Program for the Conference Quantum and Reversible Computation

SUNY Stony Brook, May 28-31, 2003

The lectures will take place in the large physics lecture room, Rm.137 in Harriman Hall. The locations of the coffee breaks and meals are indicated in the program. Computer access: For access to Windows and unix PC's with telnet (ssh) capability, go to room D129 of the physics building. The userid and password will be given at the conference.

Tuesday, May 27, 2003

18:00-22:00

Reception, University Room on the first floor of the Holiday Inn Express

Wednesday, May 28, 2003

08:00

first bus from Holiday Inn Express to SAC

08:30

second bus from Holiday Inn Express to SAC

08:20-08:40

registration, outside of Harriman Hall

08:40-09:10

remarks by Provost R. McGrath, YITP Director G. Sterman and IMS Director J. Milnor

Session 1: Chairperson: Hoi-Kwong Lo

09:10-09:45

Peter Shor

AT&T

Capacities of Quantum Channels [PDF] [MP3] [M3U]

09:45-10:20

David DiVincenzo

IBM

Prospects for Quantum Computation [PDF] [MP3] [M3U]

10:20-10:35

coffee break (Harriman Hall lobby)

10:35-11:10

Edward H. Farhi

MIT

Exponential Algorithmic Speedup by Quantum Walk [MP3] [M3U]

11:10-11:45

Andreas Winter

University of Bristol

State Randomisation: One Bit is Enough -and Why This is Interesting [PDF] [MP3] [M3U]

11:45-12:20

Pawel Horodecki

Technical University of Gdansk

Quantum Correlations and Thermodynamics [MP3] [M3U]

12:20-14:00

lunch (SAC Ballroom B)

Session 2: Chairperson: Peter Shor

14:00-14:35

Charles H. Bennett

IBM

Quantum Reverse Shannon Theorem [PDF] [MP3] [M3U]

14:35-15:10

Alexander Kirillov

SUNY, Stony Brook

Modular Functors and Quantum Codes [MP3] [M3U]

15:10-15:45

Vlatko Vedral

Imperial College

Geometric Quantum Computation and Decoherence [PDF] [MP3] [M3U]

15:45-16:00

coffee break (Harriman Hall lobby)

16:00-16:35

Hoikwong Lo

University of Toronto

Security of Quantum Key Distribution with Imperfect Devices [PDF] [MP3] [M3U]

16:35-17:10

Sougato Bose

Caltech

Quantum Computation and Communication Using Spin Chains [PDF] [MP3] [M3U]

17:10-17:45

Paolo Zanardi

MIT

Universal Control of Quantum Subspaces and Subsystems [PDF] [MP3] [M3U]

17:45-18:20

Andrew Landahl

MIT

Universal Quantum Interfaces [PDF] [MP3] [M3U]

18:20-22:00

dinner (SAC Ballroom B)

20:30

first bus run from SAC to Holiday Inn Express

21:00

second bus run from SAC to Holiday Inn Express

21:30

last bus run from SAC to Holiday Inn Express

Thursday, May 29, 2003

08:00

first bus from Holiday Inn Express to SAC

08:30

second bus from Holiday Inn Express to SAC

Session 3: Chairperson: T. Bergeman

09:00-09:30

Ignacio Cirac

Max-Planck Institut

Limits on Gates with Trapped Ions [PDF] [MP3] [M3U]

09:30-10:00

Boris Blinov

FOCUS Center

Clean, Fast and Scalable Quantum Logic with Trapped Ions [PDF] [MP3] [M3U]

10:00-10:15

coffee break (Harriman Hall lobby)

10:15-10:45

Tommaso Calarco

NIST

Quantum Computation with Neutral Atoms and (artificial) Ions [PDF] [MP3] [M3U]

10:45-11:15

Ivan Deutsch

University of New Mexico

Quantum Information Processing with Trapped Ultracold Atoms [PDF] [MP3] [M3U]

11:15-11:45

Luis Orozco

SUNY, Stony Brook

Quantum Feedback in Cavity QED [PDF] [MP3] [M3U]

11:45-12:15

Mark Hillery

Hunter College

Programmable Quantum Circuits [PDF] [MP3] [M3U]

12:30-14:00

lunch (SAC Ballroom B)

14:00-14:30

Conference photograph outside of SAC on ESS steps if weather is good, in SAC if weather is inclement

Session 4: Chairperson: Konstantin Likharev

14:30-15:10

Tommaso Toffoli

Boston University

Reciprocal Gates: How to Enforce an Action-Reaction Principle for Information [PDF] [MP3] [M3U]

15:10-15:50

Lev Levitin

Boston University

Information and Irreversibility of Quantum Measurement [PDF] [MP3] [M3U]

15:50-16:30

Michael Frank

University of Florida

Reversible Computing: Quantum Computing's Practical Cousin [PDF] [MP3] [M3U]

