Past Seminars

• November 5, 2009
  Vlad Gheorghiu (CMU)
  Information transfer for LOCC transformations with an application to local cloning
  
  
• October 29, 2009
  Shiang Yong Looi (CMU)
  Eigenkets of angular momentum operators with particle permutation symmetry, part II
  
  
• October 22, 2009
  Shiang Yong Looi (CMU)
  Eigenkets of angular momentum operators with particle permutation symmetry
  
  
• October 15, 2009
  Ed Gerjuoy (Pitt)
  On a New Limitation in Deterministic Dense Coding Theory (DDCT). III
  
  
• October 8, 2009
  Ed Gerjuoy (Pitt)
  On a New Limitation in Deterministic Dense Coding Theory (DDCT). II
  
  
• October 1, 2009
  Vlad Gheorghiu (CMU)
  Broadcast Channels
  
  
• September 17, 2009
  Ed Gerjuoy (Pitt)
  On a New Limitation in Deterministic Dense Coding Theory (DDCT)
  
  
• July 30, 2009
  Robert B. Griffiths (CMU)
  Implications of Bell's Inequality (Continued)
  
  
• July 23, 2009
  Patrick Coles (CMU)
  Classical Zeno Effect?
  
  
• July 16, 2009
  Robert Griffiths (CMU)
  Implications of Bell's inequality
  
  
• July 9, 2009
  Vlad Gheorghiu (CMU)
  Multipartite entaglement transformation
  
  
• June 18, 2009
  Vlad Gheorghiu (CMU)
  Operator Quantum Error Correcting Codes
  
  
• June 11, 2009
  Shiang Yong Looi (CMU)
  Decoherence free subspaces and noiseless subsystems by example
  
  
• May 28, 2009
  Li Yu (CMU)
  Quantum vs classical correlations and their relation to mutually unbiased bases
  
  
• May 7, 2009
  Patrick Coles (CMU)
  Non-Hermitian Hamiltonians in open quantum optics systems: a review of recent literature
  
  
• April 23, 2009
  Shiang Yong Looi (CMU)
  Quantum Error Correction of Observables (cont.)
  
  
• April 16, 2009
  Vlad Gheorghiu (CMU)
  Quantum Information and Its Relation to Mutually Unbiased Bases (cont.)
  
  
• April 9, 2009
  Scott Cohen (Duquesne University)
  Optimizing the amount of entanglement needed for local implementation of nonlocal quantum gates
  
  
• Mar 26, 2009
  Vlad Gheorghiu (CMU)
  Quantum Information and Its Relation to Mutually Unbiased Bases
  
  
• Mar 5, 2009
  Andrzej Dudek (CMU, Math Department)
  Flips in Graphs
  
  
• Feb 26, 2009
  Frank Tabakin (Pitt)
  QCMPI-A Parallel Environment for Quantum Computing Simulation Studies
  
  
• Feb 19, 2009
  Ed Gerjuoy (Pitt)
  A New Approach to Deterministic Dense Coding Theory (continued)
  
  
• Feb 5, 2009
  Ed Gerjuoy (Pitt)
  A new approach to deterministic dense coding theory
  
  
• Jan 22, 2009
  Vlad Gheorghiu (CMU)
  Report on QIP 2009 Conference in Santa Fe, NM
  
  
• Jan 15, 2009
  Patrick Coles (CMU)
  The Continuous Quantum Zeno Effect
  
  
• Dec 11, 2008
  Vlad Gheorghiu and Shiang Yong Looi (CMU)
  Types and location of information, part II
  
  
• Dec 4, 2008
  Chris Brust (CMU)
  A Group-Theoretic Approach to Mutually Unbiased Bases
  
  
• Nov 20, 2008
  Shiang Yong Looi and Vlad Gheorghiu (CMU)
  Types and Location of Information (Part I)
  
  
• Nov 6, 2008
  Patrick Coles (CMU)
  Decoherence of cavity field states: A review of recent work by Haroche and colleagues (Part 2)
  
  
• Oct 30, 2008
  Li Yu (CMU)
  Nonlocal unitaries: Some extended protocols
  
  
• Oct 23, 2008
  Patrick Coles (CMU)
  Collapse and decoherence of cavity field states: A review of recent work by Haroche and colleagues
  
  
• Oct 16, 2008
  Vlad Gheorghiu (CMU)
  Secret Sharing with Graph States (cont.)
  
