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Fwd: Canadian Summer School on Quantum information & Student Conference
by Frédéric Dupuis 27 Jan '11

27 Jan '11

---------- Message transféré ---------- De : *David Poulin* <David.Poulin(a)usherbrooke.ca <mailto:David.Poulin@usherbrooke.ca>> Date : 27 janvier 2011 10:30 Objet : Canadian Summer School on Quantum information & Student Conference À : Dear colleague, (with apologies if you receive this message multiple times) Registration for the 11th Canadian Summer School on Quantum Information and the 8th Canadian Student Conference on Quantum Information is now open. Please advertise these events to any colleagues, students and postdocs who might be interested. Best wishes, David * * *Registration now open:* *11th Canadian Summer School on Quantum Information (June 6th-15th)* *8th Canadian Student Conference on Quantum Information (June 16th-17th)* *Jouvence, Québec, Canada* The 11th edition of the Canadian Summer School on Quantum Information and the 8th Canadian Student Conference on Quantum Information will be held from June 6th to 17th 2011 at the Centre de Villegiature de Jouvence, located in a Quebec National Park. Once again this year, many of the world's leading experts on quantum information will present series of lectures targeted at prospective and current graduate students, as well as postdocs, in the areas of physics, mathematics, computer science and engineering. The Student Conference is a unique occasion for students to present their work and exchange with their fellow students. More information about these events can be found at the web page http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/QI11/index_e.php Registration is now open. Early registration ends March 11th, 2011. *Places are limited, first come first served. Hurry up!* Deadline to submit a contribution to the Student Conference: April 20th Looking forward to see you in Jouvence. Organizers: David Poulin (Main organizer) Alexandre Blais Michel Pioro-Ladrière Bertrand Reulet

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Talk: William Matthews
by Matthias Christandl 26 Jan '11

26 Jan '11

Dear all, Will Matthews will be visiting us next week (2.-4th Feb) and will give a talk on Wednesday. Time and Location: Wednesday, 2 February 2011, noon, HIT K 51 Speaker: William Matthews (IQC Waterloo) Title: Entanglement can increase asymptotic rates of zero-error classical communication over classical channels Abstract: It is known that the number of different classical messages which can be communicated with a single use of a classical channel with zero probability of decoding error can sometimes be increased by using entanglement shared between sender and receiver. It has been an open question to determine whether entanglement can ever increase the zero-error communication rates achievable in the limit of many channel uses. In this paper we show, by explicit examples, that entanglement can indeed increase asymptotic zero-error capacity, even to the extent that it is equal to the normal capacity of the channel. Interestingly, our examples are based on the exceptional simple root systems E7 and E8. See http://arxiv.org/abs/1009.1195 See you, Matthias. Save the date: QCRYPT 2011 - First Annual Conference on Quantum Cryptography September 12-16, 2011 ETH Zurich www.qcrypt.net Matthias Christandl Institute for Theoretical Physics ETH Zurich http://www.itp.phys.ethz.ch/people/christandl/index

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Talk by Jochen Rau
by Stefan Wolf 19 Jan '11

19 Jan '11

Good afternoon, There will be a seminar talk by our visitor Jochen Rau in February: Tuesday, Feb. 8, 17:00 in HIT K 52 on Hoenggerberg. Best regards, Stefan _______________________________________________________________ TITLE Bayesian methods in quantum-state tomography ABSTRACT Conventional tomography protocols reach their limits when sample sizes become very small, or when there is no consensus about the parametric form of the state to be inferred. Protocols must then be modified to account explicitly for a prior bias, and be supplemented by methods that allow one to infer the most plausible parametric form from the data. The necessary tools are furnished by Bayesian statistics: Bayesian interpolation, the evidence procedure, and Bayesian model selection. _______________________________________________________________

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QSIT Seminar by Emre Togan, 17. Jan 2011
by Ilona Blatter 14 Jan '11

14 Jan '11

Dear all Please be informed about the following QSIT Seminar. With best regards, Ilona Blatter -------------------------------------------- Monday January 17, 2011 Time: 14:00 Place: HPF G 6 Host: Atac Imamoglu Quantum entanglement between an optical photon and a solid-state spin qubit Emre Togan Harvard University, USA Quantum entanglement is among the most fascinating aspects of quantum theory. In this work, I will report on the realization of quantum entanglement between a solid-state spin qubit and the polarization of a single optical photon. The experimental entanglement verification demonstrates a high degree of control over the interactions between the quantum light field and the electronic spin of the nitrogen vacancy center in diamond. The entanglement source provides a key building block for the solid-state realization of quantum optical networks and may be used in studies of fundamental physical phenomena. --------------------------------------------------- ETH Zurich Dr. Ilona Blatter QSIT Coordinator Laboratory for Solid State Physics HPF E 13 Schafmattstrasse 16 8093 Zurich ilona.blatter(a)phys.ethz.ch www.qsit.ethz.ch www.nccr-qsit.ethz.ch Phone: +41 44 633 36 06 Home: +41 44 844 42 50

