Hi Everyone,
Now that summer has arrived we will be moving the standard group
meeting time. Starting the week after next (June 13th), we will be
having group meetings at 2pm on Thursday. This change comes about as
many people will be out of town on Fridays throughout the summer.
Additionally, we have some irregularities in the next couple meetings.
Below is the schedule for the next three group meetings (always in the
Division Room):
Monday June 3rd, 3-4pm: Jon Welch
Friday June 7th, 3-4pm: Stephanie Valleau
Thursday June 13th, 2-3pm: Joon Huh
Every Thursday for the rest of the summer, 2-3pm: group meeting
Thus, Jon Welch will be giving his group meeting on Monday next week
instead of tomorrow (to be perfectly clear: there is no group meeting
tomorrow). His talk title and abstract are included below.
Title: The Geometry of Quantum Computation
Abstract:
Poincare once said, "One geometry cannot be more true than another; it
can only be more convenient." It is curious that quantum mechanics,
and in particular quantum computation, has settled on a geometric
structure that composed of a series of two dimensional spaces, the
complex numbers. How else can we view these systems though? What
happens when we change from a simple 2D geometry to one that has
additional substructure within each dimension, yet still remains 2D on
the 'surface' so to speak? We will discuss some interesting geometric
representations of qubit systems, and see that there are a series of
richer 2D structures that can be composed to directly elucidate
features like entanglement and even provide us with the ability to
analyze quantum circuits in a much more compact way.
--
Ryan Babbush | PhD Student in Physics
(949) 331-3943 | babbush(a)fas.harvard.edu
Harvard University | Aspuru-Guzik Group
12 Oxford Street | Cambridge, MA 02138
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