QUANTUM INFORMATION PROCESSING

IN CONDENSED MATTER

 

Room W0.02, Sir David Davies Building, Loughborough University

Monday, 15 September 2003

 

10.00    Registration, coffee, setting up of posters

SESSION 1

Chair: Feodor Kusmartsev

 

10.30 Welcome by Prof David Wallace FRS, Vice Chancellor of Loughborough University

10.35 Ray Bishop (UMIST) Journeys to and in Quantum Phase Space

11.30 Andrew Briggs (Oxford) Nanomaterials for Quantum Information Processing

12.15 Lunch in Elvyn Richards bar

                   Posters on display outside W0.02

 

SESSION 2

Chair: Terry Clark

 

13.45 Lieven Vandersypen (Delft) Electron spin qubits in quantum dots

14.30 Mike Lea (Royal Holloway) Counting electrons on liquid helium

 

14.45 Tea and posters

 

SESSION 3

Chair: Andrew Briggs

 

15.30 Terry Clark (Sussex) SQUID Rings, Environments and the Quantum-Classical Interface

16.15 Noah Linden (Bristol) Quantum entanglement and the mysterious absence of high-order correlations in quantum mechanics

 

17.00 Close, refreshments

 

POSTERS

 

Mark Everett                     Some Superconducting Analogues of Quantum Optical Phenomena

Viv Kendon                        Controlling quantum walks: what can we do with the coin?

Vlad Koroli                          Harmonic oscillator driven by a quantum current

Neill Lambert                    Steering of a Bosonic Mode with a Double Quantum Dot

Jason Ralph                      Characterising a superconducting qubit via noise

Denzil Rodrigues        Cooper Pair Boxes: Superradiance and Revival

John Samson                  Phase-space path-integral calculation of the Wigner function

Jamie Walker                   The Effects of Noise on the Concurrence of a Two-qubit System