Current undergraduate students

Irfan Bulu, Harvard

Abstract

Applications to Enhanced Single Photon Sources, and Optically Reconfigurable Nano-photonic Devices

In this lecture I will introduce some of the questions that we may wish to answer in quantum biology. Then I will focus on excitation energy transport in photosynthetic complexes. I will explain the crucial role of the interplay of quantum coherent evolution with environmental noise and provide an explanation of the origin and nature of the long-lived coherences that have been observed in the recent 2-D spectroscopy experiments of the FMO complex.

Lianao Wu, University of the Basque Country UPV / EHU

Abstract

I will introduce a family of quantum devices, which can be described by state-swapping operations. They include quantum state transfer, quantum state amplifier, entanglement creator... We propose a unified method to study them. The method may also lead to innovative designs of quantum devices or setups.

Sevag Gharibian, Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC)

Abstract

Bounds on the distance between a unital quantum channel and the convex hull of unitary channels, with applications to the asymptotic quantum Birkhoff conjecture

Naresh Sharma, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research