May to August 1999
Organisers: A Albrecht (UC Davis), Peter Knight (Imperial), RM Solovay (Berkeley), W Zurek (LANL)
Workshop: Decoherence, transition from quantum to classical |
Monday 5 July
15.15-15.30 R Jozsa (Plymouth)
Welcome
Session 1.1 Chair: R Jozsa
15.30-16.10 J Hartle (UC, Santa Barbara)
Quasiclassical realms in a quantum universe
16.10-16.50 J Halliwell (Imperial)
Decoherence and records: where is the information stored when
histories decohere?
16.50-17.30 A Peres (Technion)
Relativistic quantum measurements
17.30-19.00 Wine Reception at the Isaac Newton Institute
19.15 Dinner
Tuesday 6 July
Session 1.2 Chair: S Sarkar
09.30-10.10 W Zurek (LANL)
Decoherence and einselection
10.10-10.50 C Kiefer (Freiburg)
Decoherence of primordial fluctuations
10.50-11.30 L Grover (Bell Labs)
The computational power of negative probabilities.
12.00-14.00 Lunch
15.30-16.00 Tea
Session 1.3 Chair: R Schack
16.00-16.40 W Unruh (UBC)
False decoherence and energyless decoherence
16.40-17.20 J Paz (Buenos Aires)
Decoherence in classically chaotic systems
17.20-18.00 F De Martini (Rome)
Quantum superposition of parametrically generated multiphoton
states
19.15 Dinner
Wednesday 7 July
Session 1.4 Chair: G Milburn
09.30-10.10 C Caves (New Mexico)
Information-theoretic description of classical and quantum chaos
10.10-10.50 S Lloyd (MIT)
Fundamental physical limits to computation
10.50-11.30 S Sarkar (King's, London)
Entropy production in quantum non-integrable open systems
12.00-14.00 Lunch
15.00-15.30 Tea
Session 1.5 Chair: C Fuchs
15.30-16.10 D DiVincenzo (IBM)
Electron spins in quantum dots for quantum computing
16.10-16.50 M Tegmark (Princeton)
Decoherence and information in quantum systems
16.50-17.30 G Milburn (Queensland)
Simulating nonlinear spin models in an ion trap
17.30-19.00 Posters and Wine Reception at the Isaac Newton Institute
19.15 Dinner
Thursday 8 July
Session 1.6 Chair: W Unruh
09.30-10.10 W Lange (MPQ Munich)
Quantum information processing with a heterogeneous mg-in ion
chain
10.10-10.50 L Davidovich (Rio de Janeiro)
Decoherence, Wigner functions, and controlled-not gates in cavity
QED.
10.50-11.30 P Knight (Imperial)
Entangling atoms and ions in decoherent environments
12.00-14.00 Lunch
15.30-16.00 Tea
Session 1.7 Chair: W Zurek
16.00-16.40 T Brun (CMU)
Information measures for histories
16.40-17.20 J Kempe (UC, Berkeley)
Decoherence-free subspaces and implications for realizing quantum
memory and computation
17.20-18.00 P Zanardi (ISI)
Symmetrization procedures for quantum computation
19.15 Dinner
Friday 9 July
Session 1.8 Chair: C Caves
09.00-09.40 C Fuchs (Caltech)
On unknown quantum states
09.40-10.20 V Vedral (Oxford)
Bound entanglement assisted distillation
10.20-10.50 Coffee
10.50-11.30 M Horodecki (Gdansk)
Limits for entanglement measures
11.30-12.10 N Linden (Isaac Newton
Institute)
Quantum computing with very noisy mixed states
12.30-14.00 Lunch
Afternoon Free
19.15 Dinner