Quantum Mechanics on the Large Scale Workshop
April 2003
Sunday, April 13 | Monday, April 14 | Tuesday, April 15 | Wednesday, April 16
Various pictures from this workshop are available in the photos section.

Sunday, April 13

09:00-09:45

Stamp Decoherence Suppression in Superconductors and Magnets

09:50-10:30

Lidar Quantum Computers and Decoherence: Exorcising the Demon from the Machine

11:00-11:40

Joyez Operation of a Superconducting Quantum Bit : the Quantronium

11:40-12:20

Chiorescu Quantum Dynamics of a Superconducting Flux-Qubit

13:45-14:15

Kent Symmetry and Magnetic Quantum Tunneling in Single Molecule Magnets

14:15-14:45

De Jongh Magnetic Quantum Tunneling and Magnetic Relaxation in Molecular Clusters Studied by Low- Temperature, Field-Dependent Specific Heat Measurements

14:45-15:15

Giraud Many-body Effects in the (Magnetic Moment) Tunneling of Mesoscopic Spins: the Case of Diluted Ho3+ Ions

15:15-15:45

Blais Cavity QED Effects with Superconducting Qubits

16:15-16:45

Ilichev Experimental Investigation of Quantum Phenomena in a Persistent Current Qubit

16:45-17:30

Kitaev Anyons in a Spin Model in the Honeycomb Lattice

17:30-18:15

Marcus Quantum Coherence and Spin in Quantum Dots

Monday, April 14

09:00-09:40

Gill Optimal Design of the Experiment of the Century

09:40-10:20

Havel A Hierarchical Model which Captures the Spatio-Temporal Structure of Real Decoherence Processes, and Its Implementation on an NMR Quantum Information Processor

10:40-11:20

Averin Mesoscopic Quantum Measurements

11:20-12:00

Milburn Quantum Error Correction for Continuously Detected Errors

12:00-12:30

Emerson Analysis of the Experimental Quantum Fourier Transform Super-Operator (Measured by Process Tomography on a Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Quantum Information Processor)

13:45-14:30

Popescu Revisiting Hardy's Paradox

14:30-15:10

Weiss Relaxation and Decoherence in Quantum Impurity Models:From Weak to Strong Tunneling

15:10-15:50

Zhou Spin Correlated States in Optical Lattices

16:10-16:40

Zagoskin Tunable Coupling of Superconducting Qubits

16:40-17:10

Clerk Mesoscopic Detectors and the Quantum Limit

17:10-17:40

Morello Nuclear Spin Dynamics in the Quantum Regime of Mn12-Ac Molecular Magnets

17:40-18:20

Tupitsyn Relaxation Dynamics in Molecular Magnets: From Ground-state Tunneling to Thermal Regime

Tuesday, April 15

09:00-09:40

Grabert Read-out of Qubits by Macroscopic Quantum Tunneling and Landau-Zener Transitions

09:40-10:20

Zaikin Quantum Decoherence in the Ground State: Persistent Currents and Weak Localization

10:40-11:20

Koehler Decoherence in Resonantly Driven Bi-stable Systems

11:20-12:00

Barbara Recent Developments in Quantum Dynamics of Spins

12:00-12:30

Schuetzhold Hidden Symmetry Detection on a Quantum Computer

20:00-20:40

Unruh Condensed Matter Systems and Quantum Black Hole Evaporation

Wednesday, April 16

09:00-09:40

Aeppli Coherence in a Disordered Magnet

09:40-10:20

Wernsdorfer Decoherence in molecular Magnets

10:40-11:20

Amin Quasiparticle Decoherence in Josephson Qubits

11:20-12:00

Schwab Persistent Currents Versus Phase Breaking in Mesoscopic Metallic Samples