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Monday, December 13, 2021 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Quantum Pathways to Commercialization

Meet with experts who have taken their academic experience and found opportunities to bring quantum to market. As part of this panel, they will discuss their personal pathway into commercialization including challenges and lessons learned.

Monday, December 13, 2021 2:30 pm - 2:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Unique Games hardness of Quantum Max-Cut, and a vector-valued Borell's inequality

John Wright, University of Texas at Austin

The local Hamiltonian problem is one of the most fundamental problems in quantum computing. It is a natural generalization of classical constraint satisfaction problems to the quantum regime, and it is the canonical QMA-complete problem. In addition, it arises naturally in the study of many-body physics. Given an instance of the local Hamiltonian problem, the object is to find its ground state or the energy of this state.

Wednesday, December 15, 2021 12:00 pm - 12:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

IQC Student Seminar featuring Madelaine Liddy

Optimal Theory Control Techniques for Nitrogen Vacancy Ensembles 

Nitrogen Vacancy (NV) Centers in diamond are a very versatile tool. A single Nitrogen Vacancy center is most notably known for sensing magnetic fields, but recently has presented itself as a functional node for a quantum internet, to name just two of its wide ranges of applications. 

Wednesday, February 2, 2022 4:00 pm - 4:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

A platform for cavity quantum electrodynamics with Rydberg atom arrays

Yu-Ting Chen, Harvard University

In cavity quantum electrodynamics (cavity QED) systems, the realization of strong coupling between light and atoms plays a critical role in the study of quantum optics and entanglement. At the same time, Rydberg atom arrays provide a promising platform for exploring quantum many-body physics. However, with the Rydberg-mediated interactions, atoms mainly interact locally. Coupling Rydberg arrays to a cavity opens up new research directions in quantum many-body physics with long-range interactions, creating a fully connected quantum network.

Tuesday, February 8, 2022 12:00 am - Thursday, February 10, 2022 12:00 am EST (GMT -05:00)

Quantum Days 2022

Quantum science and technology is rapidly accelerating globally and is strategically important to Canada. Canada has a strong, growing coast-to-caost quantum community spanning from academia to government laboratories and industry.ude talks by prominent speakers, panel discussion, and networking events enmabling Canadians to showcase excellence in their fields. This three-day event brings Canada's quantum community together to enable awareness and collaboration across the industry.

Speakers from the Institute for Quantum Computing include faculty members:

Thursday, February 10, 2022 4:00 pm - 4:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Quantum optics approach to black hole thermodynamics via conformal quantum mechanics

Abhijit Chakraborty, University of Houston

Conformal symmetry of fields near the event horizon of the black hole plays a significant role in determining the temperature of the black hole radiation. In this talk, we show how the near-horizon (NH) conformal symmetry provides a microscopic theory for the area-entropy relation for any static or stationary black hole. To do that, we map the NH behavior of the field modes to the scale-invariant Hamiltonian of conformal quantum mechanics (CQM).