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Workshop on Noise and Instabilities in Quantum Mechanics | (smr 1675)
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  • Monday, 3 October 2005
    • 08:30 - 09:20 REGISTRATION / ADMINISTRATIVE FORMALITIES
      Location: Main Building, Lobby
      • 08:30 REGISTRATION / ADMINISTRATIVE FORMALITIES 50'
    • 09:20 - 09:30 OPENING SESSION 
      DIRECTORS:

Giulio CASATI (Universita' degli Studi dell'Insubria, Italy)
Seth LLOYD (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, U.S.A)
Gerard MILBURN (University of Queensland, Australia)


LOCAL ORGANIZERS:

Giuliano BENENTI
(Universita'degli Studi dell'Insubria, Italy)

Gabriel CARLO
(Universita' degli Studi dell'Insubria, Italy)
      • 09:20 OPENING SESSION 10'
    • 09:30 - 10:20 Loschmidt Echoes and decoherence in NMR as sensors of Quantum Dynamical Phase Transitions
      • 09:30 Loschmidt Echoes and decoherence in NMR as sensors of Quantum Dynamical Phase Transitions 50'
        Speaker: Horacio PASTAWSKI (Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina)
    • 10:20 - 11:10 When dynamical chaos enhances quantum fidelity
      • 10:20 When dynamical chaos enhances quantum fidelity 50'
        Speaker: Tomaz PROSEN (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 11:10 - 11:40 COFFEE BREAK
      Location: Main Building, Lobby
      • 11:10 COFFEE BREAK 30'
    • 11:40 - 12:30 Noise and instabilities in generalised spin-boson models
      • 11:40 Noise and instabilities in generalised spin-boson models 50'
        Speaker: Tobias BRANDES (The University of Manchester, U.K.)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:30 - 15:00 LUNCH BREAK
      Location: Main Building Cafeteria
      • 12:30 LUNCH BREAK 2h30'
    • 15:00 - 15:50 Quantum measurements and decoherence in operators algebras formalism
      • 15:00 Quantum measurements and decoherence in operators algebras formalism 50'
        Speaker: Sergei MAYBUROV (Lebedev Institute of Physics, Moscow, Russia)
    • 15:50 - 16:40 Decay of fidelity due to dynamical and static imperfections
      • 15:50 Decay of fidelity due to dynamical and static imperfections 50'
        Speaker: Saverio PASCAZIO (Università degli Studi di Bari, Italy)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 16:40 - 17:10 COFFEE BREAK
      Location: Main Building, Lobby
      • 16:40 COFFEE BREAK 30'
    • 17:10 - 18:00 Efficient Noise Estimation from the Imperfect Loschmidt Echo for Random Circuits
      • 17:10 Efficient Noise Estimation from the Imperfect Loschmidt Echo for Random Circuits 50'
        Speaker: Joseph EMERSON (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Canada)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 20:30 - 23:30 WELCOME DINNER PARTY
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
      • 20:30 WELCOME DINNER PARTY 3h0'
  • Tuesday, 4 October 2005
    • 09:30 - 10:20 Decoherence and quantum chaos
      • 09:30 Decoherence and quantum chaos 50'
        Speaker: Juan PAZ (IAFE, Buenos Aires, Argentina & Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM, U.S.A.)
    • 10:20 - 11:10 Quantum noise in algorithms and transport
      • 10:20 Quantum noise in algorithms and transport 50'
        Speaker: Gabriel CARLO (Università degli Studi dell)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 11:10 - 11:40 COFFEE BREAK
      Location: Main Building, Lobby
      • 11:10 COFFEE BREAK 30'
    • 11:40 - 12:30 Ultracold atoms in periodic potentials
      • 11:40 Ultracold atoms in periodic potentials 50'
        Speaker: F. MINARDI (Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:30 - 15:00 LUNCH BREAK
      Location: Main Building Cafeteria
      • 12:30 LUNCH BREAK 2h30'
    • 15:00 - 15:50 Quantum Archaeology: Thermodynamical Witnesses to the Macroscopic Entanglement of the Past
      • 15:00 Quantum Archaeology: Thermodynamical Witnesses to the Macroscopic Entanglement of the Past 50'
        Speaker: Vlatko VEDRAL (University of Leeds, U.K.)
    • 15:50 - 16:40 Entanglement and decoherence in dynamical systems and the quantum-to-classical correspondence
      • 15:50 Entanglement and decoherence in dynamical systems and the quantum-to-classical correspondence 50'
        Speaker: Philippe JACQUOD (Université de Geneve, Switzerland)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 16:40 - 17:10 COFFEE BREAK
      Location: Main Building, Lobby
      • 16:40 COFFEE BREAK 30'
    • 17:10 - 18:00 Models of quantum noise and their effects on maps and algorithms
      • 17:10 Models of quantum noise and their effects on maps and algorithms 50'
        Speaker: Marcos SARACENO (CNEA, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
        Material: lecture notes
  • Wednesday, 5 October 2005
    • 09:30 - 10:20 Quantum noise and instabilities in cavity QED
      • 09:30 Quantum noise and instabilities in cavity QED 50'
        Speaker: Howard CARMICHAEL (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:20 - 11:10 Quantum simulations with trapped ions
      • 10:20 Quantum simulations with trapped ions 50'
        Speaker: Diego PORRAS (Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, Munich, Germany)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 11:10 - 11:40 COFFEE BREAK
      Location: Main Building, Lobby
      • 11:10 COFFEE BREAK 30'
    • 11:40 - 12:30 A space-collapse model without infinite energy increase
      • 11:40 A space-collapse model without infinite energy increase 50'
        Speaker: Emiliano IPPOLITI (Università degli Studi di Trieste, Italy)
    • 12:30 - 15:30 LUNCH BREAK
      Location: Main Building Cafeteria
      • 12:30 LUNCH BREAK 3h0'
    • 15:30 - 16:00 GROUP PHOTO
      Location: Main Building Terrace
      • 15:30 GROUP PHOTO 30'
    • 16:00 - 19:00 POSTER SESSION PRESENTATIONS + GET-TOGETHER DRINK 
      POSTERS TO BE PRESENTED
(as of 5/10/2005)


