Workshops

Spring 2013

Workshop on Quantum Hamiltonian Complexity

Feb 19, 2013 to Feb 22, 2013

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All events take place in the Seaborg Room in the UC Berkeley Faculty Club, unless otherwise stated.

Tuesday, February 19th, 2013
9:00 am–9:10 am		Welcome from Richard Karp, Director of the Simons Institute
9:10 am–9:30 am		Introduction to the Workshop Umesh Vazirani, UC Berkeley
9:30 am–10:30 am		A Classical Leash for a Quantum System Ben Reichardt, University of Southern California
10:30 am–11:00 am		Break
11:00 am–12:00 pm		Limitations of Entanglement in Multiplayer Games Thomas Vidick, MIT
12:00 pm–1:30 pm		Lunch Break
1:30 pm–2:30 pm		The Quantum PCP Conjecture Dorit Aharonov, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
2:30 pm–3:00 pm		Break
3:00 pm–4:00 pm		Approximation Guarantees for the Quantum Local Hamiltonian Problem and Limitations for Quantum PCPs Fernando Brandão, ETH Zürich
4:00 pm–4:30 pm		Break
4:30 pm–5:30 pm		Discussion

Wednesday, February 20th, 2013
9:30 am–10:30 am		Looking for Spin Liquids with DMRG Steve White, UC Irvine
10:30 am–11:00 am		Break
11:00 am–12:00 pm		An Area Law for 1-D Gapped Systems Itai Arad, Centre for Quantum Technologies, Singapore
12:00 pm–1:30 pm		Lunch Break
1:30 pm–2:30 pm		Area Laws for Excited States of Gapped Quantum Spin Systems Frank Verstraete, University of Vienna
2:30 pm–3:00 pm		Break
3:00 pm–4:00 pm		A Polynomial Time Algorithm for the Ground State of 1-D Gapped Local Hamiltonians Zeph Landau, UC Berkeley
4:30 pm–5:30 pm		Reception

Thursday, February 21st, 2013
9:30 am–10:30 am		PEPS, Boundary Theories and Renormalization Group Ignacio Cirac, Max Planck Institute, Garching
10:30 am–11:00 am		Break
11:00 am–12:00 pm		Topological Phases with Short Ranged Quantum Entanglement Ashvin Vishwanath, UC Berkeley
12:00 pm–1:30 pm		Lunch Break
1:30 pm–2:30 pm		Topological Quantum Order and Quantum Error Correcting Codes Sergey Bravyi, IBM Research
2:30 pm–3:00 pm		Break
3:00 pm–4:00 pm		Tradeoffs Between Thermal and Quantum Fluctuations in 2D Systems David Poulin, University of Sherbrooke
4:00 pm–4:30 pm		Break
4:30 pm–5:30 pm		Discussion

Friday, February 22nd, 2013
9:30 am–10:30 am		Entanglement, Renormalization, and Holography Brian Swingle, Harvard University
10:30 am–11:00 am		Break
11:00 am–12:00 pm		Simulating Quantum Field Theory with a Quantum Computer John Preskill, Caltech
12:00 pm–1:30 pm		Lunch Break
1:30 pm–4:30 pm		Breakout Discussions