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TUESDAY, November 28, 2006
16:00- Registration
18:00-20:00 Welcome Reception
 
WEDNESDAY, November 29, 2006
 
Opening Remark |8:50-9:05
Makoto Nagao (President of NICT)
 
Oral Session : Quantum Optics for Information Processing (1) | 9:05-10:30
Akira Furusawa, Chair
WE1-1
9:05-9:45
Philippe Grangier (Award talk), Alexei Ourjoumtsev, Aurelien Dantan,
Rosa Tualle-Brouri
“Generation and detection of propagating light fields with negative Wigner functions.”
WE1-2
9:45-10:00
J. S. Neergaard-Nielsen, B. Melholt Nielsen, C. Hettich, K. Moelmer, E. S. Polzik
“Narrow bandwidth optical Schroedinger kitten states”
WE1-3
10:00-10:30
T. C. Ralph (Invited talk), A. P. Lund, H. Jeong
“Efficient coherent state quantum computing by adaptive measurements”
10:30-11:00
BREAK
 
Oral Session : Quantum Optics for Information Processing and Quantum Measurement
| 11:00-12:30
Philippe Grangier, Chair
WE2-1
11:00-11:30
Masahide Sasaki (Invited talk)
“Control of optical continuous variable systems using photon counting and feedforward”
WE2-2
11:30-12:00
Aaron J. Miller (Invited talk), Adriana Lita, Danna Rosenberg, Stephen Gruber,
Sae Woo Nam
“Superconducting photon number resolving detectors: performance and promise”
WE2-3
12:00-12:30
Ian A. Walmsley (Invited talk), J. Lundeen, P. Mosley, L. Zhang, O. Cohen,
X. Yang, Ch. Silberhorn
“Photon technologies for quantum information”
12:30-14:00
LUNCH
 
Oral Session : Non-Classical Light Sources | 14:00-15:00
Ian A. Walmsley, Chair
WE3-1
14:00-14:30
Franco N. C. Wong (Invited talk)
“A toolbox for photonic entanglement generation: ultrabright, ultranarrowband, and ultrafast”
WE3-2
14:30-15:00
J. D. Franson (Invited talk), T. B. Pittman
“Entangled photon holes”
15:00-15:20
BREAK
 
Oral Session : Quantum Measurement and Metrology (1) | 15:20-16:50
Martin B. Plenio, Chair
WE4-1
15:20-15:50
Masanao Ozawa (Invited talk)
“Simultaneous measurability of non-commuting observables and the universal uncertainty principle”
WE4-2
15:50-16:20
Seth Lloyd (Invited talk)
“Quantum illumination”
WE4-3
16:20-16:50
Giacomo Mauro D'Ariano (Invited talk)
How to derive the Hilbert-space formulation of quantum mechanics from axioms on experimental accessibility and simplicity”
16:50-17:10
BREAK
 
Oral Session : Quantum Measurement and Metrology (2) | 17:10-18:25
Timothy C. Ralph, Chair
WE5-1
17:10-17:25
Vittorio Giovannetti, Seth Lloyd, Lorenzo Maccone
“Quantum metrology”
WE5-2
17:25-17:55
Hideo Mabuchi (Invited talk), John Stockton
“Quantum parameter estimation with cold atomic spins”
WE5-3
17:55-18:10
Jonathan P. Dowling
“Linear optical quantum computing, imaging, and metrology”
WE5-4
18:10-18:25
Masahiro Takeoka, Masahide Sasaki, Norbert Luetkenhaus
“Implementing projective measurements with linear optics”
THURSDAY, November 30, 2006
 
