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
Wednesday
12:00 PM |
Alexander Shnirman
University of Karlsruhe |
Geometrical Spin Dephasing in Quantum Dots |
Dec 14
12:30 PM |
Liano Wu
University of Toronto |
Quantum Phase Transitions, Entanglment and Density Functional Theory |
Dec 7
12:30 PM |
Philippe Jacquod
Associate Professor of Physics, University of Arizona |
A Semiclassical Theory of Decoherence |
Nov 30
12:30 PM |
James Hartle
University of California |
Negative Probabilities in Quantum Mechanics |
Nov 16
12:30 PM |
Peter W. Milonni
T-Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory |
Quantum Imaging |
Nov 9
12:30 PM |
Paul Berman
University of Michigan |
Collective Excitations and Spin Squeezing in Simple Quantum Systems |
Nov 2
12:30 PM |
Nan Yu
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
California Institute of Technology |
Atom Interferometry in Space for Fundamental Science and Practical Applications |
Oct 26
12:30 PM |
Vladan Vuletic
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Single and Twin Photons from Many Entangled Atoms |
Oct 19
12:30 PM |
Mark W. Keller
Quantum Electrical Metrology Division, NIST/Boulder |
Examination of the Charge Quantum in a Single-Electron Pump |
Oct 16
Monday
10:30 AM |
David Poulin
CalTech |
Iterative Decoding of Quantum Error Correcting Codes |
Oct 5
12:30 PM |
Scott Crane
US Naval Observatory (USNO) |
Towards a Continously Operating Atomic Fountain Clock |
Sept 28
12:30 PM |
Danna Rosenberg
P-21, Los Alamos National Laboratory |
Quantum Key Distribution with Decoy Levels |
Sept 14
12:30 PM |
David Hall
Amherst College |
Binary Bose-Einstein Condensates |
Sept 7
12:30 PM |
Jennifer Strabley
NIST |
A Double Well Optical Lattice for Dynamically Manipulating Pairs of Cold Atoms |
Aug 31
12:30 PM |
Howard Barnum
CCS-3, Los Alamos National Laboratory |
Part 2 of 2 - A Mini-Course on the Aharonov-Jones-Landau Algorithm for Approximating the Jones Polynomial |
Aug 24
12:30 PM |
Howard Barnum
CCS-3, Los Alamos National Laboratory |
Part 1 of 2 -A Mini-Course on the Aharonov-Jones-Landau Algorithm for Approximating the Jones Polynomial |
Aug 17
12:30 PM |
Michael Revzen
Technion- Isreal Institute of Technology |
Factorization and Physical Representations |
Aug 3
12:30 PM |
Vadium Smelyanskiy
NASA Ames Research Center |
Quantum Annealing for optimization problems on random graphs |
July 27
12:30 PM |
Daniel Lidar
University of Southern California |
Adiabaticity in open quantum systems: theory and applications to adiabatic quantum computation and geometric phases |
July 20
12:30 PM |
Seth Lloyd
MIT |
Quantum Gravity from Quantum Computation: Applications |
July 19
Wednesday
12:30 PM |
Daniel James
University of Toronto |
Whither Quantum Computing |
July 13
12:30 PM |
Dr. Andrew Childs
California Institute of Technology |
From Optimal State Estimation to Efficient Quantum Algorithms |
July 11
12:30 PM |
Alex Kuzmich
Georgia Institute of Technology |
Quantum Networking with Atoms and Photons |
June 29
12:30 PM |
Dr. Signe Seidelin
University of Southern California |
From an Ox Cart to a Covered Wagon: Efforts Toward Controlling More Trapped-ion Quantum Bits* |
June 8
12:30 PM |
Kevin Henderson
University of Texas at Austin |
Experiments with a Bose-Einstein Condensate in a Quasi-1D Waveguide |
June 1
12:30 PM |
Luming Duan
