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August 24-27, 2009
the Fields Institute, 222 College Street, Toronto
Organizing Committee:
Daniel James, (Chair) , Dept. of Physics, University
of Toronto
Paul Brumer, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Toronto
Hoi-Kwong Lo, Dept. of Physics and Dept. of Electrical
& Computer Engineering, University of Toronto
Li Qian, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Toronto
Harry Ruda, Dept. of Materials Science and Dept. of
Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Toronto
Aephraim M. Steinberg, Centre for Quantum Information
& Quantum Control
Anna Ho, Administrative POC
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Overview
Future developments in the field of Quantum Computing and Quantum
control are eagerly anticipated and include the discovery of new
algorithms which could efficiently employ quantum computers, especially
the relatively small size devices available today and in the near
future; the development of improved threshold theorems to determine
the requirements for scalable quantum computing; security proofs
for a number of the alternate proposals for secure quantum communications;
further elucidation of the various measures of entanglement, their
relationship, and how they can be efficiently extracted from experimental
data; and overall, the continued work on a number of parallel candidate
systems for quantum computation, and development of the necessary
logic gates and error-correction techniques to bring this theory
to practice.
Developments continue to rely upon system coherence and decoherence.
As such focus will also be directed towards recent developments
in coherence and control in larger molecular systems such a nanostructures
and biomolecules.
Outline of the program
The conference will run for 4 full days and will involve a mix
of invited and contributed talks, and posters, interspersed with
coffee and discussion breaks. There will be 18 35- minute invited
talks, delivered by acknowledged world leaders of the field and
25 20-minute contributed talks.
Conference Schedule (outline)
| Monday
August 24 |
| 9:15 - 9:30 am |
Welcome and
Opening Remarks
Prof. Daniel James, Director, CQIQC (Chair)
Prof. Juris Steprans, Deputy Director, Fields Institute
Prof. Pekka Sinervo FRSC, Senior Vice-President, Research, Canadian
Institute for Advanced Research
Mr. Sean Collins, QuantumWorks Network Manager |
| 9:30 - 10:45 |
Session 1
Jelena Vuckovic (Stanford University)
Quantum dots in photonic
crystals: from quantum information processing to optical switching
at a single photon level
Steve Flammia (Perimeter Institute)
Ultrafast quantum state
tomography
Yuuki Tokunaga (NTT, Osaka University)
Complete process tomography
of experimental one-way quantum computation |
| 10:45 - 11:15 |
Coffee Break |
| 11:15 - 12:30 |
Session 2
Andrew White (University of Queensland)
Quantum Chemistry on a Quantum
Computer: First Steps and Prospects
Shohini Ghose (Wilfrid Laurier University)
Entanglement and nonlocality
in multiqubit pure states
Kyung Soo Choi (California Institute of Technology)
Multipartite entanglement for
one photon shared among four optical modes |
| 12:30 - 2:00 pm |
Lunch Break |
| 2:00 - 3:50 |
Session 3
Terence Rudolph (Imperial College London)
A photonic cluster state
machine gun
Chris Monroe (University of Maryland)
Quantum Networks with Ions,
Phonons, and Photons
Anthony Laing (University of Bristol )
Quantum Process Discrimination,
Waveguides, and Fault Tolerant Quantum Processes
Christoph Simon (University of Calgary)
Quantum Repeaters |
| 3:50 - 4:10 |
Coffee Break |
| 4:10 - 6:00 |
Session 4
Girish S. Agarwal (Oklahoma State University)
How Much Quantum Noise is
Detrimental to Entanglement
Ting Yu (Stevens Institute of Technology)
Disentanglement and Control of
Qubit Systems
Martin J. Stevens (NIST)
Measuring High-Order Coherences
of Chaotic and Coherent Optical States
Alain Aspect (Groupe d'Optique Atomique)
From Einstein's LichtQuanten to Wheeler's delayed choice
experiment: quantum weirdness brought to light. |
| 6:00 - 7:00 pm |
Reception Fields Institute |
| Tuesday
August 25 |
| 10:00 - 11:55 |
Bell Prize talk (Bell
prize video)
Nicolas Gisin (Group of Applied Physics, University of Geneva,
Switzerland)
Quantum Nonlocality:
How does Nature perform the trick ?!?
