aspuru-list March 2013

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] ITAMP topical lunch discussion: Thursday March 28th @ 12:00

by Charles Mathy

Dear Friends, On Thursday, March 28th, there will be an ITAMP topical lunch discussion. Tea Room (P-226) @ CfA (60 Garden Street) Time: 12:00-1:30 As always pizza will be served. Speaker: Sarah Mostame (Harvard University) Title: Quantum simulators using superconducting circuits Abstract: Quantum simulator is an experimental study of an interesting quantum system by use of an alternative quantum system in which the same Hamiltonian is implemented. In this talk, I will present analog quantum simulators of open system dynamics with a precisely engineered quantum environment. Open quantum system approaches are widely used in the description of physical, chemical and biological systems. One of the famous models of this type is the Holstein model describing the interaction of an electron on a 1D lattice with one vibrational mode per lattice site. This model has applications in quantum chemistry and condensed matter physics, for example, in photosynthetic complexes, molecular aggregates, polymers, manganites or superconductivity. Then, a detailed study of the dynamics of electron-phonon interaction becomes desirable. Although many analytical and numerical methods have been applied to this problem, their applicability is often limited either to a particular investigation, e.g., low-lying excited polaron states or the Green function, and for a specific parameter regime. We propose an analog quantum simulator for the dynamical electron-polaron coupling model and demonstrate that it can be constructed using currently available technology of superconducting circuits. With such a quantum simulator, one can do more extensive investigation including exciton transport, spectral density, absorption spectra and the wide range of parameters. Our proposed quantum simulator can reproduce the quantum dynamics of a standard as well as generalized multiple-mode Holstein model. Looking forward to seeing you there, Charles Mathy

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] IMPORTANT: Talk by Borja Peropadre POST-PONED: 03-29-2013 at 11:30

by Guerreschi, Gian

Dear all, It is a pleasure to announce Borja's talk on Friday, March 29th, at 11:30. Borja Peropadre is a PhD student in the group of Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll at CSIC in Madrid (Spain). http://quinfog.iff.csic.es/borja-peropadre He will visit our group this week, March 26th-29th. He is interested in our research and in discussing with us, therefore I will organize a schedule with private discussion on Tuesday and on Thursday. Please, let me know if you are interested in discussing with Borja (otherwise I will try to select a representative sample based on our research topics). -- Title: Controlling quantum systems in circuit QED designs. -- Abstract: The filed of circuit QED is widely considered the on-chip realization of cavity QED, where superconducting artificial atoms and microwave photons interact at the quantum level. The large tunability attainable in these solid-state devices, has made possible the achievement of the the so-called strong and ultrastrong coupling between light and matter. In this talk, I will show how we can take advantage of this large degree of control in circuit QED to manipulate the light-matter interaction, and ultimately the microwave photons in a resonator or propagating in an open transmission line. This offers a wide range of applications, ranging from quantum communications, condensed matter physics, to simulations in Quantum Field Theory. Best regards, Gian Giacomo

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Jeremy O'Brien Group Visit - Tomorrow Morning

by Marlon Cummings

Dear friends: Please be aware that the O'Brien Group will around tomorrow between 9:00 - 1:00 pm. We have the Division Room reserved during that time. Alan has assigned Jarrod as the host for tomorrow's lunch, so please touch base with Jarrod if you are interested. I'm sure Alan will follow-up with additional details today. Best, Marlon. -------------------- Marlon G. Cummings Lab Manager, Aspuru-Guzik Group Mallinckrodt M112 Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Harvard University 12 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA 02138 617-496-9964 617-496-9411 (fax) http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu/

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] pizza in break room

by Joey Goodknight

large quantities get it whilst it's hot

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: Bristol quantum visit Sunday 24 March

