2023 IQIM Seminars

IQIM Seminar Series

Mission

The IQIM Seminar Series is a weekly event providing an overview of the different activities conducted within the IQIM through informal, accessible talks. Graduate students, post-docs and faculty are brought together to keep to date with progress in the different branches of the IQIM, with an opportunity for additional, informal discussions, via breakout rooms following the talk.

Visit qse.caltech.edu for a list of all upcoming talks related to Quantum Science and Engineering.

When, what, where

*Fridays, at 12:00 noon PST

Information for Speakers

Because of the varying backgrounds in the IQIM community, talks are welcome to be kept as simple as possible and on a high level. Speakers are encouraged to spend half of their presentation providing a fleshed-out introduction of their field to the full IQIM community, introducing and motivating all the relevant concepts and allowing the full audience to appreciate the importance of the presented results. A focus on a strong take-home message is usually preferable over detailed coverage of all latest results. We invite talks to target a length of 30 min, bearing in mind that informality and interactivity with the audience are generally welcome and that the presentation length may in consequence naturally be prolonged to some extent. Questions and additional discussions may furthermore continue following the talk.

Organizing Committee

The IQIM Seminar Series is organized by a committee of graduate students and postdocs. Contact any one of us if you have any questions or wish to participate.

Andreas Elben, Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar
Ran Finkelstein, Troesh Postdoctoral Scholar
Sophie Hermans, AWS Quantum Postdoctoral Scholar
Liam O’Brien, Graduate Student
Andrei Ruskuc, Graduate Student
Yiran Zhang, Graduate Student

A list of all talks, including upcoming speakers can be found at on the Caltech master calendar.

IQIM Seminar Archive by Year

Date	Speaker	Talk Title
December 15	Adrian Beckert, Faraon Group	Emergence of highly coherent two-level systems in a noisy and dense quantum network
December 8	Yao Luo, Bernardi Group	Data-driven compression of electron-phonon interactions
December 1	Lei Gioia, Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar	W state is not the unique ground state of any local Hamiltonian
November 17	Robin Kothari, Google	How simulating balls and springs captures the power of quantum computing
November 10	Dominik Wild, Max-Planck Institute for Quantum Optics	Classical and Quantum Complexity of Quantum Dynamics
November 3	Yiran Zhang, Nadj-Perge Group	Spin-Orbit Enhanced Superconductivity in Graphene Bilayers
October 27	Shankar Balasubramanian, MIT	Exponential speedups for quantum walks in random hierarchical graphs
October 20	Wenjie Ji, Postdoctoral Scholar, Xie Chen Group	Measurement-Prepared Quantum Phases and Transitions
October 13	Jacob Covey, Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Higher-dimensional encoding and programmable openness with Rydberg atom arrays
October 6	Jack Harris, Professor of Physics and Applied Physics,Yale	Measuring high-amplitude quantum motion in a nanogram object
September 29	Liam O’Brien, Refael Group	Probing localization properties of many-body Hamiltonians via an imaginary vector potential
September 22	Tommy Schuster, Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar, Preskill Group	Noise, complexity, and information dynamics in quantum circuits
June 22	Andrew King, d-wave	Critical Scaling Advantage in 3D Spin Glass Quantum Optimization
June 9	Nat Tantivasadakarn,Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Scholar	Realizing non-Abelian topological order on a trapped-ion processor
June 2	Elmer Guardado-Sanchez, Harvard University	Exploring Quantum Networking Nodes for Neutral Atom Tweezer Arrays
May 26	Chaitali Joshi, AWS Quantum Postdoctoral Scholar, Mirhosseini Group	A chiral light-matter interface with superconducting qubits
May 19	Ross Hutson, JILA/University of Colorado Boulder	Observation of mHz-level cooperative Lamb shifts in an optical atomic clock
May 12	Xinwei Li, Troesh Postdoctoral Scholar, Hsieh Group	Light induced metastable spin-orbital order in Ca2RuO4
May 5	Adam Bene Watts, University of Waterloo	Unconditional Separations with Constant Depth Circuits
April 21	Kon Leung, AWS Quantum Postdoctoral Scholar, Endres Group	Laser spectroscopy of molecular vibrations
April 14	Valerio Peri, Moore Postdoctoral Scholar	Superconductivity in materials with flat bands: Insights from the quantum geometry
April 7	Dan Blumenthal, Distinguished Professor, ECE,UC Santa Barbara	Visible Light Photonics for Atomic and Quantum Applications
March 31	Tomoyuki Morimae, Kyoto University Note: this week’s talk will be in 201 E. Bridge	Quantum cryptography without one-way functions
March 24	Arbel Haim, AWS Center for Quantum Computing	Erasure qubits: Overcoming the T1 limit in superconducting circuits
March 17	Alex Baumgaertner, ETH Zurich	A topological pump driven by non-Hermitian dynamics in a quantum gas
March 3	Alex May, Stanford University	Does gravity constrain computation?
February 24	Olivier Pfister, University of Virginia	Quantum computing over the rainbow: from scalable qumodes to scalable Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill qubits
February 21	Nicolas Delfosse,Microsoft Quantum	Fast erasure decoder for a class of quantum LDPC codes
February 17	Minh Tran, MIT/IBM	Measuring Arbitrary Physical Properties in Analog Quantum Simulation
February 16	Jess Riedel, NTT Research Note: Talk is Thursday at 1 pm in 121 Annenberg	Ehrenfest’s theorem beyond the Ehrenfest time: non-singular classical limit for general open systems
February 3	Arpit Dua, UQM-IQIM Postdoctoral Scholar, Xie Chen Group	Quantum error correction and computation with two-qubit measurements
December 16, 2022	Gong Cheng, University of Maryland	Large N Matrix Quantum Mechanics as a Quantum Memory