Quantum Entanglement, New States of Matter, and Correlated Dynamics

The 2016 Gordon Research Conference on Quantum Science will be held on July 31 - August 5, 2016 at Stonehill College, Easton, MA. The Chairs for the meeting are Jun Ye (an experimental physicist working on the frontiers of quantum metrology and many-body physics at JILA, University of Colorado) and Frank Verstraete (a theoretical physicist working on the foundational aspects of quantum information science at University of Vienna). The Vice Chairs are Ana Maria Rey (University of Colorado) and Andrew Houck (Princeton University).

The aim of this conference is to explore frontier topics in the field of quantum science research, covering fundamental questions on quantum information and decoherence, entanglement and correlation dynamics, quantum sensing and fundamental physics, and new quantum systems. The program committee consists of the four chairs, and Dave Wineland, Hans Briegel, Misha Lukin, Peter Zoller, Ignacio Cirac, Immanuel Bloch, David Huse, and Arno Rauschenbeutel. We will invite 50 and more leading scientists along with 100 or so students and postdocs, and together we will brainstorm a range of cutting-edge discussions related to the broad scientific discipline of quantum science.

The scientific program consists of five evening sessions and four morning sessions, starting from Sunday night (July 31, 2016) and ending on Friday morning (August 5). The evening sessions will feature one discussion leader and two invited speakers each. The morning sessions will have one discussion leader and three invited speakers each. Besides exploring quantum information processing algorithm and architecture, important questions to be discussed will include the connections between quantum entanglement, non-equilibrium dynamics, correlated states of matter, thermalization and decoherence. We will address the implications of quantum entanglement for outstanding questions in condensed matter, high energy, and general relativity, while we explore the technological applications in quantum sensing and construction of interconnected and robust quantum systems.

We will also hold a student-focused Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) on July 30-31 (just before GRC). Jutho Haegeman (Univ. Vienna) and Jacob Covey (Univ. Colorado) are the student co-chairs. The interaction between students and practicing scientists will be a highlight of this conference.