Alumni

PhD Thesis Presentation

Candidate: Thomas McConkey

Supervisors, Matteo Mariantoni, Amir H. Majedi. On display in the Engineering graduate studies office, DWE 3520C. Oral defence Friday, June 1, 10:00 a.m., EIT 3142.

The Quantum Innovators in science and engineering workshop brings together the most promising young researchers in quantum physics and engineering. Guests are invited for a four-day conference aimed at exploring the frontier of our field.

Alexander Grimm, Yale University

In recent years, circuit quantum electrodynamics (QED) has seen considerable efforts towards protecting quantum information from unwanted sources of decoherence through quantum error correction. Independent of the implementation, this is based on encoding a logical qubit into a stable manifold within a larger Hilbert space, whose symmetries restrict the number of independent errors and make them detectable and correctable.

The number theory of quantum information

Jon Yard, IQC

Abstract: Quantum-mechanical amplitudes and unitaries are typically expressed over the complex numbers. Because there is a continuum of complex numbers, classical computations of quantum systems generally utilize finite-precision approximations by rational numbers.

Dagmar Bruss, University of Duesseldorf

The resource theory of quantum coherence studies the off-diagonal elements of a density matrix in a distinguished basis, whereas the resource theory of purity studies all deviations from the maximally mixed state. We establish a direct connection between the two resource theories, by identifying purity as the maximal coherence, which is achievable by unitary operations. The states that saturate this maximum identify a universal family of maximally coherent mixed states.

The Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) is hosting a half-day symposium to discuss recent advances in Quantum Machine Learning, its near-term industry applications, and opportunities for commercialization with private financing as a technology startup.

Crystal Senko: Ion traps and multi-level quantum systems

I give an overview of trapped ion quantum information experiments and discuss prospects for implementing multi-valued quantum logic using trapped ions.

Jan Haase, Universität Ulm

Whenever one is tempted to employ a quantum system for any kind of applications, the focus usually lies on two properties setting it apart from a system described by a classical theory, namely the coherent superposition of different quantum states and entanglement between two ore more constituents forming the system.

M.Sc. Thesis Presentation

Candidate: Hyeran Kong