QUROPE Quantum Information Processing and Communication in Europe

Dear Colleagues,

The organizers of the "Benasque Workshop on Quantum Simulations" are glad to announce this event that will take place in Benasque, Spain, from September 29th until October 4th 2013. See list of invited speakers and full information at

http://www.benasque.org/2013qs/

There, you find all information to apply for contributed talk, poster presentation, or just attendance. Any additional information can be obtained by writing to info [at] benasque [dot] org

Partial financial support will be provided only to invited speakers, so no further request will be processed.

This is the third Workshop on Quantum Simulations since Benasque 2011 and Bilbao 2012 (http://sites.google.com/site/quantumsimulationsbilbao12/), each of them highly interdisciplinary with about 150 young and senior participants.

The goal of the Workshop on Quantum Simulations 2013 is to gather the leading and interested scientists in theory and experiments on quantum simulations with an open interdisciplinary scope. Quantum simulations consist in the intentional and artificial reproduction of a quantum dynamics, difficult to access and study, onto an unnatural quantum system that is more controllable theoretically and experimentally. The objectives are diverse, ranging from purely aesthetic, to communicating independent fields, to the more mediatic ones, as is the case of calculating and predicting physics that cannot be done with existing computational power. Quantum simulations are not restricted to a specific field. It is intrinsically eclectic, from fundamentals in physics and quantum information, to quantum optics (photonics, cavity QED, trapped ions, optical lattices, BEC), to condensed-matter (strongly-correlated systems, quantum dots, superconducting qubits, circuit QED), to quantum chemistry, to relativistic quantum mechanics, to general relativity, to quantum field theory inside or beyond the standard model, and even to quantum biomimetics.

From a certain point of view, arts were created because we humans are not happy with reality. Even though this may appear to be a contradiction for a scientist, quantum simulations represent our quantum theater. Here, we may create not only existing physics that is difficult to reproduce, but also physics that may not exist in nature, with the only condition that it is possible and does not violate the physical laws. We will organize dayly sessions of talks and posters, and also round tables for discussions around present and upcoming generations of quantum simulations. The main goal is to enjoy together the physics of quantum simulations with a creative approach, to boost interdisciplinary collaborations, and interest the young scientists in a passionating and burgeoning field.

We are convinced that your presence, poster, or talk, will be of invaluable relevance for the generation of novel ideas and discussions in quantum simulations and related quantum technologies.

Immanuel Bloch (Garching)
Göran Johansson (Gothenburg) Local Organizer
Ferdinand Schmidt-Kaler (Mainz)
Enrique Solano (Bilbao) Main Organizer
Christopher Wilson (Waterloo)

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