Southwest Quantum Information and Technology
Tenth Annual Meeting, February 14-17, 2008
University of New Mexico, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Full Program | Thursday Tutorials | Friday | Saturday | Sunday
Thursday Program
| 09:00-10:00 | Conference Breakfast and Registration |
| SESSION 101: Special Thursday Tutorials | Session Chair: |
| 10:00-12:00 | Steven van Enk, University of Oregon (invited) | Entanglement and Verification |
| 12:00-13:30 | Conference Lunch |
| 13:30-15:30 | John Martinis, University of California, Santa Barbara (invited) | Beyond T1: Measuring Coherence with State and Process Tomography |
| 15:30-16:00 | Afternoon Break |
| 16:00-18:00 | Howard Barnum, Los Alamos National Laboratory (invited) | Convexity and Positivity in Quantum Information: Part I |
| 16:00-18:00 | Andrew Landahl, University of New Mexico (invited) | Convexity and Positivity in Quantum Information: Part II |
| 18:00-20:00 | SQuInT 2008 Pre-Registration |
Friday Program
| 07:30-08:30 | Conference Breakfast and Registration |
| 08:30-08:45 | Welcome to SQuInT 2008 |
| SESSION 1: Quantum and Atom Optics | Session Chair: JM Geremia |
| 08:45-09:30 | Serge Haroche, Ecole Normale Supérieure (invited) | Quantum Non-Demolition counting of photons in Cavity QED |
| 09:30-10:00 | Thomas Gerrits, National Institute of Standards and Technology | Generation of optical Cat States by squeezed photon subtraction |
| 10:00-10:30 | Morning Coffee Break |
| 10:30-11:00 | Steve Flammia, Perimeter Institute | Ultracompact Generation of Continuous-Variable Cluster States |
| SESSION 2: Laser Trapping and Cooling | Session Chair: Poul Jessen |
| 11:00-11:30 | Nathan Lundblad, National Institute of Standards and Technology | Ultracold atoms in a radiofrequency-dressed optical lattice |
| 11:30-13:00 | Conference Lunch |
| 13:00-13:45 | Alex Kuzmich, Georgia Institute of Technology (invited) | A Nuclear Clock |
| SESSION 3: Information Theory | Session Chair: Cris Moore |
| 13:45-14:30 | Patrick Hayden, McGill University (invited) | Black Holes as Mirrors |
| 14:30-15:00 | Afternoon Coffee Break |
| 15:00-15:30 | Gregory Crosswhite, University of Washington, Department of Physics | Using the cutting edge of matrix product state techniques to slice infinitely large entangled systems down to size |
| 15:30-16:00 | Jon Walgate, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics | Generic local distinguishability and completely entangled subspaces |
| SESSION 4: Quantum Control | Session Chair: Todd Brun |
| 16:00-16:30 | Brad Chase, University of New Mexico | Efficient feedback controllers for continuous-time quantum error correction |
| 16:30-17:00 | Afternoon Coffee Break |
| 17:00-17:30 | Seth Merkel, University of New Mexico | Optimal Control of Large Spin-Atomic Systems with Coherent Electromagnetic Fields |
| 17:30-18:00 | Souma Chaudhury, University of Arizona | A Quantum Kicked Top with Cold Atomic Spins |
| SESSION 5: Poster Session | |
| 18:00-20:00 | Poster Abstracts |
Saturday Program
| 07:30-08:30 | Conference Breakfast and Registration |
| SESSION 6: Algorithms | Session Chair: Wim van Dam |
| 08:30-09:15 | Edward Farhi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (invited) | A quantum computer can determine who wins a game faster than a classical computer |
| 09:15-9:45 | Jon Yard, Los Alamos National Laboratory | A general quantum algorithm for knot and link polynomials |
| 09:45-10:15 | Morning Coffee Break |
| 10:15-10:45 | David Meyer, University of California at San Diego | When a quantum query is no better than a classical one |
| SESSION 7: Quantum Computing I: Experiment | Session Chair: John Martinis |
| 10:45-11:30 | Raymond Simmonds, National Institute of Standards and Technology (invited) | Engineering coherent quantum states in superconducting systems |