by Cynthia M. Chew

Hi group, Please see the e-mail below from Mark Thompson from Bristol. If you are interested in collaborating with Prof. Jeremy O'Brien's group you are invited to attend the upcoming workshop on Sunday March 24, 4pm at the Hyatt Hotel in Cambridge. Please let me know by the end of the day if you want to attend and if you will be presenting a poster as I need to send the numbers from our group soon. Thanks, Cynthia Cynthia M. Chew Faculty Assistant | Aspuru-Guzik Research Group Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology | Harvard University 12 Oxford Street | Cambridge, MA 02138 617.496.1716 office | 617.496.9411 fax http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu/ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Mark Thompson <Mark.Thompson(a)bristol.ac.uk> Date: Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 8:22 PM Subject: Re: Bristol quantum visit Sunday 24 March To: Dirk Englund <englund(a)columbia.edu>, mikhail lukin < lukin(a)physics.harvard.edu>, "Karl K. Berggren" <berggren(a)mit.edu>, Jeffrey Shapiro <jshaps(a)mit.edu>, ncw(a)mit.edu, "Alexander (Sasha) Sergienko" < alexserg(a)bu.edu>, Scott Aaronson <aaronson(a)csail.mit.edu>, Alan Aspuru-Guzik <alan(a)aspuru.com>, slloyd(a)mit.edu, aram harrow <aram(a)mit.edu>, aram harrow <aram(a)mit.edu>, Marko Loncar <loncar(a)seas.harvard.edu>, Edward Farhi <farhi(a)mit.edu> Cc: Jeremy O'Brien <jeremy.l.obrien(a)me.com>, Meagan Puzacke < meagan.puzacke(a)bristol.ac.uk>, "aspuru. staff" <aspuru.staff(a)gmail.com>, Kathleen Masse <kath(a)seas.harvard.edu>, Mauro Bortolussi <maurob(a)mit.edu> Dear all, We had originally scheduled the drinks reception and poster session for Saturday, but due to booking restrictions we have had to move the date to Sunday 24th, 16:00 at the Hyatt hotel in Cambridge. I hope that this is not a problem, and that you and your researcher team are still able to make it along. The general goal of our visit is to exchange research ideas, discuss important topics and to explore possible collaboration opportunities. There will be 10 of us in total from Bristol. We are making arrangements to visit you all individually, were we hope to give a couple of focused talks (~15min), and perhaps hear some reciprocal talks from your researchers, followed by discussions and lab visits where appropriate. The aim of the mini workshop on Sunday 24th is to provide a platform for further and rather informal discussions. Please bring along your researchers, and a selections of posters to present. To help us cater for numbers, could you please answer the following questions: 1) Can you attend the workshop, and if so how many people will you bring along? 2) How many posters you would like to present? Please let me and Meagan know if you have any questions or concerns. I look forward to seeing you in Boston, Kind regards, Mark

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [qip] Fwd: Call for papers - AQIS'13 - Asian Quantum Information Science, Chennai

by aram harrow

====================================================================== The 13th Asian Conference on Quantum Information Science (AQIS'13) http://www.imsc.res.in/~aqis13 Tutorials: 25 August 2013 Conference: 26-30 August 2013 Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India Apologies for cross-postings. Please forward to interested colleagues and students. We would like to draw your attention to the 13th Asian Conference on Quantum Information Science. AQIS'13 is a meeting focused on quantum information processing, communication and cryptography, an interdisciplinary field bridging quantum physics, computer science, mathematics, and information technologies. This event, which is the thirteenth in a highly successful series, building upon EQIS'01-05 and AQIS'06-12, is coming to India for the first time, having been held previously in Japan, China and Korea. This is the prime Asian conference in the field. Organized by the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, AQIS'13 will take place in Chennai, India, from 25 to 30 August 2013. Details about the conference are available via the website, which we invite you to visit often as new information will appear regularly. http://www.imsc.res.in/~aqis13 AQIS’13 will consist of invited talks, selected oral and poster presentations, as well as other activities. We are very pleased to announce a spectacular array of invited speakers (to be completed): - Girish S Agarwal (Oklahoma State University, USA) - Alain Aspect* (Institut d'Optique, Palaiseau, France) - Nicolas Gisin (Université de Genève, Switzerland) - Lov K Grover* (Bell Laboratories, New Jersey, USA) - Jian-Wei Pan (University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China) - Masahide Sasaki (Nat. Inst. of Information and Communications, Tokyo, Japan) - Umesh Vazirani (University of California, Berkeley, USA) *To be confirmed Contributions are solicited in (but not limited to) the following areas: - Quantum computation, algorithms and complexity - Quantum information theory - Quantum decoherence fighting concepts, methods and tools - Quantum cryptography - Quantum communications experiments and theory - Quantum technologies (optics-, NMR- and solid-state, etc.) - Quantum processor and computer design - Quantum programming languages and semantics The submission deadline is 16 June 2013, 23:59 in US Pacific Daylight Time. Please pay special attention to the fact (*new* for AQIS) that all submissions MUST follow the guidelines specified at http://www.imsc.res.in/~aqis13/submissions.html . Submissions deviating significantly from these guidelines *will*be*rejected* without consideration of their merits. We are looking forward to seeing you in Chennai! Committee Chairs Steering Committee: Jozef Gruska (Masaryk University, Czech Republic). Conference: Anil Kumar (IISc, Bengaluru) and Rajiah Simon (IMSc, Chennai). Conference Co-Chairs: Guang-Can Guo (USTC, Hefei, China) Hiroshi Imai (Tokyo University, Japan) and Jaewan Kim (KIAS, Seoul, Korea). Organizing Committee: Sibasish Ghosh (IMSc, Chennai). Program Committee: Gilles Brassard (Montréal) and Rajiah Simon (IMSc, Chennai). Contact Information Prabha Mandayam (IMSc, Chennai) -- AQIS'13 Secretary The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, CIT Campus, Tharamani, Chennai, 600113, India E-mail: aqis13(a)imsc.res.in Tel: +91-44-22543100 Fax: +91-44-22541586 _______________________________________________ qip mailing list qip(a)mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/qip

