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Tutorials
25 August 2013 (Sunday)
- 09:00 – 10:00 Umesh Vazirani Taming the quantum tiger
- 10:00 – 10:30 Health Break
- 10:30 – 12:30 Charles H. Bennett Quantum communication: Tasks and resources
- 12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
- 14:00 – 15:30 Guruprasad Kar Present status of the programme of Hidden Variable Theory and its implications
- 15:30 – 16:00 Health Break
- 16:00 – 18:00 Andreas Winter Quantum channel capacities – Some answer and many questions
- 18:00 – 19:30 Reception / Registration
- 19:30 – 20:30 Dinner
Oral Presentations
26 August 2013 (Monday)
- 09:00 – 09:30 Inaugural
- 09:30 – 10:30 Invited Talk — Umesh Vazirani — Monogamy of entanglement and fully device independent quantum key distribution
- 10:30 – 11:00 Health Break
- 11:00 – 12:30 Long Contributed Talks When do local operations and classical communication suffice for optimal quantum state discrimination?
- 12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
- 14:00 – 15:00 Invited Talk — Francois Le Gall — Quantum algorithms for matrix multiplication
- 15:00 – 15:30 Health Break
- 15:30 – 17:00 Poster Session
- 17:00 – 19:30 Special Session: A program of interaction/interface with the media & the public, Gilles Brassard, moderator
- 19:30 – 20:30 Dinner
Eric Chitambar, Runyao Duan and Min-Hsiu Hsieh Tight bounds on the distinguishability of quantum states under separable measurements
Somshubhro Bandyopadhyay and Michael Nathanson Unextendible mutually unbiased bases from Pauli classes Prabha Mandayam, Somshubhro Bandyopadhyay, Markus Grassl and William K. Wootters
27 August 2013 (Tuesday)
- 09:30 – 10:30 Invited Talk — Girish S. Agarwal — Engineering coherence and entanglement via photon addition and subtraction
- 10:30 – 11:00 Health Break
- 11:00 – 12:30 Long Contributed Talks Is nonclassicality-breaking the same thing as entanglement-breaking? J. Solomon Ivan, Krishna Kumar Sabapathy and Rajiah Simon Entanglement enhances performance in microscopic quantum fridges Nicolas Brunner, Marcus Huber, Noah Linden, Sandu Popescu, Ralph Silva and Paul Skrzypczyk MDI-EWs: Demonstrating arbitrarily weak entanglement using untrusted measurement devices Denis Rosset, Cyril Branciard, Yeong-Cherng Liang and Nicolas Gisin
- 12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
- 14:00 – 15:00 Invited Talk — Nicolas Gisin — Quantum correlations in Newtonian space and time: Arbitrarily fast communication or nonlocality
- 15:00 – 15:30 Health Break
- 15:30 – 17:10 Parallel Session A Conclusive exclusion of quantum states Somshubhro Bandyopadhyay, Rahul Jain, Jonathan Oppenheim and Christopher Perry How well can one jointly measure two incompatible observables on a given quantum state? Cyril Branciard Optimal error regions for quantum state estimation Shang Jiangwei, Hui Khoon Ng, Arun Sehrawat, Li Xikun and Berthold-Georg Englert Precision-guaranteed quantum tomography for finite-dimensional systems Takanori Sugiyama, Peter S. Turner and Mio Murao “Pretty strong” converse for the quantum capacity of degradable channels Ciara Morgan and Andreas Winter
- 15:30 – 17:10 Parallel Session B Probing quantum discord in a Heisenberg dimer compound Tanmoy Chakraborty, Harkirat Singh, Sourabh Singh, Radha Krishna Gopal and Chiranjib Mitra Weak measurement can resurrect lost quantum correlations Uttam Singh and Arun Kumar Pati Quantifying non-classical correlations via moment matrix positivity H. S. Karthik, A. R. Usha Devi, A. K. Rajagopal, Sudha, J. Prabhu Tej and Andal Narayanan A minimal state-dependent proof of measurement contextuality for a qubit Ravi Kunjwal and Sibasish Ghosh A gambling interpretation of some quantum information-theoretic quantities Naresh Sharma