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** CHANGE OF DATE ** Talk by Corsin Pfister
by Stefan Wolf 04 Jan '11

04 Jan '11

Hi, The talk as announced before will take place one week later, on ** Jan. 25 **. Everything else remains unchanged. Please apologize for the spamming. Cheers, Stefan -------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: Talk by Corsin Pfister Datum: Tue, 4 Jan 2011 14:36:59 +0100 Von: Stefan Wolf <wolf(a)inf.ethz.ch> An: <itp-quantumseminare(a)phys.ethz.ch>, Corsin Pfister <pfisterc(a)student.ethz.ch> Good afternoon, First of all, happy new year to all of you, I wish you joy and luck and success! This year's first seminar talk will be given by Corsin Pfister: Tuesday, Jan. 18, 17:00 in HIT J 52 (or maybe one of the K rooms, if available) on Hoenggerberg. Best regards, Stefan _______________________________________________________________ Title: Tsirelson's bound in time Abstract: The mathematical descriptions of joint probability distributions of measure- ment outcomes occurring in quantum mechanics are very diﬀerent. Two local measurements on diﬀerent subsystems are described by observables of tensor product form on a common tensor Hilbert space (two-systems correlations). Two measurements on the same system with an intermediate dynamical evolu- tion are described by a state update rule, trace-preserving completely positive maps and observables without a tensor product form (two-times correlations). Two-systems correlations are restricted by Tsirelson’s bound. One might ask if Tsirelson’s bound can also be used to ﬁnd restrictions on two-times correlations. This thesis partially answers this question. Tsirelson’s bound is combined with an extended version of the Choi-Jamiolkowski Isomorphism, the Leifer Isomorphism, which shows an equivalence between two-systems and two-times correlations. It is shown that Tsirelson’s bound, together with the Leifer Iso- morphism, implies a tight bound on the average success probability of a special type of (2, 1,p)-Random Access Codings (RACs). RACs can be realised using two-systems correlations as well as two-times correlations, which allows a com- parison of the two cases. An attempt to interpret the analogue of the locality condition in the case of two-times correlations is made. It is found that two- times correlations used to realise this special type of (2, 1,p)-RAC cannot be used to communicate, as is the case for two-systems correlations. _______________________________________________________________

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Talk by Corsin Pfister
by Stefan Wolf 04 Jan '11

04 Jan '11

Good afternoon, First of all, happy new year to all of you, I wish you joy and luck and success! This year's first seminar talk will be given by Corsin Pfister: Tuesday, Jan. 18, 17:00 in HIT J 52 (or maybe one of the K rooms, if available) on Hoenggerberg. Best regards, Stefan _______________________________________________________________ Title: Tsirelson's bound in time Abstract: The mathematical descriptions of joint probability distributions of measure- ment outcomes occurring in quantum mechanics are very diﬀerent. Two local measurements on diﬀerent subsystems are described by observables of tensor product form on a common tensor Hilbert space (two-systems correlations). Two measurements on the same system with an intermediate dynamical evolu- tion are described by a state update rule, trace-preserving completely positive maps and observables without a tensor product form (two-times correlations). Two-systems correlations are restricted by Tsirelson’s bound. One might ask if Tsirelson’s bound can also be used to ﬁnd restrictions on two-times correlations. This thesis partially answers this question. Tsirelson’s bound is combined with an extended version of the Choi-Jamiolkowski Isomorphism, the Leifer Isomorphism, which shows an equivalence between two-systems and two-times correlations. It is shown that Tsirelson’s bound, together with the Leifer Iso- morphism, implies a tight bound on the average success probability of a special type of (2, 1,p)-Random Access Codings (RACs). RACs can be realised using two-systems correlations as well as two-times correlations, which allows a com- parison of the two cases. An attempt to interpret the analogue of the locality condition in the case of two-times correlations is made. It is found that two- times correlations used to realise this special type of (2, 1,p)-RAC cannot be used to communicate, as is the case for two-systems correlations. _______________________________________________________________

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Talk by Stephanie Wehner
by Stefan Wolf 20 Dec '10

