breakfast, Registration & Conference Check-in (Mezzanine, Second Floor)
8:20am - 8:30am	Opening Remarks
SESSION 1: It from ion qubits at SQuInT Chair: Isaac Chuang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
8:30am-9:15am	David Wineland (NIST, Boulder/University of Oregon) NIST ions at SQuInT
9:15am-9:45am	David Allcock (National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder), Raghavendra Srinivas, Shaun Burd, Daniel Slichter, Andrew Wilson, Dietrich Leibfried, David Wineland Entangling trapped ions with a low-frequency magnetic field gradient
9:45am - 10:15am	Break (Mezzanine, Second Floor)
SESSION 2: Information theory and quantum communication Chair: Philippe Faist (California Institute of Technology)
10:15am-11:00am	Graeme Smith (University of Colorado Boulder) Progress on the quantum channel capacity problems
11:00am-11:30am	Patrick Coles (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Adam Winick, Norbert Luetkenhaus Reliable numerical key rates for quantum key distribution
11:30am-12:00pm	Kaushik Seshadreesan (University of Arizona), Ludovico Lami and Mark M. Wilde Renyi relative entropies of quantum Gaussian states
12:00pm - 1:30pm	Lunch Buffet (La Terraza Banquet Room, Third Floor - capacity 140 & Stiha Room capacity 60 w/overflow seating in Mezzanine))
SESSION 3: Qubits in defects Chair: Kai-Mei Fu (University of Washington)
1:30pm-2:15pm	Nathalie de Leon (Princeton University) New color centers in diamond for long distance quantum networks
2:15pm-2:45pm	Emma Schmidgall (University of Washington), Srivatsa Chakravarthi, Michael Gould, Ian Christen, Karine Hestroffer, Fariba Hatami, Kai-Mei Fu Frequency control of single quantum emitters in integrated photonic circuits
2:45pm - 3:15pm	Break (Mezzanine, Second Floor)
SESSION 4: Quantum algorithms and simulation Chair: David Meyer (University of California San Diego)
3:15pm-3:45pm	Ryan Babbush (Google), Nathan Wiebe, Jarrod McClean, James McClain, Hartmut Neven, Garnet Chan Low depth quantum simulation of electronic structure
3:45pm-4:15pm	Guang Hao Low (Microsoft Research), Isaac Chuang Advances in optimal Hamiltonian simulation
4:15pm-4:45pm	Nathan Wiebe (Microsoft Research), Andres Gilyen, Srinivasan Arunachalam Optimizing quantum optimization algorithms via faster quantum gradient computation
SESSION 5: Poster Session and Reception Rooms: New Mexico and Santa Fe, 1st Floor, near restaurant. Rooms will remain open for poster viewing until Saturday, 3pm
5:00pm-7:00pm	Poster Session and Reception (with Cash Bar)

Friday Program

General Sessions 6, 7, and 8 will be held in the Lumpkins Ballroom
Concurrent Sessions 9a, 9b, and 9c will be held in Lumpkins North, Lumpkins South, and Stiha Room