10 am - Bell Prize Ceremony, McLennan Physical Laboratories
Rm. 102
11 am - Reception, McLennan Physical Laboratories Rm 110
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| 12:30 - 2:00 |
Lunch Break |
| 2:00 - 4:10 |
Session 5
Masahide Sasaki (National Institute of Information and Communications
Technology)
Going beyond Gaussian limits
on continuous variable processing and measurement
Lucien Hardy (Perimeter Institute)
Operational Computation with
Quantum Stuff
Christopher A. Fuchs (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical
Physics)
Quantum-Bayesian Coherence
Félix Bussières (École Polytechnique
de Montréal and University of Calgary)
Flipping quantum coins
Bryan Sanctuary (McGill University)
The structure of spin
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| 4:10 - 6:00 |
Coffee Break |
| Poster Session
A |
| Wednesday
August 26 |
| 9:30 - 10:45 |
Session 6
Marcus Motzkus (University of Marburg)
Spectroscopy of biological
molecules using coherent control
Evgeny Shapiro (The University of British Columbia)
``Piecewise'' vs. ``Coherently
controlled'' adiabatic passage
Nathan Wiebe (University of Calgary)
Quantum Computer Simulations
of Time Dependent Hamiltonians |
| 10:45: 11:15 |
Coffee Break |
| 11:15 - 12:30 |
Session 7
Seogjoo Jang (Queens College of the City University of New York)
Theory of coherent resonance
energy transfer for coherent initial condition
Ran Zhao (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Long-lived Quantum Memories
Susan Clark (Stanford University)
Ultrafast optical spin echo
for electron spins in semiconductors |
| 12:30- 2:00 |
Lunch Break |
| 2:00 - 3:50 |
Session 8
John Martinis (University of California Santa Barbara)
Synthesizing arbitrary
photon states in a superconducting resonator: The quantum digital
to analog converter
David G. Cory (MIT)
The Design and Function of
Quantum Information Processors
Stephen Bartlett (The University of Sydney)
Quantum computers: A new
state of matter?
Daniel Burgarth (Imperial College London)
Scalable quantum computation
via local control of only two qubits |
| 3:50 - 4:10 |
Coffee Break |
| 4:10 - 6:00 |
Poster Session
B |
| 7:00 pm |
Banquet
L'Espresso bar Mercurio 321 Bloor St West |
| Thursday
August 27 |
| 9:30 - 10:45 am |
Session 9
Nicolas Gisin (Université de Genève)
Solid-state quantum memories
for quantum repeaters
P.K. Pathak (Queen's University)
Merging photonic crystal
cavities and single quantum dots: a practical source of entangled
photon pairs
Jordan Kyriakidis (Dalhousie University)
Non-adiabatic quantum
control of multiple quantum dots embedded in cavities with global
femtosecond optical pulses |
| 10:45 - 11:15 |
Coffee Break |
| 11:15 - 12:30 |
Session 10
Masato Koashi (Osaka University)
Complementarity and security
of quantum key distribution
Hiroki Takesue (NTT Corporation)
Unconditionally secure entanglement-based
quantum key distribution experiment
Akimasa Miyake (Perimeter Institute)
Quantum matchgate computation
is as powerful as space-bounded quantum computation
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| 12:30 - 2:00 pm |
Lunch Break |
| 2:00 - 3:50 |
Session 11
Wolfgang Tittel (University of Calgary)
Photon-Echo Quantum Memory and
Controlled State Manipulation
Thomas Jennewein (Institute for Quantum Computing)
Quantum Communication
and Information Processing with Photons - Experiments and Outlook
Jeff Lundeen (National Research Council, Institute for National
Measurement Standards)
Designed photons from birefrigent
waveguides
Alberto M. Marino (NIST)