  
• Oct 9, 2008
  Vlad Gheorghiu (CMU)
  Secret Sharing with Graph States
  
  
• Sept 25, 2008
  Patrick Coles (CMU)
  Optically-induced nuclear spin alignment in semiconductors: A model thermodynamic phenomenon with application to quantum information storage
  
  
• Sept 18, 2008
  Vlad Gheorghiu (CMU)
  Finite Fields. Final Part.
  
  
• Sept 11, 2008
  Edward Gerjuoy
  Quantum Computing/Information at the May 2008 APS DAMOP Meeting
  
  
• Sept 4, 2008
  Shiang Yong Looi (CMU)
  Types and Location of Information
  
  
• Aug 20, 2008
  Shiang Yong Looi (CMU)
  Quantum State Estimation: Statistics meets Quantum Mechanics (Part 2)
  
  
• Aug 14, 2008
  Shiang Yong Looi (CMU)
  Quantum State Estimation : Statistics meets Quantum Mechanics
  
  
• Aug 7, 2008
  Vlad Gheorghiu (CMU)
  Finite fields: an introduction. Part II.
  
  
• July 31, 2008
  Vlad Gheorghiu (CMU)
  Report on the Boston ICQI 2008 Conference
  
  
• July 10, 2008
  Andrew Jordan (University of Rochester)
  Weak values and the Leggett-Garg inequality in solid-state qubits
  
  
• July 2, 2008
  Vlad Gheorghiu (CMU)
  Finite fields: an introduction
  
  
• June 12, 2008
  Shiang Yong Looi (CMU)
  Calderbank-Shor-Steane (CSS) Quantum Codes
  
  
• June 4, 2008
  Vanita Srinivasa (Pitt)
  Quantum information in spin chains and spin clusters
  
  
• May 27, 2008
  Barry Sanders (University of Calgary)
  Simulating Hamiltonian evolution on a quantum computer
  
  
• May 15, 2008
  Robert Griffiths (CMU)
  Old Theory and New Experiments: Report on Frontiers of Quantum Theory Workshop
  
  
• May 8, 2008
  Vlad Gheorghiu (CMU)
  Location of quantum information in quantum codes
  
  
• May 2, 2008
  Cinar Sahin
  Placing Quantum Computation in the Complexity Space
  Adam Wolbach
  Skepticism of Quantum Computing
  
  
• April 25, 2008
  Alexander Shaver
  Boundaries in Dense Coding with Decreased Channel Dimension
  
  
• April 11, 2008
  Edgar Martinez
  On the Quantum Lambda Calculus
  Dong Yue Yang
  Experimental realization of Shor's quantum factoring algorithm
  
  
• Mar 28, 2008
  Chris Brust (CMU)
  An analysis of the cost-efficiency of quantum cryptography
  Maladau Mou (CMU)
  Practical Internet Security
  
  
• Mar 21, 2008
  Vlad Gheorghiu (CMU)
  Geometry and Quantum Information
  
  
• Feb 22, 2008
  Shiang Yong Looi (CMU)
  A Gentle Introduction to Twirling
  
  
• Feb 15, 2008
  Vlad Gheorghiu (CMU)
  Bound entanglement - when distillability fails: an introduction
  
  
• Feb 8, 2008
  Frank Tabakin (Pitt)
  QCMPI A Quantum Computer Simulation Using MPI
  
  
• Feb 1, 2008
  Robert Griffiths (CMU)
  Quantum Information Programs in Mathematica
  
  
• January 25, 2008
  Vlad Gheorghiu (CMU)
  Types of quantum operations
  
  
• January 17, 2008
  Shiang Yong Looi (CMU)
  Report on First Conference on Quantum Error Correction
  
