QUROPE Quantum Information Processing and Communication in Europe

In recent years, a close connection between the description of open quantum systems, the input-output formalism of quantum optics, and continuous matrix product states in quantum field theory has been established. So far, however, this connection has not been extended to the condensed-matter context.

Topological phases of matter possess intricate correlation patterns typically probed by entanglement entropies or entanglement spectra. In this Letter, we propose an alternative approach to assessing topologically induced edge states in free and interacting fermionic systems. We do so by focussing on the fermionic covariance matrix.

We would like to advertise several remaining places at the workshop on Spectral and Spatial Engineering of Quantum Light (SSEQL'16, http://sseql.phoqus.fuw.edu.pl), which will be held at the University of Warsaw from 30 March to 1 April 2016. The workshop is organized within the PhoQuS project (http://phoqus.fuw.edu.pl) and focuses on exploring the spectral-temporal and spatial degree of freedom of light for multidimensional photonic quantum information encoding and processing. The list of invited speakers includes:

How soon will we have quantum computers? In what ways will they transform our lives? Listen in as some of the top experts from tech companies working on quantum computing weigh in.

Enrico Fermi Summer School on Quantum Simulators

Motivation and goals

Dear colleagues and friends,

We would like to bring your attention to a joint school and workshop on "Quantum simulation and many-body physics with light", to be held in Chania, Crete, Greece, June 5-12, 2016.

The website of the meeting is up at: http://qlightcrete2016.org/.

We would greatly appreciate it if you could bring this to the attention of your groups and to anyone else that might be interested. Pre-registration and abstract submission opens soon.

On behalf of the organizers, Dimitris G. Angelakis

We would like to let you know that from March 14 to March 17, 2016, the Graduate Days of the cluster of excellence “The Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging” (CUI) will take place in Hamburg (Germany). The CUI centre is a federal state cluster of excellence of the University of Hamburg, DESY, the Max Plank Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, the European Molecular Biology Laboratory and the European XFEL.

The Physics World 2015 Breakthrough of the Year goes to Jian-Wei Pan and Chaoyang Lu of the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei, for being the first to achieve the simultaneous quantum teleportation of two inherent properties of a fundamental particle – the photon.

Dear atom opticians, we would like to announce the 22nd Young Atom Opticians conference (YAO) to be held in Munich - on the Garching research campus - from Sunday, 21st to Friday, 26th of February 2016. The YAO conference is an international meeting aiming at PhD and Master students working in fields related to Quantum Optics and Atomic and Molecular Physics. It gained reputation as an excellent platform for young researchers to present their work and to establish networks among postgraduate researchers in the European atomic physics community.