Applications of Four-Wave
Mixing in Quantum Information |
| 3:50 - 4:10 |
Coffee Break |
| 4:10 - 6:00 |
Session 12
Gregory Scholes (University of Toronto)
Coherently wired light-harvesting
in a photosynthetic marine alga at ambient temperature
Ross McKenzie (University of Queensland)
Electronic excited states
in optically active biomolecules: functional quantum systems
with a tuneable environment interaction
Lian-Ao Wu (University of the Basque Country)
Looking into the relation between
quantum phase transition and entanglment via density functional
theorey
Michael Spanner (SIMS/NRC)
Decoherence and the quantum-to-classical
transition of a symmetry breaking coherent control scenario
in an optical lattice |
Invited Speakers
G.S. Agarwal, Oklahoma State
Alain Aspect (Institut d'Optique, Paris )
David Cory (MIT)
Lucien Hardy (Perimeter Institute)
Seogjoo Jang, (Queens College, New York)
Thomas Jennewein (IQC, Waterloo)
Masato Koashi (Osaka)
John Martinis (UCSB)
Ross McKenzie (Queensland) |
Chris Monroe (University of Maryland)
Marcus Motzkus (Univ Marburg)
Terry Rudolph (Imperial College, London)
Masahide Sasaki, (NICT Japan)
Greg Scholes (Chemistry, U. Toronto)
Wolfgang Tittel, (Calgary)
Jelena Vuckovic (Stanford)
Andrew White (Queensland) |
Contributed talks and Poster Session
The organizing committee looks forward to receiving abstracts for
contributed talks. A total of 25 such papers will be selected
from these submissions.
There will also be at least one poster session, during which we
expect to give an opportunity to more young researchers to present
work that did not fit into the main schedule, as well as several
sessions devoted to focused discussion on a number of topics raised
during the meeting. The meeting will involve researchers at all
stages of their careers, including participation by graduate students.
The poster boards are 6 feet wide by 3 feet high, and they mount
on poles that are 6 feet tall. Posters should be no more than 3
feet wide but can be as high as presenters wish. 33x44 portrait
orientation is preferred.
This year the conference will feature the award of the first
J. S. Bell Prize for Research in Fundamental Issues in Quantum Mechanics
and their Applications.
Confirmed Participants as of August
31, 2009
| Full Name |
University/Affiliation |
| Agarwal, Girish S. |
Oklahoma State University |
| Al-Qasimi, Asma |
University of Toronto |
| Aspect, Alain |
Groupe d'Optique Atomique |
| Azuma, Koji |
Osaka University |
| Bartlett, Stephen |
University of Sydney |
| Bradler, Kamil |
McGill University |
| Brassard, Gilles |
Université de Montréal |
| Brumer, Paul |
University of Toronto |
| Burgarth, Daniel |
Imperial College London |
| Bussieres, Felix |
Polytechnique Montréal and University of Calgary |
| Carretta, Stefano |
University of Parma and CNR-INFM S3 |
| Chang, Rockson |
University of Toronto |
| Chen, Shaohua |
Cape Breton University |
| Choi, Kyung Soo |
California Institute of Technology |
| Clark, Susan |
Stanford University |
| Cory, David |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Cruz, Luciano |
University of Toronto |
| Das, Sumanta |
Oklahoma State University |
| Feizpour, Amir |
University of Toronto |
| Flammia, Steve |
Perimeter Institute |
| Freedhoff, Helen |
York University |
| Fuchs, Christopher |
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics |
| Fujii, Keisuke |
Kyoto University |
| Gavenda, Miroslav |
Palacky University Olomouc |
| Ghose, Shohini |
Wilfrid Laurier University |
| Gilchrist, Alexei |
Macquarie University |
