II Cambridge-MIT Quantum Information Workshop

Cambridge (UK), 13/14 June 2002

Venue: Centre for Mathematical Sciences, meeting room 4

Abstracts

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Schedule

Thursday 13/06

Session: Quantum computing strategies (chair, P. Landshoff)

10:00 Welcome by P. Landshoff
10:15 E. Farhi (MIT) "Quantum Adiabatic Evolution versus Simulated Annealing".
11:15 coffee
11:45 N. Boulant (MIT) "Probing and controlling decoherence"
12:15 S. Shahriar (MIT) "Constraints on Qubit Operations Due to the Bloch-Siegert Oscillation."
12:45 lunch (DAMTP cafeteria)

Session: Experimental implementations (chair, D Jonathan)

14:15 D. Williams (Cambridge) "Silicon-based Structures for Quantum Information Processing"
14:45 T. Orlando (MIT) "Superconducting Qubits for Quantum Computation"
15:15 coffee
15:45 C. Barnes (Cambridge) "A review of quantum processor work in the Cavendish Laboratory"
16:15 C. Ramanathan (MIT) "Exploring large spin systems with solid state NMR"

19:00 Dinner

Friday 14.06

Session: Fundamental issues (chair: A Ekert)

9:30 A. Kent (Cambridge / HP labs) "Causal Quantum Theory and the Collapse Locality Loophole"
10:00 A. Skeen / Y. Suhov (Cambridge) "The von Neumann entropy as the dimensional information rate of quantum
Gibbs sources"
10:30 N. Datta / Y. Suhov (Cambridge) "Data compression limit for an information source of interacting qubits"
11:00 coffee
11:30 S. Lloyd (MIT) "The computational capacity of the universe"
12:30 M. Christandl (Cambridge/ETH) "The Quantum Analog of Intrinsic Information"
13:00 lunch (DAMTP cafeteria) / POSTER SESSION

Session: Entanglement and applications (chair, A Kent)

14:30 G. Milburn (Cambridge/Queensland) 'High precision measurements with entangled coherent states'
15:00 L. Maccone (MIT) "Entanglement and dynamical evolution"
15:30 Coffee
16:00 C. Doran (Cambridge) "Entanglement and the multiparticle spacetime algebra"
16:30 Y. Shi (Cambridge) "From multi-partite entanglement to entanglement in many-particle systems"

POSTERS

M. H. Szymanska, P. R. Eastham, P. B. Littlewood (Cambridge)
Bose Einstein condensation of microcavity polaritons and lasing - crossover between the two regimes

T. M. Stace, C.H.W. Barnes, and G. J. Milburn (Cambridge)
"Erasing which-path information from a two-photon source using an optical cavity"

P.A. Cain, D. Dovinos, D.A. Williams, M. Wagner, J.M. Bonar, D.G. Hasko and H. Ahmed (Cambridge/Hitachi)
"Coupled Quantum Dots by Trench Isolation in SiGe"

A Ferguson and D Williams (Cambridge/Hitachi)
'Charging effects in a SiGe double quantum dot'.

William M. Kaminsky, Seth Lloyd, and Terry P. Orlando (MIT)
"A Superconducting Architecture for Adiabatic Quantum Computation of NP-Hard Problems"

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