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
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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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