The Quantum Lunch is regularly held on Thursdays in the Theoretical Division Conference Room, TA-3, Building 123, Room 121. For more information, contact Diego Dalvit.
Date |
Speaker/ Affiliation |
Topic (link to abstract) |
Dec. 20
12:30 PM |
Rolando Somma
Perimeter Institute
|
Quantum Simulated Annealing |
Dec. 13
12:30 PM |
Gorjan Alagic
University of Connecticut
|
Quantum Algorithms for Product Groups |
Dec. 6
12:30 PM |
Lukasz Zawitkowski
Centre for Theoretical Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences,
Princeton University
|
On Magnetic Properties of Ultra-Cold Atomic Spinor Gases in Optical Lattice |
Nov. 29
12:30 PM |
John Yard
T-CNLS
|
Applications of Schur Duality to Quantum Information and Computation |
Nov. 15
12:30 PM |
Lincoln D. Carr
Colorado School of Mines
|
Cat States in Bose-Einstein Condensates |
Nov. 8
12:30 PM |
Fang Fang
Penn State University
|
Progress Toward a Measurement of the Electric Dipole Moment of the Electron using Ultra-cold Atoms |
Nov. 1
12:30 PM |
Haitao Quan
T-DO, LANL
|
Quantum Thermodynamic Cycles and Quantum Heat Engines |
Oct 25
11:30 PM |
Jason Fleischer
Princeton University
|
Towards Optical Hydrodynamics |
Oct 4
12:30 PM |
Raul O. Vallejos
Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Fisicas
|
WKB Propagation of Gaussian Wavepackets |
Sept 13
12:30 PM |
K.B. Efetov
Theoretische Physik III, Ruhr-Universitt Bochum and L.D. Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics
|
Long-Range Proximity Effects In Superconductor/Ferromagnet Heterostructures |
Sept 6
12:30 PM |
Austen Lamacraft
University of Virginia
|
Long Wavelength Spin Dynamics of Ferromagnetic Condensates |
Aug 30
12:30 PM |
Ashton Bradley
University of Queensland
|
Raman Schemes for Measurement and "Teleportation" of Massive Particles |
Aug 23
12:30 PM |
Matthew B. Squires
JILA/University of Colorado at Boulder
|
Design and Implementation of a Compact System for Rapid BEC Production |
Aug 21
Tuesday 1:00 PM |
Anatoli Sergeevich Polkovnikov
Boston University
T-CNLS Conference Room, TA-3-1690 |
Breakdown of the Adiabatic Limit in Low Dimensional Gapless Systems |
Aug 16
12:30 PM |
Andrew John Landahl
University of New Mexico |
One-Dimensional, Time-Independent, Nearest-Neighbor Hamiltonians are Universal for Quantum Computation |
Aug 9
12:30 PM |
Brian Anderson
University of Arizona |
Spontaneous Formation of Vortices in Bose-Einstein Condensates |
Aug 8
Wednesday
2 PM |
Luca Pezze
Universita Degli Studi di Trento, Italy |
Phase Estimation at the Heisenberg Limit with Mach-Zehnder Interferometry |
Aug 2
12:30 PM |
Seth Lloyd
Massachusettes Institute of Technology |
Quantum Illumination |
July 19
12:30 PM |
Andrew J. Kerman
Optimal Communications Technology Group, MIT Lincoln Laboratory |
Superconducting NbN-Nanowire Single Photon Detectors |
July 2
Monday
12:30 PM |
E. A. Hinds
Imperial College London |
Cold Atoms on Atom Chips |
June 14
12:30 PM |
Carlo Ottaviani
University of Barcelona |
Quantum Phase Gate Operation Based on Nonlinear Optics: Semiclassical and Quantum Analysis |
June 7
12:30 PM |
Matthew B. Hastings
LANL - T-13 |
Locality, Correlations, and Entanglement in Quantum Ground States |
May 17
12:30 PM |
Rosario Fazio
International School for Advanced Studies, Italy |
Decoherence and Entanglement in Interacting Spin Baths |
May 14
Monday
4:00 PM |
Daniel Lathrop
University of Maryland |
Visualizing the Formation and Dynamics of Quantum Defects in 4He Using Hydrogen Ice |
May 10
12:30 PM |
Dan M. Stamper-Kurn
University of California |
Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensates: A Dipolar Magnetic Superfluid |
Apr 26
12:30 PM |
George Willard Ford
University of Michigan |
Quantum Distribution Functions |
Apr 24
Tuesday
1:00 PM |
Lorenza Viola
Dartmouth College |
(Some) Principles and Applications of Quantum Information Control:
Toward a Subsystem-Theoretic Approach |
Apr 19
12:30 PM |
Marco Merkli
Memorial University of Newfoundland |
Resonance Theory of Decoherence and Thermalization |
Apr 12
2:00 PM
|
Changehyun Ryu
NIST |
Observation of Persistent Flow of a Bose-Einstein Condensate in a Toroidal Trap |
Apr 12
12:30 PM |
Roman Barankov
University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign |
Synchronization Versus Dephasing in the Pairing Dynamics of Cold Fermions |
Apr 5
12:30 PM |
Miles P. Blencowe
Dartmouth College |
Quantum Analysis of a DC SQUID Mechanical Displacement Detector |
Mar 29
12:30 PM |
Fernando Cucchietti
LANL - T-4 |
Turning Back Time in an Optical Lattice |
Mar 21
Wednesday
12:30 PM |
Paul G. Kwiat
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Advanced Quantum Communication Protocols |
Mar 15
12:30 PM |
C.E. Simien
Rice University |
Early Dynamics of an Ultrasound Neutral Plasma |
Feb 27
Tuesday
1:00 PM |
G.V. Shlyapnikov
LPTMS, Orsay, France |
Molecular Regimes in Ultracold Fermi Gases |
Feb 22
12:30 PM |
Robert B. Griffiths
Carnegie-Mellon University |
Decoherence and Information |
Feb 20
Monday
12:30 PM |
Jon Yard
CalTech |
Redistributing Quantum States |
Feb 8
12:30 PM |
Rolando Somma
LANL, P-21 |
Quantum Metrology: Optimal Quantum Measurements |
Jan 25
12:30 PM |
Sergio Boixo
CCS-3, LANL |
Distinguished Quantum States |
Jan 18
12:30 PM |
Michael Philip Zwolak
CalTech |
Dissipative Dynamics of Strongly Correlated Quantum Systems |