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KITP Conference: Open Quantum Systems in Quantum Simulators
(Apr 29 - May 3, 2019)
Coordinators: Lincoln Carr, Susana Huelga, Sabrina Maniscalco, and Vladan Vuletic
Scientific Advisors: Tilman Esslinger, Christian Roos, Irfan Siddiqi, and Christine Silberhorn

Monday, Apr 29, 2019

Session Chair: Vladan Vuletic (MIT)

8:40am Mark Bowick (KITP Deputy Director) Welcome[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
8:50am Andreas Wallraff (ETH Zurich) Entanglement Stabilization using Parity Detection and Real-Time Feedback in Superconducting Circuits[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9:35am Eliot Kapit (Colo. Mines) Entanglement and Complexity of Interacting Qubits Subject to Asymmetric Noise[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:20am

Morning Break

10:50am Lincoln Carr
Andrew Daley
Vladan Vuletic
Roberta Zambrini
4 Break-out discussions
11:10am Full group Reconvene for discussion

Session Chair: Valentina Parigi (UPMC)

11:30am Iacopo Carusotto (Trento) Quantum Optical Tools for Generation, Manipulation, and Diagnostic of Driven-Dissipative Many-Body States of Light[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:15pm Jonathan Simon (James Franck Inst.) A Dissipatively Stabilized Mott Insulator of Photons[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
1:00pm

Lunch Break

2:00pm Lincoln Carr
Sabrina Maniscalco
Vladan Vuletic
Roberta Zambrini
4 Break-out discussions
2:20pm Full group Reconvene for discussion

Session Chair: Ines de Vega (U Munich)

2:40pm Daniel Braun (U Tübingen) Quantum Chaotic Sensors[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3:25pm Antonella De Pasquale (SNS Pisa) Open Quantum Systems: from the transmission of correlations to the measurement problem[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4:10pm

Afternoon Break

4:40pm Lincoln Carr
Sabrina Maniscalco
Vladan Vuletic
Roberta Zambrini
4 Break-out discussions
5:00pm Full group Reconvene for discussion
5:30pm SHUTTLE TO BWSCI

Tuesday, Apr 30, 2019

Session Chair: Kavan Modi (Monash U)

8:50am Jukka Pekola (Aalto U) Heat Transport Through Superconducting Quantum Circuits: Experiments and Local vs Global Picture of an Open Quantum System[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9:35am Nicole Yunger Halpern (Harvard) Simple Bounds on Far-from-Equilibrium Machines (Hat Tip to Quantum Information Theory)[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:20am

Morning Break

10:50am Lincoln Carr
Sabrina Maniscalco
Vladan Vuletic
Roberta Zambrini
4 Break-out discussions
11:10am Full group Reconvene for discussion

Session Chair: Hilary Hurst (JQI)

11:30am Mete Atature (Cambridge) Quantum Interface of an Electron Qubit and a Nuclear Ensemble[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:15pm Christopher Monroe (Maryland) Quantum Simulations with Countable Numbers of Atoms[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
1:00pm

Lunch Break

2:00pm Lincoln Carr
Sabrina Maniscalco
Vladan Vuletic
Roberta Zambrini
4 Break-out discussions
2:20pm Full group Reconvene for discussion
2:40pm Poster Session
4:10pm

Afternoon Break

4:40pm Poster Session Continues
5:00pm Discussion Time
5:30pm

RECEPTION-KITP Courtyard

6:00pm

SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER-KITP Courtyard

8:00pm

SHUTTLE TO BWSCI

Wednesday, May 01, 2019

Session Chair: Hans-Peter Buechler (Stuttgart U.)

8:50am Antoine Browaeys (IOGS) Many-body Physics with Arrays of Rydberg Atoms[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9:35am Igor Lesanovsky (Nottingham U) Exploring Quantum Non-equilibrium Processes with Absorbing States on Rydberg Quantum Simulators[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:20am

Morning Break

10:50am Lincoln Carr
Sabrina Maniscalco
Vladan Vuletic
Roberta Zambrini
4 Break-out discussions
11:10am Full group Reconvene for discussion

Session Chair: Sebastian Diehl (U of Cologne)

11:30am Pedram Roushan (Google Inc.) Dynamical and Spectroscopic Signatures of Many-body Localization[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:15pm Sean Hartnoll (Stanford) Locality Bound for Dissipative Quantum Transport[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
1:00pm Maggie Sherriffs (KITP) Announcement: Follow on Program[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
1:00pm

Lunch Break

2:00pm Mari Carmen Banuls
Simone Montangero
Vladan Vuletic
Roberta Zambrini
4 Break-out discussions
2:20pm Full group Reconvene for discussion
2:40pm FREE AFTERNOON-Shuttle Available to BWSCI

Thursday, May 02, 2019

Session Chair: Mari Carmen Banuls (MPQ)

8:50am Benjamin Lev (Stanford) Many-body Cavity QED with Multimode Resonators[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9:35am Giuseppe Carleo (Flatiron Inst.) Neural-network States for Open Quantum Systems[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:20am

Morning Break

10:50am Mari Carmen Banuls
Andrew Daley
Susana Huelga
Simone Montangero
4 Break-out discussions
11:10am Full group Reconvene for discussion

Session Chair: Andrea Smirne (Ulm U)

11:30am Jelena Vuckovic (Stanford) Connecting Quantum Systems through Optimized Photonics[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:15pm Clifford Johnson (USC) Black holes and Quantum Heat Engines[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
1:00pm

Lunch Break

2:00pm Mari Carmen Banuls
Andrew Daley
Susana Huelga
Simone Montangero
4 Break-out discussions
2:20pm Full group Reconvene for discussion
2:40pm Poster Session
4:10pm

Afternoon Break

4:40pm Poster Session continues
5:00pm Discussion Time
5:30pm

RECEPTION-KITP Courtyard

6:00pm

SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER-KITP Courtyard

8:00pm

SHUTTLE TO BWSCI

Friday, May 03, 2019

Session Chair: Michael Fleischhauer (TU Kaiserslautern)

8:50am Tilman Esslinger (ETH Zurich) Twisted by Dissipation[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9:35am Christine Muschik (IQC Inst.) Quantum Error Correction by Dissipation[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:20am

Morning Break

10:50am Mari Carmen Banuls
Andrew Daley
Susana Huelga
Simone Montangero
4 Break-out discussions
11:10am Full group Reconvene for discussion

Session Chair: Simone Montangero (UNIPD)

11:30am Joerg Wrachtrup (U of Stuttgart) Observation of Quantum Random Walks in Spin Systems[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:15pm Martin Plenio (Ulm U) Coherence and Noise: Theoretical Aspects of Quantum Dynamics in the Presence of Environments[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
1:00pm

Lunch Break

2:00pm Mari Carmen Banuls
Andrew Daley
Susana Huelga
Simone Montangero
4 Break-out discussions
2:20pm Full group Reconvene for discussion
2:40pm John Bollinger (NIST) Quantum Simulation and Sensing with Large Trapped Ion Crystals[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3:25pm Giovanna Morigi (Saarland U) Quantum Spatio-temporal Structures in Cavity QED
4:10pm

Afternoon Break

4:40pm Mari Carmen Banuls
Andrew Daley
Susana Huelga
Simone Montangero
4 Break-out discussions
5:00pm Full group Reconvene for discussion
5:30pm CONFERENCE END-SHUTTLE TO BWSCI *Also available to SB Airport and SB Airbus, Goleta location. (See Registration Desk BEFORE FRIDAY to sign up.)