16:30-16:50

coffee break (Harriman Hall lobby)

16:50-17:30

Vasili Semenov

SUNY, Stony Brook

Reversible Josephson-Junction Circuits with SQUID based Gates [PDF] [MP3] [M3U]

17:30-18:10

Horace Yuen

Northwestern University

Unconditionally Secure Quantum Bit Commitment [PDF] [MP3] [M3U]

18:10-18:50

Andrew Childs

MIT

Spatial Search by Quantum Walk [PDF] [MP3] [M3U]

19:30-22:00

dinner (SAC Ballroom B)

21:00

first bus run from SAC to Holiday Inn Express

21:30

second bus run from SAC to Holiday Inn Express

22:00

third bus run from SAC to Holiday Inn Express

Friday, May 30, 2003

08:00

first bus from Holiday Inn Express to SAC

08:30

second bus from Holiday Inn Express to SAC

Session 5: Chairperson: Rosario Fazio

09:00-09:35

Andreas Winter

University of Bristol

Distilation of Secret Key and Entanglement from Quantum States [PDF] [MP3] [M3U]

09:35-10:10

Michel Devoret

Yale University

A Q_phase=25000 Superconducting Charge Qubit [PDF] [MP3] [M3U]

10:10-10:45

Siyuan Han

University of Kansas

Demonstration of Rabi Oscillations in a Josephson Tunnel Junction [PDF] [MP3] [M3U]

10:45-11:15

coffee break (Harriman Hall lobby)

11:15-11:50

Dmitri Averin

SUNY, Stony Brook

Controlled Coupling of Charge Qubits [PDF] [MP3] [M3U]

11:50-12:10

Philip Johnson

University of Maryland

Capacitively Coupled Josephson Junction Qubits [PDF] [MP3] [M3U]

12:10-12:30

Fred Strauch

University of Maryland

Quantum Logic Gates for Capacitively Coupled Josephson Junctions [PDF] [MP3] [M3U]

12:30-14:00

lunch (SAC Auditorium)

Session 6: Chairperson: Dmitri Averin

14:00-14:35

Daniel Loss

University of Basel

Spin Based Quantum Information Processing [PDF] [MP3] [M3U]

14:35-15:10

Sankar Das Sarma

University of Maryland

Spin Computation in Nanostructures [PDF] [MP3] [M3U]

15:10-15:45

Vladimir Goldman

SUNY, Stony Brook

Coherent Control of Fractional Charges in Quantum Antidot Devices [PDF] [MP3] [M3U]

15:45-16:15

coffee break (Harriman Hall lobby)

Session 7: Chairperson: Alexandre Abanov

16:15-16:50

Rosario Fazio

Scuola Normale Superiore

Entanglement in Spin Chains [PDF] [MP3] [M3U]

16:50-17:25

Guifre Vidal

Caltech

Entanglement in Quantum Critical Phenomena [PDF] [MP3] [M3U]

17:25-18:00

Vladimir Korepin

SUNY, Stony Brook

Entanglement and Toeplitz Determiants [PDF] [MP3] [M3U]

18:00-18:20

Tzu-Chieh Wei

University of Illinois

Geometric Measure of Entanglement [PDF] [MP3] [M3U]

18:45-22:00

banquet at SAC Auditorium

21:30

first bus run from SAC to Holiday Inn Express

22:00

second bus run from SAC to Holiday Inn Express

22:30

last bus run from SAC to Holiday Inn Express

Saturday, May 31, 2003

08:00

first bus from Holiday Inn Express to SAC

08:30

second bus from Holiday Inn Express to SAC

Session 8: Chairperson: Ignacio Cirac

09:00-09:40

Viacheslav Belavkin

University of Nottingham

On the Ideal Quantum Random Number Generator [PDF] [MP3] [M3U]

09:40-10:20

Nilanjana Datta

Cambridge

Data Compression for a Class of Quantum Information Sources [PDF] [MP3] [M3U]

10:20-10:50

coffee break (Harriman Hall lobby)

10:50-11:30

Michael McGuigan

BNL

Quantum Cellular Automata from Lattice Field Theories [PDF] [MP3] [M3U]

11:30-12:10

Maxim Raginsky

Northwestern University

Statistical Mechanics of Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation [PDF] [MP3] [M3U]

12:10-12:50

Jon Tyson

Harvard

Operator-Schmidt Decompositions and the Fourier Transform, Applications to Schmidt-numbers of Unitaries [PDF] [MP3] [M3U]

12:50-13:30

Alexei Trifonov

MagiQ Technologies

Practical Aspects of the QKD Security [PDF] [MP3] [M3U]

13:30-14:00

boxed lunch (Harriman Hall lobby)

14:00

first bus run from SAC to Holiday Inn Express

14:30

second bus run from SAC to Holiday Inn Express