Oral Session : Quantum Repeaters (1) | 9:00-10:30
Yoshihisa Yamamoto, Chair
TH1-1
9:00-9:30
Jacob Taylor, Mikhail Lukin (Invited talk)
“Progress towards implementation of quantum repeaters”
TH1-2
9:30-10:00
A. Kuzmich (Invited talk), D. N. Matsukevich, T. Chaneliere, S. D. Jenkins, S. -Y. Lan, M. S. Chapman, T. A. B. Kennedy
“Quantum telecommunication with atomic ensembles”
TH1-3
10:00-10:30
A. I. Lvovsky (Invited talk), J. Appel, E. Figueroa, G. Guenter, F. Vewinger, K. -P. Marzlin
“Electromagnetically-induced transparency in systems with multiple excited levels”
10:30-11:00
BREAK
 
Oral Session : Quantum Repeaters (2) | 11:00-11:45
Alexander I. Lvovsky, Chair
TH2-1
11:00-11:30
Y. Yamamoto (Invited talk), T. D. Ladd, P. van Loock, K. Nemoto, W. J. Munro
“Quantum repeater based on dispersive cavity QED interaction between matter qubits and coherent state field”
TH2-2
11:30-11:45
H. Kosaka, T. Kutsuwa, K. Arai, Y. Rikitaka, K. Ono, H. Imamura, T. Takagahara,
Y. Mitsumori, K. Edamatsu
“Quantum state transfer from a photon to an electron spin for building a quantum repeater”
 
Oral Session : Quantum Repeaters (3) / Atom Optics | 11:45-12:30
Alexander I. Lvovsky, Chair
TH3-1
11:45-12:00
Takao Aoki, Barak Dayan, E. Wilcut, W. P. Bowen, A. S. Parkins, H. J. Kimble,
T. J. Kippenberg, K. J. Vahala
“Strong coupling between one atom and a microtoroidal resonator”
TH3-2
12:00-12:15
Julien Laurat, Hugues de Riedmatten, Daniel Felinto, Chin-wen Chou, Erik W. Schomburg, Steven J. van Enk, H. Jeff Kimble
“Efficient retrieval of a single excitation stored in an atomic ensemble”
TH3-3
12:15-12:30
Wenjamin Rosenfeld, Stefan Berner, Juergen Volz, Markus Weber, Harald Weinfurter
“Remote state preparation of an atomic qubit”
12:30-14:00
LUNCH
 
POSTER Session 1 | 14:00-16:00
   
16:00-16:30
BREAK
 
Oral Session : Quantum Cryptography (1) | 16:30-18:30
Nicolas Gisin, Chair
TH4-1
16:30-17:00
Norbert Luetkenhaus (Invited talk), Hauke Hauseler, Tobias Moroder, Geir-Ove Myhr, Johannes Rigas, Otfried Guehne
“Verifying quantum entanglement in quantum optical systems”
TH4-2
17:00-17:30
Akihisa Tomita (Invited talk)
“Recent development on practical quantum key distribution systems”
TH4-3
17:30-18:00
Horace P. Yuen (Invited talk)
“Mathematical modeling of physical and engineering systems in quantum cryptography”
TH4-4
18:00-18:30
Prem Kumar (Invited talk)
“Practical quantum communication and cryptography for WDM optical networks”
FRIDAY, December 1, 2006
 
Oral Session : Quantum Optics for Information Processing (2) | 9:00-10:30
Gregoire Ribordy, Chair
FR1-1
9:00-9:30
Akira Furusawa (Invited talk)
“Quantum information networks”
FR1-2
9:30-10:00
Ping Koy Lam (Invited talk), Nicolai B. Grosse, Thomas Symul, Magdalena Stobinska, Timothy C. Ralph
“From side-band squeezing to photon anti-bunching”
FR1-3
10:00-10:15
A. Ourjoumtsev, R. Tualle-Brouri, A. Dantan, J. Laurat, Ph. Grangier
“Generation and analysis of complex quantum states of light with negative Wigner functions”
FR1-4
10:15-10:30
Alessandro Zavatta, Valentina Parigi, Marco Bellini
“Experimental nonclassicality of single-photon-added thermal light states”
10:30-11:00
BREAK
 
