Perimeter Institute Quantum Discussions
This series consists of weekly discussion sessions on foundations of quantum Theory and quantum information theory. The sessions start with an informal exposition of an interesting topic, research result or important question in the field. Everyone is strongly encouraged to participate with questions and comments.
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Mercredi mar 07, 2018Speaker(s):
I'll ask whether the knowledge of a single eigenstate of a local lattice Hamiltonian is sufficient to uniquely determine the Hamiltonian. I’ll present evidence that the answer is yes for generic local Hamiltonians, given either the ground state or an excited state. In fact, knowing only the correlation functions of local observables with respect to the eigenstate appears generically sufficient to exactly recover both the eigenstate and the Hamiltonian, with efficient numerical algorithms.
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Mercredi fév 28, 2018Speaker(s):
Quantum computers can only offer a computational advantage when they have sufficiently many qubits operating with sufficiently small error rates. In this talk, I will show how both these requirements can be practically characterized by variants of randomized benchmarking protocols. I will first show that a simple modification to protocols based on randomized benchmarking allows multiplicative-precision estimates of error rates. I will then outline a new protocol for estimating the fidelity of arbitrarily large quantum systems using only single-qubit randomizing gates.
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Mercredi fév 07, 2018Speaker(s):
Stabilizer states are a rich class of quantum states which can be efficiently classically represented and manipulated. In this talk I will describe some ways in which they can help us to represent and manipulate more general quantum states. I will discuss classical simulation algorithms for quantum circuits which are based on expressing a quantum state as a superposition of (as few as possible) stabilizer states.
Based on arXiv:1601.07601 (with Sergey Bravyi) and work in progress with Sergey Bravyi, Dan Browne, Padraic Calpin, Earl Campbell and Mark Howard.
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Mercredi jan 24, 2018
Adiabatic quantum computation (AQC) is a method for performing universal quantum computation in the ground state of a slowly evolving local Hamiltonian, and in an ide
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Mercredi jan 24, 2018Speaker(s):
The entanglement properties of random quantum states or dynamics are important to the study of a broad spectrum of disciplines of physics, ranging from quantum information to high energy
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Mercredi jan 10, 2018Speaker(s):
(1) Entanglement-enhanced quantum sensing: parameter estimation and hypothesis testing.
(2) Security from entanglement: quantum key distribution.
(3) Entanglement enhanced communication: channel capacity and additivity issues.
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Mercredi déc 20, 2017Speaker(s):
We discuss some applications of a result on the convex combination of the quantum states (that we refer to as convex-split technique) and its variants. In the framework of Quantum Resource theory, we provide an operational way of characterizing the amount of resource in a given quantum state, for a large class of resource theories.
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Mercredi nov 29, 2017Speaker(s):
From a quantum information perspective, we will study universal features of chaotic quantum systems.
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Mercredi nov 22, 2017Speaker(s):
Quantum error correction -- originally invented for quantum computing -- has proven itself useful in a variety of non-computational physical systems, as the ideas of QEC are broadly applicable.
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Mardi oct 24, 2017Speaker(s):
Generally speaking, physicists still experience that computing with paper and pencil is in most cases simpler than computing with a Computer Algebra System.
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