KITP Conference: Frontiers of Quantum Information Physics

KITP Conference: Frontiers of Quantum Information Physics
(Oct 9-13, 2017)
Coordinators: Daniel Harlow, Patrick Hayden, Stephen Jordan, and Brian Swingle
Scientific Advisors: Veronika Hubeny and John Preskill

Monday, Oct 09, 2017

Session: Low Depth Quantum Circuits, Chair: Elizabeth Crosson (Caltech)

8:50am Lars Bildsten (KITP) Welcome[Podcast][Aud][Cam]

9:00am Dorit Aharonov (Hebrew U) The era of computational experiments[Slides][Aud][Cam]

9:45am David Gosset (IBM) Quantum advantage with shallow circuits[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]

10:30am
Morning Break

11:00am Daniel Gottesman (Perimeter) Fault tolerance in small experiments[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]

11:45am John Martinis (Google/UCSB) Quantum supremacy: checking a quantum computer with a classical supercomputer[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]

12:30pm
Lunch Break

Session: Tensor Networks and Entanglement Structure, Chair: Fernando Pastawski (Frei UBerlin)

2:00pm Michael Walter (U Amsterdam) Rigorous entanglement renormalization from wavelet theory[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]

2:45pm Guifre Vidal (Perimeter) Geometric tensor networks for critical quantum spin chains[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]

3:30pm
Afternoon Break

4:00pm Frank Verstraete (Ghent/Vienna) Fusing tensor networks and TQFTs to CFTs[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]

4:45pm Umesh Vazirani (Berkeley) Rigorous renormalization group algorithm for computing low energy states.[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]

5:30pm
SHUTTLE TO BWSCI

Tuesday, Oct 10, 2017

Session: Theory Meets Experiment, Chair: Steven Bartlett (U. Sydney)

9:00am Isaac Kim (IBM) Noise-resilient quantum circuits[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]

9:45am Thomas Vidick (Caltech) A low degree test for quantum states[Podcast][Aud][Cam]

10:30am
Morning Break

11:00am Ashvin Vishwanath (Harvard) Entanglement dynamics and topology in driven systems[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]

11:45am Steven Giddings (UCSB) Entanglement transfer from black holes via small couplings: basic postulates to soft quantum structure[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]

12:30pm
Lunch Break

Session: Spacetime and Entanglement, Chair: Janet Hung (Fudan U)

2:00pm Xi Dong (UCSB) Quantum corrections to holographic entanglement[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]

2:45pm Mark Van Raamsdonk (UBC) How to discover spacetime and gravity from entanglement structure in conformal field theory[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]

3:30pm
Afternoon Break

4:00pm Matt Headrick (Brandeis) Bit threads and holographic entanglement[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]

4:45pm Xiaoliang Qi (Stanford) Quantum causal influence[Podcast][Aud][Cam]

5:30pm
RECEPTION

6:00pm
SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER

8:00pm
SHUTTLE TO BWSCI

Wednesday, Oct 11, 2017

Session: Entropy, Chaos, and Scrambling, Chair: Jordan Cotler (Stanford)

9:00am Vedika Khemani (Harvard) Entanglement, Tensor Networks and the MBL-ETH transition[Podcast][Aud][Cam]

9:45am Tarun Grover (UCSD) Universal Renyi entropies in chaotic systems[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]

10:30am
Morning Break

11:00am Nicole Yunger Halpern (Caltech & KITP) The skeleton of information scrambling[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]

11:45am Arghavan Safavi-Naini (JILA) Measuring out-of-time-order quantum correlations and multiple quantum spectra in a trapped ion quantum magnet[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]

2:00pm
FREE AFTERNOON-SHUTTLE AVAILABLE TO BWSCI

Thursday, Oct 12, 2017

Session: Computational Complexity, Chair: Adam Bouland (Berkeley)

9:00am Edward Farhi (MIT/Google) What to do with a near-term quantum computer[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]

9:45am Scott Aaronson (UT Austin) New results on learnability of quantum states[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]

10:30am
Morning Break

11:00am Leonard Susskind (Stanford) Gravity and Complexity[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]

11:45am Misha Lukin (Harvard) Exploring many-body dynamics in a 51 atom quantum simulator[Podcast][Aud][Cam]

12:30pm
Lunch Break

Session: Black Holes and Geometry, Chair: Eva Silverstein (Stanford)

2:00pm Alexei Kitaev (Caltech) Efficient decoding for the Hayden-Preskill protocol[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]

2:45pm Stephen Shenker (Stanford) Black holes and random matrices[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]

3:30pm
Afternoon Break

4:00pm Juan Maldacena (IAS) Traversable wormholes and the black hole interior[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]

4:45pm Steve Flammia (U. Sydney) Limits on the reliable storage of quantum information in a volume of space[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]

5:30pm
RECEPTION

6:00pm
SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER

8:00pm
SHUTTLE TO BWSCI

Friday, Oct 13, 2017

Session: Quantum Information Theory, Chair: Robert Koenig (TUM)

9:00am Debbie Leung (U. Waterloo) On the quantum and private capacities of quantum channels[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]

9:45am Roger Colbeck (York) Entropic constraints on causal structures[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]

10:30am
Morning Break

11:00am David Poulin (U of Sherbrooke) Information loss in quantum field theories.[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]

11:45am Adam Kaufman (U. Colorado) Studies in entanglement through microscopy of ultracold neutral atoms[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]

12:30pm
Lunch Break

Session: Many-Body Phenomena

2:00pm Xie Chen (Caltech) Fracton topological phases[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]

2:30pm Jeongwan Haah (Microsoft) Two generalizations of the cubic code model[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]

3:30pm
CONFERENCE END. SHUTTLE TO BWSCI. Also available to SB Airport and Goleta Airbus & train station (See Registration Desk BEFORE FRIDAY to sign up.)

