Journal Club Spring 2010

Theoretical Topics

-Decoherence + Open Systems

Pointer basis of quantum apparatus: Into what mixture does the wave packet collapse? Wojciech H. Zurek http://prd.aps.org/abstract/PRD/v24/i6/p1516_1

Environment-induced superselection rules Wojciech H. Zurek http://prd.aps.org/abstract/PRD/v26/i8/p1862_1

Decoherence, einselection, and the quantum origins of the classical Wojciech H. Zurek http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0105127

Coherent states via decoherence Wojciech H. Zurek, Salman Habib, and Juan Pablo Paz http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v70/i9/p1187_1

Electron Spin Decoherence in Quantum Dots due to Interaction with Nuclei Alexander V. Khaetskii, Daniel Loss, and Leonid Glazman http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v88/i18/e186802

Importance of quantum decoherence in brain processes Max Tegmark http://pre.aps.org/abstract/PRE/v61/i4/p4194_1

Observing the Progressive Decoherence of the “Meter” in a Quantum Measurement M. Brune, E. Hagley, J. Dreyer, X. Maître, A. Maali, C. Wunderlich, J. M. Raimond, and S. Haroche http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v77/i24/p4887_1

-Algorithms

Rapid Solution of Problems by Quantum Computation David Deutsch and Richard Jozsa http://www.jstor.org/stable/52182

Quantum complexity theory (Bernstein-Vazirani algorithm) Ethan Bernstein and Umesh Vazirani http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~vazirani/pubs/bv.ps

On the Power of Quantum Computation (Simon's algorithm) Dan Simon http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=264405

Quantum Algorithms Revisted Richard Cleve, Artur Ekert, Chiara Macchiavello, Michele Mosca http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9708016

Polynomial-Time Algorithms for Prime Factorization and Discrete Logarithms on a Quantum Computer http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9508027v2 Peter Shor

"Shor, I’ll do it" blog post Scott Aaronson http://scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=208

Quantum measurements and the Abelian Stabilizer Problem A. Kitaev http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9511026

A fast quantum mechanical algorithm for database search (Grover's algorithm) Lov Grover http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9605043

Quantum Amplitude Amplification and Estimation Gilles Brassard, Peter Hoyer, Michele Mosca, Alain Tapp http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0005055

Quantum Computation by Adiabatic Evolution Edward Farhi, Jeffrey Goldstone, Sam Gutmann, Michael Sipser http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0001106

A Numerical Study of the Performance of a Quantum Adiabatic Evolution Algorithm for Satisfiability Edward Farhi, Jeffrey Goldstone, Sam Gutmann http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0007071

Exponential algorithmic speedup by quantum walk Andrew M. Childs, Richard Cleve, Enrico Deotto, Edward Farhi, Sam Gutmann, Daniel A. Spielman http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0209131

A Quantum Algorithm for the Hamiltonian NAND Tree E. Farhi, J. Goldstone, S. Gutmann http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0702144

Quantum algorithm for solving linear systems of equations Aram W. Harrow, Avinatan Hassidim, Seth Lloyd http://arxiv.org/abs/0811.3171

-Measurement Based Quantum Computing

Quantum computing via measurements only Robert Raussendorf, Hans J. Briegel http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0010033

Persistent entanglement in arrays of interacting particles Hans J. Briegel, Robert Raussendorf http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0004051

Computational model underlying the one-way quantum computer Robert Raussendorf, Hans Briegel http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0108067

A fault-tolerant one-way quantum computer R. Raussendorf, J. Harrington, K. Goyal http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0510135

Topological fault-tolerance in cluster state quantum computation Robert Raussendorf, Jim Harrington, Kovid Goyal http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0703143

Universal quantum computation using only projective measurement, quantum memory, and preparation of the 0 state Michael A. Nielsen http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0108020

Unified derivations of measurement-based schemes for quantum computation Andrew M. Childs, Debbie W. Leung, Michael A. Nielsen http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0404132

Computation by measurements: a unifying picture Authors: Panos Aliferis, Debbie W. Leung http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0404082

Fault-tolerant quantum computation with cluster states Authors: Michael A. Nielsen, Christopher M. Dawson http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0405134

Physical Implementations

-Circuit QED

Prospects for Strong Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics with Superconducting Circuits S. M. Girvin, Ren-Shou Huang, Alexandre Blais, Andreas Wallraff, R. J. Schoelkopf http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0310670

Circuit quantum electrodynamics: Coherent coupling of a single photon to a Cooper pair box A. Wallraff, D. I. Schuster, A. Blais, L. Frunzio, R.-S. Huang, J. Majer, S. Kumar, S. M. Girvin and R. J. Schoelkopf. http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0407325

Coherent quantum state storage and transfer between two phase qubits via a resonant cavity Mika A. Sillanpää, Jae I. Park & Raymond W. Simmonds http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v449/n7161/full/nature06124.html

AC-Stark Shift and Dephasing of a Superconducting Qubit Strongly Coupled to a Cavity Field D. I. Schuster, A. Wallraff, A. Blais, L. Frunzio, R.-S. Huang, J. Majer, S. M. Girvin and R. J. Schoelkopf http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0408367

Cavity quantum electrodynamics for superconducting electrical circuits: an architecture for quantum computation Alexandre Blais, Ren-Shou Huang, Andreas Wallraff, S. M. Girvin, R. J. Schoelkopf http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0402216

