Southwest Quantum Information and Technology

Gentle measurement of quantum states and differential privacy

Presenting Author: Scott Aaronson, University of Texas, Austin
Contributing Author(s): Guy Rothblum

Read this article online: https://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/dpgentle.pdf

Characterizing and developing bosonic error-correcting codes

Presenting Author: Victor V. Albert, California Institute of Technology
Contributing Author(s): R. T. Brierley, Michel H. Devoret, Kasper Duivenvoorden, S. M. Girvin, Alexander Grimm, Liang Jiang, Linshu Li, Shantanu O. Mundhada, Kyungjoo Noh, Philip Reinhold, Chao Shen, Barbara M. Terhal, Steven Touzard, Christophe Vuillot, Dylan J. Young

Read this article online: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PBONYwxVfWtazgCVDp0f0ihqZCt5Ccn1/view?usp=sharing

Things you can do with your quantum key distribution setup: signatures and oblivious transfer

Presenting Author: Erika Andersson, Herriot-Watt University
Abstract

Quantum optical fingerprinting without a shared phase reference

Presenting Author: Konrad Banaszek, University of Warsaw
Contributing Author(s): Michal Jachura, Marcin Jarzyna, Michal Lipka, Wojciech Wasilewski

Read this article online: https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.25.027475, https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.110502

Bang-bang control as a design principle for classical and quantum optimization algorithms

Presenting Author: Aniruddha Bapat, University of Maryland Joint Quantum Institute
Contributing Author(s): Stephen Jordan

Read this article online: https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.02746

Quantum control and simulation with large trapped-ion crystals

Presenting Author: John Bollinger, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder
Contributing Author(s): Elena Jordan, Kevin Gilmore, Matt Affolter, Arghavan Safavi-Naini, Robert Lewis-Swan, Ana Maria Rey

Read this article online: https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.03178, https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.08938

Randomized benchmarking under different gatesets

Presenting Author: Kristine Boone, University of Waterloo
Contributing Author(s): Arnaud Carignan-Dugas, Joel J. Wallman, Joseph Emerson

Uncloneable encryption

Presenting Author: Anne Broadbent, University of Ottawa
Contributing Author(s): Sebastien Lord, University of Ottawa

Engineering atom-light interactions in photonic crystal waveguides

Presenting Author: Alex Burgers, California Institute of Technology
Contributing Author(s): Lucas Peng, H. Jeff Kimble

Read this article online: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1810.07757.pdf

Monitored quantum jumps: The view from quantum trajectory theory

Presenting Author: Howard Carmichael, University of Auckland
Abstract

Time-bin and polarization superdense teleportation for space applications

Presenting Author: Joseph Chapman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Contributing Author(s): Trent Graham, Christopher Zeitler, Paul Kwiat

Read this article online: https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.07181

Learning short- and constant-depth algorithms: application to state overlap and entanglement spectroscopy

Presenting Author: Lukasz Cincio, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Contributing Author(s): Yigit Subasi, Andrew Sornborger, Patrick Coles

Read this article online: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.04114

Simulating and evaluating the coherent Ising machine

Presenting Author: Noah Davis, University of Texas, Austin
Contributing Author(s): Josey Hanish, Antia Lamas-Linares, Brian LaCour

Quantum simulation with alkali and alkaline-earth Rydberg-arrays

Presenting Author: Manuel Endres, California Institute of Technology
Abstract

Operational, gauge-free quantum tomography

Presenting Author: John Gamble, Microsoft Research
Contributing Author(s): Olivia Di Matteo, Chris Granade, Nathan Wiebe

Chaos, stability and quantum-classical correspondence in spin systems

Presenting Author: Shohini Ghose, Wilfrid Laurier University
Abstract

Photonic quantum computing

Presenting Author: Mercedes Gimeno-Segovia, PsiQuantum Corp.
Abstract

Noisy circuit training of generative models with superconducting qubits

Presenting Author: Kathleen Hamilton, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Contributing Author(s): Eugene Dumitrescu, Raphael Pooser

Quantum error correction in quantum gravity

Presenting Author: Patrick Hayden, Stanford University
Abstract

New frontiers in laser cooling of neutral atoms and trapped ions

Presenting Author: Murray Holland, University of Colorado JILA
Contributing Author(s): Athreya Shankar, John P. Bartolotta, Matthew A. Norcia, Julia R.K. Cline, James K. Thompson, Elena Jordan, Kevin Gilmore, Arghavan Safavi-Naini, Justin G. Bohnet, John J. Bollinger

Read this article online: https://journals.aps.org/pra/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevA.98.023404, https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.05492

Novel trap for 2D ion crystal experiments

Presenting Author: Megan Ivory, University of Washington
Contributing Author(s): Alex Kato, Ramya Bhaskar, Ali Hasanzadeh, Boris Blinov

Quantum simulation of fermions: geometric locality and error mitigation

Presenting Author: Zhang Jiang, Google
Contributing Author(s): Jarrod McClean, Ryan Babbush, Hartmut Neven

