Southwest Quantum Information and Technology

Ninth Annual Meeting, February 16-18, 2007
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California

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Friday 16 February 2007 (finalized)

07:30 - 08:30 Conference Breakfast
08:30 - 08:45 Welcome to SQuInT 2007
SESSION 1 Quantum Information with Atoms (I)
Session Chair: Poul Jessen
08:45 - 09:30 Brian Demarco, University of Illinois (invited)
Quantum Simulation with Ultra-Cold Atoms
09:30 - 10:00 Patricia Lee, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Subwavelength addressibility and spin-exchange in a double-well optical lattice
10:00 - 10:30 Morning Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00 Worawarong Rakreungdet, University of Arizona
Progress towards Quantum Logic with Cs Atoms in an Optical Lattice
11:00 - 11:30 Michael G. Raymer, Univeristy of Oregon
Entanglement of mesoscopic optical wave-packets and collective atomic ensembles
11:30 - 13:00 Conference Lunch
SESSION 2 Quantum Information with Atoms (II)
Session Chair: Trey Porto
13:00 - 13:45 Peter Zoller, University of Innsbruck (invited)
Dissipative dynamics of atomic Hubbard models coupled to a phonon bath: Dark state cooling in a Bloch band of an optical lattice
13:45 - 14:15 James (Chin-wen) Chou, California Institute of Technology
Real-time Manipulation of Remote Atomic Ensembles for a Scalable Quantum Network
14:15 - 14:45 Ivan Deutsch, University of New Mexico
QIP with Nuclear Spins and Quantum Statistics in Group-II Neutral Atoms
14:45 - 15:15 Afternoon Coffee Break
SESSION 3 Quantum Error Correction and Fault Tolerance
Session Chair: John Preskill
15:15 - 16:15 Bryan Eastin, University of New Mexico (invited tutorial)
Thresholds for Quantum Computation
16:15 - 16:45 Dave Bacon, University of Washington
Is Fault-Tolerant Adiabatic Quantum Computation Possible?
16:45 - 17:00 Mid-Session Break
17:00 - 17:30 Krysta Svore, Microsoft Research
Noise Threshold for a Fault-tolerant Two-dimensional Lattice Architecture
17:30 - 18:00 Kaveh Khodjasteh, University of Southern California
Dynamical Error Correction without Measurement
SESSION 4 Poster Session
18:00 - 19:30 Poster Abstracts