This talk looks interesting. For background, if you have free PR boxes
(ie.. devices that win CHSH w/ prob 1) then any function f(x,y) can be
computed using one bit of communication between the parties holding x and
y. This is what the abstract refers to as "communication complexity
becoming trivial." Later work showed that this result holds even if your
boxes win only w/ prob 0.95 (or something like that) but it wasn't known if
these arguments could be pushed all the way down to the quantum value
0.878... So it sounds like this work was able to achieve this goal for a
different game.
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Subject: [Lids-seminars] Virtual LIDS Seminar Series - Mary Wootters
(Stanford) // Monday, November 9, 2020
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*Virtual LIDS Seminar*
*Title: *Thresholds for Reliable Computation with Noisy Gates, and
Applications in Quantum Nonlocality
*Speaker: *Mary Wootters <https://sites.google.com/site/marywootters> (Stanford
University)
*Date: *Monday, November 9, 2020
*Time:* 4:00 PM EDT
*Host: *Prof. Guy Bresler <https://www.mit.edu/~gbresler/>
*Zoom link:* https://mit.zoom.us/j/94189117315
*Meeting ID:* 941 8911 7315
*Abstract: *Suppose you are given a bunch of logic gates -- ANDs, XORs, and
NOTs -- but they are noisy, and with some probability will return the
incorrect answer. At what noise levels is reliable computation possible
using these gates? We investigate this question when the gates have
asymmetric noise levels (aka, the AND gates might have a different amount
of noise than the XOR gates) and prove new results about when reliable
computation is and is not possible. While the statement about reliable
communication is completely classical, our work is motivated by a question
in the foundations of quantum mechanics: when are information-theoretic
axioms like "communication complexity is non-trivial" enough to explain
phenomena like the quantum value of the CHSH game? Our work implies a
limitation to an approach Brassard et al. to answer this question, and also
allows us to construct a nonlocal game for which the axiom "communication
complexity is non-trivial" *does* explain the quantum value. In this talk
I'll explain our results/approach for classical computation with noisy
gates and sketch the connection to quantum nonlocality; no background in
quantum mechanics will be assumed. This talk is based on joint work with Noah
Shutty <https://stanford.edu/~noaj/> and Patrick Hayden
<https://web.stanford.edu/~phayden/>.
*Biography:* Mary Wootters is a professor of Computer Science and
Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. She received a PhD in
mathematics from the University of Michigan, a BA in math and computer
science from Swarthmore College, and was an NSF postdoctoral fellow at
Carnegie Mellon University. She works in theoretical computer science,
applied math, and information theory; her research interests include
error-correcting codes and randomized algorithms for dealing with high
dimensional data. She is the recipient of an NSF CAREER award and was named
a Sloan Research Fellow in 2019; she was named to the Stanford Tau Beta Pi
Teaching honor roll in 2018-19 and 2019-20.
*This talk is part of the LIDS Seminar Series. See the full schedule at: *
https://lids.mit.edu/news-and-events/lids-seminar-series.
Francisco Jaimes
Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Dear quanta,
A reminder that this seminar (as well as the Jake Taylor iquise
seminar) is starting in about 5 minutes.
Also, we will not hold group meeting tomorrow since we don't have a speaker.
aram
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<nicoleyh.11(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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> This online seminar might interest members of this listserv. Thanks to Youssef Marzouk and Dave Kaiser for forwarding the information.
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> Best,
> Nicole
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> Subject: [Ccse_announce] Oct 8 CSE Seminar: Lin Lin, 12 PM ET via Zoom
> Date: September 24, 2020 at 6:19:39 PM EDT
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> Distinguished Seminar Series in
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> Thursday October 8 at 12:00 PM ET via Zoom (details below)
> Quantum numerical linear algebra
> Lin Lin
> Associate Professor of Mathematics
> University of California at Berkeley
> Faculty Scientist, Mathematics Group
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> https://math.berkeley.edu/~linlin/
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> Abstract:
> Google declared that "quantum supremacy" was reached in 2019, i.e. a programmable quantum device can solve a problem that no classical computer can solve in any feasible amount of time (irrespective of the usefulness of the problem). In this talk, I will discuss how to use a quantum computer to solve linear systems of equations: Ax=b. I will start with a toy problem, where A is merely a 2 x 2 matrix. I will then talk about some recent progress of quantum linear system solvers, and a proposal for the quantum LINPACK benchmark. No prior knowledge on quantum computation is necessary.
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> Bio:
> Lin Lin received his B.S. degree in Computational Mathematics from Peking University in 2007, and Ph.D. degree in Applied and Computational Mathematics from Princeton University in 2011, advised by Professor Weinan E and Professor Roberto Car. His research focuses on the development of efficient and accurate numerical methods for electronic structure calculations, with broad applications in quantum chemistry, quantum physics and materials science. He is now an associate professor in the Department of Mathematics at UC Berkeley, a faculty scientist at Berkeley Lab’s Mathematics Group within the Computational Research Division, and a mathematician within Berkeley Lab's Center for Advanced Mathematics for Energy Research Applications (CAMERA). He received the Sloan Research Fellowship (2015), the National Science Foundation CAREER award (2017), the Department of Energy Early Career award (2017), the inaugural SIAM Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) early career award (2017), and the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) (2019).
