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Symposium on Physical Realization of Quantum Computing:
Superconducting and Molecular Qubits |
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Proceedings submission page is now open [Deadline: April 30th, 2008]
The goal of this symposium is to understand molecular and superconducting qubits,
and to overview their current status.
The symposium consists of 6 lectures
focusing on the following topics:
Short contributions from participants are also welcome. If you are interested in giving a talk, please input the details of your talk from the registration site.
Lectures
In the first lecture,
Quantum Computation using NMR
will be reviewed and the basic idea of quantum
computation with the physical qubits will be introduced by
Prof. Kondo.
Although a liquid-state NMR quantum computer cannot be a practical one
because of poor spin polarization, it can still be considered as
a prototype of real quantum computers (hopefully realized
in the future) and its understanding is a good start point for studying
the other realizations.
One of the three lectures in the middle will feature
electron and nuclear spins as qubits.
The gyromagnetic ratio of an electron is about 1000 times larger than
that of a nuclear spin.
Thus, "Quantum Computation involving electron spins in addition to nuclear spins, ENDOR" may
overcome the difficulty in "Quantum Computation using only nuclear spins, NMR", or poor spin polarization.
Prof. Takui
will give a lecture on this topic.
The other two lectures in the middle features on
a qubit made of Josephson junctions,
that is
a most promising candidate for realizing quantum computers
now.
We invite two lectures who made a great advancement in this field.
Dr. A. Niskanen made a switchable coupling between two qubits by
introducing extra Josephson junctions.
Dr. M. Sillanpää realized entangled two qubits those exist as far as
1.1 mm apart in space.
The last two lectures will focus on somewhat exotic resources,
single-molecular magnets
and Fullelene-C60, for quantum computers.
Those may become a breakthrough for realizing a quantum computer.
Profs. Kuroda and
Wakabayashi are experts in molecular magnets and
fullerene, respectively, and both of them are eager to take advantage
of their experience to conduct quantum computer research.
Registration
The registration fee is free.
We would like to ask you to
register if you are willing to join us.
When you are interested in giving a short talk, please enter the title and the abstract
in the
registration form before
26 October.
The banquet will be held on the 2nd evening (The cost may be around
3,000 yen).
This symposium is a part of the series of schools, workshops and conferences, being hosted by Open Research Center (Interdisciplinary Basic Study towards Realization of Quantum Computer) financially supported by Kinki University and MEXT.