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Contents 1 Theory Group Meeting at Ringberg Castle 2007 1.1 Getting there 1.2 Participants 1.3 Program 1.3.1 standard Ringberg: overview 1.3.2 parallel Ringberg: Fourth Mini-Symposium on Topological Quantum Computation. Ringberg Castle, December 10-11, 2007

Theory Group Meeting at Ringberg Castle 2007

Dec 9th - 12th at Ringberg Castle.

Getting there

Ringberg is easy to reach by train (<1h from Munich main station, leaves every hour at hh:42h from platform 27 to 36) or by car.

Please communicate to Verena if you need or can provide transportation.

Responsible for the program are Tommaso and Geza.

Participants

MPQ Theory Group Ringberg Meeting 2007 -- Participants

Miguel Aguado	Tassilo Keilmann	Marco Roncaglia	Toby Cubitt (Bristol)
Mari Carmen Banuls	Eric Kessler	Tommaso Roscilde	Jose Maria Escartin (Barcelona)
Oliver Buerschaper	Christina Kraus	Mikel Sanz	Klemens Hammerer (Innsbruck)
Henning Christ	Lucas Lamata	Roman Schmied	Barbara Kraus (Innsbruck)
Ignacio Cirac	Christian Mendl	Heike Schwager	Sheila Lopez-Rosa (Granada)
Maria Eckholt	Valentin Murg	Norbert Schuch	Enrique Solano (München)
Geza Giedke	Sébastien Perseguers	Ines de Vega	Geza Toth (Barcelona)
Phillip Hauke	Diego Porras	Karl Vollbrecht	Frank Verstraete (Wien)
Birger Horstmann	Matteo Rizzi	Michael Wolf

Program

standard Ringberg:
overview

[Still preliminary, but detailed Program] (pdf, 300K) (a wiki-version which contains the updates/corrections you sent us is found below)

Program of the MPQ Theory Group Ringberg Meeting 2007

Time	Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday
09:00 - 10:30		Quantum Simulation I	Quantum Channels I	Quantum Phase Transitions
10:30 - 11:00		coffee break	coffee break	coffee break
11:00 - 12:30		Quantum Simulation II	Quantum Metrology I	Highlights of the Topology workshop
12:30 - 14:00		lunch break	lunch break	lunch break
14:00 - 15:30		Quantum Simulation III	<free for discussion or 4th TQC>	departure
15:30 - 16:00		coffee break	coffee break
16:00 - 17:30	opening session	Quantum Simulation IV	Quantum Metrology II
18:30 - 19:30	dinner	dinner	dinner

SUNDAY, Dec. 9th

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Opening session: Ignacio Cirac, chair
16:00 Barbara Kraus (40+5 mins.)
16:45 Frank Verstraete (40+5 mins.)
 
19:30 dinner at [Hotel Wiesseer Hof]

MONDAY, Dec. 10th

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Mini­symposium: Quantum simulations and quantum simulators - Where do we stand?
Quantum simulations (I): Ines de Vega, chair
09:00 Roman Schmied (30+5 mins.): "Fundamentals"
09:35 Diego Porras (30+5 mins.): "Trapped ions"
10:10 Tommaso Roscilde (30+5 mins.): "Cold atoms"
10:45 - ­11:15 Coffee break
Quantum simulations (II): Maria Eckholt, chair
11:15 Ines de Vega (30+5 mins.): "Probing many body states of atoms in a lattice"
11:50 Matteo Rizzi (30+5 mins.): "Solid­state implementations"
12:30 - ­14:00 Lunch Break

Quantum simulations (III): Roman Schmied, chair
14:00 Maria Eckholt (20+2 mins.): "Pair condensation of bosonic atoms induced by optical lattices"
14:22 Birger Horstmann (20+2 mins.): TBA 
14:44 Valentin Murg (20+2 mins.): TBA
15:12 Tassilo Keilmann (20+2 mins.): "Dynamical creation of bosonic Cooper-like pairs"
15:30­ - 16:00 Coffee Break
Quantum simulations (IV): Tommaso Roscilde, chair
16:00 Norbert Schuch (30+5 mins.): TBA
16:35 Karl ­Gerd Vollbrecht (30+5 mins.): TBA   
17:10 Mari­Carmen Banuls (30+5 mins.): "Adiabatic quantum evolution"
17:45? open discussion

TUESDAY, Dec. 11th

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Quantum channels: Jose ­Maria Escartin, chair
09:00 Michael Wolf (30+5 mins.): "Quantum Channels - A guided tour"
09:35 Toby Cubitt (30+5 mins.): "Recent results on (non-)additivity"
10:10 Christian Mendl (20+5 mins.): "Unital quantum channels "
10:35 Mikel Sanz (20+5 mins.): "From covariant channels to symmetric states"
11:00 - ­11:20 Coffee break
Quantum  metrology (I): Enrique Solano, chair
11:20 Geza Giedke  (30+5 mins.): tba
11:55 Christine Muschik (20+2 mins.): "Quantum precision enhancement"
12:30­ - 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00­ - 15:00  Free session:  topology, fussball, sleeping, whatever....  
Quantum metrology (II): Barbara Kraus, chair
15:00 Eric Kessler (20+2 mins.): "Spin squeezing" 
15:25 Geza Toth (30+5 mins.): "Spin squeezing and Entanglement"
16:00 Henning Christ (20+2 mins.): "Quantum Metrology in the presence of decoherence" 
16:22 Lucas Lamata (20+2 mins.): "Quantum clock synchronization"
16:44 Surprise speaker 

 WEDNESDAY, Dec. 12th

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Quantum Phase Transitions: Geza Toth, chair
09:30 Marco Roncaglia (60+10 mins.): Fundamentals
 
10:40 - ­11:30 Coffee break
A taste of parallel Ringberg: Toby Cubitt, chair
11:30 - ­12:30 Miguel Aguado: "Overview of the topology symposium"
12:30 - ­14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 Departure

parallel Ringberg:
Fourth Mini-Symposium on Topological Quantum Computation.
Ringberg Castle, December 10-11, 2007

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