2005 QIT News

Archive of 2005 news of the quantum information theory programme.

november 2005

The theoretical predictions devel op ed by Alvaro Feito (with A. Cabello & A. Lamas) concerning polarization entangled photons and noise in the violation of bell inequalities have been successfully tested in the lab by F.A. Bovino and G. Castagnoli in Genova.
see article

Prof. Martin Plenio has received a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award.

october 2005

Dan Browne awarded a prize for his thesis in the group. The IoP Quantum Electronics and Photonics awarded his 2004 thesis as "highly commended".

David Gross and Konrad Kieling start PhD, working with Jens Eisert.

Fernando Brandao starts PhD, working with Martin Plenio, Koenraad Audenaert and Jens Eisert.

Alvaro Feito starts Ph D with Martin Plenio.

"Single-copy entanglement in critical spin chains",
 J. Eisert, M. Cramer, appears in Phys. Rev. A 72, 042112 (2005),

September 2005

Koenraad Audenaert and Terry Rudolph develop new graph invariants based on quantum physics. K.M.R. Audenaert, C. Godsil, G. Royle and T. Rudolph, Symmetric Squares of Graphs, is  submitted to Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B.
http://arxiv.org/a bs/math.CO/0507251

AUGUST 2005

Martin Plenio and Jens Eisert are award ed EPSRC research grant to pursue work on optical quantum information processing in collaboration with Ian Walmsley (Oxford) and Peter Smith (Southampton).

Terry Rudolph receives grant from the US Army Research Office for work on linear optical quantum computation.

M.B. Plenio, The logarithmic negativity: A full entanglement monotone that is not convex appears in Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 090503, 2005.
http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0505071

JULY 2005

"Measurement Induced Localization of Relative Degrees of Freedom"
Hugo Cable, Peter L. Knight and Terry Rudolph appears in Phys. Rev. A. 71, 042107 (2005).
http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-p h/0411167
 

"J. Eisert, Optimi zing linear optics quan tum gates" appeared in Phys. Rev. Let t. 95, 040502 (2005).

Michael Har tmann wins Feodor Lynen Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to work with Martin Plenio at the Institute for Mathematical Sciences.

Award of 4 year EU-Integrated project QAP initiated by Jason Twamley and Vladimir Buzek and now coordinated by Ian Walmsley and Martin Plenio.

JUNE 2005

Peter Knight receives knighthood in recognition of his role in establishing the UK as a world centre for research into quantum optics.

http://www.imperial.ac .uk/p6417.htm

MAY 2005

Philipp Hyllus starts a postdoctoral fellowship in the group, working with J. Eisert.

Michael Hartmann starts a postdoctoral fellowship in the g roup, working with Martin Plenio.

Press coverage: Our work on entanglement-area-theorems has been the topic of a news h eadline on the web page of the QIP-IRC (Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration (IRC) in the field of QIP between leading research universities and industrial laboratories in the UK ).
http://www.qipirc.org/oldnews.php

Jens Eisert has been awarded a gr ant from Microsoft Research.

J. Eisert and M .B. Plenio contribute to the st rategic report on "Quantum In formation Processing and Communication: strategic report on current status, vis ions and goals for research in Europe" of the European Commission, coordinated by P. Zoller of the University of Innsbruck. 

http://www.cordis.lu/ist/fet/qipc-sr.htm

APRIL 2005

Martin Plenio is appointed Programme Director for Quantum Information Science in the Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Imperial College London.

"Hugo Cable, Peter L. Knight a nd Terry Rudolph. Measurement Induced Localization of Relative Degrees of Freedom" ap peared in Phys. Rev. A. 71, 042107 (2005).
http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0411167

Dr Alvaro Perales-Eceiza from t he Universidad Alcala de Henares visits for 3 months supported by the Royal Society to work with Marti n Plenio.

MARCH 2005

J. Eisert starts EURYI Award.

Martin Plenio organizes with Prof S. Tarucha the major international conference, ESF-JSPS Frontiers Conferences for Young Researchers, Japan, 12 - 18 March 2005.

Martin Plenio contributes to the publication by 58 scientists from research institutions a ll over Europe and the respective team from Unit Future Emerging Technologies DG INFSO, Processing Communications in Europe Publication in print - Brussels, March 2005. 
http://www.cordis.lu/ist/fet/qipc-eu.htm

FEBRUARY 2005

"M.B. Plenio, J. Eisert, J. Dreissig, M. Cramer, Entropy, Entanglement, and Area: Analytical R esults for Harmonic Lattice Systems" appeare d in Phys. Rev. Let t. 94, 0605 03 (2005).

Coverage of our work: Paper on entanglement in nanoelectromechanical devices taken as "Success story" in network QUPRODIS, on the web page of the European Commission, Cordis, ISTWeb: 
http://www.cordis.lu/ist/fet/ qipc-eu.htm

JANUARY 2005

Martin Plenio is elected to the Editoria l Board of Physical Review.

"Efficient linear optical quantum computation" Dan Browne and Terry Rudolph, appears in Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 010501 (2005).
http://arxiv.org/abs/ quant-ph/0405157

"Experimental one-way quantum computing" P. Walther, K. J. Resch, T. Rudolph, E. Schenck, H. Weinfurter, V. Vedral, M. Aspelmeyer and A. Zeilinger appeared in Nature 434, 169-176 (2005).

http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0503126