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1. Sorry for my mistake about the day in Netta's talk on black holes.
2. There is another conference this week, on random quantum circuits
https://www.pks.mpg.de/dcurqc20/program/
3. See below for a talk by Soonwon on Mon, Oct 5.
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From: Lesley Keaney <lkeaney(a)mit.edu>
Date: Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 8:54 AM
Subject: [CMT Seminar] Chez Pierre seminar-Monday, October 5, 2020 (via Zoom)
To: chezpierre <chezpierre(a)mit.edu>, cmt_seminar <cmt_seminar(a)mit.edu>
Hello everyone,
The next Chez Pierre Seminar for the Fall 2020 semester will be held
on Monday, October 5, 2020 at 12:00pm noon EDT.
The seminar will be broadcast via password protected Zoom link. The
details are listed below.
Soonwon Choi – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Symmetry and information flow in quantum circuits with measurements”
We will discuss novel quantum phases and phase transitions that emerge
in the dynamics of quantum circuits and exhibit distinct modes of
information flow. We consider a quantum system undergoing time
evolution generated by random unitary gates which are occasionally
interrupted by local measurements. It was previously found that such
evolution leads to a phase transition in the entanglement of the
wavefunction: at steady state it is characterized by volume law
entanglement for small measurement rate, while it is an area law above
a threshold rate. We investigate this phase transition by mapping the
quantum dynamics into classical statistical mechanics models in
equilibrium. Furthermore, we show that more phases are possible if we
impose symmetries on the dynamics. To identify the phases, we develop
a mapping between the dynamics in a broad class of quantum circuits to
the ground states of effective spin Hamiltonians, which possess a
higher symmetry than the original circuit. The different ground state
phases admitted by the higher symmetry correspond to distinct patterns
of information flow and scrambling in the circuit dynamics. We
illustrate these ideas with two examples: (i) a quantum circuit with
Z_2 symmetry resulting in non-abelian D_4 symmetry in an effective
Hamiltonian and (ii) a quadratic fermionic circuit leading to U(1)
symmetry. The latter exhibits Kosterlitz–Thouless transition in 1D
between a critical phase with log(L) entanglement and "trivial" area
law phases. Our work is a first step toward the classification of
information flow in generic quantum circuits with symmetries.
Talk: 12:00pm noon
Date: Monday, October 5, 2020
Broadcast via: Zoom (details are listed below)
Host: Senthil Todadri
Time: October 5, 2020 12:00pm Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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Thank you,
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Dear quanta,
The next few days (starting tomorrow) will be a workshop on the
'informational lens' with a focus tomorrow on quantum, including a
talk by me that will probably be already familiar material for most of
you.
https://sites.google.com/view/informational-lens-workshop-1/home?authuser=0
---
At 2pm tomorrow there is a nuclear/particle theory seminar on the
black hole information problem.
“The Black Hole Information Paradox: A Resolution on the Horizon?”
Abstract: The black hole information paradox — whether information
escapes an evaporating black hole or not — remains one of the
greatest unsolved mysteries of theoretical physics. The apparent
conflict between validity of semiclassical gravity at low curvatures
and unitarity of quantum mechanics has long been expected to find its
resolution in the deep quantum gravity regime. Recent developments in
the holographic dictionary and in particular its application to
entanglement, however, have shown that a semiclassical analysis of
gravitational physics has a hallmark feature of unitary evolution. I
will describe this recent progress and discuss some potential new
avenues for working towards a resolution of the information paradox.
https://mit.zoom.us/j/92926107078?pwd=MUdQeHNFVUhJbDhneEREWm9KQ2FPdz09
Meeting ID: 929 2610 7078
Password: MIT-CTP-NP
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Thursday at 4pm is the Physics Colloquium
Speaker: Frank Wilczek, MIT
Title: “Quanta of the Third Kind: Anyons”
Abstract: According to traditional understanding, quantum particles
are either bosons or fermions. This so-called “quantum statistics” has
important consequences for their behavior. In the late 70-ies the
mathematics of topology was employed to get a deep understanding of
quantum statistics, and lead to the realization that in two spatial
dimensions there are alternatives beyond bosons and fermions. The new
possible particles go under the general name “anyons”, coined in 1982.
In 1984 it was demonstrated, theoretically, that quasiparticles in the
states of matter known as fractional quantum Hall liquids (FQHL) are
fractionally charged anyons. Since then, theoretical and numerical
work on states of two-dimensional matter has predicted many types of
anyons, and in particular “nonabelian” anyons that could be a powerful
resource for quantum computers. Until very recently, experiments on
anyons lagged far behind the thriving theoretical and numerical work,
but this spring, two independent innovative experiments convincingly
observed anyon behavior in the simplest FQHL. The age of experimental
anyonics is upon us.
