Future students

Feihu Xu, University of Toronto

In theory, quantum key distribution (QKD) provides information-theoretic security based on the laws of physics. Owing to the imperfections of real-life implementations, however, there is a big gap between the theory and practice of QKD. This gap has been recently exploited by several quantum hacking activities.

Gregor Weihs, Institut für Experimentalphysik, Universität Innsbruck

For fundamental tests of quantum physics as well as for quantum communications non-classical states of light are an important tool. In our research we focus on developing semiconductor-based and integrated sources of single photons and entangled photon pairs.

Jérémie Roland - Université Libre de Bruxelles

Genda Gu, Brookhaven National Laboratory

Quantum algorithms exponentially faster than their classical equivalents exist for code breaking, quantum chemistry, knot theory, group theory, and are speculated to exist for diverse applications including machine learning and artificial intelligence. I review these applications and the current state of knowledge on how to build a practical quantum computer.

Alexander Szameit, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena

I report about our recent achievements on integrated photonic quantum circuits. For the fabrication we use direct laser-inscription, which allows complex three-dimensional waveguide architectures on chip for using multiple degrees of freedom, in particular diffraction control and birefringence.

Darrick Chang, The Institute of Photonic Sciences

Significant efforts have been made to interface cold atoms with micro- and nano-photonic systems in recent years. Originally, it was envisioned
that the migration to these systems from free-space atomic ensemble or

Sergey Bravyi, IBM Research

Stoquastic Hamiltonians are characterized by the property that their off-diagonal matrix elements in the standard product basis are real and non-positive. Many interesting quantum models fall into this class including the Transverse field Ising Model (TIM), the Heisenberg model on bipartite graphs, and the bosonic Hubbard model.

Karol Zyczkowski, Jagellonian University

A pure quantum state of N subsystems with d levels each is called
k-uniform, if all its reductions to k qudits are maximally mixed.
These states form a natural generalization of N-qudits GHZ states
which belong to the class 1-uniform states.