Evan Meyer-Scott of the Department of Physics and Astronomy will be defending his thesis:
Heralding photonic qubits for quantum communication
Evan is supervised by Professor Thomas Jennewein.
Yuval Sanders of the Department of Physics and Astronomy will be defending his thesis:
Characterizing Errors in Quantum Information Processors
Yuval is supervised by Professors Raymond Laflamme and Frank Wilhelm-Mauch.
The Relativistic Quantum Information North (RQI-N) Conference, hosted by the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC), will bring together an interdisciplinary community of researchers at the interface of quantum information science and relativity.
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).
The question of how large Bell inequality violations can be, for quantum distributions, has been the object of much work in the past several years. We say a Bell inequality is normalized if its absolute value does not exceed 1 for any classical (i.e. local) distribution.
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.
Kent Fisher of the Department of Physics and Astronomy is defending his thesis:
Photons & Phonons: A room-temperature diamond quantum memory
Kent is supervised by Professor Kevin Resch.
Optimizing Plasmonic Nanoantennas for Emitter Enhancement
Correcting ESR Pulse Sequences for Dynamic Nuclear Polarization
The neutron, one of the most common building blocks of matter, is also a unique probe for studying materials and fundamental interactions. The only electrically-neutral nucleus, the neutron passes through most materials with ease, even at the lowest energies. Nowadays neutrons, even with their ~ 15 minute lifetime, are used to study problems ranging from charging and discharging of common batteries to cosmological dark energy. Here I will focus on the neutron as a quantum particle.
Zachary Webb of the Department of Physics and Astronomy is defending his thesis:
The computational power of many-body systems
Zak is supervised by Assistant Professor Andrew Childs.