RIKEN Berkeley Workshop: Quantum Information Science

from Friday, 25 January 2019 (08:00) to Tuesday, 29 January 2019 (18:00)
LBL-Hill (Building 66- Auditorium)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
25 Jan 2019
26 Jan 2019
27 Jan 2019
28 Jan 2019
29 Jan 2019
AM
08:30
Breakfast / Check-in (until 09:30) (Building 66- Auditorium)
09:30
Welcome Session - Alan Poon (Nuclear Science Division, Berkeley Lab) (until 11:00) (Building 66- Auditorium)
09:30 Lab Overview - Dr Horst Simon (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)   (Building 66- Auditorium)
09:53 RIKEN National Science Institute: a brief introduction - Prof. Motoko Kotani (RIKEN)   (Building 66- Auditorium)
10:16 RIKEN-Berkeley Workshop: Quantum Information Science - Dr Tetsuo Hatsuda (RIKEN)   (Building 66- Auditorium)
10:40 QIS Landscape at Berkeley & Advanced Quantum Testbed - Jonathan Carter (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)   (Building 66- Auditorium)
11:00
Coffee break (until 11:30) (Building 66- Auditorium)
11:30
Foundations of Quantum Computing -Dr Tetsuo Hatsuda (RIKEN) (until 13:00) (Building 66- Auditorium)
11:30 Faster classical sampling from distributions defined by quantum circuits - Igor Markov (University of Michigan)   (Building 66- Auditorium)
12:15 Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum Computers - Dr Riccardo Manenti (Rigetti)   (Building 66- Auditorium)
08:30
Breakfast / Check-in (until 09:30) (Building 66- Auditorium)
09:30
Quantum Enhanced Optimization I - Juan Atalaya-Chavez (UC Berkeley) (until 11:00) (Building 66- Auditorium)
09:30 Performance enhancement of quantum annealing by non-traditional quantum driving - Prof. Hidetoshi Nishimori (Tokyo Institute of Technology)   (Building 66- Auditorium)
10:15 VanQver: Variationally and Adiabatically Navigated Quantum Eigensolver - Dr Shunji Matsuura (1QBit)   (Building 66- Auditorium)
10:45 Quantum annealing for polynomial systems of equations - Dr Arjun Gambhir (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)   (Building 66- Auditorium)
11:00
Coffee break (until 11:30) (Building 66- Auditorium)
11:30
Quantum Enhanced Optimization II -Dr Shigetoshi Sota (RIKEN Center for Computational Science) (until 13:00) (Building 66- Auditorium)
11:30 Continuous Quantum Error Correction for Quantum Annealing enabled by measurement-based feedback - Prof. K. Birgitta Whaley (UC Berkeley)   (Building 66- Auditorium)
12:00 Quantum Algorithmic Breakeven: on scaling up with noisy qubits - Prof. Daniel Lidar (USC)   (Building 66- Auditorium)
12:30 Real-space renormalization group analysis of the frustrated Ising ladder in a transverse field - Mr Kabuki Takada (Tokyo Institute of Technology)   (Building 66- Auditorium)
08:30
Breakfast / Check-in (until 09:30) (Building 66- Auditorium)
09:30
Sensing II -Ms Stephanie Mack (UC Berkeley) (until 11:00) (Building 66- Auditorium)
09:30 The dc SQUID as a Quantum Limited Amplifier - John Clarke (University of California, Berkeley)   (Building 66- Auditorium)
10:10 SQUID based frequency multiplexing readout and commercial fabrication for superconducting sensors - Dr Aritoki Suzuki (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)   (Building 66- Auditorium)
10:35 Quantum Amplifiers for the Axion Dark Matter Experiment (ADMX) - Dr Gianpaolo Carosi (Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab)   (Building 66- Auditorium)
11:00
Coffee break (until 11:30) (Building 66- Auditorium)
11:30
Architecture I -Dr Nathan Shammah (RIKEN) (until 13:00) (Building 66- Auditorium)
11:30 Si platform for fault tolerant spin-based quantum computation with quantum dots - Prof. Seigo Tarucha (RIKEN CEMS / University of Tokyo)   (Building 66- Auditorium)
12:10 A high-temperature silicon qubit and its quantum interference - Dr Keiji Ono (RIKEN)   (Building 66- Auditorium)
12:35 Shortcut to generation of macroscopic superposition states via coherent driving field - Dr Emi Yukawa (CEMS, RIKEN)   (Building 66- Auditorium)
08:30
Breakfast / Check-in (until 09:30) (Building 66- Auditorium)
09:30
Sensing III - Yury Kolomensky (until 11:00) (Building 66- Auditorium)
09:30 New Ideas in Dark Matter Detection - Kathryn Zurek   (Building 66- Auditorium)
10:00 Materials design for dark matter detection - Dr Sinéad Griffin (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)   (Building 66- Auditorium)
10:30 Light dark matter detection with superfluid helium - Prof. Daniel McKinsey (UC Berkeley)   (Building 66- Auditorium)
11:00
Coffee break (until 11:30) (Building 66- Auditorium)
11:30
Sensing IV -Dr Soonwon Choi (University of California Berkeley) (until 13:00) (Building 66- Auditorium)
11:30 Cherenkov and scintillation light detection in large array bolometers, and potential synergy with QIS - Dr Vivek Singh (University of California, Berkeley)   (Building 66- Auditorium)