Spin-blockade spectroscopy of Si/SiGe quantum dots

Presenting Author: Tyler Keating, HRL Laboratories
Abstract

Read this article online: https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.08320

Stationary phase method in discrete Wigner functions and classical simulation of quantum circuits

Presenting Author: Lucas Kocia, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Maryland
Contributing Author(s): Peter Love

Read this article online: https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.03622

Dephrasure channel and superadditivity of coherent information

Presenting Author: Felix Leditzky, University of Colorado JILA
Contributing Author(s): Debbie Leung, Graeme Smith

Read this article online: https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.08327, https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.160501

What a small-scale, highly-accurate quantum processor can teach us about analog quantum simulation

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

Sensing near the Heisenberg limit with a trapped-ion mechanical oscillator

Presenting Author: Katherine McCormick, University of Colorado
Contributing Author(s): Jonas Keller, Shaun Burd, David Wineland, Andrew Wilson, Dietrich Leibfried

Read this article online: https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.00668, https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.11934

Improving the sensitivity of Advanced LIGO with squeezed light

Presenting Author: Lee McCuller, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Contributing Author(s): The LIGO laboratory squeezing team

Entanglement properties of quantum random walks

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

Entangled-state measurements based on mode-resolved two-photon sum-frequency generation

Presenting Author: Sofiane Merkouche, University of Oregon
Contributing Author(s): Brian J. Smith

Quantum computational supremacy in the sampling of Bosonic random walkers on a one-dimensional lattice

Presenting Author: Gopikrishnan Muraleedharan, University of New Mexico CQuIC
Contributing Author(s): Christopher Jackson, Akimasa Miyake, Ivan H Deutsch

Read this article online: https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.01858

Continuous symmetries and approximate quantum error correction

Presenting Author: Sepehr Nezami, Stanford University
Contributing Author(s): Philippe Faist, Victor V. Albert, Grant Salton, Fernando Pastawski, Patrick Hayden, John Preskill

Electric-field noise from thermally-activated fluctuators in a surface ion trap

Presenting Author: Crystal Noel, University of California Berkeley
Abstract

Read this article online: https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.05624

Unusual entanglement dynamics in the quantum kicked top

Presenting Author: Arjendu Pattanayak, Carleton College
Contributing Author(s): Sudheesh Srivastava

Towards microwave assisted spin-spin entanglement

Presenting Author: Jason Petta, Princeton University
Contributing Author(s): Xiao Mi, Felix Borjans, Xanthe Croot, Felix Schupp, Monica Benito, Stefan Putz, David Zajac, Jacob Taylor, and Guido Burkard

Feedback-based simulation of quantum nonlinear dynamics: The Quantum Kicked Top in an ensemble of two-level atoms

Presenting Author: Pablo Poggi, University of New Mexico CQuIC
Contributing Author(s): Manuel Muñoz-Arias, Poul Jessen, Ivan Deutsch

Demonstration of fidelity improvement using dynamical decoupling with superconducting qubits

Presenting Author: Bibek Pokharel, University of Southern California
Contributing Author(s): Namit Anand, Benjamin Fortman, Daniel Lidar

Read this article online: https://journals.aps.org/prl/accepted/7f07fY6dI3e1ba5ca5a53943416754a7570626408

Randomized benchmarking of many-qubit devices

Presenting Author: Timothy Proctor, Sandia National Laboratories
Contributing Author(s): Kenneth Rudinger, Robin Blume-Kohout, Arnaud Carignan-Dugas, Erik Nielsen, Kevin Young

Read this article online: https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.07975

A computationally universal phase of quantum matter

Presenting Author: Robert Raussendorf, University of British Columbia
Contributing Author(s): Cihan Okay (UBC), Dong-Sheng Wang (UBC), David T. Stephen (MPQ Garching), Hendrik Poulsen Nautrup (U Innsbruck)

Read this article online: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.00095.pdf

High-efficiency demultiplexing of quantum information in temporal modes

Presenting Author: Michael G. Raymer , University of Oregon
Contributing Author(s): Dileep V. Reddy

Read this article online: https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.06736

Characterizing errors in entangled-atom interferometry

Presenting Author: Brandon Ruzic, Sandia National Laboratories
Contributing Author(s): Constantin Brif, Grant Biedermann

Quantum algorithms for systems of linear equations inspired by adiabatic quantum computing

Presenting Author: Yigit Subasi, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Contributing Author(s): Rolando D. Somma, Davide Orsucci

Read this article online: https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.10549

Exact entanglement cost of quantum states and channels under PPT-preserving operations

Presenting Author: Mark Wilde, Louisiana State University
Contributing Author(s): Xin Wang (Univ. Maryland)

Read this article online: https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.09592

Towards spin-squeezed matter-wave interferometry

Presenting Author: Baochen Wu, University of Colorado JILA
Contributing Author(s): Graham P. Greve Chengyi Luo James K. Thompson

General modeling framework for quantum photodetectors

Presenting Author: Steve Young, Sandia National Laboratories
Contributing Author(s): Mohan Sarovar, François Léonard