  
• December 12, 2007
  Arthur Davidson (CMU)
  In the Nano Regime, Do the Axioms of Quantum Mechanics Hold? Part II
  
  
• December 6, 2007
  Nicholas Radcliffe (CMU)
  Nested Quantum Search and NP-Complete Problems
  
  Anuradha Bhatia
  Reading Spin Information Out of Quantum Dots
  
  
• November 29, 2007
  Christopher Brust (CMU)
  Quantum Cryptography Employing 3-State Systems
  
  Dongyue Yang (Pitt)
  Topological Quantum Computation
  
  
• November 15, 2007
  Hui Deng (California Institute of Technology)
  Scalable Quantum Networks with Atomic Ensembles
  
  
• November 8, 2007
  Arthur Davidson (ECE Dept., CMU)
  In the Nano-Regime, Do the Axioms of Quantum Mechanics Hold?
  
  
• November 1, 2007
  Li Yu (CMU)
  Deterministic Nonlocal Unitaries
  
  
• October 25, 2007
  Scott Cohen (Duquesne University)
  Phase boundaries for deterministic dense coding (cont.)
  
  
• October 18, 2007
  Scott Cohen (Duquesne University)
  Phase boundaries for deterministic dense coding
  
  
• October 11, 2007
  Shiang Yong Looi (CMU)
  Introduction to graph states and quantum error correcting codes
  
  
• October 4, 2007
  Vlad Gheorghiu (CMU)
  Operator quantum error correction
  
  
• September 20, 2007
  Edward Gerjuoy (Pitt)
  Some Recent Results in the Theory of Deterministic Dense Coding (cont)
  
  
• September 13, 2007
  Edward Gerjuoy (Pitt)
  Some Recent Results in the Theory of Deterministic Dense Coding
  
  
• September 6, 2007
  Robert Griffiths (CMU)
  Types of Quantum Information
  
  
• August 30, 2007
  Robert Griffiths (CMU)
  Quantum Locality
  
  
• August 23, 2007
  Dmitry Uskov (Tulane and Louisiana State)
  Quantum Information Processing by Linear Optics and Photocounting
  
  
• August 16, 2007
  Vlad Gheorghiu (CMU)
  Codeword Stabilized Quantum Codes
  
  
• August 9, 2007
  Vlad Gheorghiu (CMU)
  (PhD candidate thesis proposal) Separable Operations, Graph States
  
  
• August 2, 2007
  Li Yu (CMU)
  (PhD candidate annual review) Conversion of Resources in Quantum Information Theory
  
  
• July 26, 2007
  Edward Gerjuoy (Pitt)
  Quantum Computing/Information at the May 2007 APS DAMOP Meeting
  
  
• July 19, 2007
  Vlad Gheorghiu (CMU)
  New perspectives in measurement-based quantum computation (cont.)
  
  
• July 12, 2007
  Vlad Gheorghiu (CMU)
  New perspectives in measurement-based quantum computation
  
  
• July 5, 2007
  Scott M. Cohen (Duquesne University)
  Understanding entanglement as resource: locally distinguishing unextendible product bases
  
  
• June 28, 2007
  Shiang Yong Looi and Robert Griffiths (CMU)
  Construction of Some Quantum Codes Saturating the Singleton Bound
  
  
• June 21, 2007
  Vlad Gheorghiu (CMU)
  Report on the Rochester Conference
  
  
• June 7, 2007
  Shiang Yong Looi (CMU)
  Construction of quantum error-correcting codes using graph states
  
  
• May 31, 2007
  Robert Griffiths (CMU)
  Deterministic Nonlocal Unitaries (continued)
  
  
• May 24, 2007
  Robert Griffiths (CMU)
  Deterministic Nonlocal Unitaries
  
  
• May 17, 2007
  Vlad Gheorghiu (CMU)
  Local equivalence of stabilizer states and graph states
  
