Workshops and Conferences

 

From Quantum Materials to Quantum Information: Symposium on Trans-Scale Quantum Science and Quantum Materials Synthesis (QMQI2024)

November 11-15 2024, Okinawa, Japan

• The symposium "From Quantum Materials to Quantum Information: Symposium on Trans-Scale Quantum Science and Quantum Materials Synthesis" (QMQI 2024) is co-organized by OIST, the Quantum Materials Synthesis collaboration sponsored by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, and the Trans-Scale Quantum Science Institute of the University of Tokyo. It will bring together researchers from quantum material science, quantum many-body physics, quantum computation, quantum information and foundations in a single event with the aim to exchange ideas at the interface of these disciplines and explore interdisciplinary research directions.
• Organizers:
  • Collin Broholm (John Hopkins)
  • Mingxuan Fu (The University of Tokyo)
  • Philipp Höhn (OIST)
  • Takeshi Kondo (The University of Tokyo)
  • Mio Murao (The University of Tokyo)
  • Satoru Nakatsuji (The University of Tokyo)
  • Kae Nemoto (OIST)
  • Seongshik Oh (Rutgers)
  • Nic Shannon (OIST)
  • Hiroki Takahashi (OIST)

Schrodinger Cats: the quest to find the edge of the quantum world

December 9 - 13 2024, Okinawa, Japan

• The generation of macroscopic quantum superpositions of massive objects have fascinated scientists since Schrodinger but scientific developments now promise that such superpositions may become possible in the very near future.
• This meeting will focus on the science of macroscopic quantum superpositions - or more commonly known as Schrodinger Cats. In the 1930s Erwin Schrodinger made a thought experiment to test the boundaries of quantum mechanics. He asked if it could be possible, not only in principle, but also in practice, to make a quantum superposition of a large-massive object (in his case a cat), in two very different positions. As far as we know - this should be possible - but extremely challenging experimentally. If one can even achieve this for nanometer (or larger), sized particles one opens the possibility of tackling many fundamental questions e.g. how does quantum interact with gravity, is there some other addition to quantum mechanics which prevents the formation of such large-massive quantum superpositions? Can such massive superpositions be used for ultrasensitive sensors.
• This meeting will bring experimentalists and theorists together to discuss recent science (experiment and theory), towards generating such quantum superpositions.
• This workshop is hosted by the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Japan supported by the EPSRC Project Levinet.
• Organizer:
  • Kiyotaka Aikawa (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan)
  • Sougato Bose (University College London, UK)
  • Maria Fuwa (Gakushuin University, Tokyo, Japan)
  • Yosuke Minowa (Kyoto University, Japan, from April 2024)
  • Bill Munro (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
  • Kentaro Somyia (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan)
  • Jason Twamley (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)

 

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