Quantum Institute: Visitor Schedule

The Quantum Lunch is regularly held on Thursdays in the Theoretical Division Conference Room, TA-3, Building 123, Room 121.

The organizing committee includes Malcolm Boshier (P-21), Diego Dalvit (T-4), Michael Di Rosa (C-PCS), Sebastian Deffner (T-4 & CNLS), Changhyun Ryu (P-21) , Nikolai Sinitsyn (T-4), Rolando Somma (T-4), Christopher Ticknor (T-1), and Wojciech Zurek (T-4).

For more information, or to nominate a speaker, contact Sebastian Deffner.

To add your name to the Quantum Lunch email list, contact Kacy Hopwood.

Wednesday February 17, 2016
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Speaker: Yigit Subasi(University of Maryland)

Technical Host: Sebastian Deffner

TOPIC: Simulating highly nonlocal Hamiltonians with less nonlocal Hamiltonians

Abstract
The need for Hamiltonians with many-body interactions arises in various applications of quantum computing. However, interactions beyond two-body are difficult to realize experimentally. In this talk, I will describe a nonperturbative embedding by which the dynamics of a system with a few k-body interactions (for arbitrarily large k) can be mapped to the dynamics of a system with at most l-body interactions, where l is much less than k. Then, I will give examples of how this technique can be used to explore new Hamiltonian paths for adiabatic quantum computation using experimentally feasible setups.