Efficient Linear Optics Quantum Computation (eLOQC)
David Cory, MIT, and Emanuel Knill, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Fri Jan 18, Tue Jan 22, Wed Jan 23, Thu Jan 24, Fri Jan 25, 01-02:30pm, NW14
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Surprisingly, it is possible to realize quantum computation using only beam-splitters, single photon sources and photo-detectors with feedback. One scheme for doing this builds on a series of schemes, starting with implementations of quantum gates by post-selection. The schemes will be explained in detail in a series of seminars. Along the way, much of what is known about quantum error-correction and fault tolerant computation will be explained.
Contact: David Cory, MIT, NW14-2217, x3-3806, dcory@mit.edu
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Geometric Algebra: Imaginary Numbers Are Real
Timothy F. Havel
Fri Jan 25, Mon Jan 28, Wed Jan 30, Fri Feb 1, 04:30-06:00pm, NW14-1110
No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: Calculus & Linear Algebra, sophomore physics
Geometric algebra is a natural extension of vector algebra to metric geometries of arbitrary dimension, signature and curvature. A growing number of scholars have come to view it as a universal geometric language encompassing most of physics and much of mathematics. These four lectures will give a light introduction to the subject and some of its many applications, including molecular conformation, NMR spectroscopy, and quantum computing.
Web: http://mrix4.mit.edu/iap00_index.html
Contact: Timothy F. Havel, NW14-2218, 253-8309, tfhavel@mit.edu
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In Celebration of Modeling and Simulation: Diversity on Common Grounds
Sidney Yip, Dr. Ju Li, Faculty colleagues in Courses 1,2,3,10,18,HST&BEH
Wed Jan 30, Thu Jan 31, 10am-05:00pm, 24-115, Offered 10am-12noon & 2pm-5pm
No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
A two-day workshop to promote awareness, exchange, and collaboration among individuals who work with modeling and simulation at various length/time scales in their research. There is a growing interest in departments and divisions across campus in developing and applying electronic structure calculations, atomistic (molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo), mesocale (time-element), and continuum (computational fluid dynamics and continuum elasticity) methods to problems in physics, chemistry, engineering, and biology. Workshop will be informal, open, and interactive. Morning sessions feature brief presentations by project leaders introducing their research, with afternoons devoted to a few topics of common interest to the audience (such as linking micro to meso scale, modeling microstructural evolution in various kinds of 'materials', saddle-point searching techniques, and use of visualization). Event organized by Prof. Yip and Dr. Ju Li (Course 22) in cooperation with faculty colleagues in Courses 1,2,3,10,18,HST & BEH. All participants are welcome; early registration is encouraged.
Web: http://long-march.mit.edu/IAP02/reg.htm
Contact: Sidney Yip, 24-208, x3-3809, syip@mit.edu
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Open Quantum Systems
David Cory, MIT, Lorenza Viola, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Tue Jan 29, Wed Jan 30, Thu Jan 31, 01-03:00pm, NW14
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: Quantum Mechanics
While somehow neglected in quantum mechanics textbooks, open quantum systems are ubiquitous in real life -- simply because no real system can be perfectly insulated from interactions with the outside world. No matter how weak these interactions, the evolution of an open system is eventually plagued by quantum noise effects that drastically change the closed-system picture we are most accustomed to. These lectures will revisit basic facts about open quantum systems from a quantum information processing perspective -- by introducing, in particular, the tools needed for describing quantum noise and the options available for counteracting its effects.
Contact: David Cory, MIT, NW14-2217, x3-3806, dcory@mit.edu
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