  
• May 10, 2007
  Chuiping Yang (CMU)
  Introduction to linear optical quantum computation
  
  
• May 3, 2007
  Christopher Brust (CMU)
  An introduction to mutually unbiased bases
  
  
• April 19, 2007
  Robert Griffiths (CMU)
  The Microscopic Origin of Irreversibility. II
  
  
• April 12, 2007
  Robert Griffiths (CMU)
  The Microscopic Origin of Irreversibility. I
  
  
• March 22, 2007
  Robert Griffiths (CMU)
  Schrodinger's Opposition to Quantum Jumps
  
  
• March 15, 2007
  Vlad Gheorghiu (CMU)
  Entanglement transformation using separable operations
  
  
• March 8, 2007
  Alexander Ling (National University of Singapore)
  Experimental Qubit State Estimation with Minimal Resources
  
  
• March 1, 2007
  Li Yu (CMU)
  Local Implementation of Nonlocal Unitaries. Part II
  
  
• February 15, 2007
  Scott Cohen (Duquesne)
  Local Implementation of Nonlocal Unitaries. Part I
  
  
• February 8, 2007
  Vlad Gheorghiu (CMU)
  A brief introduction to entanglement measures
  
  
• February 1, 2007
  Robert Griffiths (CMU)
  Introduction to Decoherence. III
  
  
• January 25, 2007
  Frank Tabakin (Pitt)
  QDENSITY--A Quantum Computer Simulator
  
  
• January 18, 2007
  Robert Griffiths (CMU)
  Introduction to Decoherence. II
  
  
• January 11, 2007
  Robert Griffiths (CMU)
  Introduction to Decoherence
  
  
• January 5, 2007
  Chuiping Yang (CMU)
  Death of Entanglement
  
  
• December 14, 2006
  Shiang Yong Looi (CMU)
  Quantum Error Correction Codes Using Graph States
  
  
• December 7, 2006
  Vlad Gheorghiu (CMU)
  Randomized Unitary Channels
  
  
• November 30, 2006
  Christopher Brust (CMU)
  Quantum codes using entanglement
  
  
• November 16, 2006
  Robert Griffiths (CMU)
  Report on "One-Way Quantum Computation" by Browne and Briegel, continued
  
  
• November 9, 2006
  Robert Griffiths (CMU)
  Report on "One-Way Quantum Computation" by Browne and Briegel
  
  
• November 2, 2006
  Vlad Gheorghiu (CMU)
  One way quantum computing for general graph states (conclusion)
  
  
• October 26, 2006
  Vlad Gheorghiu (CMU)
  One way quantum computing for general graph states (cont)
  
  
• October 19, 2006
  Vlad Gheorghiu (CMU)
  One way quantum computing for general graph states
  
  
• October 5, 2006
  Chui-Ping Yang (CMU)
  Many-party controlled teleportation of multi-qubit quantum information via entanglement
  
  
• September 21, 2006
  Robert Griffiths (CMU) Report on the "International Conference on Quantum Foundation and Technology," Hangzhou, China, August 2006.
  
  
• August 9, 2006
  Edward Gerjuoy (Pitt) Quantum computing and information talks at the recent DAMOP meeting
  
  
• August 3, 2006
  Vlad Gheorghiu and Robert Griffiths (CMU) Graph states for d-dimensional qudits (continued)
  
  
• July 27, 2006
  Frank Tabakin (Pitt) Kraus, Lindblad and Beyond
  
  
• July 20, 2006
  Jeremy Levy (Pitt) Designer Qubits
  
  
• July 13, 2006
  Hsun-Hsien Chang (CMU) Graph Structure of Quantum Codes
  
  
• July 6, 2006
  Vlad Gheorghiu and Robert Griffiths (CMU) Graph states for d-dimensional qudits
  
  
• June 29, 2006
  Robert Griffiths and Hsun-Hsien Chang (CMU) Graph States, Codes, Measurement-Based Computation
  
  
• June 22, 2006
  Robert Griffiths and Hsun-Hsien Chang (CMU) Graph States, Codes, Measurement-Based Computation
  
