NPQI 2018

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Location

The workshop will be held in the TCS Conference Center in building 240 at Argonne National Laboratory.

A bus from the Argonne Guest House to the TCS Conference will be provided each morning. The departure times are:
Wed = 8:45am,
Thu, Fri = 8:15am.
There will be no return bus in the afternoon.

Map of Argonne
Workshop Poster

Reception and Dinner Location (6:30pm Thursday)

The Hyatt Lodge, 2815 Jorie Boulevard, Oak Brook, IL (map)

Reception will be in the Prairie Foyer and the dinner in the Q-room.

The bus to and from dinner will depart the TCS Conference Center at 5:15pm, then depart the Argonne Guest House at 6pm.

Wireless Internet

Instructions for using wireless internet at Argonne:

Connect to the argonne-guest network and in browser navigate to http://netreg.anl.gov.
Supply e-mail address, location (TCS Conference Center), and phone number.
For the Argonne contact person use:
- Matthew Dietrich
- building/room : 203/B-242
- phone : 2-3057
- [email protected]
Wait 90-120s, a reboot and clearing the browser cache may be required.
General instructions can be found here.

Introduction and Objectives

The Department of Energy Office of Nuclear Physics is developing a strategy for Quantum Information Science (QIS) in the context of Nuclear Physics (NP). To facilitate this the Physics Division at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) will host a 2.5 day DOE supported workshop titled "Intersections between Nuclear Physics and Quantum Information (NPQI 2018)" from 28–30 March 2018.

This workshop will bring together experts in QIS and NP to explore a diverse array of subjects within QIS where DOE Office of Nuclear Physics assets can make significant contributions, and conversely, how these fields can impact NP. Examples of fields within QIS that we wish to explore include: quantum simulation, sensing, imaging, cryptography and tensor networks.

The goal of the workshop is to continue the development of a DOE NP road-map in QIS. Directions to be explored include:

Areas where NP theory can help map physical problems to a form that can be studied using quantum computers;
Areas of experimental quantum computing where NP resources or expertise can have a strong impact and accelerate development;
Quantum sensing technologies that can be used to improve NP experiments.

The invited talks at this workshop will be inclusive of the NP community, and the program will allow time for short contributed talks [up to 10 mins] as part of open discussion sessions. The workshop will endeavor to address key questions at the intersection between NP and QIS, for example:

How can quantum mechanical descriptions of nuclei and field theoretic processes be formulated to enable realistic calculations on the noisy quantum computers and simulators that are likely to be available in the near- to intermediate-term?
What is the status of quantum simulators, and what are the prospects for simulating Quantum Chromodynamics on these systems?
What are the needs in quantum information for RF, superconducting, and cryogenic technologies? Can NP expertise prove useful here?
Where can quantum sensing techniques like squeezing improve the sensitivity of existing NP experiments?
What novel detectors enable new or improved measurements of fields or particles? For example, nitrogen vacancies for magnetic fields, Rydberg atoms for electric fields, transition edge sensors as bolometers, trapped ions as ultra-sensitive force detectors.

This workshop builds upon the symposium Quantum Computing: Beginnings to Current Frontiers which was held in the Physics Division on 26–27 May 2016, and honored the fundamental contributions of Paul Benioff to quantum computing. In three seminal papers Paul developed the first quantum mechanical (Hamiltonian) model for a Turing machine, establishing that quantum Turing machines can be used to simulate classical computers. This work is regarded as the first recognizable theoretical framework for a quantum computer.

Confirmed speakers:

David Awschalom (The University of Chicago)
John Bollinger (NIST)
Clarence Chang (ANL)
David Dean (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Stefan Flörchinger (Heidelberg University)
Dave Gaskell (Jefferson Lab)
Andrew Geraci (Northwestern)
Alexey Gorshkov (NIST)
David Kaplan (Institute for Nuclear Theory)
John Martinis (UC Santa Barbara)
Aaron Miller (Quantum Opus)
Christopher Monroe (Joint Quantum Institute and University of Maryland)
Christine Muschik (University of Waterloo, Institute for Quantum Computing)
Raphael Pooser (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
John Preskill (California Institute of Technology)
Georg Raithel (University of Michigan)
Jose Repond (ANL)
Alex Romanenko (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)
Mark Saffman (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Martin Savage (Institute for Nuclear Theory)
David Schuster (University of Chicago)
Daniel Stick (Sandia National Laboratories)
Frank Verstraete (University of Vienna and University of Ghent)
Erez Zohar (Max Planck Institute)

Advisory Committee

Organizing Committee

Contact

If you have any questions regarding this workshop please send a message to [email protected].