Date & Time:
- Aug. 24 - Aug. 25 (Tokyo) starting at 8:30 am
- Aug. 23 - Aug. 24 (Vancouver) starting at 4:30 pm
Purpose of the workshop:
The main aim of this workshop is that the quantum people in RIKEN (iTHEMS and RQC) and Vancouver (Quantum BC) get together online to discuss scientific activities and explore future collaborations.
Scientific Program:
| DAY 1 | ||||
| Tokyo (8/24) | Vancouver (8/23) | speaker | affiliation | title of the talk |
| Session I | (chair) | Tetsuo Hatsuda | iTHEMS | |
| 08:30am - 08:40am | 4:30pm - 4:40pm | Tetsuo Hatsuda | iTHEMS | Welcome + iTHEMS overview |
| 08:40am - 08:50am | 4:40pm - 4:50pm | Yasunobu Nakamura | RQC | RQC overview |
| 08:50am - 09:00am | 4:50pm - 5:00pm | Joe Salfi | UBC | Quantum BC overview |
| Session II | (chair) | Neill Lambert | CPR | |
| 09:00am - 09:30am | 5:00pm - 5:30pm | Shunji Matsuura | 1QBit | Accurate state preparation on noisy quantum devices |
| 09:30am - 10:00am | 5:30pm - 6:00pm | Olivia Di Matteo | UBC | Operational, gauge-free quantum tomography |
| 10:00am - 10:30am | 6:00pm - 6:30pm | Yasunobu Nakamura | RQC | Towards superconducting quantum computing |
| 10:30am - 11:30am | 6:30pm - 7:30pm | Breakout rooms | ||
| Session III | (chair) | Erika Kawakami | RQC | |
| 11:30am - 12:00am | 7:30pm - 8:00pm | Jason Chang | iTHEMS | Improving Schroedinger equation implementations with gray code for adiabatic quantum computers |
| 12:00pm - 12:30pm | 8:00pm - 8:30pm | Robert Raussendorf | UBC | Computationally universal phase of quantum matter |
| 12:30pm - 1:00pm | 8:30pm - 9:00pm | Akira Furusawa | RQC | Large-scale quantum computing with quantum teleportation |
| 1:00pm - | 9:00pm - | Breakout rooms | ||
| DAY 2 | ||||
| Tokyo (8/25) | Vancouver (8/24) | speaker | affiliation | title |
| Session IV | (chair) | Shunji Matsuura | 1QBit | |
| 08:30am - 09:00am | 4:30pm - 5:00pm | Etsuko Itou | iTHEMS | Digital quantum simulation for screening and confinement in gauge theory with a topological term |
| 09:00am - 09:30am | 5:00pm - 5:30pm | Joe Salfi | UBC | Engineering long coherence times of spin-orbit qubits in silicon |
| 09:30am - 10:00am | 5:30pm - 6:00pm | Seiji Yunoki | RQC | Quantum simulations for quantum many-body systems: Variational quantum algorithms and beyond |
| 10:00am - 11:00am | 6:00pm - 7:00pm | Breakout rooms | ||
| Session V | (chair) | Joe Salfi | UBC | |
| 11:00am - 11:30am | 7:00pm - 7:30pm | Takumi Doi | iTHEMS | Hybrid quantum annealing via molecular dynamics |
| 11:30am - 12:00pm | 7:30pm - 8:00pm | Drew Potter | UBC | Simulating highly-entangled matter with quantum tensor networks |
| 12:00pm - 12:30pm | 8:00pm - 8:30pm | Seigo Tarucha | RQC | High-fidelity quantum gates in silicon quantum computing |
| 12:30pm - 12:35pm | 8:30pm - 8:35pm | Yasunobu Nakamura | RQC | Closing |
| 12:35pm - | 8:35pm - | Breakout rooms |