  
• June 15, 2006
  Robert Griffiths and Hsun-Hsien Chang (CMU) Cluster States
  
  
• June 7, 2006
  Albert P. Heberle (Pitt) All-Optical Quantum Computing with Femtosecond Coherent Control of Excitons in Semiconductor Quantum Dots
  
  
• June 1, 2006
  Robert Griffiths (CMU) Counterfactual Quantum Computation
  
  
• May 25, 2006
  Scott Cohen (Duquesne) Report from Gordon Conference on Quantum Information Science
  
  
• May 5, 2006
  Cheng Cen (Pitt) Superconducting Approaches to Quantum Computing
  
  
• April 28, 2006
  Christopher Brust (CMU) Cryptography Employing Elliptic Curves
  Nathaniel Filardo (CMU) The Stabilizer Formalism and Error Correction
  
  
• April 14, 2006
  Claire Tomesch (CMU) Quantum Computing and the Braid Group
  Brian Parno (CMU) Security Analysis of Quantum Cryptography
  
  
• March 31, 2006
  Dianna Seymour (CMU) Quantum Computation with Trapped Ions
  Guanglei Cheng (Pitt) Quantum Game Theory
  
  
• March 24, 2006 Adam Azarchs (CMU)
  Quantum Coin Flipping Protocols
  
  
• March 16 Scott Cohen (Duquesne)
  Boundary effect in deterministic dense coding
  
  
• March 10 Vlad Gheorghiu (CMU)
  The entangling and disentangling power of unitaries
  
  
• February 24 Li Yu (CMU)
  Quantum Secret Sharing
  
  
• February 17 Vlad Gheorghiu (CMU)
  Coherent States and Squeezed States
  
  
• February 10 Yuqing Sun (CMU)
  The "Ping-Pong Protocol"--Secure Communication Using Entanglement
  
  
• February 3 Hsun-Hsien Chang (CMU)
  Error Correcting Codes: From Classical to Quantum
  
  
• January 27 Robert Griffiths (CMU)
  Winning Games With Quantum Resources
  
  
• December 1 Shiang Yong Looi (CMU)
  Computing accessible information to analyze quantum cryptographic schemes.
  
  
• December 8 Christopher Brust (CMU)
  Teleportation using ions in traps
  
  
• November 17 Yuqing Sun (CMU)
  Gram matrix and its application to the study of quantum ensembles (cont.)
  
  
• November 10 Yuqing Sun (CMU)
  Gram matrix and its application to the study of quantum ensembles
  
  
• November 3 Robert Griffiths (CMU)
  The Consistent Histories Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics: Part III
  
  
• October 27 Robert Griffiths (CMU)
  The Consistent Histories Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics: Part II
  
  
• October 13 Yuqing Sun (CMU)
  Transformations between sets of pure states
  
  
• October 6 Robert Griffiths (CMU)
  The Consistent Histories Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
  
  
• September 22 Scott Cohen (Duquesne)
  Statistical distance between quantum states (continued, part 3)
  
  
• September 15 Scott Cohen (Duquesne)
  Statistical distance between quantum states (cont.)
  
  
• September 8 Scott Cohen (Duquesne)
  Statistical distance between quantum states
  
  
• September 1 Yuqing Sun (CMU)
  Deterministic Quantum State Transformations
  
  
• August 11 Yuqing Sun (CMU)
  Characterizing probability distributions, mixing and quantum measurement using theory of majorization (cont.)
  
