Winter 2012 - 2013

Open Systems and Quantum Information Seminar

The seminar covers new results in open quantum systems and quantum information theory. There will be a mix of internal and external speakers, as well as student presentations (MSc term paper).

Organizers

Andreas Buchleitner, Heinz-Peter Breuer, David Gross, Florian Mintert, Tobias Schätz

Time & Venue

Thursdays 12:15 pm, HS 2, physics high rise.

Schedule

• 25/10 No seminar (lecture hall in use for Physikerinnentagung)
• 1/11 All Saints Day
• 8/11
  Matthias Kleinmann, Siegen: Maximal correlations for incompatible measurements
• 15/11
  Michael Walter, Zürich: Entanglement Polytopes
  
• 22/11
  No presentation.
• 29/11
  Björn Bartels, Freiburg, Smooth Optimal Control of Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers
• 06/12
  Rafael Chaves, Noisy metrology beyond the standard quantum limit
• 13/12
  Stefan Wissmann, Optimal pairs for non-Markovian quantum dynamics
  Change of venue: We will meet at the usual time in the Seminarraum Westbau!
• 20/12
  No seminar.
• 10/01
  Angelika Knothe: Irreversibility and the second law: Fluctuation Theorems (student presentation).
• 17/01
  Approximate Quantum Error Correction (student presentation)
• 24/01
  Mathias Klenner: Physical interpretations of the quantum relative entropy (student presentation)
• 31/01
  Sarah Meisenheimer: Micromaser-theory and experiment: a paradigmatic open quantum system (student presentation)
• 07/02
  Leonidas Richter, Post-quantum correlations (student presentation)