12:00 Exploring a potential link between environmental radiation and excess quasiparticles in superconducting qubits - Dr Brent VanDevender (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)   (Building 66- Auditorium)
12:30 Quantum technology to measure the fine structure constant and illuminate biology - Prof. Holger Müller (UC Berkeley)   (Building 66- Auditorium)
PM
17:00
Reception / Check-in (until 22:00) (Minor Ln, Berkeley, CA 94720)
13:00
Lunch (until 14:30) (Building 66- Auditorium)
14:30
Open-source tools and quantum machine learning -Prof. Takashi Tsuboi (RIKEN iTHEMS) (until 16:00) (Building 66- Auditorium)
14:30 Open-source scientific computing for quantum technology: QuTiP - Dr Nathan Shammah (RIKEN)   (Building 66- Auditorium)
15:15 Advancing quantum computing as a platform for scientific discovery in chemical sciences - Wibe de Jong   (Building 66- Auditorium)
16:00
Coffee break (until 16:30) (Building 66- Auditorium)
16:30
Quantum machine learning and quantum sensing -Dr Takumi Doi (RIKEN) (until 18:00) (Building 66- Auditorium)
16:30 Quantum circuit learning: a variational quantum algorithm for machine learning - Mr Kosuke Mitarai (Osaka University)   (Building 66- Auditorium)
17:00 Device Design and Technology Developments for Quantum Sensing Charge-Coupled Devices - Dr Stephen Holland (LBNL)   (Building 66- Auditorium)
17:30 Progress Towards sub-eV Phonon and Photon Sensitivity with Athermal Phonon Detector for Light Mass Dark Matter Searches and Other Applications - Prof. Matt Pyle (University of California Berkeley)   (Building 66- Auditorium)
13:00
Lunch (until 14:30) (Building 66- Auditorium)
14:30
Condensed Matter I -Dr Tomoki Ozawa (RIKEN iTHEMS) (until 16:00) (Building 66- Auditorium)
14:30 Characterization of magnetic structures using (coherent) x-rays - Andreas Scholl (Lawrence Berkeley Lab)   (Building 66- Auditorium)
15:00 Spontaneous spin-chain fluctuation observed with coherent x-ray scattering - Xiaoqian Chen (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)   (Building 66- Auditorium)
15:30 Valley-Mechanical Coupling in a Monolayer Semiconductor - Mr Haokun Li (University of California, Berkeley)   (Building 66- Auditorium)
16:00
Coffee break (until 16:30) (Building 66- Auditorium)
16:30
Condensed Matter II -Mr Shubhayu Chatterjee (UC Berkeley) (until 18:00) (Building 66- Auditorium)
16:30 Engineering topological states of exciton-polaritons with Non-Hermitian potentials - Dr Michael Fraser (RIKEN CEMS / JST PRESTO)   (Building 66- Auditorium)
17:00 Opportunities for Quantum Information Research Using Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy - Dr Eli Rotenberg (LBNL)   (Building 66- Auditorium)
17:30 Emergence of excitonic superfluid at topological-insulator surfaces - Prof. Dong Yu (U.C. Davis)   (Building 66- Auditorium)
18:00
Banquet (until 22:00) (2315 Durant Ave, Berkeley, CA 94704)
13:00
Lunch (until 14:30) (Building 66- Auditorium)
14:30
Architecture II -Dr Emi Yukawa (CEMS, RIKEN) (until 16:00) (Building 66- Auditorium)
14:30 Quantum information processing with trapped ions - Prof. Hartmut Haeffner (UC Berkeley)   (Building 66- Auditorium)
15:00 Pear-Shaped Qubits: Quantum Computing with Dipolar Molecules - Dr Joshua Isaacs (UC Berkeley)   (Building 66- Auditorium)
15:30 A transmon based five-qutrit processor for simulations in high energy physics - Dr Machiel Blok (UC Berkeley)   (Building 66- Auditorium)
16:00
Coffee break (until 16:30) (Building 66- Auditorium)
16:30
Architecture III -Dr Joshua Isaacs (UC-Berkeley) (until 18:15) (Building 66- Auditorium)
16:30 Ultra-strong coupling regime in cavity quantum electrodynamics - Prof. Franco Nori (RIKEN)   (Building 66- Auditorium)
17:15 Quantum simulation with ultracold atoms in optical lattices - Dr Takeshi Fukuhara (RIKEN CEMS)   (Building 66- Auditorium)
17:45 Manipulation of electron waves and solid-state flying qubits - Dr Michihisa Yamamoto (RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science)   (Building 66- Auditorium)
13:00
Lunch (until 14:30) (Building 66- Auditorium)
14:30
Sensing V -Dr Aritoki Suzuki (LBNL) (until 16:00) (Building 66- Auditorium)
14:30 Color centers for quantum sensing and communication - challenges and opportunities - Thomas Schenkel   (Building 66- Auditorium)
15:00 Quantum metrology using a strongly interacting spin ensemble - Soonwon Choi (University of California Berkeley)   (Building 66- Auditorium)
15:30 Noise magnetometry with spin qubits: A window into fractionalization and anyonic statistics in magnetic insulators - Mr Shubhayu Chatterjee (UC Berkeley)   (Building 66- Auditorium)
16:00
Coffee break (until 16:30) (Building 66- Auditorium)
16:30
Discussion (until 18:00) (Building 66- Auditorium)