Future students

Extended nonlocal games and monogamy-of-entanglement games

Vincent Russo, Institute for Quantum Computing

Two-player one-round games have served to be an instrumental model in theoretical computer science. Likewise, nonlocal games consider this model when the players have access to an entangled quantum state. In this talk, I will consider a broader class of nonlocal games (extended-nonlocal games), where the referee shares an entangled state along with the players.

Quantum Technologies for Cyber Security: from threats to solutions

Bruno Huttner, ID Quantique, Switzerland

Recent developments in quantum computers have spurred renewed interest in quantum-safe solutions for information security [1]. It is now widely accepted that the current public key infrastructures, which are the foundation of cyber security, will not withstand the arrival of the quantum computer [2], [3], and that this arrival will occur with high probability within the next ten to fifteen years. New solutions are called for, and these solutions should at least be partly based on quantum technologies.

Friction under microscope in a trapped-ion optical-lattice emulator

Alexei Bylinskii, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Friction is the ubiquitous mechanical process of sticking and energy dissipation at the interface between objects. Despite its technological and economic significance, friction remains poorly understood, being a non-linear, out-of-equilibrium, many-body process. According to the widely known empirical laws of friction, it is proportional to the load on the interface and independent of velocity.

Multicolor quantum channels for nanowire-based photonic devices 

Wayne Cheng-Wei Huang, University of Nebraska-Lincoln 

Using a two-color laser field and tungsten nanotips, we showed that multicolor quantum channels led to a twofold increase in quantum efficiency. By gating quantum efficiency with pulse delay, optical control of electron photoemission was attained for fields with modest intensity. In this talk, I will discuss the observed effect and potential applications for nanowire-based photonics transistors and ultrafast spin-polarized electron sources. 

Public lecture by Bill Unruh, The University of British Columbia

On February 11, 2016 it was announced that gravitational  waves have been detected affecting an instrument on earth. In addition to the realization of a 100 year old prediction the astounding sensitivity of the detector demanded the approaching and overcoming of seemingly fundamental quantum limits on measuring the motion of 25Kg masses. Quantum mechanics is usually thought of applying only to the very small (zeptogrammes and nanometers).