Talk Abstracts

Entangling trapped ions with a low-frequency magnetic field gradient

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

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(Session 1: from 9:15am-9:45am)

Correlators in continuous measurement of non-commuting qubit observables and their applications

Presenting Author: Juan Atalaya, University of California, Riverside
Contributing Author(s): Shay Hacohen-Gourgy, Leigh S. Martin, Leonid P. Pryadko, Irfan Siddiqi, and Alexander N. Korotkov

Abstract

Read this article online: https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.05249, https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.08077

(Session 6: from 9:15am-9:45am)

Low depth quantum simulation of electronic structure

Presenting Author: Ryan Babbush, Google
Contributing Author(s): Nathan Wiebe, Jarrod McClean, James McClain, Hartmut Neven, Garnet Chan

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Read this article online: https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.00023

(Session 4: from 3:15pm-3:45pm)

The exciting and scary world of near term quantum computers

Presenting Author: Dave Bacon, Google
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(Session 10: from 8:30am-9:15am)

Evolution-time dependence in near-adiabatic quantum evolutions

Presenting Author: Lucas Brady, University of California Santa Barbara
Contributing Author(s): Wim van Dam

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(Session 9c: from 3:45pm-4:15pm)

Panel discussion: Progress of quantum information and SQuInT

Presenting Author: Kenneth Brown (Duke University), Isaac Chuang (MIT), Theresa Lynn (Harvey Mudd), Michael Nielsen, (Y Combinator Research),
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(Session 14: from 5:30pm-6:30pm)

Combs and isotopic customization for trapped ion quantum computing

Presenting Author: Wesley C. Campbell, University of California, Los Angeles
Contributing Author(s): David Hucul, Anthony Ransford, Michael Ip, Justin Christensen, Conrad Roman, Xueping Long, Andrew M. Jayich, and Eric Hudson

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(Session 8: from 1:30pm-2:15pm)

Fault-tolerant quantum computation with few qubits

Presenting Author: Rui Chao, University of Southern California
Contributing Author(s): Ben Reichardt

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Read this article online: https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.02329, https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.05365

(Session 9b: from 5:15pm-5:45pm)

Reliable numerical key rates for quantum key distribution

Presenting Author: Patrick Coles, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Contributing Author(s): Adam Winick, Norbert Luetkenhaus

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Read this article online: https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.05511

(Session 2: from 11:00am-11:30am)

Quasi-probabilities on a fermionic phase space

Presenting Author: Ninnat Dangniam, University of New Mexico CQuIC
Contributing Author(s): Christopher Jackson, Christopher Ferrie, Carlton Caves

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(Session 9c: from 5:15pm-5:45pm)

Robust quantum network architectures and topologies for entanglement distribution

Presenting Author: Siddhartha Das, Louisiana State University
Contributing Author(s): Sumeet Khatri, Jonathan P. Dowling

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Read this article online: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1709.07404.pdf

(Session 9c: from 5:45pm-6:15pm)

New color centers in diamond for long distance quantum networks

Presenting Author: Nathalie de Leon, Princeton University
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(Session 3: from 1:30pm-2:15pm)

A robust, single-shot measurement for binary phase-shift keyed coherent state discrimination

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

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(Session 7: from 11:00am-11:30am)

The Fermi-Hubbard model for universal quantum computation

Presenting Author: David Feder, University of Calgary
Contributing Author(s): Jiawei Ji

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(Session 9a: from 4:45pm-5:15pm)

Detecting metrologically useful asymmetry and entanglement by a few local measurements

Presenting Author: Davide Girolami, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Contributing Author(s): 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

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(Session 9a: from 5:45pm - 6:15 pm)

Schroedinger's cat meets Maxwell's demon: Quantum error correction (that works)

Presenting Author: Steven Girvin, Yale University
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(Session 6: from 8:30am-9:15am)

