Speakers:
Dorit Aharonov (Hebrew U)
Andris Ambainis (U. Latvia)
Alexei Ashikhmin (Alcatel-Lucent)
Howard Barnum (LANL)
Sergey Bravyi (IBM)
Claudio Castelnevo (Oxford)
Volodya Chernyak (Wayne U.)
Sue Coppersmith (Wisconsin)
Fernando Cucchietti (LANL)
Jens Eisert (Imperial)
Paul Fendley (Virginia)
Jim Harrington (LANL)
Aram Harrow (Bristol)
Patrick Hayden (McGill)
Vladimir Korepin (Stony Brook)
Vladimir Lebedev (Landau)
Leonid Levitov (MIT)
Brad Marston (Brown)
William Matthews (Bristol)
Andrea Montanari (Stanford)
Cris Moore (UNM)
Tobias Osborne (Royal Holloway)
David Poulin (Caltech)
John Preskill (Caltech)
Eric Rowell (Texas A&M)
David Sherrington (Oxford)
Graeme Smith (IBM)
Shivaji Sondhi (Princeton)
Barbara Terhal (IBM)
Frank Verstraete (Wien)
Paul Wiegmann (Chicago)
Pawel Wocjan (UCF)
Jonathan Yedidia (Mitsubishi)
Oleg Zaboronski (Warwick)
Wojciech Zurek (LANL)
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Over half a century ago, it was realized that quantum and statistical field theories are intimately related, both at the formal and physical levels. Quantum critical phenomena provide examples where quantum systems are frequently mapped onto classical systems, while non-equilibrium statistical mechanics provides an example of proceeding in the other direction via stochastic operator techniques. We are now witnessing a similar phenomenon in the areas of classical and quantum information theory, where methods and concepts of many-body physics are found to be the common element for seemingly different problems such as quantum and classical spin glasses and quantum and classical error correcting codes.
Our workshop will explore and exploit these developments, inviting leading experts to discuss the latest problems and techniques of interest. We intend to explore various questions at the interface of these fields such as, to name a very few, possible new behaviors in quantum spin glasses due to entanglement and the role of message passing algorithms for quantum systems, both for decoding of error correcting codes and for finding ground and thermal states. This conference will bring together experts from classical and quantum information theory, statistical physics and computer science, in order to improve communication and contribute to a coherent description of this class of problems.
Conference Organizers:
Misha Chertkov, Matthew Hastings, Razvan Teodorescu, Jon Yard
Technical Program Coordinator:
Hasan Guclu
Administrative Coordinator:
Adam Shipman
(505)664-0187
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