Gerardo Ortiz, Indiana University Bloomington
Itai Arad, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
A striking aspect of the quantum world is the exponentiallity of its
underlying Hilbert space. To describe a general state of n quantum
particles, exp(O(n)) numbers are needed, whereas only O(n) numbers
are needed in the classical case.
Rajat Mittal, Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC)
A Q+ hangout is a broadcast seminar using the hangout feature of Google+. Title: Seeing is Believing: Direct Observation of the Wavefunction.
A Q+ hangout is a broadcast seminar using the hangout feature of Google+. Participation is limited at the moment. IQC was given one of the available slots. To take part in the hangout, join us in RAC1 3004 on Tuesday March 27th at 9am.
For more information about the Q+ hangouts, please visit http://qplus.burgarth.de/
Jay Erker, University of California, Davis
The time dependent Dirac-Frenkel-Mclachlan-Heller variation of parameters (DFMH method) is used to model two NMR problems that do not have analytical solutions, diffusion in a quadratic field gradient and radiation damping in an inhomogeneous field. Initial results related to the treatment of chemical exchange treated as a distribution and the application of the DFMH method to pulsed RF Gradients will be mentioned.
Sidharth Somanathan, Texas A&M University
Setting up hydrodynamics equations in the relativistic regime, and to then apply numerical algorithms to solve these equations for ideal and viscous fluids.
Hanhee Paik, Yale
Aram Harrow, University of Washington
This talk will begin by justifying the first part of the title, by explaining a method to test whether a given multipartite pure state is product or far from product, given only two copies of the state. Next, I'll explain how this test has implications for the computational hardness of a large number of optimization problems.
David Kaiser, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Leonard Schulman, California Institute of Technology
We describe a new cryptosystem which (conjecturally) provides both a
trap-door one-way function and a signature scheme. The new system is a
type of "multivariate quadratic" cryptosystem, but is based on a
different trap-door from existing methods, and is simpler.