Dynamical control techniques with superconducting qubits

Presenting Author: Simon Gustavsson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Contributing Author(s): 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

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Read this article online: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/354/6319/1573?ijkey=aS%2520B1OEKGNuLt2&keytype=ref&siteid=sci, https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms12964

(Session 11: from 10:15am-11:00am)

Singular loops and their non-Abelian geometric phases in ultracold spin-1 atoms

Presenting Author: Bharath H. M., Georgia Institute of Technology
Contributing Author(s): Matthew Boguslawski, Maryrose Barrios, Lin Xin, Michael Chapman

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Read this article online: https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.08564

(Session 13: from 4:45pm-5:15pm)

Advantages of versatile neural-network decoders for topological codes

Presenting Author: Tomas Jochym-O'Connor, California Institute of Technology
Contributing Author(s): Nishad Maskara, Aleksander Kubica

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(Session 9b: from 4:45pm-5:15pm)

Experimental measurement of leakage-error in exchange-only SiGe quantum dot qubits by extending randomized benchmarking

Presenting Author: Aaron Jones, HRL Laboratories
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(Session 11: from 11:00am-11:30am)

Engineered hopping integrals in exciton-polariton quantum simulators

Presenting Author: Na Young Kim, University of Waterloo
Contributing Author(s): Haining Pan, K. Winkler, C. Schneider, S. Hoefling

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(Session 11: from 11:30am-12:00pm)

Robust entanglement renormalization on a noisy quantum computer

Presenting Author: Isaac Kim, Stanford University
Contributing Author(s): Brian Swingle

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Read this article online: https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.07500

(Session 12: from 2:15pm-2:45pm)

Quantum vs. classical proofs

Presenting Author: Shelby Kimmel, Middlebury College
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(Session 12: from 1:30pm-2:15pm)

State insensitive trapping for ground and Rydberg atoms

Presenting Author: Jacob Lampen, University of Michigan
Contributing Author(s): Huy Nguyen, Matthew Winchester, Lin Li, Paul Berman, Alex Kuzmich

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(Session 13: from 3:15pm-3:45pm)

Optimized two-qubit gates in a long, linear ion crystal using continuous frequency modulation

Presenting Author: Pak Hong Leung, Duke University
Contributing Author(s): Kevin Landsman, Caroline Figgatt, Norbert Linke, Kenneth Brown, Christopher Monroe

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Read this article online: https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.08039

(Session 8: from 2:45-3:15pm)

Advances in optimal Hamiltonian simulation

Presenting Author: Guang Hao Low, Microsoft Research
Contributing Author(s): Isaac Chuang

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Read this article online: https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.06546, https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.05391

(Session 4: from 3:45pm-4:15pm)

A CPHASE gate between Rydberg‐dressed neutral atoms

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

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(Session 13: from 4:15pm-4:45pm)

Bounding the quantum process fidelity with a minimal set of input states

Presenting Author: Karl Mayer, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder
Contributing Author(s): Emanuel Knill

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(Session 9b: from 3:45pm-4:15pm)

Michelson-Morley analogue for electrons using trapped ions to test Lorentz symmetry

Presenting Author: Eli Megidish, University of California Berkeley
Contributing Author(s): Joe Broz, Nicole Greene, Hartmut Haeffner

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(Session 8: from 2:15pm-2:45pm)

Entanglement constraints in various symmetric subspaces

Presenting Author: Alexander Meill, University of California San Diego
Contributing Author(s): David Meyer

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Read this article online: https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.07295

(Session 9c: from 4:45pm-5:15pm)

Improved quantum algorithms using linear combination of unitaries

Presenting Author: Anirban Narayan Chowdhury, University of New Mexico CQuIC
Contributing Author(s): Yigit Subasi, Rolando Diego Somma

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(Session 9c: from 4:15pm-4:45pm)

