aspuru-list January 2019

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[Aspuru-Guzik Group List] AP Colloquium - Oskar Painter - Friday January 25, 4pm - Pierce 209

by Ploucha, Clare

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[Aspuru-Guzik Group List] Jan 17 Group meeting

by Riley Hickman

Hello all, Mario Krenn will speak at tomorrow's group meeting, starting at 2:30pm. The title and abstract of his talk can be found below. Our usual meeting room on the Toronto side (SS571) was stolen last minute, so this week's meeting will take place in room 105 (ground floor) of the Stewart Building, which is located at 149 College St. Boston side, please send me your Skype name prior to the meeting so I can add you to the call. Best regards, Riley -------------------------------------------------------------- Title: On computer-inspired Quantum Experiments Abstract: I will explain how we use computer programs to design quantum optical experiments. Several of these experiments have recently been successfully implemented in laboratories. For me the most surprising thing is, that we can actually learn new ideas and techniques from such computer-designed quantum experiments. I will focus on one specific computer-inspired idea -- a connection between quantum experiments and graph theory: The outcome of that specific type of photonic quantum experiments is very difficult to calculate - the lies in the complexity class #P-hard. A related (but physically different) scheme has been proposed by this group to calculate chemical properties on a near-term quantum computer (Nature Photonics 9, 615 (2015)). I would like to understand whether these new methods also be used for calculations on near-term quantum devices. Therefore I'm very much looking forward for feedback and potential follow-up discussions!

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[Aspuru-Guzik Group List] TODAY, 3PM - Special Seminar: William Cairncross

by Ploucha, Clare

Harvard Quantum Initiative Special Seminar Tuesday, January 15 3:00 PM Jefferson 356 William Cairncross, JILA, NIST and University of Colorado, Boulder Precision measurement and quantum state control with trapped molecular ions Precision measurements using molecules are today amongst the most sensitive probes for fundamental physics beyond the Standard Model. I will present an ongoing search for beyond Standard Model time-reversal symmetry violation using trapped molecular ions at JILA, where we have implemented basic quantum state control to attain high sensitivity to the electron’s electric dipole moment. I will discuss our recently-completed first result and our progress towards a second-generation measurement, culminating in multi-second quantum coherence and internal state detection of over one thousand molecules at the standard quantum limit. -- Clare Ploucha Administrative Program Manager Max Planck/Harvard Research Center for Quantum Optics Department of Physics 17 Oxford Street, Jefferson 357 Cambridge, MA 02138 P: 617-495-3388

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[Aspuru-Guzik Group List] [qip] Fwd: REMINDER: MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing Launch: Call for Posters

by Aram Harrow

Dear quanta, If any of you would be interested in presenting a poster at the launch event for the new College of Computing, there is a competition which involves submitting an abstract by this Friday. It might be a good way to meet an interesting cross section of MIT, but I really don't know what to expect there. aram ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Samantha Smiley <smileys(a)mit.edu> Date: Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 12:51 PM Subject: REMINDER: MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing Launch: Call for Posters To: Samantha Smiley <smileys(a)mit.edu> Good Afternoon, I’m assisting with communications for the upcoming February 2019 launch celebration for the MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing, including a poster session during the event. The poster session is open to undergraduates, grad students, and postdocs. Could you forward this information (below signature block) to your students? Many thanks. Samantha Samantha Smiley Administrative Assistant MIT Quest for Intelligence Subject: REMINDER: MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing Launch: Call for Posters To the members of the MIT community: Following up on President Reif’s “save the date” message from before the holiday break, we are delighted to announce that MIT will host a poster session during the February 2019 launch celebration for the MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing. The poster session will demonstrate how MIT students are pushing the frontiers of computing and discovering new ways to connect computing with other disciplines. Undergraduates, graduate students, and postdoctoral researchers are invited to submit poster abstracts. A committee will choose the top projects from each of MIT’s five schools. About 60 selected posters will be displayed from 5 to 7 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 28, during the final reception for the launch event. Please submit your 100-word poster abstract online <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdDLNmNIZ6XXhRpEDWeioxuUy6dtCd6KQ6…> by 5 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 18, 2019. On behalf of President Reif and the MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing Poster Committee, we look forward to hearing from you. Questions? Contact: schwarzmancollegelaunchposters(a)mit.edu Aude Oliva, Executive Director, MIT Quest for Intelligence Antonio Torralba, Director, MIT Quest for Intelligence _______________________________________________ qip mailing list qip(a)mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/qip

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[Aspuru-Guzik Group List] January 15, 3PM - Special Seminar: William Cairncross

by Ploucha, Clare

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[Aspuru-Guzik Group List] [qip] Group meeting tomorrow

by shor

We are having a group meeting tomorrow, at 11am in the usual place (6-310). Nobody is scheduled to talk. Come prepared to discuss recent papers on the arXiv. Peter Shor _______________________________________________ qip mailing list qip(a)mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/qip

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[Aspuru-Guzik Group List] No group meeting tomorrow

by Riley Hickman

Hi all, Welcome back! I hope you all had a relaxing holiday. There will be no group meeting tomorrow as some of us have yet to return. We will resume next Thursday, Jan 17. Best, Riley

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[Aspuru-Guzik Group List] TODAY, 1:00 PM - Special Seminar: Oles Shtanko, MIT

by Ploucha, Clare

Harvard Quantum Initiative Special Seminar Tuesday, January 8 1:00 PM Jefferson 250 Oles Shtanko, MIT Title: Quasi-viscous effects in open quantum systems Abstract: In quantum transport problems, thermal environment plays an important role. We demonstrate that additionally to suppressing quantum transport due to dephasing, the environment is able to induce new dynamic effects absent in an isolated system. In particular, we show that non-interacting particles in presence of stochastic environment may exhibit formation of vortices and Poiseuille flow, the effects similar to commonly considered signatures of hydrodynamic behavior. We provide a detailed analysis of the phenomenon and derive the equations for quasi-viscous flow. The environmentally induced quantum quasi-viscosity suggests new possible transport regimes accessible in solid-state devices, cold atomic systems, and photonic quantum simulators. -- Clare Ploucha Administrative Program Manager Max Planck/Harvard Research Center for Quantum Optics Department of Physics 17 Oxford Street, Jefferson 357 Cambridge, MA 02138 P: 617-495-3388

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[Aspuru-Guzik Group List] January 8, 1:00 PM - Special Seminar: Oles Shtanko, MIT

by Ploucha, Clare

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[Aspuru-Guzik Group List] ITAMP lunch seminar - Yehuda B. Band, Ben-Gurion University (Jan 10th)

by Dakoulas, Samantha R

Speaker: Yehuda B. Band (Ben-Gurion University) Date: Thursday, Jan 10th Time: 12:00-1:00 pm Includes Pizza. Title: Quantum Rotors: Magnetometers and Accelerometers Abstract: In a cold atom gas subject to a spin-dependent 2D optical lattice potential with hexagonal symmetry, trapped atoms undergo orbital motion around the minima of the optical lattice potential. Such atoms are elementary quantum rotors (QRs). The theory of an atomic QR is developed. Wave functions, energies, and degeneracies are determined for both bosonic and fermionic QRs, as well as magnetic dipole transitions between ground and spin-excited states. QRs in optical lattices with precisely one atom per site can be used as a magnetometer or as an accelerometer; such devices can have unprecedented accuracy. Samantha Dakoulas Faculty Assistant to Professors Lukin & Greiner & their groups Department of Physics 17 Oxford St., Lyman 324A Cambridge, MA 02138 P. (617) 496-2544

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