Oral Session : Quantum Optics for Information Processing (3) | 11:00-12:30
Gerard J. Milburn, Chair
FR2-1
11:00-11:30
Barry C. Sanders (Invited talk)
“Optical quantum information processing”
FR2-2
11:30-12:00
W. J. Munro (Invited talk), Kae Nemoto, P. van Loock, T. P. Spiller,
Samuel L. Braunstein, G. Milburn
“QUBUS computation”
FR2-3
12:00-12:30
Jeffrey H. Shapiro (Invited talk), Mohsen Razavi
“Continuous-time cross-phase modulation and quantum computation”
12:30-
LUNCH
13:00-
Excursion
SATURDAY, December 2, 2006
 
Oral Session : Quantum Information Theory | 9:00-10:30
William K. Wootters, Chair
SA1-1
9:00-9:30
Nobuyuki Imoto (Invited talk)
“TBD”
SA1-2
9:30-10:00
Michal Horodecki (Invited talk)
“Private key beyond entanglement distillation”
SA1-3
10:00-10:30
Martin B. Plenio (Invited talk), M. J. Hartmann, F. G. S. L. Brandao
“Quantum phase transitions with photons and polaritons”
10:30-11:00
BREAK
 
Oral Session : Quantum Computation | 11:00-11:45
Seth Lloyd, Chair
SA2-1
11:00-11:30
Hans J. Briegel (Invited talk)
“Universality and classical simulation of quantum computation”
SA2-2
11:30-11:45
Michael Varnava, Daniel E. Browne, Terry Rudolph
“Cluster state quantum computing tolerant to Qubit Loss”
 
Oral Session : Quantum Optics for Information Processing (4) | 11:45-12:30
Seth Lloyd, Chair
SA3-1
11:45-12:15
Harald Weinfurter (Invited talk), Mohamed Bourennane, Otfried Guehne, Nikolai Kiesel, Wieslaw Laskowski, Reinhold Pohlner, Christian Schmid, Geza Toth, Pavel Trojek, Rupert Ursin, Ulrich Weber, Witlef Wieczorek, Anton Zeilinger, Marek Zukowski
“Linear optics quantum logic and multi-photon entanglement”
SA3-2
12:15-12:30
Shigeki Takeuchi, Tomohisa Nagata, Ryo Okamoto, Keiji Sasaki, Jeremy O'Brien
“Four photon NOON state interferometer”
12:30
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12:30-14:00
LUNCH
 
POSTER Session 2 | 14:00-16:00
   
16:00-16:30
BREAK
 
Oral Session : Quantum Cryptography and Quantum Communications Systems | 16:30-18:25
Charles H. Bennett, Chair
SA4-1
16:30-17:00
Gregoire Ribordy, Hugo Zbinden (Invited talk), Alexios Beveratos,
Nicolas Gisin, Olivier Landry, Jeroen van Houwelingen
“Recent progress in Quantum Key Distribution”
SA4-2
17:00-17:15
H. Takesue, E. Diamanti, C. Langrock, M. M. Fejer, Y. Yamamoto
“100 km secure key distribution using low-jitter up-conversion detectors”
SA4-3
17:15-17:45
Nicolas Gisin (Invited talk)
“Long distance entanglement swapping: a first step to a quantum repeater?”
SA4-4
17:45-18:25
William K. Wootters (Award talk), Daniel Sussman
“Discrete phase space and minimum-uncertainty states”
19:00-
BANQUET
SUNDAY, December 3, 2006
 
Oral Session : Non-Classical Light Sources | 9:00-10:30
Franco N. C. Wong, Chair
SU1-1
9:00-9:30
Andrew Shields (Invited talk), Mark Stevenson, Robert Young, Paola Atkinson, Ken Cooper, David Ritchie
“A semiconconductor device for generating pairs of entangled photons”
SU1-2
9:30-10:00
Dirk Bouwmeester (Invited talk)
“Solid-state cavity QED and multi-photon interferometry”
SU1-3
10:00-10:30
Keiichi Edamatsu (Invited talk), Goro Oohata, Ryosuke Shimizu
“Polarization entanglement of photons from a biexciton”
10:30-10:45
BREAK
 