1) Leonardo Ermann
Decoherence with a chaotic environment: quantum walk with the quantum baker’s map

2) Mikko Mottonen 
High fidelity one-qubit operations under random telegraph Noise

3) Alexandre Dodonov
Microscopic models of quantum jump super-operators

4) Wiem Ben Chouikha
Decoherence effects on entangled states of two electrons in coupled quantum dots

5) Roberto Serra
Effective multipartite entanglement under decoherence: some preliminary results

6) Branko Gumhalter
Ultrafast dynamics and electron decoherence in surface bands

7) Melanie Lebental
Dielectric microlasers

8) Davide Rossini
From perfect to fractal transmission in spin chains

9) Jayendra Bandyopadhyay
Chaos and Entanglement

10) Ignacio Garcia-Mata
Phase Space Contracting Channels

11) Mario Aolita
Direct measurement of a superconducting transmission line's Wigner function through a Cooper-pair box

12) Giuseppe Florio
Effects of noise in holonomic quantum computation

13) Raul Vallejos
Entangling power of baker's map: Role of symmetries

14) Antonio D'Arrigo
Decoherence in Josephson qubits

15) Sangchul Oh
Entanglement of impurity and conduction spins in the Kondo model

16) Stefan Filipp
Spatial Geometric Phase in Neutron Interferometry and Decoherence Properties

17) Patricia Levstein
Environmentally induced quantum dynamical phase transition in the spin swapping operation

18) Thiago Oliveira
Genuine multipartite entanglement in quantum phase transitions

19) Dipti Banerjee 
Qubit rotation and Berry Phase
      Location: Main Building, Lobby
      • 16:00 POSTER SESSION PRESENTATIONS + GET-TOGETHER DRINK 3h0'
  • Thursday, 6 October 2005
    • 09:30 - 10:20 Quantum information processing with trapped Ca+ ions
      • 09:30 Quantum information processing with trapped Ca+ ions 50'
        Speaker: Rainer BLATT (Universitat Innsbruck, Austria)
    • 10:20 - 11:10 Heisenberg-limited measurement of displacements and rotations with cavity QED and ion traps
      • 10:20 Heisenberg-limited measurement of displacements and rotations with cavity QED and ion traps 50'
        Speaker: Luiz DAVIDOVICH (Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 11:10 - 11:40 COFFEE BREAK
      Location: Main Building, Lobby
      • 11:10 COFFEE BREAK 30'
    • 11:40 - 12:30 Dephasing and quantum-classical correspondence in decay of Loschmidt echo
      • 11:40 Dephasing and quantum-classical correspondence in decay of Loschmidt echo 50'
        Speaker: Valentin SOKOLOV (Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, Novosibirsk, Russia)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:30 - 15:00 LUNCH BREAK
      Location: Main Building Cafeteria
      • 12:30 LUNCH BREAK 2h30'
    • 15:00 - 15:50 Multipartite entanglement and decoherence
      • 15:00 Multipartite entanglement and decoherence 50'
        Speaker: Andreas BUCHLEITNER (Max-Planck-Institute, Dresden, Germany)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 15:50 - 16:40 Dynamics of entanglement in the Heisenberg model
      • 15:50 Dynamics of entanglement in the Heisenberg model 50'
        Speaker: Simone MONTANGERO (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Italy)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 16:40 - 17:10 COFFEE BREAK
      Location: Main Building, Lobby
      • 16:40 COFFEE BREAK 30'
    • 17:10 - 18:10 POSTER SESSION
      Location: Main Building, Lobby
      • 17:10 POSTER SESSION 1h0'
    • 20:00 - 23:00 FAREWELL RECEPTION PARTY
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
      • 20:00 FAREWELL RECEPTION PARTY 3h0'
  • Friday, 7 October 2005
    • 09:30 - 10:20 Instabilities and nonlinearities in Bose-Einstein condensates
      • 09:30 Instabilities and nonlinearities in Bose-Einstein condensates 50'
        Speaker: Ennio ARIMONDO (Università degli Studi di Pisa, Italy)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:20 - 11:10 Decoherence and control of solid state quantum bits
      • 10:20 Decoherence and control of solid state quantum bits 50'
        Speaker: Giuseppe FALCI (Universita' degli Studi di Catania, Italy)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 11:10 - 11:40 COFFEE BREAK
      Location: Main Building, Lobby
      • 11:10 COFFEE BREAK 30'
    • 11:40 - 12:30 The quantum butterfly effect: predicting the future in a chaotic world
      • 11:40 The quantum butterfly effect: predicting the future in a chaotic world 50'
        Speaker: Seth LLOYD (M.I.T., Cambridge, U.S.A.)
    • 12:30 - 12:45 CLOSING SESSION
      • 12:30 CLOSING SESSION 15'
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