Webinars

QSI Seminar: Dr Sahand Mahmoodian, ITP, Leibniz U., Quantum Many-Body Physics of Photons, 03/09/2020

A conceptually simple platform for exploring quantum many-body states of photons TITLE: Quantum many-body physics of photons in waveguide QED SPEAKER: Dr Sahand Mahmoodian AFFILIATION: Institute for Theoretical Physics, Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute), Leibniz University, Hannover, Germany HOSTED BY: A/Prof Nathan Langford, UTS Centre for Quantum Software and Information ABSTRACT: The generation and control of strongly interacting photons is a long-standing goal of quantum optics

Suppressing errors on real quantum computers

The suppressing errors on real quantum computers webinar explores how quantum control can improve the performance of quantum computing hardware - in the lab or in the cloud

QSI Seminar: Prof Dieter Suter, TU Dortmund University, DEU, Hybrid Quantum Registers, 21/08/2020

Efficient control and protection against environmental noise TITLE: Hybrid Quantum Registers: Efficient control and protection against environmental noise SPEAKER: Professor Dieter Suter AFFILIATION: TU Dortmund University, Germany HOSTED BY: Dr Clara Javaherian, UTS Centre for Quantum Software and Information ABSTRACT: Nuclear and electronic spins are attractive objects not only for spectroscopic studies, but also for emergent technologies like quantum information processing and sensing

QSI Seminar: Dr Peter Johnson, Zapata Computing, Minimising Estimation Runtime on Noisy Q.Computers.

An estimation algorithm, incorporating noise models into its design and optimizing for minimal runtime

QSI Seminar: Dr Olivia Di Matteo, TRIUMF, Reading Between the Bitlines, 07/08/2020

The current state of quantum RAM TITLE: Reading between the bitlines: the current state of quantum RAM SPEAKER: Dr Olivia Di Matteo AFFILIATION: TRIUMF, Vancouver, Canada HOSTED BY: Dr Márika Kieferová, UTS Centre for Quantum Software and Information ABSTRACT: Quantum RAM, or qRAM, is a controversial topic in quantum computing

QSI Seminar: Prof Jason Twamley, OIST JPN | MQ AUST, Quantum Machines, 04/08/2020

A review of various types of quantum machines TITLE: Quantum Machines SPEAKER: Professor Jason Twamley AFFILIATION: Unit for Quantum Machines, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Japan | Macquarie University Research Centre in Quantum Science and Technology, Sydney HOSTED BY: Dr Clara Javaherian, UTS Centre for Quantum Software and Information ABSTRACT: A quantum machine is a device that makes use of different interconnected physical quantum subsystems to provide an overall functionality not possible in any subsystem alone

QSI Seminar: Dr Audrey Bienfait, ENS Lyon | U.Chicago, Phonon-mediated quantum state transfer, 28/07

TITLE: Phonon-mediated quantum state transfer, remote entanglement and quantum erasure SPEAKER: Dr Audrey Bienfait AFFILIATION: École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France | University of Chicago, USA HOSTED BY: A/Prof Nathan Langford, UTS Centre for Quantum Software and Information ABSTRACT: Heavily used in classical signal processing, surface acoustic waves (SAWs) have also been proposed as a means to coherently couple distant solid-state quantum systems

QSI Seminar: Dr Markus Heyl, Max Planck Inst., Reinforcement Learning for Digital Quantum Simulation

Machine learning quantum circuits for digital quantum simulation TITLE: Reinforcement Learning for Digital Simulation SPEAKER: Dr Markus Heyl AFFILIATION: Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Dresden HOSTED BY: A/Prof Nathan Langford, UTS Centre for Quantum Software and Information ABSTRACT: Digital quantum simulation is a promising application for quantum computers

QSI Seminar: Pantita Palittapongarnpim, Chulalongkorn U., ML for Adaptive Phase Estimation, 10/07/20

How a known framework in control engineering, namely data-driven control can be formulated for quantum control

QSI Seminar: Dr Adrian Chapman, USyd, Characterization of free-fermion-solvable spin models 07/07/20

Free-Fermion Solutions and Frustration Graphs TITLE: Characterization of free-fermion-solvable spin models via graph invariants SPEAKER: Dr Adrian Chapman AFFILIATION: ARC Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems (EQUS), University of Sydney, Australia HOSTED BY: A/Prof Chris Ferrie, UTS Centre for Quantum Software and Information ABSTRACT: Finding exact solutions to spin models is a fundamental problem of many-body physics