  
• August 4 Yuqing Sun (CMU)
  Characterizing probability distributions, mixing and quantum measurement using theory of majorization
  
  
• July 28 Hsun-Hsien Chang (CMU ECE)
  Constructing quantum error-correcting codes by the stabilizer formalism
  
  
• July 21 Jeremy Levy (Pitt)
  Approaches to cluster-state quantum computation using electron spins in quantum dots
  
  
• July 14 Robert Griffiths (CMU)
  Consistent local quantum description of teleportation
  
  
• July 7 Hsun-Hsien Chang (CMU : ECE Dept)
  Introduction to Stabilizer Codes Part II
  
  
• June 30 Hsun-Hsien Chang (CMU : ECE Dept)
  Introduction to Stabilizer Codes
  
  
• June 23 Li Yu (CMU)
  Environment as witness: work of Ollivier, Poulin, Zurek. Part II
  
  
• June 16 Shengjun Wu (CMU)
  Entanglement Distillation
  
  
• June 9 Robert Griffiths (CMU)
  Cluster-state model of measurement-based quantum computation (continued)
  
  
• June 2 Robert Griffiths (CMU)
  Cluster-state model of measurement-based quantum computation
  
  
• May 26 Robert Griffiths and Li Yu (CMU)
  Environment as witness: work of Ollivier, Poulin, Zurek
  
  
• April 28 Yuqing Sun (CMU)
  Reduction theorems for optimal unambiguous state discrimination of density matrices (continued)
  
  
• April 19 Yuqing Sun (CMU)
  Reduction theorems for optimal unambiguous state discrimination of density matrices
  
  
• March 31 Robert Griffiths (CMU)
  Correlation without communication: report on some literature
  
  
• March 17 Shengjun Wu (CMU)
  Atemporal diagram approach to conclusive information communication (continued)
  
  
• March 3 Shengjun Wu (CMU)
  Atemporal diagram approach to conclusive information communication
  
  
• Feb. 24 Scott Cohen (Duquesne)
  Probabilistic teleportation (continued)
  
  
• Feb. 17 Scott Cohen (Duquesne)
  Probabilistic teleportation
  
  
• Feb. 10 Yuqing Sun (CMU)
  Unextendible Product Bases (continued)
  
  
• Jan. 27 Yuqing Sun (CMU)
  Unextendible Product Bases
  
  
• Jan. 20 Robert Griffiths (CMU)
  Diagrams for the atemporal representation of quantum circuits (continued)
  
  
• Jan. 13 Robert Griffiths (CMU)
  Diagrams for the atemporal representation of quantum circuits
  
  
• Dec. 9 Nathaniel Filardo (CMU)
  Wigner Function on a Finite Set of States(continued)
  
  
• Dec. 2 Nathaniel Filardo (CMU)
  Wigner Function on a Finite Set of States
  
  
• Nov. 11 Jos Uffink (Utrecht)
  Quadratic Bell inequalities as tests for multipartite entanglement
  
  
• Nov. 4 Shengjun Wu (CMU)
  Distinguishing and copying orthogonal entangled states locally
  
  
• October 28 Robert Griffiths (CMU)
  Comments on Zurek's Approach to Decoherence (continued)
  
  
• October 21 Robert Griffiths (CMU)
  Comments on Zurek's Approach to Decoherence
  
  
• October 12 Wojciech Zurek (Los Alamos)
  Quantum Darwinism and Entanglement
  
  
• October 7 Yuqing Sun (CMU)
  Quantum Discord
  
  
• September 23 Michael Crouch (CMU)
  Quantum Capacity of Quantum Channels
  
  
• September 16th Shengjun Wu (CMU)
  Characterization of LOCC operations, and the applications to local distinguishablitlity and local copying of orthogonal states
  
  
• September 9th Shengjun Wu (CMU)
  What can we achieve with local operations and classical communication?
  
  
• September 2nd Scott Cohen (Duquesne)
  Mutually unbiased measurements -- or -- Is Quantum Mechanics different in prime dimensions? (continued)
  
  
• August 5th Scott Cohen (Duquesne)
  Mutually unbiased measurements -- or -- Is Quantum Mechanics different in prime dimensions?
  
