The purpose of the workshop is mainly to provide a forum for discussion. The focus of QUEST 2007 will be quantum and atomic optics and condensed matter physics and the connections between them. The purpose of talks will be as take-off points for discussions as well as to provide updates on the present state of the art.
The daily schedule will be as follows. The first talk will be from 9.30 - 10.45. After a 15 minute break, the second talk will go from 11.00 - 11.45 at which point we will break for lunch. The afternoons will begin with a technical talk from 1.30 - 2.15, followed by a 15 minute break, and end with the discussion session at 2.30.
The schedule for Wednesday -- the "transition" day from condensed matter to quantum and atomic optics is slightly different. We will have four talks of equal duration (45 minutes), two in the morning (9.30 - 10.15, 10.30 - 11.15), and two in the afternoon (1.00 - 1.45, 2.00 - 2.45), with the discussion session beginning at 3.00.
| Date | Talk 1 | Talk 2 | Talk 3 | Directed Discussion |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monday, July 23 | Michael Roukes [Recent Advances in Nonlinear and Quantum Measurements with NEMS] | Diego Dalvit [Recent Progress in Casimir Physics] | Keith Schwab [TBA (Topic: Quantum Nanomechanics)] | |
| Tuesday, July 24 | Steven Girvin [Recent Progress in Circuit QED] | Jack Harris [Strong Dispersive Coupling between a High-Finesse Cavity and a Micromechanical Oscillator] | Roman Movshovich [Fulde-Ferrel-Larkin-Ovchinnikov Spatially Inhomogeneous Superconducting State in a Heavy Fermion CeCoIn5] |
| Date | Talk 1 | Talk 2 | Talk 3 | Talk 4 | Directed Discussion |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wednesday, July 25 | Daniel Stick [Fabrication and Applications of Ion Traps] | Peter Schwindt [TBA (Topic: Atom Chips)] | Eddy Timmermans [Correlations in Cold Atom Fermion-Boson Mixtures] | Fernando Cucchietti [A Quantum Information Approach to Quantum Phase Transitions in Cold Bosonic Systems] |
| Date | Talk 1 | Talk 2 | Talk 3 | Directed Discussion |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thursday, July 26 | Poul Jessen [Quantum Control of Atomic Spins] | Jason Ralph [Practical Approaches to Quantum Feedback Control] | David Hume [Adaptive Qubit Detection through Repetitive Non-Demolition Measurements] | |
| Friday, July 27 | Gabriel Price [Single Photon Atomic Cooling] | JM Geremia [Quantum Metrology Beyond the Conventional Heisenberg Limit] | Andrew Landahl [Implementing Quantum Circuits without using Dynamical Control Fields] |
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| Salman Habib / T-8 / LANL / revised May 2007 | |