Resolving photon number states in a superconducting circuit. D. I. Schuster, A. A. Houck, J. A. Schreier, A. Wallraff1, J. M. Gambetta, A. Blais1, L. Frunzio, J. Majer, B. R. Johnson, M. H. Devoret, S. M. Girvin, and R. J. Schoelkopf http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0608693

Quantum Information Processing with Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics A. Blais, J. Gambetta, A. Wallraff, D.I. Schuster, S.M. Girvin, M.H. Devoret, and R.J. Schoelkopf http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0612038

Demonstration of two-qubit algorithms with a superconducting quantum processor L. DiCarlo, J. M. Chow, J. M. Gambetta, Lev S. Bishop, B. R. Johnson, D. I. Schuster, J. Majer, A. Blais, L. Frunzio, S. M. Girvin and R. J. Schoelkopf http://arxiv.org/cond-mat/0903.2030

Synthesizing arbitrary quantum states in a superconducting resonator Max Hofheinz, H. Wang, M. Ansmann, Radoslaw C. Bialczak, Erik Lucero, M. Neeley, A. D. O'Connell, D. Sank, J. Wenner, John M. Martinis, & A. N. Cleland http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v459/n7246/full/nature08005.html#B8

-Ion Traps

Quantum Computations with Cold Trapped Ions J. I. Cirac and P. Zoller http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v74/i20/p4091_1

Demonstration of a Fundamental Quantum Logic Gate C. Monroe, D. M. Meekhof, B. E. King, W. M. Itano, and D. J. Wineland http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v75/i25/p4714_1

Quantum computation with ions in thermal motion Anders Sorensen, Klaus Molmer http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9810039

Deterministic entanglement of two trapped ions Q.A. Turchette, C.S. Wood, B.E. King, C.J. Myatt, D. Leibfried, W.M. Itano, C. Monroe, D.J. Wineland http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9806012

Architecture for a large-scale ion-trap quantum computer D. Kielpinski, C. Monroe & D. J. Wineland http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature00784

Experimental violation of a Bell's inequality with efficient detection M. A. Rowe, D. Kielpinski, V. Meyer, C. A. Sackett, W. M. Itano, C. Monroe & D. J. Wineland http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v409/n6822/abs/409791a0.html

Creation of a six-atom 'Schrödinger cat' state D. Leibfried, E. Knill, S. Seidelin, J. Britton, R. B. Blakestad, J. Chiaverini, D. B. Hume, W. M. Itano, J. D. Jost, C. Langer, R. Ozeri, R. Reichle and D. J. Wineland http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v438/n7068/full/nature04251.html

Scalable multiparticle entanglement of trapped ions H. Häffner, W. Hänsel, C. F. Roos, J. Benhelm, D. Chek-al-kar, M. Chwalla, T. Körber, U. D. Rapol, M. Riebe, P. O. Schmidt, C. Becher, O. Gühne, W. Dür and R. Blatt http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v438/n7068/full/nature04279.html

Entanglement of single-atom quantum bits at a distance D. L. Moehring, P. Maunz, S. Olmschenk, K. C. Younge, D. N. Matsukevich, L.-M. Duan & C. Monroe http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v449/n7158/abs/nature06118.html

Realization of quantum error correction J. Chiaverini, D. Leibried, T. Schaetz, M. D. Barrett, R. B. Blakestad, J. Britton, W.M. Itano, J.D. Jost, E. Knill, C. Langer, R. Ozeri, and D.J. Wineland http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v432/n7017/full/nature03074.html

-Linear Optics

A scheme for efficient quantum computation with linear optics E. Knill, R. Laflamme & G. J. Milburn http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v409/n6816/abs/409046a0.html

Optical simulation of quantum logic N. J. Cerf, C. Adami and P. G. Kwiat http://pra.aps.org/abstract/PRA/v57/i3/pR1477_1

Bell measurements for teleportation N. Lütkenhaus, J. Calsamiglia, and K.-A. Suominen http://pra.aps.org/abstract/PRA/v59/i5/p3295_1

Simple Scheme for Efficient Linear Optics Quantum Gates T.C.Ralph, A.G.White, W.J.Munro, G.J.Milburn http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0108049

Demonstration of an all-optical quantum controlled-NOT gate J L O'Brien, G J Pryde, A G White, T C Ralph, D Branning http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0403062

Shor's quantum factoring algorithm on a photonic chip Alberto Politi, Jonathan C. F. Matthews, Jeremy L. O'Brien http://arxiv.org/abs/0911.1242

Photonic quantum technologies Jeremy L. O'Brien, Akira Furusawa, Jelena Vučković http://arxiv.org/abs/1003.3928

Triggered Single Photons from a Quantum Dot Charles Santori, Matthew Pelton, Glenn Solomon*, Yseulte Dale, and Yoshihisa Yamamoto http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v86/i8/p1502_1

Deterministic Generation of Single Photons from One Atom Trapped in a Cavity J. McKeever, A. Boca, A. D. Boozer, R. Miller, J. R. Buck, A. Kuzmich, H. J. Kimble http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/303/5666/1992

Optical Quantum Computation Using Cluster States Michael Nielsen http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v93/i4/e040503