- 17:10 – 18:00 Group Photograph and Health break
- 18:00 – 19:30 Program of India classical dance
Meenakshi Srinivasan, Bharatanatyam Dancer
- 19:30 – 20:30 Dinner
28 August 2013 (Wednesday) - Excursion
29 August 2013 (Thursday)
- 09:30 – 10:30 Invited Talk — N. Mukunda — Entanglement and complete positivity: Relevance and manifestations in classical optics
- 10:30 – 11:00 Health Break
- 11:00 – 12:30 Long Contributed Talks Strong converse for the classical capacity of entanglement-breaking and Hadamard channels Mark M. Wilde, Andreas Winter and Dong Yang Zero-error classical channel capacity and simulation cost assisted by quantum non-signalling correlations Runyao Duan and Andreas Winter Quantum discord plays no distinguished role in characterization of complete positivity: Robustness of the traditional scheme Rajiah Simon, Krishna Kumar Sabapathy, J. Solomon Ivan and Sibasish Ghosh
- 12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
- 14:00 – 15:00 Parallel Session A Multipartite entanglement quantification in weighted graph states Michal Hajduzek and Mio Murao Characterizing genuine multipartite entanglement in 2D quantum spin lattices Himadri Shekhar Dhar, Aditi Sen(De) and Ujjwal Sen Entanglement certainty from Heisenberg’s uncertainty Patrick J. Coles and Marco Piani
- 14:00 – 15:00 Parallel Session B Quantum discord for two-qubit X-states: An approach inspired by classical polarization optics Krishna Kumar Sabapathy and Rajiah Simon Measuring time-energy resources for quantum processes Chi-Hang Fred Fung and H. F. Chau Non-classical interference between two telecom photons converted by difference-frequency generation Rikizo Ikuta, Toshiki Kobayashi, Hiroshi Kato, Shigehito Miki, Taro Yamashita, Hirotaka Terai, Mikio Fujiwara, Takashi Yamamoto, Masato Koashi, Masahide Sasaki, Zhen Wang and Nobuyuki Imoto
- 15:00 – 15:30 Health Break
- 15:30 – 17:00 Poster Session
- 19:30 – 20:30 Dinner
30 August 2013 (Friday)
- 09:00 – 10:00 Invited Talk — Masahide Sasaki — Toward quantum photonic network
- 10:00 – 10:30 Long Contributed Talk Single-mode bright squeezed vacuum Angela M. Perez, Stas S. Straupe, Timur Sh. Iskhakov, Maria V. Chekhova and Gerd Leuchse
- 10:30 – 11:00 Health Break
- 11:00 – 12:30 Long Contributed Talks Limitations on quantum privacy swapping Stefan Bauml, Matthias Christandl and Andreas Winter Continuous variable entropic uncertainty relations in the presence of quantum memory Mario Berta, Matthias Christandl, Fabian Furrer, Volkher Scholz and Marco Tomamichel Hamiltonian simulation with complexity polylogarithmic in the error Dominic W. Berry, Rolando D. Somma and Richard Cleve
- 12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
- 14:00 – 15:00 Parallel Session A Non-classicality and entanglement of symmetric multiqubit states A. R. Usha Devi, A. K. Rajagopal, Sudha, H. S. Karthik and T. Prabhu Tej Generalized monogamy of contextual inequalities from the no-disturbance principle Ravishankar Ramanathan, Akihito Soeda, Paweł Kurzynski and Dagomir Kaszlikowski One-sided error QMA with shared EPR pairs—A simpler proof Attila Pereszlenyi
- 14:00 – 15:00 Parallel Session B An algebraic description of quantum nets Vikram S. Vijayaraghavan and Subhash Chaturvedi Using partial transpose and realignment to generate local unitary invariants Arul Lakshminarayan, Udaysinh T. Bhosale and K.V. Shuddhodhan Entanglement in two site Bose-Hubbard model K.V. S. Shiv Chaitanya, Sibasish Ghosh and V. Srinivasan
