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X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:Seminar: Steven Girvin (Yale Quantum Institute): "Adventures in Phase Space:  Non-commuting coordinates  meet quantum control and quantum error correction"
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SUMMARY:Seminar: Steven Girvin (Yale Quantum Institute): "Adventures in Phase Space:  Non-commuting coordinates  meet quantum control and quantum error correction"
DESCRIPTION:<p>	<drupal-media data-entity-type="media" data-entity-uuid="50470f1d-e1cd-4873-87f5-4ed980465383" alt="Steven Girvin" data-view-mode="hwp_small"></drupal-media><br>Zoom link: <a href="https://harvard.zoom.us/j/779283357?pwd=MitXVm1pYUlJVzZqT3lwV2pCT1ZUQT09">https://harvard.zoom.us/j/779283357?pwd=MitXVm1pYUlJVzZqT3lwV2pCT1ZUQT09</a><br>Speaker: Steven Girvin (Yale Quantum Institute)<br>Title: <strong style="text-align: center;">Adventures in Phase Space: Non-commuting coordinates  meet quantum control and quantum error correction</strong><br>Abstract: <span><span style="line-height:107%"><span style='NewRoman",serif'>Rapid advances in quantum computation are placing new demands on our ability to precisely control bosonic modes (quantum harmonic oscillators) for the purposes of quantum communication, computation, simulation, and error-correction. It turns out that with only classical control signals, it is not possible to achieve universal quantum control of a harmonic oscillator.  I will describe new techniques being developed for universal control of hybrid systems consisting of harmonic oscillators coupled to either anharmonic oscillators or two-level qubits. Our newfound ability to ‘sculpt’ arbitrary quantum distributions in phase space benefits from beautiful pictures that provide us with intuition for using the non-commutativity of the phase space coordinates (position and momentum) for designing efficient control sequences and instruction set architectures.</span></span></span></p>
LOCATION:Jefferson 453 and Zoom
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DTSTART:20231107T143000Z
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