University of Calgary

Quantum mechanics predicts the existence of correlations between two quantum systems which cannot be described merely by shared randomness. Such correlations, termed entanglement, have been analysed from a fundamental perspective since the beginning...

Abstract: The recent emergence of photon-number-resolving detectors (PNRDs) makes the characterization of multiphoton states via photoncounting possible. Here I will discuss several popular types of PNRDs and show how we can model realistic PNRDs...

Abstract: We propose a method which we call "Isotropic Entanglement" (IE), that predicts the eigenvalue distribution of quantum many body (spin) systems (QMBS) with generic interactions. We interpolate between two known approximations by matching...

Abstract: I will discuss ways to characterize the dynamics of a quantum system given a restricted set of initial states that can be prepared and a very limited set of available measurements. I will first discuss strategies for Hamiltonian...

Many scientific questions are considered solved to the best possible degree when we have a method for computing a solution. This is especially true in mathematics and those areas of science in which phenomena can be described mathematically: one only...

Abstract: Decoherence is widely regarded as the most significant obstacle in the development of quantum computers. Without complex and costly error correction schemes, most forms of quantum computation must be completed within a short decoherence...

Graduate students at every level of their studies are invited to participate to this meeting. Whether you are beginning your Masters degree or finishing up your PhD thesis, join us for this celebration of mathematics and statistics. The conference...

Abstract: Local electric field, driving the atomic transition in an optical material is, in general, different from the macroscopic field in the medium. It contains the contributions from the fields of the surrounding atoms or molecules. An even more...

This is the first in a series of informal seminars between Calgary and Edmonton on class field theory

An activity of the PIMS Collaborative Research Group on L-functions and Number Theory