7:30am - 8:30am	Breakfast (Mezzanine, Second Floor)
SESSION 6: Superconducting qubits Chair: Seth Merkel (HRL Laboratories)
8:30am-9:15am	Steven Girvin (Yale University) Schroedinger's cat meets Maxwell's demon: Quantum error correction (that works)
9:15am-9:45am	Juan Atalaya (University of California, Riverside), Shay Hacohen-Gourgy, Leigh S. Martin, Leonid P. Pryadko, Irfan Siddiqi, and Alexander N. Korotkov Correlators in continuous measurement of non-commuting qubit observables and their applications
9:45am - 10:15am	Break (Mezzanine, Second Floor)
SESSION 7: Quantum optics Chair: Alberto Marino (University of Oklahoma)
10:15am-11:00am	Brian Smith (University of Oregon) Control and measurement of single-photon pulses
11:00am-11:30am	Matthew DiMario (University of New Mexico CQuIC), Francisco Becerra A robust, single-shot measurement for binary phase-shift keyed coherent state discrimination
11:30am-12:00pm	Timothy Woodworth (University of Oklahoma), Carla Hermann-Avigliano, Kam Wai Clifford Chan, Alberto Marino Reaching the quantum Cramér-Rao bound of transmission measurements
12:00pm - 1:30pm	Lunch Buffet (La Terraza Banquet Room, Third Floor - capacity 140 & Stiha Room capacity 60 w/overflow seating in Mezzanine))
SESSION 8: Ions Chair: Kenneth Brown (Duke University)
1:30pm-2:15pm	Wesley C. Campbell (University of California, Los Angeles), David Hucul, Anthony Ransford, Michael Ip, Justin Christensen, Conrad Roman, Xueping Long, Andrew M. Jayich, and Eric Hudson Combs and isotopic customization for trapped ion quantum computing
2:15pm-2:45pm	Eli Megidish (University of California Berkeley), Joe Broz, Nicole Greene, Hartmut Haeffner Michelson-Morley analogue for electrons using trapped ions to test Lorentz symmetry
2:45-3:15pm	Pak Hong Leung (Duke University), Kevin Landsman, Caroline Figgatt, Norbert Linke, Kenneth Brown, Christopher Monroe Optimized two-qubit gates in a long, linear ion crystal using continuous frequency modulation
3:15pm - 3:45pm	Break (Mezzanine, Second Floor)
SESSION 9a: AMO theory and applications (Lumpkins Ballroom South) Chair: Rafael Alexander (University of New Mexico)
3:45pm-4:15pm	Jason Twamley (Macquarie University), Ben Baragiola (Royal Melbourne Institute for Technology) Generating non-classical states of motion using spontaneous emission
4:15pm-4:45pm	Swati Singh (Williams College), Laura DeLorenzo, Igor Pikovski and Keith Schwab Detecting continuous gravitational waves with superfluid helium
4:45pm-5:15pm	David Feder (University of Calgary), Jiawei Ji The Fermi-Hubbard model for universal quantum computation
5:15pm-5:45pm	Ezad Shojaee (University of New Mexico), Christopher S. Jackson, Carlos A. Riofrio, Amir Kalev, Ivan H. Deutsch Realizing the optimal tomography through a sequence of collective weak measurements
5:45pm - 6:15 pm	Davide Girolami (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Chao Zhang, Benjamin Yadin, Zhi-Bo Hou, Huan Cao, Bi-Heng Liu, Yun-Feng Huang, Reevu Maity, Vlatko Vedral, Chuan-Feng Li, Guang-Can Guo Detecting metrologically useful asymmetry and entanglement by a few local measurements
SESSION 9b: Error detection, correction, and verification (Lumpkins Ballroom North) Chair: Travis Scholten (University of New Mexico)
3:45pm-4:15pm	Karl Mayer (National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder), Emanuel Knill Bounding the quantum process fidelity with a minimal set of input states
4:15pm-4:45pm	Kenneth Rudinger (Sandia National Laboratories), Mohan Sarovar, Dylan Langharst, Tim Proctor, Kevin Young, Erik Nielsen, Robin Blume-Kohout Classifying and diagnosing crosstalk in quantum information processors
4:45pm-5:15pm	Tomas Jochym-O'Connor (California Institute of Technology), Nishad Maskara, Aleksander Kubica Advantages of versatile neural-network decoders for topological codes
5:15pm-5:45pm	Rui Chao (University of Southern California), Ben Reichardt Fault-tolerant quantum computation with few qubits
5:45pm-6:15pm	Grant Salton (Stanford University), Jordan Cotler, Patrick Hayden, Brian Swingle, Michael Walter Approximate operator algebra quantum error correction (decoding the hologram in AdS/CFT)
SESSION 9c: Frontiers of quantum information theory (Stiha Room) Chair: Christopher Jackson (University of New Mexico)
3:45pm-4:15pm	Lucas Brady (University of California Santa Barbara), Wim van Dam Evolution-time dependence in near-adiabatic quantum evolutions
4:15pm-4:45pm	Anirban Narayan Chowdhury (University of New Mexico CQuIC), Yigit Subasi, Rolando Diego Somma Improved quantum algorithms using linear combination of unitaries
4:45pm-5:15pm	Alexander Meill (University of California San Diego), David Meyer Entanglement constraints in various symmetric subspaces
5:15pm-5:45pm	Ninnat Dangniam (University of New Mexico CQuIC), Christopher Jackson, Christopher Ferrie, Carlton Caves Quasi-probabilities on a fermionic phase space
5:45pm-6:15pm	Siddhartha Das (Louisiana State University), Sumeet Khatri, Jonathan P. Dowling Robust quantum network architectures and topologies for entanglement distribution
6:20pm - 7:00pm	Steering Committee Meeting (Exchange Room, First Floor near Lobby)
7:15pm - 9:30pm	Banquet (with Cash Bar) (Lumpkins Ballroom, Second Floor)

