On behalf of the Director, you are cordially invited to the
ICTP Colloquium by Prof. Peter Zoller, on "Programming Quantum
Simulators with Atoms and Ions" which will take place on
Wednesday 14 December as an in-person event in the Budinich
Lecture Hall at 16:00.
Biosketch: Prof. Peter Zoller is a Professor for theoretical physics at the University of Innsbruck, and Scientific Director at IQOQI Innsbruck. His research interests include atomic physics and theoretical quantum optics, and many-body quantum physics with quantum gases, and quantum information, in close collaboration with experiment. Since 1981 he has trained 34 PhD students and hosted 57 Postdocs. Future ESQ Postdocs can develop their research profile benefiting from atomic physics and quantum optics, in particular quantum many-body physics at the interface to condensed matter physics and high energy physics, and quantum information.
Abstract: Progress in developing analog quantum simulation platforms is reflected in increasing control of engineered many-body Hamiltonians, and the ability to perform single-site and single-shot readouts. This defines a new generation of programmable quantum simulators which combine a certain amount of programmability with scalability to large particle numbers. The focus of this talk is to report work from a theory-experiment collaboration with trapped ion platforms with up to fifty qubits/spins, with the goal to develop and demonstrate quantum protocols, addressing questions from the fundamental to the practical. Examples to be discussed include measurement protocols revealing the entanglement structure of the many-body wavefunction, and implementing `optimal' quantum metrology with variational quantum circuits, where quantum simulators act as `programmable quantum sensors'.
For more information, please check this link: https://indico.ictp.it/event/10038/
The Colloquium will be livestreamed at ictp.it/livestream
Light refreshments will be served in the Lobby after the
talk.
We look forward to your participation.
Best regards,
Office of the Director