NASA Quantum Future Technologies Conference

Despite a comprehensive and rapid advance of quantum technologies in recent years with several breakthrough areas emerging there has been no in-depth systematic discussion so far on how the quantum revolution can benefit National Aeronautics Space Administration (NASA) missions and objectives. This conference aims to bring together NASA scientists with the best quantum technology experts from academia, government and industry to identify the areas and challenges in Space Exploration, Aeronautics, Earth and Space Science where quantum technologies can have the greatest impact. The conference will focus on 3 areas: Quantum Measurement (QM), Quantum Computing (QC) and Quantum cryptography and key distribution (QK).

The DWave blog has five videos of talks a the NASA Quantum future technologies conference on Adiabatic quantum computing. There were at least ifve other adiabatic quantum computer talk. There were about fifty talks (ten at least were Adiabatic quantum computer related).

(B0) Gabriel Durkin (MCT/NASA-Ames) Opening remarks
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(B1) David Korsmeyer (NASA-Ames) Intelligent Systems and NASA missions.
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(B2) Rupak Biswas (NASA-Ames) High performance computing at NASA.
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(B3) Alan Aspuru-Guzik (Harvard) Quantum computing for chemistry and biology
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(B4) Jonathan Dowling (LSU) Quantum Sensors, Metrology, and Imaging
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(C) Optical, Atomic and Solid State Quantum Computing
Session mediator: Sue Coppersmith (University of Wisconsin)

(C1) Mohammad Amin (D-Wave, Canada) Experimental evidence for robustness of adiabatic quantum computation against decoherence
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(C2) Andrew White (University of Queensland) Quantum Optics for Quantum Information Science
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(C3) Mark Saffman (University of Wisconsin) Scalable quantum computing with neutral atom qubits
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(C4) Mark A. Eriksson (University of Wisconsin) Single-shot measurement of Si/SiGe quantum dot spin qubits
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(C5) Daniel Loss (University of Basel) Spin qubits in scalable 2D architectures
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(D) Long-distance Quantum communication including Earth-Space links
Session mediator: Jeremy O Brien (Bristol, UK)

(D1) Will Marshall (SGT/NASA-Ames) NASA Earth-Satellite Links: Phone Sat
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(D2) Vikram Sharma (QuintessenceLabs) Enterprise Security Services using continuous variable QKD
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(D3) Paolo Villoresi (Padova, Italy) Quantum Communications along Space Channels
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(A) Physics-based approaches to quantum computation
Session mediator: Ralf Schutzhold (Universität Duisburg-Essen)
(A1) Edward Farhi (MIT)
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(A2) Sue Coppersmith (University of Wisconsin) Quantum random walks of interacting particles and the graph isomorphism problem
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(A3) Peter Young (UCSC)
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(B) Applications for NASA of Quantum Metrology: Sensor Development, Navigation Tools and Gravity Wave Detection

Session mediator: Carl Caves (UNM)
(B1) Mark Kasevich (Stanford) Atom systems and Bose Einstein Condensates for metrology and navigation
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(B2) Nan Yu (JPL) Opportunities and Development of Atomic Systems and Quantum Devices in Space
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(B3) Rana Adhikari (CalTech) Quantum enhancement to LIGO
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(B4) Roman Schnabel (Max-Planck, Hannover) A gravitational wave observatory operating beyond the quantum shot-noise limit: Squeezed light in application
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Applications of Quantum Algorithms
Session mediator: Frank Gaitan (Laboratory of Physical Science)
(C1) Jeremy Frank (NASA-Ames)
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(C2) Cris Moore (UNM & Santa Fe Institute) Let the Physics Do the Work: Scattering Algorithms for High-Dimensional Geometry
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(C3) Daniel Lidar (USC) Adiabatic quantum pagerank algorithm
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(C4) Sergio Boixo (USC/ISI) Adiabatic quantum machine learning
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(C5) Hartmut Neven (Google) Robust Classification with Non-Convex Loss and Regularization designed for Adiabatic Quantum Computation
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(A) Quantum sources, processes and detectors
Session mediator: Geoff Pryde (Griffith, Australia)
(A1) Bill Farr (JPL) Efficient multiple photon discrimination
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(A2) Nicolas Brunner (Bristol, UK) Weak Measurements and Metrology
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(A3) Alan Migdall (NIST) Calibration of bright entanglement sources.
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(B) Quantum computing algorithms
Session mediator: Edward Farhi (MIT)
(B1) Peter Shor (MIT) Quantum Algorithms
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(B2) Wim van Dam (UCSB) Quantum Algorithms on Data Streams
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(B3) Edward Farhi (MIT)
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(B4) Andrew Childs (Waterloo) The quantum query complexity of read-many formulas
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Working Lunch: NASA Roadmap Strategy Discussion

(C) Photon systems for Quantum Computing and remote Entanglement-sharing
Session mediator: Andrew White (University of Queensland)
(C1) Ralf Schutzhold (Universität Duisburg-Essen) Quantum pattern recognition with photons
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(C2) Jeremy O Brien (Bristol, UK) Quantum gates on an optical chip
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(C3) Geoff Pryde (Griffith, Australia) Photonic EPR-steering Experiments
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Adiabatic quantum computation
Session mediator: Jérémie Roland (University of Brussels)
(A1) Andrew Landahl (Sandia National Laboratories) Adiabatic Quantum Computing at Sandia
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(A2) Frank Gaitan (Laboratory of Physical Science) Ramsey numbers and adiabatic quantum computing
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(A3) Rolando Somma (Los Alamos National Labs) Spectral Gap Amplification
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(A4) Geordie Rose (D-Wave Systems) Compressive sensing and semi-supervised feature learning using a D-Wave One system
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(B) New Limits to measurement precision, including systems subject to noise
Session mediator: Matteo Paris (University of Milan)
(B1) Lorenzo Maccone (Pavia, Italy) Quantum measurement bounds beyond the uncertainty relations
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(B2) Sergey Knysh (SGT/NASA-Ames) Rigorous bounds on precision of lossy interferometers and optimal probe states
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(B3) Alfredo Luis (University of Madrid, Spain) Nonlinearity challenges quantum metrology limits
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Working Lunch: NASA Roadmap Strategy Discussion

(C) Theory and Technologies for Quantum Metrology
Session mediator: Jonathan Dowling (LSU)
(C1) Carl Caves (UNM) Quantum Limits on Noise in Linear Amplifiers
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(C2) Rafal Demkowicz-Dobrzanski (Warsaw) Theoretical tools for quantum enhanced metrology
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(C3) Howard Wiseman (Griffith, Australia) Robust Experimental Quantum Parameter Estimation Protocols
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(C4) Matteo Paris (University of Milan) Quantum Estimation for Quantum Technology
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(C5) Irfan Siddiqi (UC Berkeley) Continuous High-Fidelity Monitoring of a Superconducting Qubit: From Quantum Jumps to Feedback
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(A) Quantum Interdisciplinary Topics
Session mediator: Daniel Lidar (USC)
(A1) Jérémie Roland (University of Brussels) Quantum rejection sampling
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(A2) Stephen Jordan (NIST) Simulating quantum field theories on quantum computer
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(A3) Alexander Ling (Centre for Quantum Technologies)
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(A4) Colin Williams (JPL) NASA Quantum Network
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(A5) 11.10 Rupert Ursin (Austrian Academy of Sciences) Free-space quantum cryptography over 144 km and a mission proposal for going to space
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(A6) Vadim Smelyanskiy (NASA-Ames) Concluding talk
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