Saturday Program

7:30am - 8:30am	Breakfast (Mezzanine, Second Floor)
SESSION 10: Near-term devices and applications Chair: Michael Nielsen (Y Combinator Research)
8:30am-9:15am	Dave Bacon (Google) The exciting and scary world of near term quantum computers
9:15am-9:45am	Zhihui Wang (NASA - Ames Research Center), Eleanor Rieffel, Stuart Hadfield, Bryan O'Gorman, Nicholas C Rubin, Zhang Jiang, Davide Venturelli Investigations of the quantum alternating operator ansatz or optimization problems with constraints
9:45am - 10:15am	Break (Mezzanine, Second Floor)
SESSION 11: Solid-state qubits and cavity Chair: Emily Pritchett (HRL Laboratories)
10:15am-11:00am	Simon Gustavsson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Fei Yan, Gianluigi Catelani, Jonas Bylander, Jeffrey Birenbaum, David Hover, Danna Rosenberg, Gabriel Samach, Steven J. Weber, Jonilyn L. Yoder, John Clarke, Andrew J. Kerman, Fumiki Yoshihara, Yasunobu Nakamura, Terry P. Orlando, William D. Oliver Dynamical control techniques with superconducting qubits
11:00am-11:30am	Aaron Jones (HRL Laboratories) Experimental measurement of leakage-error in exchange-only SiGe quantum dot qubits by extending randomized benchmarking
11:30am-12:00pm	Na Young Kim (University of Waterloo), Haining Pan, K. Winkler, C. Schneider, S. Hoefling Engineered hopping integrals in exciton-polariton quantum simulators
12:00pm - 1:30pm	Lunch Buffet (La Terraza Banquet Room, Third Floor - capacity 140 & Stiha Room capacity 60 w/overflow seating in Mezzanine))
SESSION 12: Complexity and many-body problems Chair: Andrew Landahl (Sandia National Laboratories)
1:30pm-2:15pm	Shelby Kimmel (Middlebury College) Quantum vs. classical proofs
2:15pm-2:45pm	Isaac Kim (Stanford University), Brian Swingle Robust entanglement renormalization on a noisy quantum computer
2:45pm - 3:15pm	Break (Mezzanine, Second Floor)
SESSION 13: Atoms Chair: Poul Jessen (University of Arizona)
3:15pm-3:45pm	Jacob Lampen (University of Michigan), Huy Nguyen, Matthew Winchester, Lin Li, Paul Berman, Alex Kuzmich State insensitive trapping for ground and Rydberg atoms
3:45pm-4:15pm	Matthew Norcia (University of Colorado JILA), Robert Lewis-Swan, Julia Cline, Bihui Zhu, Ana Maria Rey, James Thompson Exchange interactions in a strontium superradiant laser
4:15pm-4:45pm	Michael Martin (Sandia National Laboratories), Jongmin Lee, Yuan- Yu Jau, Ivan Deutsch, Grant Biedermann A CPHASE gate between Rydberg‐dressed neutral atoms
4:45pm-5:15pm	Bharath H. M. (Georgia Institute of Technology), Matthew Boguslawski, Maryrose Barrios, Lin Xin, Michael Chapman Singular loops and their non-Abelian geometric phases in ultracold spin-1 atoms
5:15pm - 5:30pm	Break (Mezzanine, Second Floor)
SESSION 14: Panel discussion Chair: Carlton Caves (University of New Mexico)
5:30pm-6:30pm	Kenneth Brown (Duke University), Isaac Chuang (MIT), Theresa Lynn (Harvey Mudd), Michael Nielsen, (Y Combinator Research) Panel discussion: Progress of quantum information and SQuInT

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