Adiabatic Quantum Computing (AQC) promises to be robust to many noise sources that cause ordinary quantum circuits to fail, including environmental decoherence and imperfect control. While any quantum algorithm can be run on a universal adiabatic quantum computer in principle, combinatorial optimisation problems appear to be the most natural for near-term devices. Understanding the landscape of AQC architectures and algorithms, and methods for realising them, continues to be an active and vibrant research area.

The 2013 Wolf Prize in Physics has been awarded to Juan Ignacio Cirac of the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Munich, Germany, and Peter Zoller of Innsbruck University in Austria for “groundbreaking theoretical contributions to quantum-information processing, quantum optics and the physics of quantum gases”. The duo will share the $100,000 prize, which will be presented by the president of Israel at the Israeli parliament (Knesset) in May.

Dear Colleague,

we would like to draw your attention to the upcoming workshop on

"New trends in complex quantum system dynamics"

to be held in Cartagena, Spain on 8-12 April 2013.

The workshop homepage is: http://www.cqs.upct.es

The list of invited speakers includes (confirmed):

This conference is designed to bring together leading scientists in the field of quantum optics, quantum information processing, and quantum cryptography. It will offer an updated review of recent activities both in theoretical and experimental research.

The conference programme will consist of oral and poster presentations on the following topics that include, but are not limited to:

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the 13th ‘International Conference on Squeezed States and Uncertainty Relations’ (ICSSUR 2013) which will take place in Nuremberg, Germany, from June 24 to June 28 2013. It will be organized by the Max Planck Institute for the science of light and the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.

• The emergence of quantum information theory from quantum mechanics
• Many-body quantum simulation
• Qubits: Semiconductor quantum dots
• Quantum entanglement and teleportation
• Qubits: Josephson-junction devices
• Quantum communication, error correction
• Physical implementation of quantum computers
• Qubits: Optical and microwave photons
• Qubits: Majorana fermions

Two-week course with about 45 hours of lectures for students and young scientists

We analyze a quantum reservoir engineering method, originally introduced by [Sarlette et al. in Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 010402 (2011) -- arXiv 1011.5057], for the stabilization of non-classical field states in high quality cavities. We generalize the method to the protection of mesoscopic entangled field states shared by two non-degenerate field modes. The reservoir is made up of a stream of atoms undergoing successive composite interactions with the cavity, each combining resonant with non-resonant parts.

The discussions at and around the next summit of the European Union heads of states and governments, which is scheduled for 22 and 23 November, will be decisive in determining the EU research budget for the next seven years. Several Member States are demanding severe cuts on the total EU budget and research will have to compete with other policy priorities.

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2012 was awarded jointly to Serge Haroche and David J. Wineland "for ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems".

Read the official announcement on nobelprize.org.

Chairs: Marco Bellini, Francesco S. Cataliotti, Augusto Smerzi (Firenze, Italy)

With support from

QSTAR
Joint MPQ, IIT, LENS, UniFi Center for Quantum Science and Technolog