| Gisin, Nicolas |
Université de Genève |
| Gottesman, Daniel |
Perimeter Institute |
| Hamel, Deny |
University of Waterloo |
| Hardy, Lucien |
Perimeter Institute |
| Helwig, Wolfram |
University of Toronto |
| Hentschel, Alexander |
University of Calgary |
| Herbauts, Isabelle |
University of Waterloo |
| Ho, Anna |
University of Toronto |
| Howard, Mark |
UC Santa Barbara |
| Huebel, Hannes |
University of Waterloo |
| Ide, Toshiki |
Kinki University |
| Iinuma, Masaaka |
Hiroshima University |
| Ikuta, Rikizo |
Osaka University |
| James, Daniel |
University of Toronto |
| Jang, Seogjoo |
Queens College of the City University of New York |
| Jennewein, Thomas |
Institute for Quantum Computing |
| Kaltenbaek, Ranier |
University of Waterloo |
| Koashi, Masato |
Osaka University |
| Kolenderski, Piotr |
Nicolaus Copernicus University |
| Kubica, Aleksander |
University of Warsaw |
| Kupczynski, Marian |
UQO |
| Kyriakidis, Jordan |
Dalhousie University |
| Laing, Anthony |
University of Bristol |
| Landon-Cardinal, Olivier |
Universite de Montreal |
| Lavoie, Jonathan |
Institute for Quantum Computing |
| Li, Yunfan |
University of California, Riverside |
| Lo, Hoi-Kwong |
University of Toronto |
| Lundeen, Jeff |
National Research Council |
| Mahler, Dylan |
University of Toronto |
| Marino, Alberto |
NIST |
| Martinis, John |
University of California Santa Barbara |
| McKeever, Jason |
University of Toronto |
| McKenzie, Ross |
University of Queensland |
| Medendorp, Zachari |
University of Toronto |
| Merkli, Marco |
Memorial University |
| Miyake, Akimasa |
Perimeter Institute |
| Monroe, Chris |
University of Maryland |
| Motzkus, Marcus |
University of Marburg |
| Nakahara, Mikio |
Kinki University |
| Pathak, Pradyumna |
Queen's University |
| Paul, Christopher |
University of Toronto |
| Polyakov, Sergey |
UMD/NIST |
| Poon, Joyce |
University of Toronto |
| Qian, Li |
University of Toronto |
| Rai, Amit |
Oklahoma State University |
| Ravets, Sylvain |
University of Toronto |
| Rosen, Josh |
PRESS, NOVA/WGBH |
| Rozema, Lee |
University of Toronto |
| Rudolph, Terence |
Imperial College London |
| Said, Ressa |
Macquarie University |
| Sanctuary, Bryan |
McGill University |
| Santini, Paolo |
University of Parma and S3-CNR INFM, Modena |
| Sasaki, Masahide |
NICT |
| Scholes, Gregory |
University of Toronto |
| Schönfeldt, Johann-Heinrich |
Macquarie University |
| Schulte-Herbruggen, Thomas |
Technical Univ. Munich |
| Shapiro, Evgeny |
University of British Columbia |
| Simon, Christoph |
University of Calgary |
| Spanner, Michael |
SIMS/NRC |
| Steinberg, Aephraim M. |
University of Toronto |
| Stevens, Marty |
NIST |
| Stevenson, Catherine |
Dalhousie University |
| Takesue, Hiroki |
NTT Corporation |
| Thywissen, Joseph |
University of Toronto |
| Tittel, Wolfgang |
University of Calgary |
| Tokunaga, Yuuki |
NTT |
| Turner, Peter |
University of Tokyo |
| Vaz, Eduardo |
Dalhousie University |
| Vuckovic, Jelena |
Stanford University |
| White, Andrew |
University of Queensland |
| Wiebe, Nathan |
Institute for Quantum Information Science |
| Wilhelm, Frank |
University of Waterloo |
| Wu, Lianao |
University of Basque Country |
| Xing, Xingxing |
University of Toronto |
| Yokota, Kazuhiro |
Osaka University |
| Yu, Ting |
Stevens Institute of Technology |
| Zhao, Ran |
Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Zhao, Yi |
University of Toronto |
| Zhu, Eric |
University of Toronto |
| Zhuang, Chao |
University of Toronto |
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