- 15:00 – 15:30 Health Break
- 15:30 – 16:30 Parallel Session A Efficient quantum algorithm to construct arbitrary Dicke states Kaushik Chakraborty, Byung-Soo Choi, Arpita Maitra and Subhamoy Maitra Universal implementation of energy eigenbasis measurement Shojun Nakayama, Akihito Soeda and Mio Murao Floating point representations in quantum circuit synthesis Nathan Wiebe and Vadym Kliuchnikov
- 15:30 – 16:30 Parallel Session B Quantum anonymous veto with Hardy paradox Ramij Rahaman, Marcin Wiesniak and Marek Zukowski Quantum state cloning using Deutschian closed timelike curves Todd A. Brun, Mark M. Wilde and Andreas Winter Local hidden variable theoretic measure of quantumness of mutual information Ravinder R. Puri
- 16:30 – 17:30 Valedictory
- 19:30 – 20:30 Dinner
Poster Session 1 - 26 Aug (15:30 - 17:00)
- Solution for the discrimination of three qubit-mixed quantum states Donghoon Ha and Younghun Kwon
- Evolution of quasi-Bell states in a strongly coupled qubit-oscillator system and a study of complexity B. Virgin Jenisha
- Dynamics of nonlocality of two-mode quantum vortex state under thermal environment Devendra Kumar Mishra
- An operational measure of incompatibility of noncommuting observables Somshubhro Bandyopadhyay and Prabha Mandayam
- Asymptotic minimization of decoherence for ion trapping Samyadeb Bhattacharya
- Generation of free-traveling optical trio coherent states Minh Duc Truong, Quang Dat Tran, Ba An Nguyen and Jaewan Kim
- Lack of measurement independence can simulate quantum correlation even when signaling cannot Manik Banik
- Actively switchable non-degenerate polarization entangled photon pair distribution in a dense wave-division multiplexing Zhi-Yuan Zhou, Yun-Kun Jiang, Dong-Sheng Ding, Bao-Sen Shi and Guang-Can Guo
- Counterfactual quantum key distribution without polarization encoding Akshata Shenoy H., R. Srikanth and T. Srinivas
- Local unitary equivalent classes of symmetric N -qubit mixed states Sakineh Ashourisheikhi and Swarnamala Sirsi
- Remote state preparation of arbitrary two-qubit state with unit success probability Ranjana Prakash and Ajay Kumar Yadav
- On the volume of separable bipartite states Rajeev Singh, Ravi Kunjwal and Rajiah Simon
- Macroscopic locality and same-biasness condition almost reproduces quantum-distribution achieving Tsirelson’s bound M. D. Rajjak Gazi, Manik Banik, Subhadipa Das, Ashutosh Rai and Samir Kunkri
- Analyzing communication in quantum based mobile ad hoc networks Laszlo Bacsardi, Dora Banyai and Sandor Imre
- Quantum algorithm to solve a maze: Converting a maze problem into search problem Niraj Kumar and Debabrata Goswami
- Protection of an unknown quantum state against decoherence via weak measurement and quantum measurement reversal Manju Bhatt and U. C. Johri
- Degree of quantum coherence of the light field from an optical Mach-Zehnder interferometer with a NOON state Kenji Tsujino, Toshio Yamaguchi, Midori Matsumoto and Junji Kinoshita
- Preserving quantum states in a subspace using the super Zeno effect on an NMR quantum computer Harpreet Singh, Arvind and Kavita Dorai
- Is 2-EPP good at low rates for phase damping channel? Takahiro Segawa, Tsuyoshi Sasaki Usuda and Shogo Usami
- Effect of Bloch vectors on quantum discord of non-X state Jingying Yao, Yuli Dong and Shiqun Zhu
- Gate teleportation using Series entanglement distributions on arbitrary remote states Debashis Saha, Sanket Nandan and Prasanta K. Panigrahi
- Purification and retrieval of entanglement via single local filtering Kudlur Omkarappa Yashodamma, Pulikuli Janardhan Geetha and Sudha