Exchange interactions in a strontium superradiant laser

Presenting Author: Matthew Norcia, University of Colorado JILA
Contributing Author(s): Robert Lewis-Swan, Julia Cline, Bihui Zhu, Ana Maria Rey, James Thompson

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Read this article online: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1711.03673.pdf

(Session 13: from 3:45pm-4:15pm)

Classifying and diagnosing crosstalk in quantum information processors

Presenting Author: Kenneth Rudinger, Sandia National Laboratories
Contributing Author(s): Mohan Sarovar, Dylan Langharst, Tim Proctor, Kevin Young, Erik Nielsen, Robin Blume-Kohout

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(Session 9b: from 4:15pm-4:45pm)

Approximate operator algebra quantum error correction (decoding the hologram in AdS/CFT)

Presenting Author: Grant Salton, Stanford University
Contributing Author(s): Jordan Cotler, Patrick Hayden, Brian Swingle, Michael Walter

Abstract

Read this article online: https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.05839

(Session 9b: from 5:45pm-6:15pm)

Frequency control of single quantum emitters in integrated photonic circuits

Presenting Author: Emma Schmidgall, University of Washington
Contributing Author(s): Srivatsa Chakravarthi, Michael Gould, Ian Christen, Karine Hestroffer, Fariba Hatami, Kai-Mei Fu

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(Session 3: from 2:15pm-2:45pm)

Renyi relative entropies of quantum Gaussian states

Presenting Author: Kaushik Seshadreesan, University of Arizona
Contributing Author(s): Ludovico Lami and Mark M. Wilde

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Read this article online: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.09885.pdf

(Session 2: from 11:30am-12:00pm)

Realizing the optimal tomography through a sequence of collective weak measurements

Presenting Author: Ezad Shojaee, University of New Mexico
Contributing Author(s): Christopher S. Jackson, Carlos A. Riofrio, Amir Kalev, Ivan H. Deutsch

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(Session 9a: from 5:15pm-5:45pm)

Detecting continuous gravitational waves with superfluid helium

Presenting Author: Swati Singh, Williams College
Contributing Author(s): Laura DeLorenzo, Igor Pikovski and Keith Schwab

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Read this article online: http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1367-2630/aa78cb

(Session 9a: from 4:15pm-4:45pm)

Progress on the quantum channel capacity problems

Presenting Author: Graeme Smith, University of Colorado Boulder
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(Session 2: from 10:15am-11:00am)

Control and measurement of single-photon pulses

Presenting Author: Brian Smith, University of Oregon
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(Session 7: from 10:15am-11:00am)

Generating non-classical states of motion using spontaneous emission

Presenting Author: Jason Twamley, Macquarie University
Contributing Author(s): Ben Baragiola (Royal Melbourne Institute for Technology)

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(Session 9a: from 3:45pm-4:15pm)

Investigations of the quantum alternating operator ansatz or optimization problems with constraints

Presenting Author: Zhihui Wang, NASA - Ames Research Center
Contributing Author(s): Eleanor Rieffel, Stuart Hadfield, Bryan O'Gorman, Nicholas C Rubin, Zhang Jiang, Davide Venturelli

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Read this article online: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1709.03489.pdf

(Session 10: from 9:15am-9:45am)

Optimizing quantum optimization algorithms via faster quantum gradient computation

Presenting Author: Nathan Wiebe, Microsoft Research
Contributing Author(s): Andres Gilyen, Srinivasan Arunachalam

Abstract

Read this article online: https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.00465

(Session 4: from 4:15pm-4:45pm)

NIST ions at SQuInT

Presenting Author: David Wineland, NIST, Boulder/University of Oregon
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(Session 1: from 8:30am-9:15am)

Reaching the quantum Cramér-Rao bound of transmission measurements

Presenting Author: Timothy Woodworth, University of Oklahoma
Contributing Author(s): Carla Hermann-Avigliano, Kam Wai Clifford Chan, Alberto Marino

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(Session 7: from 11:30am-12:00pm)

 

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

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