[quantum-info] PIQuDos seminar (unusual place!) Wed July 23: Barbara Terhal

[Gus Gutoski]

Reminder: PIQuDos seminar by Barbara Terhal Wednesday at 16:00 in the Space
room.  -Gus


On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 1:07 PM, Gus Gutoski <ggutoski at perimeterinstitute.ca
> wrote:

> Please join us on Monday, July 23 at 4pm in the Space room for a quantum
> information seminar by Barbara Terhal.
>
> Title: * Space-Time Circuit-to-Hamiltonian construction and Its
> Applications*
> Speaker: *Barbara Terhal*
>
> Abstract: The circuit-to-Hamiltonian construction translates a dynamics (a
> quantum circuit and its output) into statics (the groundstate of a circuit
> Hamiltonian) by explicitly defining a quantum register for a clock. The
> standard Feynman-Kitaev construction uses one global clock for all qubits
> while we consider a different construction in which a clock is assigned to
> each point in space where a qubit of the quantum circuit resides. We show
> how one can apply this construction to one-dimensional quantum circuits for
> which the circuit Hamiltonian realizes the dynamics of a vibrating string.
> We discuss how the construction can be used (1) in quantum complexity
> theory to obtain new and stronger results in QMA and (2) how one can
> realize, based on this construction, universal quantum adiabatic
> computation and a universal quantum walk using a 2D interacting particle
> Hamiltonian. See http://arxiv.org/abs/1311.6101
>
> Date: Wednesday, July 23, 2014.
> Time: 16:00
> Location: Space Room
>
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