LINK: https://mit.zoom.us/j/93759934137?pwd=cFRuTTRGS1Y1eWxIQUNYblZlbVlVdz09
Password: phys82020
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And finally, this Friday we will have Yichen speak in our group
meeting about his work on convergence to the thermodynamic limit.
aram
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Dear quanta,
Tomorrow (11am ET) we'll have Karen Morenz tell us about her work on
better-than-product-state approximations for the antiferromagnetic
Heisenberg model on general graphs.
Here is the zoom link
https://mit.zoom.us/j/97943342302
and the paper
https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.14394
Sep 11 we will have Ike tell us about q algorithms.
Sep 18 we will have Michael Kreshchuk (Tufts) tell us about simulating
molecules and high-energy physics.
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postdoc opening in Berlin, due in 2 weeks.
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From: Jens Eisert <jense(a)zedat.fu-berlin.de>
Date: Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 6:34 AM
Subject: Funded postdoctoral and PhD positions in quantum error correction
To: Jens Eisert <jense(a)physik.fu-berlin.de>
We are offering both a fully funded three-year postdoctoral position
(E13) and a PhD position (E13 3/4) to highly motivated and
well-qualified researchers who intend to conduct research in the field
of quantum error correction and related fields. The scientific project
will relate to the fundamentals of topological quantum error
correcting codes as well as to near-term error mitigation in realistic
quantum devices. The successful candidates will work as part of the
research group led by Jens Eisert at the FU Berlin. For an overview of
research activities, see
http://www.physik.fu-berlin.de/en/einrichtungen/ag/ag-eisert/research
We are a highly active research group with a culture of open
discussion, creative interdisciplinary thought and substantial
international collaborations. We also have a strong track record in
supporting academic careers, see
http://www.physik.fu-berlin.de/en/einrichtungen/ag/ag-eisert/people/past
The positions have connections to the German BMBF initiative on
quantum software, the European Quantum Flagship and the excellence
initiative MATH+.
All applications should be sent in electronic form to
jense(a)physik.fu-berlin.de with the key word
"QuantumErrorCorrection2020" in the subject line. Review of the
applications will begin after September 28, 2020 and will continue
until the positions are filled. Early submissions are appreciated. The
start date is flexible.
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Dahlem Center for Complex Quantum Systems
Physics Department
Freie Universität Berlin Arnimallee 14, 14195 Berlin
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Dear quanta,
This Friday's speaker will be incoming grad student John Martyn who will
speak about his work on the AKLT model.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.10327https://mit.zoom.us/j/97943342302
In later weeks we have lined up:
Sep 4 - Karen Morenz - beyond-product approximations to quantum MAX-CUT
Sep 11 - Ike Chuang - a grand unification of quantum algorithms.
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Dear quanta,
Tomorrow at 11am, Chris will tell us about his recent work at the
intersection of quantum information and quantum gravity. Details below.
https://mit.zoom.us/j/97943342302
Title: How one-shot quantum Shannon theory saved holography
Abstract:
The ``quantum extremal surface'' prescription is the holographic method for
computing von Neumann entropy, crucial for many of the most important
results in holography. I will show that, as historically formulated, this
prescription leads to contradictions, which I then make sense of and
resolve with tools of one-shot quantum Shannon theory, leading to a refined
prescription.
If I have time, I will explain a tightly connected result, that
“entanglement wedge reconstruction,” an important map from operators in
gravity to operators in the CFT, is a special case of one-shot quantum
state merging.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.03319
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Dear quanta,
see below for an announcement of a talk by Frank Wilczek.
We will also have our postponed talk by Chris Akers this Friday. Here is
the schedule of upcoming Fri morning talks.
Aug 21 - Chris Akers
Aug 28 - John Martyn
Sep 4 - Karen Morenz
Sep 11 - Ike Chuang
-aram
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From: Lesley Keaney <lkeaney(a)mit.edu>
Date: Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 10:55 AM
Subject: [CMT Seminar] FW: [QMatter/Fantasy August 26 Wed 2020 -- 9:30 AM -
11 am EDT]: Frank Wilczek (MIT) Physical Approaches to Quantum Computing -
on Harvard CMSA ZOOM 977347126
To: cmt_seminar <cmt_seminar(a)mit.edu>
Hello everyone,
I have been asked to forward the following Harvard University seminar
information.
The seminar with *Professor* *Frank Wilczek* (Professor at MIT, Arizona
State, Jiao Tong, Stockholm) will be held on *Wednesday, August 26, 2020*
from 9:30 - 11am EDT.
Please see the details listed below.
Thank you,
Lesley
*From: *"Juven C. Wang" <juven(a)idear.info>
Please circulate, Thank you very much. Hope you have a great day.
Let us warmly welcome Professor Frank Wilczek!!!
for his magic QMatter/Fantasy seminar.
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Harvard CMSA Quantum Matter in Mathematics and Physics
August 26 Wed, 9:30 AM - 11 AM EDT
Venue: 977347126
https://harvard.zoom.us/j/977347126
Password: cmsa
Speaker: *Frank Wilczek* (Professor at MIT, Arizona State, Jiao Tong,
Stockholm)
*Physical Approaches to Quantum Computing *
(please use full real name to join in, the Admin/moderator[s] examine the
attendees to block zoombombing.)
https://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/quantum-matter-seminar/
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