NATO Advanced Study Institute

Quantum Computation
and
Quantum Information

2-13 May 2005
Chania, Crete, Greece
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 Monday 2nd May

21:00            Welcome Reception in Minoa Palace


 Tuesday 3rd May

Chair: A. Ekert

9:00             Opening speech by A. Ekert

9:30             J. I. Cirac

Entanglement in complex systems: I

10:30           Coffee

Chair: J. I. Cirac

11:00           J. M. Raimond

Cavity QED: quantum entanglement and information: I

12:00           N. Lütkenhaus

Security of Practical Quantum Key Distribution: I

13:00-14:00  Lunch

16:30           Coffee

                   Chair: Lütkenhaus

17:00           C. H. W.  Barnes

                   Implementing quantum processors in the solid state: II

18:00           T. S. Cubitt

                   Entanglement Flow in Multipartite Systems

18:30           A. Ferreira

                   Radiation pressure thermal entanglement

19:00           End

19:30            Free time in old town (outward and return buses provided)


 Wednesday 4th May

                   Chair: C. Barnes

9:00             N. Lütkenhaus

Security of Practical Quantum Key Distribution: II

10:00           L. C. Kwek

                   Bell Inequalities and Gisin’s Theorem

10:30           Coffee

                   Chair: L. C. Kwek

11:00           J. M. Raimond

Cavity QED: quantum entanglement and information: II

12:00           J. I. Cirac

Entanglement in complex systems:II

13:00-14:00  Lunch

16:30           Coffee

17:00           Poster Session 1


 Thursday 5th May

                   Chair: J. M. Raimond

9:00             C. H. W.  Barnes

                   Implementing quantum processors in the solid state: III

10:00           I. N. Doxaras

Classically simulating error correcting codes for higher dimension encoding systems

10:30           Coffee

                   Chair: M. Floratos

11:00           J. M. Raimond

Cavity QED: quantum entanglement and information: III

12:00           A. S. Holevo

                   Quantum communication channels in infinite dimensions: I

13:00-14:00  Lunch

16:30           Coffee

Chair: D. Terno

17:00           N. Lütkenhaus

Security of Practical Quantum Key Distribution: III

18:00           P. Horodecki

Quantum entanglement: general description and distillability properties: I

19:00           End


 Friday 6th May

                   Chair: P. Horodecki

9:00             A. S. Holevo

                   Quantum communication channels in infinite dimensions: II

10:00           M. Ericsson

                   Geometric Effects and Computation in spin networks

10:30           Coffee

                   Chair: A. S. Holevo

11:00           C. H. W.  Barnes

                   Implementing quantum processors in the solid state: III

12:00           P. Horodecki

Quantum entanglement: general description and distillability properties: II

13:00-14:00  Lunch

16:30           Coffee

                   Chair: S. Bose

17:00           M. Mosca

                   Quantum Algorithms and Complexity: I

18:00           S. Wehner

                   Implications of Super-strong Nonlocality for Cryptography

18:30           Panel discussion 1: Theme to be announced

19:15 End

19:45           Cretan night and dinner, Geraniotis Hotel


 Saturday 7th May

                   Chair: M. Christandl

9:00             M. Mosca

                   Quantum Algorithms and Complexity: II

10:00           D. Terno

                   Relativistic aspects of quantum information

10:30           Coffee

                   Chair: D. Gottesman

11:00           P. L. Knight

                   Quantum Optical Realizations of Qubit Registers: I

12:00           A. S. Holevo

                   Quantum communication channels in infinite dimensions: III

13:00           Lunch

                   Afternoon free for discussions


 Sunday 8th May

                   Bus trip to the mountain villages. More details to follow.

 Monday 9th May

                   Chair: M. Ericsson

9:00             D. Bruss

Quantum entanglement: detection methods and usefulness as a physical resource: I

10:00           L. Ioannou

Improved algorithm for quantum separability and entanglement detection

10:30           Coffee

                   Chair: R. Jozsa

11:00           P. L. Knight

                   Quantum Optical Realizations of Qubit Registers: II

12:00           D. Bruss

Quantum entanglement: detection methods and usefulness as a physical resource: II

13:00-14:00  Lunch

16:30           Coffee

17:00           Poster Session 2


 Tuesday 10th May

                   Chair: D. Angelakis

9:00             P. L. Knight:

                   Quantum Optical Realizations of Qubit Registers: III

10:00           S. Bose

Quantum communication, gates & entanglement generation via spin chains

10:30           Coffee

                   Chair: L. Ioannou

11:00           M. Mosca

                   Quantum Algorithms and Complexity: III

12:00           D. Gottesman

Quantum error correction and fault-tolerant quantum computation: I

13:00-14:00  Lunch

16:30           Coffee

                   Chair: M. Mosca

17:00           R. Jozsa

                   Measurement based models of quantum computation: I

18:00           Panel session II: Theme to be announced

19:00 End

19:30 Free time in old town (outward and return buses provided)


 Wednesday 11th May

                   Chair: J. Walgate

9:00             H. Hübel

                   On the road to Quantum Key Distribution: I

10:00           M. Mohseni

Fault-tolerant quantum computation via exchange interactions

10:30           Coffee

                   Chair: D. Bruss

11:00           R. Jozsa

                   Measurement based models of quantum computation: II

12:00           H. Hübel

                   On the road to Quantum Key Distribution: II

13:00-14:00  Lunch

16:30           Coffee

                   Chair: A. Carollo

17:00           D. Gottesman

Quantum error correction and fault-tolerant quantum computation: II

18:00           D. McHugh

                   Trapped-ion spin molecule quantum information processors

18:30           T. Schulte-Herbrüggen

From network complexity towards time complexity by optimal control of spin- and pseudo-spin systems

19:00           End


 Thursday 12th May

                   Chair: A. Scott

9:00             H. Hübel

                   On the road to QKD

10:00           J. Kofler

                   Entanglement and Quantum Field Theory

10:30           Coffee

                   Chair: H. Hübel

11:00           D. Gottesman

Quantum error correction and fault-tolerant quantum computation

11:30           A. Scott

                   Classical and quantum fingerprinting strategies

12:00           Y. Omar

                   Quantum Pattern Matching

13:00-14:00  Lunch

16:30           Coffee

                   Chair: T. Schulte-Herbrüggen

17:00           J. Walgate

                   Local information and Nonorthogonal States

17:30           M. Wiesniak

                   Thermodynamical Quantum Information Sharing

18:00           O. S. Mishina

                   Macroscopic quantum information channel

18:30           J. Haruyama

Possibility of molecular quantum computation in carbon nanotubes

19:00           End


 Friday 13th May

                   Chair: A. Kay

9:00             I. Smyrnakis

                   Certain aspects of quantum random walk asymptotics

9:30             A. Cerè

Experimental realization of a new quantum communication protocol

9:30             Closing Remarks.Chair Ekert-Angelakis-Kulik

11:00           End of ASI


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