POSTER Session 3 | 10:45-12:45
   
12:45-14:00
LUNCH
 
Oral Session : Quantum Optics for Information Processing (5) | 14:00-15:00
Prem Kumar, Chair
SU2-1
14:00-14:30
P. G. Kwiat (Invited talk), J. Altepeter, J. Barreiro, E. Jeffrey, T. -C. Wei
“Exploring the limits of quantum communication”
SU2-2
14:30-15:00
Jian-Wei Pan (Invited talk), Qiang Zhang, Alexander Goebel, Claudia Wagenknecht, Yu-Ao Chen, Bo Zhao, Tao Yang, Alois Mair, Joerg Schmiedmayer
“Experimental quantum teleportation of a two-qubit composite system”
15:00-15:20
BREAK
 
Parallel Session : A | 15:20-16:50
Barry C. Sanders, Chair
SU3A-1
15:20-15:35
Masato Koashi
“Efficient quantum key distribution with practical sources and detectors”
SU3A-2
15:35-15:50
Christian Kurtsiefer, Ivan Marcikic, Alexander Ling, Darwin Gosal, Antia Lamas-Linares
“Free-space quantum key distribution using polarization entangled photons”
SU3A-3
15:50-16:05
Jerome Lodewyck, Simon Fossier, Rosa Tualle-Brouri, Thierry Debuisschert,
Philippe Grangier
“Implementation of a continuous variables quantum key distribution setup over long distances”
SU3A-4
16:05-16:20
F. Sciarrino, M. Ricci, F. De Martini, R. Filip, L. Mista Jr.
“Realization of a minimal disturbance quantum measurement”
SU3A-5
16:20-16:35
Witlef Wieczorek, Nikolai Kiesel, Christian Schmid, Reinhold Pohlner, Geza Toth, Enrique Solano, Harald Weinfurter
“Experimental analysis of a symmetric four-photon entangled state”
SU3A-6
16:35-16:50
Akimasa Miyake, Caroline Kruszynska, Hans J. Briegel, Wolfgang Duer
“Entanglement purification protocols for all graph states”
 
Parallel Session : B | 15:20-16:50
Masanao Ozawa, Chair
SU3B-1
15:20-15:35
Christopher A. Fuchs
“More on the quantumness”
SU3B-2
15:35-15:50
J. A. Vaccaro
“Group theoretic formulation of complementarity”
SU3B-3
15:50-16:05
S. D. Bartlett, R. W. Spekkens, M. R. R. Dowling, T. Rudolph
“How to observe a coherent superposition of an atom and a molecule”
SU3B-4
16:05-16:20
John Jeffers, Stephen M. Barnett, James D. Cresser, David T. Pegg
“Measurement master equation”
SU3B-5
16:20-16:35
Lev B. Levitin, Tommaso Toffoli
“Energy dissipation in reversible computing”
SU3B-6
16:35-16:50
V. P. Belavkin
“On relative fidelities for quantum channels”
16:50-17:10
BREAK
 
Oral Session : Quantum Oscillators | 17:10-18:10
Jeffrey H. Shapiro, Chair
SU4-1
17:10-17:40
G. J. Milburn (Invited talk), A. K. Ringsmuth, M. Schlosshauer
“Measurement and control of quantum electromechanical systems.”
SU4-2
17:40-18:10
Paolo Tombesi (Invited talk), Marco Lucamarini, Stefano Pirandola, David Vitali
“Entanglement formation and its exploitation in macroscopic resonators”
   
Closing Session | 18:10-18:50
Osamu Hirota, Chair
SU5-1
18:10-18:40
C. H. Bennett
“Summary talk”
SU5-2
18:40-18:50
Jeffrey Shapiro (Chairman of the conference)
“Closing remarks”