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Workshop held at Loughborough University, 15 Sept 2003
The speakers came from departments of physics, mathematics, engineering and IT, materials and nanoscience (fortuitously, rather than through a conscious attempt at diversity in the planning of the programme).
Most of the day was taken up by talks from five invited speakers, who presented or reviewed recent developments in the fast moving area of quantum information (in most cases implemented in condensed matter, but sometimes in a more general context). Following the Vice Chancellor’s welcoming address, Ray Bishop (UMIST) introduced a new formulation of quantum systems, which involves doubling the number of degrees of freedom. Andrew Briggs (Oxford) reviewed the work on nanomaterials in Oxford, presenting computational and experimental results on carbon nanotubes. Lieven Vandersypen (Delft) showed how current work on quantum dots might allow the control and measurement of the spin of a single electron. Terry Clark (Sussex, coordinator of QCN) presented recent work on the dynamics of SQUIDs. Finally, Noah Linden (Bristol) presented new results on entanglement, an important resource for quantum information processing. One of the nine contributed abstracts was selected for oral presentation (Mike Lea (Royal Holloway) showing how to count single electrons on helium surfaces), and there was a variety of interesting posters.
With thanks to the Faculty of Science for financial support, the Quantum Circuits Network for supporting student attendance and World Scientific for the supply of samples of the International Journal of Quantum Information.
Initial state preparation by the Vice Chancellor, Prof David Wallace
Generating entanglement
Decoherence time
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