20 Dec '10

Good morning, This year's final seminar talk will be given by Stephanie Wehner from CQT in Singapore: Tuesday, Dec. 21, 16.30, in HIT J 52 on Hoenggerberg. Best regards, Stefan ______________________________________________________________________ The uncertainty principle determines the non-locality of quantum mechanics Two central concepts of quantum mechanics are Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, and a subtle form of non-locality that Einstein famously called "spooky action at a distance". These two fundamental features have thus far been distinct concepts. Here we show that they are inextricably and quantitatively linked. Quantum mechanics cannot be more non-local with measurements that respect the uncertainty principle. In fact, the link between uncertainty and non-locality holds for all physical theories. More specifically, the degree of non-locality of any theory is determined by two factors the strength of the uncertainty principle, and the strength of a property called "steering," which determines which states can be prepared at one location given a measurement at another. Joint work with Jonathan Oppenheim. arXiv:1004.2507 ______________________________________________________________________

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QSIT Seminar: Joseba Alonso, December 17, 2010
by Ilona Blatter 16 Dec '10

16 Dec '10

Dear all Please be informed about the following QSIT Seminar. With best regards, Ilona Blatter ---------------------------------------------------------- Date: Friday December 17, 2010 Place: HPF G 6 Time: 11:00 Host: Jonathan Home g-factor measurements on hydrogen-like ions as a test of bound-state QED Joseba Alonso Johannes Gutenberg Universität, Mainz, Germany The precise determination of the anomalous magnetic moment of the electron bound in hydrogen-like ions allows for a stringent test of quantum electrodynamics (QED) in the presence of strong electric fields. g-factor measurements on the electron bound in hydrogen-like ions C5+ and O7+, using single ions confined in a Penning trap, have yielded values in agreement with theory on the ppb level. If the QED calculations are considered correct, the results can in turn be used for a determination of fundamental constants like the electron mass me, the fine structure constant α or nuclear parameters. We report about present developments towards g-factor measurements also in medium-heavy and heavy highly-charged ions. --------------------------------------------------- ETH Zurich Dr. Ilona Blatter QSIT Coordinator Laboratory for Solid State Physics HPF E 13 Schafmattstrasse 16 8093 Zurich ilona.blatter(a)phys.ethz.ch www.qsit.ethz.ch Phone: +41 44 633 36 06 Home: +41 44 844 42 50

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Seminar by B. Rosenow, Monday 13.12.2010
by Ilona Blatter 10 Dec '10

10 Dec '10

Dear all Please be informed about the following seminar. With best regards, Ilona Blatter ----------------------------- Date: Monday 13.12.2010 Time: 13:45 Place: HIT H 42 Host: Werner Wegscheider Fabry-Perot interference and non-linear Coulomb blockaded transport in the quantum Hall regime Bernd Rosenow Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Leipzig, Germany Much effort has been devoted recently to the search for experimental demonstrations of the exotic quantum statistics of quasiparticles in fractional quantum Hall (QH) systems. Experiments based on the QH analogue of the Fabry-Perot interferometer were predicted to show signatures of non-abelian quasiparticle statistics in the ν = 5/2 QH state. In this talk I will discuss how in interference experiments the Coulomb coupling between fully occupied lower Landau levels and the interfering edge states influences periodicities in magnetic field and gate voltage. Supplementing the information obtained from interference experiments, the current-voltage characteristics in non-linear Coulomb-blockaded transport holds information about the many-particle excitation spectrum of the system. A peak in the differential conductance $dI/dV$ will appear whenever a proper resonance condition between the source- drain voltage and the excitations of the dot is met. The "diamond structure" that characterizes the CB out of the linear response regime could serve to identify the nature of the ν=5/2 state. --------------------------------------------------- ETH Zurich Dr. Ilona Blatter QSIT Coordinator Laboratory for Solid State Physics HPF E 13 Schafmattstrasse 16 8093 Zurich ilona.blatter(a)phys.ethz.ch www.qsit.ethz.ch www.nccr-qsit.ethz.ch Phone: +41 44 633 36 06 Home: +41 44 844 42 50

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Talk by Matthias Christandl
by Wolf Stefan 10 Dec '10

10 Dec '10

Hi, Next week's seminar talk will be by Matthias Christandl: Tuesday, Dec. 14, 16:30 at HIT J 52. Best regards, Stefan _____________________________________________________________ Title: Faithful Squashed Entanglement Abstract: Squashed entanglement is a measure for entanglement. Indeed it turns out to be "faithful", that is strictly positive on entangled states and zero on separable states. Rather than explaining the algorithm for separability that follows from the faithfulness (see Theory Colloquium), I hope to give you an idea about the strange mix of techniques that is used to prove the result. ______________________________________________________________

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