I forgot to mention that the second talk is in 6C-442.
On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 9:13 PM Aram Harrow <aram(a)mit.edu> wrote:
Dear quanta,
We will have no group meeting tomorrow. (Our next meeting will be Fri, Nov
9, and John Napp is speaking.)
Instead, there are two talks that should interest many of us.
1.
title: Quantum lightning never strikes the same state twice
Friday, November 2, 2018 - 10:30am to 12:00pm
Location: 32-G882
Speaker: Mark Zhandry, Princeton
Abstract: Quantum no-cloning states that it is physically impossible to
clone a quantum state. No-cloning is a central to the study of quantum
cryptography, where it allows for objects such as physically unforgeable
currency. In this work, I study two strong variants of no-cloning: (1)
public key quantum money, where the would-be cloner is given a verification
oracle for checking if it successfully cloned; and (2) quantum lightning,
where the cloner even knows all the details of how the initial state was
constructed. I then give a variety of results for public key quantum money
and quantum lightning, yielding new constructions and interesting
connections to other areas of cryptography.
2.
title: Compass Codes
Fri, Nov 2 - 1:30pm-2:30pm
speaker: Ken Brown (Duke)
abstract:
The compass model of condensed-matter physics directly inspired the
Bacon-Shor subsystem code, but both the Shor code and the rotated surface
code can be considered as alternate choices for fixing gauge operators. I
will discuss our work exploring the space of compass codes on LxL lattices
and potential advantages over the surface codes for errors that are
anisotropic or inhomogeneous in space. I will then focus on distance 3
versions of the compass code and describe their possible implementation
with trapped atomic ions. This will include a discussion of stabilizer
slicing for correcting systematic errors during syndrome extraction.
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