SIPQNP 2019

Dates: March 26-27, 2019
Location: Biosphere 2, Tucson, AZ
Sponsored by: NSF Center for Quantum Networks

Overview: The 2019 edition of SIPQNP featured sessions on the three pillars of quantum information processing: communications, sensing and computing, but focused on the role of scalable quantum-photonics technologies in harnessing the utility in various use cases. One additional session focused solely on integrated photonic devices.

Program committee: Ryan Camacho, Saikat Guha, Dan Kilper, Don Towsley, Dirk Englund, Prineha Narang, Stephen Ralph

Participants: Abdelkrim El Amili, Akbar M. Sayeed, Alan Migdall, Alberto Marino Valle, Ali Adibi, Allison Rubenok, Andrew Weiner, Animesh Datta, Ben Dixon, Brent Plansinis, Dan Blumenthal, Daniel Soh, Del Vicker, Derya Cansever, Dileep Reddy, Dirk Englund, Don Boroson, Donald Towsley, Francisco Elohim Becerra Chavez, Franco Wong, Hari Krovi, Ines Montano, Jacques Carolan, James Drakes, James Nagel, Jason Orcutt, Joshua Gordon, Konrad Banaszek, Liang Jiang, Mankei Tsang, Mark Adcock, Marko Loncar, Matthew DiMario, Mikkel Heuck, Nick Vamivakas, Nicolas Cerf, Oliver Monti, Paul Davids, Phil Evans, Prineha Narang, Quntao Zhuang, Rafael Alexander, Ryan Camacho, Sae-Woo Nam, Saikat Guha, Shayan Mookherjea, Stefano Pirandola, Thomas Gerrits, Victor Bucklew, Warren Grice, William Clark, Zac Dutton

Agenda:

Tuesday, March 26

Session 1: Quantum communications and networking [lead: Dirk and Don]

Speaker 1 [30 minutes]: High-level Vision

Speaker 2 [30 minutes]: Theoretical and Experimental Challenges

Short talks [40 minutes]: Few short [10 minute] talks on very specific visions on building quantum repeater networks and/or quantum network algorithms

Break [20 minutes]

Moderated Discussion [120 minutes] — Leaders: Dirk and Don

Session 2: Quantum sensing and imaging [lead: Nick and Zheshen]

Speaker 1 [30 minutes]: High-level Vision

Speaker 2 [30 minutes]: Theoretical and Experimental Challenges

Short talks [40 minutes]: Few short [10 minute] talks on specific types of photonic quantum sensing

Break [20 minutes]

Moderated Discussion [120 minutes] — Leaders: Nick and Zheshen

Wednesday, March 27

Session 3: Quantum computing [lead: Ryan and Zac]

Speaker 1 [30 minutes]: High-level Vision

Speaker 2 [30 minutes]: Theoretical and Experimental Challenges

Short talks [40 minutes]: Five short [10 minute] talks on very specific visions on optical quantum processors. 

Break [20 minutes]

Moderated Discussion [120 minutes] — Leaders: Ryan and Zac

Session 4: Integrated photonic quantum devices [lead: Dirk]

Moderated discussions and debates on targeted photonic quantum device related challenges. One hour for each topic.

  1. Quest for New Photonic Quantum Materials
  2. Photonic-microwave Quantum Transduction
  3. Integrated Single-photon and Number-resolving Detectors