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Workshop on Quantum Hamiltonian Complexity
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Tuesday, Feb. 19
–
Friday, 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, Feb. 19, 2013
9
–
9:10 a.m.
Welcome from Richard Karp, Director of the Simons Institute
9:10
–
9:30 a.m.
Introduction to the Workshop<br> Umesh Vazirani, UC Berkeley
9:30
–
10:30 a.m.
A Classical Leash for a Quantum System
Ben Reichardt (University of Southern California)
10:30
–
11 a.m.
Break
11 a.m.
–
12 p.m.
Limitations of Entanglement in Multiplayer Games
Thomas Vidick (California Institute of Technology)
12
–
1:30 p.m.
Lunch Break
1:30
–
2:30 p.m.
The Quantum PCP Conjecture
Dorit Aharonov (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
2:30
–
3 p.m.
Break
3
–
4 p.m.
Approximation Guarantees for the Quantum Local Hamiltonian Problem and Limitations for Quantum PCPs
Fernando Brandao (Microsoft Research)
4
–
4:30 p.m.
Break
4:30
–
5:30 p.m.
Discussion
Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013
9:30
–
10:30 a.m.
Looking for Spin Liquids with DMRG
Steve White, UC Irvine
10:30
–
11 a.m.
Break
11 a.m.
–
12 p.m.
An Area Law for 1-D Gapped Systems
Itai Arad (Centre for Quantum Technologies, Singapore)
12
–
1:30 p.m.
Lunch Break
1:30
–
2:30 p.m.
Area Laws for Excited States of Gapped Quantum Spin Systems
Frank Verstraete (University of Cambridge)
2:30
–
3 p.m.
Break
3
–
4 p.m.
A Polynomial Time Algorithm for the Ground State of 1-D Gapped Local Hamiltonians
Zeph Landau, UC Berkeley
4:30
–
5:30 p.m.
Reception
Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013
9:30
–
10:30 a.m.
PEPS, Boundary Theories and Renormalization Group
Ignacio Cirac (Max Planck Institute, Garching)
10:30
–
11 a.m.
Break
11 a.m.
–
12 p.m.
Topological Phases with Short Ranged Quantum Entanglement
Ashvin Vishwanath, UC Berkeley
12
–
1:30 p.m.
Lunch Break
1:30
–
2:30 p.m.
Topological Quantum Order and Quantum Error Correcting Codes
Sergey Bravyi, IBM Research
2:30
–
3 p.m.
Break
3
–
4 p.m.
Tradeoffs Between Thermal and Quantum Fluctuations in 2D Systems
David Poulin, University of Sherbrooke
4
–
4:30 p.m.
Break
4:30
–
5:30 p.m.
Discussion
Friday, Feb. 22, 2013
9:30
–
10:30 a.m.
Entanglement, Renormalization, and Holography
Brian Swingle (Harvard University)
10:30
–
11 a.m.
Break
11 a.m.
–
12 p.m.
Simulating Quantum Field Theory with a Quantum Computer
John Preskill (California Institute of Technology)
12
–
1:30 p.m.
Lunch Break
1:30
–
4:30 p.m.
Breakout Discussions
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