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: Drinks reception and poster session - Sunday March 24 at 16:00

by Marlon Cummings

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Meagan Puzacke" <Meagan.Puzacke(a)bristol.ac.uk> Date: Mar 24, 2013 9:37 AM Subject: Drinks reception and poster session - Sunday March 24 at 16:00 To: "Dirk Englund" <englund(a)columbia.edu>, "mikhail lukin" < lukin(a)physics.harvard.edu>, "Karl K. Berggren" <berggren(a)mit.edu>, "Jeffrey Shapiro" <jshaps(a)mit.edu>, <ncw(a)mit.edu>, "Alexander (Sasha) Sergienko" < alexserg(a)bu.edu>, "Scott Aaronson" <aaronson(a)csail.mit.edu>, "Alan Aspuru-Guzik" <alan(a)aspuru.com>, "slloyd(a)MIT.EDU" <slloyd(a)mit.edu>, "Marko Loncar" <loncar(a)seas.harvard.edu>, "Edward Farhi" <farhi(a)mit.edu>, "aspuru. staff" <aspuru.staff(a)gmail.com>, "Kathleen Masse" <kath(a)seas.harvard.edu>, "Mauro Bortolussi" <maurob(a)mit.edu>, "Jake Mower" <jm_(a)mit.edu>, "Sara" < smouradi(a)mit.edu>, "Catherine Lee" <cath(a)mit.edu>, "Matt Trusheim" < trusheim(a)gmail.com>, "Edward Chen" <echenteb(a)gmail.com> Cc: "Mark Thompson" <Mark.Thompson(a)bristol.ac.uk>, "Jeremy O'Brien" < jeremy.l.obrien(a)me.com> Dear all, I would like to confirm that today's drinks reception and poster session will take place at 16:00 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Cambridge. This is being held in the Charles View Ballroom on the 16th floor. For those of you who are driving, the hotel is offering a reduced rate of $12 for this event. We look forward to seeing you all this afternoon. Best wishes, Meagan Meagan Puzacke Executive Assistant Centre for Quantum Photonics University of Bristol H. H. Wills Physics Laboratory Tyndall Avenue Bristol BS8 1TL Room: 1.30 Tel: 0117 928 8737 Email: meagan.puzacke(a)bristol.ac.uk Web: http://www.phy.bris.ac.uk/groups/cqp/index.html On 13 Mar 2013, at 20:22, Mark Thompson <Mark.Thompson(a)bristol.ac.uk> wrote: > Dear all, > > We had originally scheduled the drinks reception and poster session for Saturday, but due to booking restrictions we have had to move the date to Sunday 24th, 16:00 at the Hyatt hotel in Cambridge. I hope that this is not a problem, and that you and your researcher team are still able to make it along. > > The general goal of our visit is to exchange research ideas, discuss important topics and to explore possible collaboration opportunities. There will be 10 of us in total from Bristol. We are making arrangements to visit you all individually, were we hope to give a couple of focused talks (~15min), and perhaps hear some reciprocal talks from your researchers, followed by discussions and lab visits where appropriate. > > The aim of the mini workshop on Sunday 24th is to provide a platform for further and rather informal discussions. Please bring along your researchers, and a selections of posters to present. To help us cater for numbers, could you please answer the following questions: > > 1) Can you attend the workshop, and if so how many people will you bring along? > 2) How many posters you would like to present? > > Please let me and Meagan know if you have any questions or concerns. > > I look forward to seeing you in Boston, > > Kind regards, > > Mark > > On 3 Mar 2013, at 23:58, Mark Thompson wrote: > >> Dear all, >> >> as you are aware, a group of us from Bristol will be visiting the Boston area between the 20 - 26 March. >> >> We would like to invite you and some of your PhD and postdoctoal researchers to a drinks reception and poster session on the afternoon of Saturday 23 March. We expect the event will start around 16:00, however we are still in the process of finalising the details. We plan to present some posters of our latest work to act a discussion points, and it would be great if your colleagues are also able to present some posters. >> >> Can you please let me, Jeremy and Meagan know the following: >> >> 1) If you would like to attend this event >> 2) How many of your researchers you will bring along >> 3) How many posters you would like to present >> >> I look forward to seeing you in March, >> >> Kind regards, >> >> Mark >

