Scientific Calendar Event



Starts 14 Dec 2022 16:00
Ends 14 Dec 2022 17:30
Central European Time
ICTP
Leonardo Building - Budinich Lecture Hall
Strada Costiera 11 34151 Trieste Italy
Prof. Peter Zoller is a Professor for theoretical physics at the University of Innsbruck, and Scientific Director at IQOQI Innsbruck. His research interests include atomic physics and theoretical quantum optics, and many-body quantum physics with quantum gases, and quantum information, in close collaboration with experiment. Since 1981 he has trained 34 PhD students and hosted 57 Postdocs. Future ESQ Postdocs can develop their research profile benefiting from atomic physics and quantum optics, in particular quantum many-body physics at the interface to condensed matter physics and high energy physics, and quantum information.

More information is available at: https://www.oeaw.ac.at/esq/home/esq-faculty/peter-zoller.

ABSTRACT: Progress in developing analog quantum simulation platforms is reflected in increasing control of engineered many-body Hamiltonians, and the ability to perform single-site and single-shot readouts. This defines a new generation of programmable quantum simulators which combine a certain amount of programmability with scalability to large particle numbers.  The focus of this talk is to report work from a theory-experiment collaboration with trapped ion platforms with up to fifty qubits/spins, with the goal to develop and demonstrate quantum protocols, addressing questions from the fundamental to the practical. Examples to be discussed include measurement protocols revealing the entanglement structure of the many-body wavefunction, and implementing `optimal' quantum metrology with variational quantum circuits, where quantum simulators act as `programmable quantum sensors'.
 

The Colloquium will take part in the Budinich Lecture Hall on the ICTP Campus, and is an in-person event. All are welcome to attend. Light refreshments will be served in the Lobby after the talk.