University of Michigan |
Probabilistic Quantum Computation and Quantum Simulation of Many-Body Physics with Ultracold Atoms |
May 25
12:30 PM |
Steven Girvin
Yale University |
Strong Coupling Cavty QED and Sperconducting Qubits |
May 23
12:30 PM
Tuesday |
Sergey Bravyi
IBM Watson Research Center |
Computational Complexity of Spin Hamiltonian Problems |
May 18
12:30 PM |
Eduardo Mucciolo
University of Central Florida |
Berry Phase Oscillations of the Kondo Effect in Single-molecule Magnets |
May 11
1:00 PM |
Matthew Hastings
Los Alamos National Laboratory (T-13) |
Lieb-Schultz-Mattis in Higher Dimensions |
May 9
1:00 PM
Tuesday |
Matt Leifer
Perimeter Institute |
A Causal Network Formalism for Quantum Information |
May 4
12:30 PM |
Benjamin Lev
JILA |
Cavity QED with Atom Chips and Micro-Resonators |
May 3
3:30 PM
Wednesday |
Joseph M. Traub
Columbia University
Noyce Conference Room
Santa Fe Institute
1399 Hyde Park Road, Santa FE |
Qubit Complexity of Continuous Problems |
May 2
2:00 PM
Tuesday |
Peter Schwindt
National Institute of Standards and Technology |
Chip-Scale Automic Magnetometers |
April 27
12:30 PM |
Mark Raizen
University of Texas at Austin |
Experiments with a "Particle in a Box": Bose Einstein Condensates and Maxwell's Demon |
April 20
12:30 PM |
Carlton Caves
University of New Mexico |
GHZ Correlations are Just a Bit Nonlocal |
April 18
12:30 PM
Tuesday |
Chris Langer
National Institute of Standards and Technology |
High fidelity quantum information processing with ions |
April 13
12:30 PM |
Francesco Intravaia
Postdam University |
Casimir Effect And Interaction Between Surface Plasmons |
April 11
1:00 PM
Tuesday |
Matt Leifer
Perimeter Institute |
A Causal Network Formalism for Quantum Information |
April 6
12:30 PM |
Raymond Laflamme
University of Waterloo |
Quantum Information A Promise for Revolution In Information Processing |
March 30
12:30 PM |
Randy Hulet
Rice University |
Paring and Phase Separation in a Polarized Fermi Gas |
March 23
1:00 PM |
Thad Walker
University of Wisconsin at Madison |
Quantum Manipulations Using Rydberg Atoms |
March 9
12:30 PM |
Nikolay Prokofiev
University of Massachusetts |
How can superfluidity occur in a crystalline solid: He-4 superglass |
March 2
12:30 PM |
Ken R. Brown
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Quantum Simulations of Physical Systems |
Feb 23
12:30 PM |
Dirk Bouwmeester
Department of Physics, Center for Spintronics and
Quantum Computation, University of California |
Entangled photons, solid-state cavity QED, and
the quest for macroscopic quantum superpositions |
Feb 22
1:00 PM |
Pasquale Sodano
Dipartimento di Fisica e Sezione I.N.F.N., Universita di Perugia, Italy |
Quantum Macroscopic Coherence and(/or) Topological Order in Josephson Junction Networks. |
Feb 9
12:30 PM |
Michael G. Moore
Ohio University |
Deterministic, Long-Distance Teleportation of Atomic Qubits Via Optical Interferometry |
Feb 2
12:30 PM |
Krzysztof Sacha
Jagellonian University, Poland |
N-particle Bogoliubov vacuum state |
Jan 13
1:00 PM |
Francesco DeMartini
Dipartimento de Fisica, Universita "La Sapienza" Italy |
Realization of a Decoherence-free Mesoscopic Quantum Superposition |
Jan 12
12:30 PM |
Maria Luisa Chiofalo
Scuola Normale Superiore |
Equilibrium and nonequilibrium phenomena in the BCS-BEC crossover of atomic Fermi gases. |