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: Postdoc position in Krylov's group: please pass along to qualified candidates

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Alán Aspuru-Guzik | Associate Professor Harvard University | Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology 12 Oxford Street, Room M113 | Cambridge, MA 02138 (617)-384-8188 | http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu | http://about.me/aspuru ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Anna Krylov <anna.i.krylov(a)gmail.com> Date: Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 10:05 PM Subject: Fwd: Postdoc position in Krylov's group: please pass along to qualified candidates To: Alan Aspuru-Guzik <alan(a)aspuru.com> Alan, greetings from LA! I am looking for a postdoc with strong method-development skills. Please pass this along to qualified candidates. Your help will be greatly appreciated. Best regards, Anna. A postdoctoral position is available in Krylov’s group at USC ( iopenshell.usc.edu/krylovgroup). Advanced expertise in electronic structure methodology, math and programming techniques is required. The C++ experience is highly desired. There are several ongoing projects to choose from: 1. Developing new theoretical framework and computer codes for compressing the data, exploiting the sparsity and linear dependancies in tensors commonly used in electronic structure calculations (electron repulsion integrals, wave function amplitudes, etc). This entails developing new reduced-rank tensor representations as well as implementing established techniques such as resolution-of-identity and Cholesky decomposition. 2. Developing new approaches for calculating photoionization cross sections based on Dyson orbital formalism. 3. Further development of SF-DFT approach. The position is for one year, subject to renewal for the second year based on performance and upon mutual agreement. Please send the CV and letters of recommendation to krylov(a)usc.edu. -- Dr. Anna Krylov, Ph.D., B.B.G. Professor of Chemistry Dept. of Chemistry SSC #409 University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 90089-0482 Phone: (213)740-4929 Fax: (213)740-3972 e-mail: krylov(a)usc.edu home pages: http://iopenshell.usc.edu/krylovgroup We are Gaussian-Free Zone (http://www.bannedbygaussian.org) -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Gym Companion

by Marlon Cummings

Happy Friday to all! Hope you all had a productive week. I'm writing to ask if anyone will be interested in teaming up and going to the Hemingway gym on a daily basis - starting on Monday? It's been a while for me, and I need some motivation. Marlon. -------------------------- Marlon G. Cummings Lab Manager, Aspuru-Guzik Group Mallinckrodt M112 Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Harvard University 12 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA 02138 617-496-9964 617-496-9411 (fax) http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu/

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [qip] upcoming visitors

by aram harrow

Dear quanta, In April, we will have two visitors, both from (the other) Cambridge, and both information theorists. Both former Bristolians too. I promise they are distinguishable in many other ways. They are: Will Matthews, Apr 8-10, talk date TBD but probably Apr 9 http://arxiv.org/find/quant-ph/1/au:+Matthews_W/0/1/0/all/0/1 Toby Cubitt, Apr 22-16, talk on Apr 26 http://arxiv.org/find/all/1/all:+cubitt_t/0/1/0/all/0/1 I mention this now in case anyone want to set up meetings with them. If so, I suggest emailing them directly. Also, if you don't know them, I suggest checking out their papers. -aram _______________________________________________ qip mailing list qip(a)mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/qip

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