2006 Quantum Information News

News archive of 2006 for the QIT Programme

december 2006

Koenraad Audenaert and Martin Plenio publish "When are correlations quantum? -- Verification and quantification of entanglement by simple measurements" in New J. Phys. 8, 266 (2006).

J. Eisert, "Computational Difficulty of Global Variations in the
Density Matrix Renormalization Group", published in the 31 December issue of the Physical Review Letters.

Imperial, Cambridge and Oxford receive £6m EPSRC grant to jointly study coherence in quantum systems, more >> .

November 2006

Nature physics publishes "Strongly interacting polaritons in coupled arrays of cavities", Michael J. Hartmann, Fernando G. S. L. Brandão and Martin B. Plenio.

http://www.nature.com/nphys/index.html
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october 2006

D. Gross, K. Kieling, J. Eisert, "Potential and limits to
cluster-state quantum computing using probabilistic gates" has been published in Phys. Rev. A 74, 042343 (2006).

J. Eisert, T.J. Osborne, "General Entanglement Scaling Laws from Time Evolution" has been published in Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 150404 (2006).

The IMS hosts the "Status and planning meeting for
QAP, qubit applications", 15th of October 2006.

September 2006

O. Dahlsten and M.B. Plenio, "Entanglement probability distribution of bi-partite randomized stabilizer states" appears in Quant. Inf. Comp. 6, 527 (2006).

S. Anders, M.B. Plenio, W. Dür, F. Verstraete and H.J. Briegel ”Ground state approximation for strongly interacting systems in arbitrary spatial dimensions” appears in Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 107206. (2006)

June 2006

Martin Plenio accepts invitation to join the editorial board of: Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical & Engineering Sciences.

D. Gross has been awarded the Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Award for his Diploma thesis, entitled "Finite Phase Space Methods in Quantum Information", submitted in Potsdam under the supervision of J. Eisert.

M. Cramer, J. Eisert, "Correlations, spectral gap, and entanglement in harmonic quantum systems on generic lattices", has been published in New J. Phys. 8, 71 (2006).

R. Orus, J.I. Latorre, J. Eisert, M. Cramer, "Half the entanglement in critical systems is distillable from a single specimen" has been published in Phys. Rev. A 73, 060303 (2006).

M. Hartmann, M. Reuter and M.B. Plenio ”Excitation and Entanglement Transfer Near Quantum Critical Points” appears in New J. Phys. 8, 94 (2006).

May 2006

We move with the Institute for Mathematical Sciences into new premises; see pictures.

April 2006

Dr Chris Dawson and Dr Kenneth Pregnell join the group.

P. Hyllus and J. Eiser t, "Optimal entanglement witnesses for continuous-variable systems", has been published in New J. Phys. 8, 51 (2006).

March 2006

Dr Alex Retzker joins the group.

February 2006

"Bounds on mu ltipartite entangled orthogonal state discrimination using local operations and classical communication", M. Hayashi, D. Markham, M. Murao, M. Owari, and S. Virmani, appears in Phys.Re v. Lett. 96, 040501 (2006). see article

JANUARY 2006

"An entanglement-area law for general bosonic harmonic lattice systems", M. Cramer, J. Eisert, M.B. Plenio, J. Dreissig, appears in Phys.Rev. A 73, 012309 (2006).