| 11:30-12:00 | Jason Amini, National Institute of Standards and Technology | Scalable Traps and Novel Gates for Quantum Information Processing with Ions |
| 12:00-13:30 | Conference Lunch |
| SESSION 8: Quantum Computing II: Theory | Session Chair: Howard Barnum |
| 13:30-14:15 | Giacomo Mauro D'Ariano, Università di Pavia (invited) | Quantum Circuits Architecture |
| 14:15-14:45 | Robert Raussendorf, University of British Columbia | On measurement-based quantum computation with the toric code states |
| 14:45-15:15 | Barry Sanders, University of Calgary | Quantum walk on a circle in phase space via superconducting circuit |
| 15:15-15:45 | Afternoon Coffee Break |
| SESSION 9: Quantum Error Correction | Session Chair: Dave Bacon |
| 15:45-16:15 | Mark Wilde, University of Southern California | Quantum Convolutional Coding with Entanglement Assistance |
| 16:15-16:45 | Ognyan Oreshkov, University of Southern California | Fault-tolerant holonomic computation on quantum error-correcting codes |
| 16:45-17:15 | Matthew Elliott, University of New Mexico | A graphical description of stabilizer states |
| SESSION 10: Poster Session | |
| 17:15-19:00 | Poster Abstracts |
| 19:00 | Conference Banquet |
Sunday Program
| 07:30-08:30 | Conference Breakfast |
| SESSION 11: Quantum Communication | Session Chair: |
| 08:30-09:15 | Irina Novikova, The College of William&Mary (invited) | Optimal control of light storage and retrieval |
| 09:15-09:45 | Jim Harrington, Los Alamos National Laboratory | Practical long distance quantum key distribution |
| 09:45-10:15 | Shellee Dyer, National Institute of Standards and Technology | Ultra-Low Noise Photon Pair Source in Dispersion Shifted Optical Fiber |
| 10:15-10:45 | Morning Coffee Break |
| SESSION 12: Quantum Processes and Decoherence | Session Chair: Andrew Landahl |
| 10:45-11:15 | David Poulin, California Institute of Technology | Preserved information in quantum processes |
| 11:15-11:45 | Anil Shaji, University of New Mexico | Resources and decoherence in qubit metrology |
| 11:45-12:00 | Pick up Box Lunch |
| SESSION 13: Breakout I - Quantum and Atom Optics | Session Chair: |
| 12:00-12:30 | Kavan Modi, University of Texas | The role of state preparation in quantum process tomography |
| 12:30-13:00 | Cody Leary, Oregon Center for Optics, University of Oregon | Single-Photon Spin-Orbit Coupling for Cluster State Quantum Computation |
| 13:00-13:30 | Rolando Somma, Perimeter Institute | Quantum Simulated Annealing |
| 13:30-14:00 | Fernando Cucchietti, Los Alamos National Laboratory | Polarons in Bose-Einstein condensates |
| SESSION 14: Breakout II - Quantum Information A | Session Chair: |
| 12:00-12:30 | Bei Zeng, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Codeword Stabilized Quantum Codes |
| 12:30-13:00 | Raisa Karasik, University of California, Berkeley | Decoherence-free subspaces and incoherently generated coherences |
| 13:00-13:30 | Sergio Boixo, University of New Mexico | Quantum-limited metrology with product states |
| 13:30-14:00 | Ali Rezakhani, University of Southern California Center for Quantum Information Science and Technology | Superoperator Dynamics Approach for Identification and Control of Hamiltonian Systems |
| SESSION 15: Breakout III - Quantum Information B | Session Chair: |
| 12:00-12:30 | Haitao Quan, Los Alamos National Laboratory | quantum thermodynamic cycles and quantum heat engines |
| 12:30-13:00 | Gilad Gour, Institute of Quantum Information Science | Polygamy of entanglement of assistance: duality for monogamy of entanglement |
| 13:00-13:30 | Paul M. Alsing, University of New Mexico | Spin-induced non-geodesic motion, Wigner rotation and EPR correlations of massive spin-1/2 particles in a gravitational field |
| 13:30-14:00 | Animesh Datta, University of New Mexico | Entanglement is an important resource ??!! |