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07-03
2017
Laser cooling and trapping ions on a microfabricated surface trap
Abstract: In this talk, I will introduce our experimental setups for MUSIQC (Modular Universal Scalable Ion traps Quantum Computing) project. This project provides a potential solution to realize qua...
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04-18
2013
Many-particle interference and entanglement
Abstract: Entanglement and the indistinguishability of identical particles pose a great challenge to our intuition, owing to the lack of classical counterparts. In particular, the connection between ...
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05-07
2012
Digital Quantum Simulation with a Quantum Computer: Challenges and Opportunities
I earned my BSc and MPhil in physics from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in respectively 2002 and 2004. I continued my PhD study in physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and f...
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11-15
2016
PSD rank and its applications in computer science and quantum physics
Abstract: Positive semidefinite (PSD) rank is a concept that was proposed recently to study the computational power of semidefinite programming, a problem in optimization theory. It turns out that it...
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09-25
2024
Engineering Hierarchical Symmetries and Massive Nambu-Goldstone Modes
Abstract: We present a general driving protocol for many-body systems to generate a sequence of prethermal regimes, each exhibiting a lower symmetry than the preceding one [1]. We provide an explicit...
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03-30
2017
Quantum Journal Club: Observation of a Dissipative Phase Transition in a One-Dimensional Circuit QED Lattice
Abstract: Condensed matter physics has been driven forward by significant experimental and theoretical progress in the study and understanding of equilibrium phase transitions based on symmetry and t...