  
• July 29th Yuqing Sun (CMU)
  Distance measures for quantum information and their relations to discrimination between two quantum mixed states
  
  
• July 22nd Yuqing Sun (CMU)
  Optimum unambiguous state discrimination and its optical realization, (continued)
  
  
• July 15th Robert Griffiths (CMU)
  Measurements and POVMs (continued)
  
  
• July 8th Robert Griffiths (CMU)
  Measurements and POVMs
  
  
• July 1st Yuqing Sun (CMU)
  Optimum unambiguous state discrimination and its optical realization
  
  
• June 24th Shengjun Wu (CMU)
  Remote state preparation
  
  
• June 17th Frank Tabakin (Pitt)
  Wavelets and Quantum Computing (continued)
  
  
• June 10th Frank Tabakin (Pitt)
  Wavelets and Quantum Computing
  
  
• June 3rd Sean Hallgren
  Fast Quantum Algorithms for Computing the Unit Group and Class Group of a Number Field
  
  
• May 20th Robert Griffiths (CMU)
  Quantum Locality
  
  
• May 13th Arvind (CMU)
  Evolution of two-mode Gaussian states in a dissipative environment
  
  
• May 5th Andris Ambinis (CMU)
  Quantum Random Walks
  
  
• April 29th Ruy Ley-Wild (CMU)
  Classical and Quantum Turing Machines
  
  
• April 22nd, Jeremy Levy (Pitt)
  Oxide-Semiconductor Materials for Quantum Computation
  
  
• April 8th Ke Yang (CMU)
  On speeding up NMR quantum computing
  
  
• April 1st Robert Griffiths (CMU)
  Entangled States and Quantum Channels (continued)
  
  
• March 25th Robert Griffiths (CMU)
  Entangled States and Quantum Channels
  
  
• Feb 25th Shengjun Wu (CMU)
  The Schmidt form and its generalization
  
  
• Feb 12th Robert Griffiths(CMU)
  Demystifying Density Operators/Matrices(cont.)
  
  
• Feb 5th Robert Griffiths(CMU)
  Demystifying Density Operators/Matrices
  
  
• Jan 29th Arvind(CMU)
  Quantization of the radiation feild
  
  
• Jan 22nd Robert Griffiths(CMU)
  Toy Models in Quantum Mechanics
  
  
• Dec 3rd Shengjun Wu(CMU)
  Geometric Phases and Quantum Gates, Is there a real advantage?.
  
  
• Nov 20 th Dmitry Uskov(Pitt)
  Geometric Phases, Topology and Quantum Gates.
  
  
• Nov 13 th Scott Cohen (Duquesne)
  Accurate sum rules for highly relativistic systems
  
  
• Nov 6th Robert B. Griffiths(CMU)
  Weak measurements and Their Interpretation
  
  
• October 30th Shengjun Wu(CMU)
  Weak measurements in quantum mechanics
  
  
• October 23th Frank Tabakin (PITT)
  Generalizations of Canonical form for unitary operators (cont)
  
  
• October 16th Ed Gerjuoy and Frank Tabakin (PITT)
  Further Considerations and Generalizations of Canonical form for unitary operators
  
  
• September 25th, Bob Griffiths(CMU)
  Representation of unitaries on two qubits
  
  
• September 18th, Arvind(CMU)
  Gaussian States and QIP-II
  
  
• September 11th, Arvind(CMU)
  Gaussian States and QIP-I
  
  
• September 4th, Geetu Narang(CMU)
  Characterization of Entanglement-II
  
  
• August 28th, Geetu Narang(CMU)
  Characterization of Entanglement
  
  
• August 12th, Robert Griffiths(CMU)
  Unitaries and the Special Bell Basis for Two Qubits
  
  
• August 5th, Frank Tabakin(PITT)
  Imperfect Gates
  
  
• July 22, David Collins(CMU)
  Classifying functions using ensemble quantum computers
  
  
• July 15, Arvind(CMU)
  Security of BB84 Cryptography Protocol
  
  
• July 8, Robert Griffiths(CMU)
  Good subspaces, leakage of information, and the Pauli representation(Part III)
  
  
• July 1, Robert Griffiths(CMU)
  Good subspaces, leakage of information, and the Pauli representation(Part II)
  
  
• June 24, Robert Griffiths(CMU)
  Good subspaces, leakage of information, and the Pauli representation
  
