Strong University of Waterloo presence at APS March Meeting

Over a dozen IQC researchers share their research findings in Denver, Colorado this week

The University of Waterloo has a strong presence at the American Physical Society (APS) March Meeting this week in Denver, Colorado. Researchers at the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) and the Physics and Astronomy and Applied Mathematics departments are invited speakers and several are co-authors on papers being presented during the annual meeting.

Invited speakers include:

• Associate Professor Joseph Emerson presenting The resource theory of stabilizer computation today
• Professor Norbert Lütkenhaus discussing Memory-assisted measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution on Tuesday
• PhD student Tomas Jochym-O’Connor presenting Using concatenated quantum codes for universal fault-tolerant quantum gates on Wednesday
• IQC Affiliate Daniel Gottesman discussing The overhead of fault-tolerant quantum computing on Wednesday

The following papers are being presented:

• Tunable coupling in atom-mirror system by Associate Professor Chris Wilson and colleagues from Chalmers University of Technology
• Nuclear Spin Polarization of Phosphorus Donors in Silicon. Direct Evidence from 31P-Nuclear Magnetic Resonance by Postdoctoral Fellows Patryk Gumann and Osama Moussa, Masters student Om Patange, Canada Excellence Research Chair David Cory and colleagues from Dartmouth College, Simon Fraser University, Liebniz-Institut fuer Kristallzuechtung, PTB Braunschweig, Keio University and VITCON Projectconsult GmbH
• Decoherence of superconducting flux qubits in copianar waveguide resonators by Assistant Professor Adrian Lupascu, PhD student Jean-Luc Orgiazzi, Undergraduate Research Assistant David Layden, and former IQC researchers Ryan Marchildon, Mustafa Bal, Chunqing Deng, Florian Ong
• Fourier space encoding techniques applied to magnetic resonance imaging using NV centers in diamond by IQC Associate Amir Yacoby and his colleagues from Harvard
• Fibre bundle framework for quantum fault tolerance by IQC Affiliate Daniel Gottesman and his colleague from the University of Toronto
• Efficient characterization of spurious two-level systems in superconducting qubits under non-ideal conditions by PhD student Yuval R. Sanders and colleagues from Saarland University
• Characterization of the temperature dependence of dielectic loss at microwave frequencies in Al₂O₃ and TiO₂ films grown by atomic layer deposition by Lupascu, Orgiazzi, Deng and Masters student Martin Otto
• Proximity effect in a Nb_inAs-Nb nanowire junction by Assistant Professor Jonathan Baugh, PhD students Kaveh Gharavi and Greg Holloway, Postdoctoral Fellow Chris Haapamaki and a colleague from McMaster University

The APS March meeting brings nearly 10,000 physicists together to share groundbreaking research from industry, universities and major labs from around the world. The meeting includes a conference television channel called APS TV featuring news, views and important issues. This year, IQC is one of the featured research institutions.