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Difficult Problems in Quantum

Information Theory

Sponsored by the W. M. Keck Foundation Center for Extreme Quantum
Information Theory (xQIT)

November 19-20, 2008 / Massachusetts Institute of Technology

50 Vassar Street, Building 36 / Room 36-428

Schedule

November 19, 2008

7:30 – 8:20AM	Continental breakfast	Star Conference Room - 32-D463
8:20 – 8:30 AM	Seth Lloyd Welcoming remarks	RLE Conference Center – 36-428
8:30 – 8:55 AM	Michael Wolf, Niels Bohr Institute Separating Quantum from Classical	RLE Conference Center – 36-428
8:55 – 9:20 AM	Vittorio Giovannetti, Scuola Normale Superiore Quantum MERA Channels	RLE Conference Center – 36-428
9:20 – 9:45 AM	Saikat Guha, BBN Technologies Ultimate Capacity Limits for Classical Communications on Bosonic Channels	RLE Conference Center – 36-428
9:45 – 10:10 AM	Masahiro Takeoka, NICT Implementation of Quantum Receivers for Communication and Sensing	RLE Conference Center – 36-428
10:10 – 10:50 AM	Coffee break	Star Conference Room - 32-D463
10:50 – 11:15 AM	Osamu Hirota and Masaki Sohma, Tamagawa University Quantum Cut-off Rate Theory for Information Theoretic Analysis of Quantum Stream Cipher by Yuen Protocol	RLE Conference Center – 36-428
11:15 – 11:40 AM	Raúl García-Patrón, MIT Reverse Coherent Information	RLE Conference Center – 36-428
11:40 AM – 12:05 PM	Stefano Pirandola, MIT Direct and Reverse Secret-Key Capacities of a Quantum Channel	RLE Conference Center – 36-428
12:05 – 12:30 PM	Break
12:30 – 1:45 PM	Lunch	Star Conference Room - 32-D463
1:45 – 2:10 PM	Seth Lloyd, MIT A Quantum Algorithm for Solving Linear Sets of Equations	RLE Conference Center – 36-428
2:10 – 2:35 PM	Aram Harrow, University of Bristol Entanglement Spread and Clean Resource Inequalities	RLE Conference Center – 36-428
2:35 – 3:00 PM	Peter W. Shor , MIT On the Capacities of Quantum Channels	RLE Conference Center – 36-428
3:00 – 3:30 PM	Coffee break	Star Conference Room - 32-D463
3:30 – 3:55 PM	Lorenza Viola, Dartmouth College Dynamically Error-Corrected Universal Quantum Gates	RLE Conference Center – 36-428
3:55 – 4:20 PM	Daniel Gottesman, Perimeter Institute What is the Overhead Required for Fault Tolerance?	RLE Conference Center – 36-428
4:20 – 4:45 PM	Barbara Terhal, IBM Watson Research Center No-Go Theorems for Self-Correcting Quantum Memory	RLE Conference Center – 36-428
4:45 – 5:10 PM	Scott Aaronson, MIT When Qubits Go Analog	RLE Conference Center – 36-428
5:10 – 5:35 PM	Break
6:00 – 6:30 PM	Reception	R & D Faculty Dining Room - 32-4
6:30 PM	Dinner	R & D Faculty Dining Room - 32-4

November 20, 2008

7:30 – 8:30 AM	Continental breakfast	Grier Conference Room A- 34-401
8:30 – 8:55 AM	Nicolas Cerf, Université Libre de Bruxelles On Hudson’s Theorem: from Pure to Mixed Quantum States	RLE Conference Center – 36-428
8:55 – 9:20 AM	Lorenzo Maccone, University of Pavia Robust Strategies for Lossy Quantum Interferometry	RLE Conference Center – 36-428
9:20 – 9:45 AM	Mankei Tsang, MIT Quantum Optical Phase Estimation by Phase-Locked Loops	RLE Conference Center – 36-428
9:45 – 10:10 AM	Hideo Mabuchi, Stanford University Model Reduction Techniques for Quantum Nonlinear Optics	RLE Conference Center – 36-428
10:10 – 10:50 AM	Coffee break	Grier Conference Room A- 34-401
10:50 – 11:15 AM	Navin Khaneja, Harvard University Limits on Transmission of Quantum Information in the Presence of Decoherence	RLE Conference Center – 36-428
11:15 – 11:40 AM	Joseph Emerson, University of Waterloo Efficient Methods for the Characterization of Unknown Quantum Processes	RLE Conference Center – 36-428
11:40 AM – 12:05 PM	Jonathan Oppenheim, University of Cambridge Mutual Independence	RLE Conference Center – 36-428
12:05 – 12:30 PM	Olaf Dreyer, MIT Early Universe Cosmology in Internal Relativity	RLE Conference Center – 36-428
12:30 – 1:45 PM	Lunch	Grier Conference Room A- 34-401
1:45 – 2:10 PM	Jens Eisert, University of Potsdam Too Entangled to be Useful?	RLE Conference Center – 36-428
2:10 – 2:35 PM	Avinatan Hassidim, MIT Fault Tolerant Quantum Computation without Introducing Fresh Qubits	RLE Conference Center – 36-428
2:35 – 3:00 PM	Sean Hallgren, Pennsylvania State University Quantum Algorithms for Number Theoretic Problems	RLE Conference Center – 36-428
3:00 – 3:30 PM	Coffee break	Grier Conference Room A- 34-401
3:30 – 3:55 PM	Wim van Dam, University of California-Santa Barbara Using Modern Algebraic Geometry for Old-Fashioned Quantum Algorithms	RLE Conference Center – 36-428
3:55 – 4:20 PM	Yi-Kai Liu, California Institute of Technology Quantum Algorithms Using the Curvelet Transform	RLE Conference Center – 36-428
4:20 – 4:45 PM	Leonid Levitov, MIT Quantum Noise as an Entanglement Meter	RLE Conference Center – 36-428
4:45 – 5:10 PM	Paolo Zanardi, University of Southern California Operator Fidelity Metric for Many-Body Physics	RLE Conference Center – 36-428
5:10-5:35pm	J. Ignacio Cirac, Max-Planck Institute for Quantum Optics Efficient Descriptions of Many-Body Quantum Systems	RLE Conference Center – 36-428
5:35 – 5:45 PM	Jeffrey H. Shapiro, MIT Closing remarks	RLE Conference Center – 36-428