RIKEN-Vancouver Joint Workshop on Quantum Computing

The main aim of this workshop is that the quantum people in RIKEN (iTHEMS and RQC) and Vancouver (Quantum BC) get together online to discuss scientific activities and explore future collaborations.

Program:
August 24, 2021 (8:30am - 1:00pm) Tokyo
August 23, 2021 (4:30pm - 9:00pm) Vancouver

Tetsuo Hatsuda (iTHEMS): Welcome + iTHEMS overview
Yasunobu Nakamura (RQC): RQC overview
Lukas Chrostowski (UBC): Quantum BC overview
Shunji Matsuura (1QBit): Accurate state preparation on noisy quantum devices
Olivia Di Matteo (UBC): Operational, gauge-free quantum tomography
Yasunobu Nakamura (RQC): Towards superconducting quantum computing
Jason Chang (iTHEMS): Improving Schroedinger equation implementations with gray code for adiabatic quantum computers
Robert Raussendorf (UBC): Computationally universal phase of quantum matter
Akira Furusawa (RQC): Large-scale quantum computing with quantum teleportation

August 25, 2021 (8:30am - 1:30pm) Tokyo
August 24, 2021 (4:30pm - 9:30am) Vancouver

Etsuko Itou (iTHEMS): Digital quantum simulation for screening and confinement in gauge theory with a topological term
Joe Salfi (UBC): Engineering long coherence times of spin-orbit qubits in silicon
Seiji Yunoki (RQC): Quantum simulations for quantum many-body systems: Variational quantum algorithms and beyond
Takumi Doi (iTHEMS): Hybrid quantum annealing via molecular dynamics
Drew Potter (UBC): Simulating highly-entangled matter with quantum tensor networks
Seigo Tarucha (RQC): High-fidelity quantum gates in silicon quantum computing

Organizing Institutes:
iTHEMS: RIKEN Interdisciplinary Theoretical and Mathematical Sciences Program
RQC: RIKEN Center for Quantum Computing
Quantum BC

Organizers:
Tetsuo Hatsuda (iTHEMS)
Yasunobu Nakamura (RQC)
Shunji Matsuura (1QBit)
Joseph Salfi (UBC)
Erika Kawakami (RQC / RIKEN CPR)
Neill Lambert (RIKEN CPR)