  
• June 17, David Collins(CMU)
  A scalable ensemble implementation of the Bernstein-Vazirani algorithm
  
  
• June 10, Arvind(CMU)
  Scaling issues in ensemble implementations of ``quantum'' algorithms:
  The case of the Deutsch Jozsa algorithm
  
  
• June 3, Robert Griffiths(CMU)
  Quantum Information Tools in Mathematica: the CMU Package
  
  
• May 27, Frank Tabakin(Pitt)
  Quantm Computation with Mathematica
  
  
• May 20, Robert Griffiths(CMU)
  Tensor Product Spaces(continued)
  
  
• May 13, Robert Griffiths(CMU)
  Tensor Product Spaces
  
  
• April 23, Ergin Dimir(CMU)
  Quantum Random Walk
  
  
• April 16, Sanjit Seshia(CMU)
  Proofs of Quantum Search Optimality
  
  
• April 9, Hongzhou Ma (Pitt)
  Experimental demonstration of a 3-qubit quantum computation algorithm
  using a single photon and linear optics (PRA 62(2000)032301)
  
  
• April 2, Jibran Rashid(CMU)
  Formal Models of Quantum Computation
  
  
• March 19, Benoit Morel(CMU)
  Experimental realization of quantum cryptography
  
  
• March 12, Arvind(CMU)
  Single Photons and Quantum Information Processing
  
  
• March 5, Robert Griffiths(CMU)
  Toy models for interference in time
  
  
• Feb. 26, David Collins(CMU)
  Distinguishing Quantum Unitary Transformations
  
  
• Feb. 19, Benoit Morel
  Quantum Cryptography and Teleportation
  
  
• Feb. 12, Frank Tabakin (Pitt)
  Quantum Computing Dynamics (Cont.)
  
  
• Feb. 5, Frank Tabakin (Pitt)
  Quantum Computing Dynamics
  
  
• Jan. 29, 2003 Arvind (CMU)
  Classical Qubits using light polarization
  
  
• Jan. 22, 2003 Robert Griffiths
  The Two-Slit Paradox(Cont.)
  
  
• Jan. 15, 2003 Robert Griffiths
  The Two-Slit Paradox
  
  
• Dec. 5, 2002 Robert Griffiths
  New ways to describe quantum channels
  
  
• Nov. 21, 2002 Edward Gerjuoy (Pitt)
  The Entanglement of Formation in Qubit Qudit Systems
  
  
• Nov. 14, 2002 Michael Crouch (CMU)
  Tripartite Quantum Entanglement
  
  
• Nov. 7, 2002 Robert Griffiths
  Density operators and ensembels
  
  
• Oct. 24, 2002 Robert Griffiths
  Density operators and quantum statistical mechanics. (Continued)
  
  
• Oct. 17, 2002 Robert Griffiths
  Density operators and quantum statistical mechanics
  
  
• Oct. 10, 2002 Arvind
  Quantum Non-Demolition Measurements (continued)
  
  
• Sept 26, 2002 Frank Tabakin
  Tsallis Entropy and Entanglement
  
  
• Sept. 15, 2002 Frank Tabakin
  An Introduction to Tsallis Entropy
  
  
• Sept. 12, 2002 Arvind
  Quantum Non-Demolition Measurements (Part I)
  
  
• Sept. 4, 2002 David Collins
  Quantum computing with noisy initial states
  
  
• Aug. 21, 2002 Robert Griffiths
  Separable states and positive maps
  
  
• Aug. 14, 2002 Arvind
  Homodyne detection and state tomography
  
  
• July 31, 2002 Robert Griffiths and David Collins
  Report on the conference Quantum Communication, Measurement and Computing (MIT, July 22-26)
  
  
• July 17, 2002 Arvind
  Coherent States and Squuezed States (cont)
  
  
• July 10, 2002 Arvind
  Coherent States and Squuezed States
  
  
• June 26, 2002 David Collins
  From Schrodinger's equation to the quantum search algorithm, by L. Grover