Monday, Oct 09, 2017
	Session: Low Depth Quantum Circuits, Chair: Elizabeth Crosson (Caltech)
8:50am	Lars Bildsten (KITP)	Welcome[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9:00am	Dorit Aharonov (Hebrew U)	The era of computational experiments[Slides][Aud][Cam]
9:45am	David Gosset (IBM)	Quantum advantage with shallow circuits[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:30am	Morning Break
11:00am	Daniel Gottesman (Perimeter)	Fault tolerance in small experiments[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11:45am	John Martinis (Google/UCSB)	Quantum supremacy: checking a quantum computer with a classical supercomputer[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:30pm	Lunch Break
	Session: Tensor Networks and Entanglement Structure, Chair: Fernando Pastawski (Frei UBerlin)
2:00pm	Michael Walter (U Amsterdam)	Rigorous entanglement renormalization from wavelet theory[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2:45pm	Guifre Vidal (Perimeter)	Geometric tensor networks for critical quantum spin chains[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3:30pm	Afternoon Break
4:00pm	Frank Verstraete (Ghent/Vienna)	Fusing tensor networks and TQFTs to CFTs[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4:45pm	Umesh Vazirani (Berkeley)	Rigorous renormalization group algorithm for computing low energy states.[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5:30pm	SHUTTLE TO BWSCI
Tuesday, Oct 10, 2017
	Session: Theory Meets Experiment, Chair: Steven Bartlett (U. Sydney)
9:00am	Isaac Kim (IBM)	Noise-resilient quantum circuits[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9:45am	Thomas Vidick (Caltech)	A low degree test for quantum states[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:30am	Morning Break
11:00am	Ashvin Vishwanath (Harvard)	Entanglement dynamics and topology in driven systems[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11:45am	Steven Giddings (UCSB)	Entanglement transfer from black holes via small couplings: basic postulates to soft quantum structure[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:30pm	Lunch Break
	Session: Spacetime and Entanglement, Chair: Janet Hung (Fudan U)
2:00pm	Xi Dong (UCSB)	Quantum corrections to holographic entanglement[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2:45pm	Mark Van Raamsdonk (UBC)	How to discover spacetime and gravity from entanglement structure in conformal field theory[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3:30pm	Afternoon Break
4:00pm	Matt Headrick (Brandeis)	Bit threads and holographic entanglement[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4:45pm	Xiaoliang Qi (Stanford)	Quantum causal influence[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5:30pm	RECEPTION
6:00pm	SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER
8:00pm	SHUTTLE TO BWSCI
Wednesday, Oct 11, 2017
	Session: Entropy, Chaos, and Scrambling, Chair: Jordan Cotler (Stanford)
9:00am	Vedika Khemani (Harvard)	Entanglement, Tensor Networks and the MBL-ETH transition[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9:45am	Tarun Grover (UCSD)	Universal Renyi entropies in chaotic systems[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:30am	Morning Break
11:00am	Nicole Yunger Halpern (Caltech & KITP)	The skeleton of information scrambling[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11:45am	Arghavan Safavi-Naini (JILA)	Measuring out-of-time-order quantum correlations and multiple quantum spectra in a trapped ion quantum magnet[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]

2:00pm	FREE AFTERNOON-SHUTTLE AVAILABLE TO BWSCI
Thursday, Oct 12, 2017
	Session: Computational Complexity, Chair: Adam Bouland (Berkeley)
9:00am	Edward Farhi (MIT/Google)	What to do with a near-term quantum computer[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9:45am	Scott Aaronson (UT Austin)	New results on learnability of quantum states[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:30am	Morning Break
11:00am	Leonard Susskind (Stanford)	Gravity and Complexity[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11:45am	Misha Lukin (Harvard)	Exploring many-body dynamics in a 51 atom quantum simulator[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:30pm	Lunch Break
	Session: Black Holes and Geometry, Chair: Eva Silverstein (Stanford)
2:00pm	Alexei Kitaev (Caltech)	Efficient decoding for the Hayden-Preskill protocol[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2:45pm	Stephen Shenker (Stanford)	Black holes and random matrices[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3:30pm	Afternoon Break
4:00pm	Juan Maldacena (IAS)	Traversable wormholes and the black hole interior[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
4:45pm	Steve Flammia (U. Sydney)	Limits on the reliable storage of quantum information in a volume of space[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
5:30pm	RECEPTION
6:00pm	SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER
8:00pm	SHUTTLE TO BWSCI
Friday, Oct 13, 2017
	Session: Quantum Information Theory, Chair: Robert Koenig (TUM)
9:00am	Debbie Leung (U. Waterloo)	On the quantum and private capacities of quantum channels[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
9:45am	Roger Colbeck (York)	Entropic constraints on causal structures[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
10:30am	Morning Break
11:00am	David Poulin (U of Sherbrooke)	Information loss in quantum field theories.[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
11:45am	Adam Kaufman (U. Colorado)	Studies in entanglement through microscopy of ultracold neutral atoms[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
12:30pm	Lunch Break
	Session: Many-Body Phenomena
2:00pm	Xie Chen (Caltech)	Fracton topological phases[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
2:30pm	Jeongwan Haah (Microsoft)	Two generalizations of the cubic code model[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam]
3:30pm	CONFERENCE END. SHUTTLE TO BWSCI. Also available to SB Airport and Goleta Airbus & train station (See Registration Desk BEFORE FRIDAY to sign up.)