Current students

Swati Singh, Harvard

The study of the interaction between quantum systems and their environment is central to the understanding of a broad range of problems. Important examples include the elusive quantum to classical transition, as illustrated most famously by the Schrödinger cat paradox, and non-equilibrium dynamics, as illustrated by the central spin problem. On the applied side, this understanding is an essential step towards quantum metrology, including the development of quantum noise limited detectors.

This event has been postponed and will be rescheduled for a later date.

Marzio Pozzuoli, Ryerson University

The RuggedCom Story – “A Tale of Canadian Technology Entrepreneurship & Crossing the Chasm”

In 2001 RuggedCom was a fledging startup. A decade later it was bought by Siemens for nearly half a billion dollars. Mr. Pozzuoli, its founder, will discuss its path to success and the role played in that success by the Canadian experience and the strategies outlined in Geoffrey Moore’s iconic book “Crossing the Chasm”.

Masahiro Hotta, Tohoku University

Quantum Energy Teleportation (QET) is a protocol that allows one to teleport energy making use of pre-existing entanglement of the ground state of quantum many-body systems or quantum fields. I will review the latest results on QET and I will explain its implications on information thermodynamics, such as quantum Maxwell demons and Black Hole thermodynamics. I will also comment on current experimental prospects for QET via the quantum Hall effect.

The workshop aims at bringing together researchers from quantum computing and classical programming languages.

Masayuki Okano, Kyoto University

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) has been a key technology in medicine and biology [1]; however, the axial resolution has been limited to the order of 10 μm due to the dispersion. As an alternative technique, quantum optical coherence tomography (QOCT) has been demonstrated in 19-μm resolution and shows dispersion-tolerance by virtue of the quantum correlation of entangled photon pairs [2].

Jeff Thompson, Harvard

Strong interactions between light and atoms at the single-quantum level are an important ingredient for quantum technologies, and for studies of complex many-particle quantum systems. In this talk, I will describe the development of a novel experimental platform that allows for trapping a single rubidium atom in the evanescent mode of a nano-fabricated optical cavity with sub-wavelength dimensions.

Aharon Brodutch, Institute for Quantum Computing

Our fundamental understanding of the physical universe is governed by
two theories, quantum mechanics and general relativity. While there is
no unified theory of quantum gravity, the two fundamental theories
`peacefully coexist' in all experimentally feasible scenarios.
Nevertheless there are very few situations where both quantum and
general relativistic effects can be probed simultaneously. Experiments
involving photons are the most promising candidates for near-future

Vern Paulsen, University of Houston

A game where Alice and Bob are separated, forbidden
to comunicate, receive inputs from the same input set I, and produce
outputs from the same output set O is called synchronous provided that
any time Alice and Bob receive the same input, they are required to

Seamus Davis, Cornell University

Although focus upon this material has diminished, superfluid Helium-3 (3He) remains by far the best-understood unconventional superconductor (superfluid). Moreover, it has recently re-emerged as a system of great theoretical interest because it is the only known odd-parity ‘topological' superfluid. In this reincarnation, it is a candidate for study of the zero-energy Bogoliubov states at superfluid boundaries since they can be viewed as ‘Majorana’ fermions.

Robert Fickler, University of Vienna

The transverse spatial degree of freedom of light offers great potential to explore quantum informational tasks and interesting features of single photons and quantum entanglement. We developed novel methods to generate, investigate, and verify the entanglement of complex spatial structures. With these methods, we were able to entangle photons with up to 300 quanta of orbital angular momentum (OAM) and to image the effect of entanglement of twisted photons in real-time.