- Thermal entanglement in a two-qubit Ising chain subjected to Dzialoshinski-Moriya interaction Bhadravathi Gangaiah Divyamani and Sudha
- Bell nonlocality for light beams with topological singularities Priyanka Chowdhury, Archan S. Majumdar and Girish S. Agarwal
- Detecting mixedness of quantum states using the uncertainty principle Shiladitya Mal, Tanumoy Pramanik and Archan S. Majumdar
- Improving the fidelity of teleportation through noisy channels using weak measurement Tanumoy Pramanik and Archan S. Majumdar
- Separability criteria of k-separable n-partite quantum states N. Ananth and M. Senthilvelan
- Violation of entropic Leggett-Garg inequality in nuclear spins Hemant Katiyar, Abhishek Shukla, K. Rama Koteswara Rao and T. S. Mahesh
- Entanglement and non-classicality of generalized quantum optical vortex states Anindya Banerji, Ravindra Pratap Singh and Abir Bandyopadhyay
- Positive maps and quantum filtration Ritabrata Sengupta, Debmalya Das and Arvind
- Joint weak value for all order coupling Alok Kumar Pan and Prasanta K. Panigrahi
- Ergodicity transitions of quantum correlations in many-body systems Utkarsh Mishra, Prabhu Ramappa, Aditi Sen(De) and Ujjwal Sen
Poster Session 2 - 29 Aug (15:30 - 17:00)
- Macroscopic Schrodinger cat resistant to particle loss and local decoherence Utkarsh Mishra, Ramappa Prabhu, Aditi Sen(De) and Ujjwal Sen
- Entanglement between two subsystems, the Wigner semicircle and extreme value statistics Udaysinh T. Bhosale, Steven Tomsovic and Arul Lakshminarayan
- Quantum back-action in a two-component Bose-Einstein condensate Ebubechukwu O. Ilo-Okeke and Tim Byrnes
- Adiabatic effect in open quantum systems: Implications for quantum information Subhashish Banerjee, Kevin Valson Jacob, Sohan Sarangi and Sibasish Ghosh
- Cluster state quantum computation with molecular rotational states Sang Jae Yun, Jaeyoon Cho and Jaewan Kim
- Non-locality breaking qubit channels Rajarshi Pal and Sibasish Ghosh
- Local quantum uncertainty and bounds on quantumness for O ⊗ O invariant class of states Ajoy Sen, Amit Bhar and Debasis Sarkar
- Different useful aspects of hierarchical quantum communication Chitra Shukla and Anirban Pathak
- Secure sequential transmission of quantum information Kabgyun Jeong and Jaewan Kim
- A space-efficient design for a reversible floating point adder in quantum computing Trung Duc Nguyen and Rodney Van Meter
- A new reversible SMG gate and its application for designing reversible two’s complement adder/subtractor S. Manjula Gandhi, J. Devishree and S. Sathish Mohan
- Bell inequalities under one sided relaxation of physical constraints Biswajit Paul, Kaushiki Mukherjee and Debasis Sarkar
- Primality testing in quantum domain Kaushik Chakraborty, Anupam Chattopadhyay and Pratyay Poddar
- Qubit arrangement problems for topological quantum computation Shigeru Yamashita, Shinnosuke Hiratsuka, Simon Devitt and Kae Nemoto
- Hardy’s argument for temporal nonlocality Sujit K. Choudhary, Sandeep K. Goyal, Thomas Konrad and Sibasish Ghosh
- Hardy’s nonlocality argument as witness for post-quantum correlation Subhadipa Das
- Bound on tri-partite Hardy’s nonlocality respecting all bi-partite principles Subhadipa Das, Manik Banik, M. D. Rajjak Gazi, Ashutosh Rai, Samir Kunkri and Ramij Rahaman
- Construction and physical realization of POVMs on a symmetric subspace S. P. Shilpashree, Veena Adiga and Swarnamala Sirsi
- Improvement of quasi-optimum quantum receiver for M -ary PSK coherent-state signals Takashi Kondo and Tsuyoshi Sasaki Usuda
- Constructing mehod of 2-EPP with different quantum error correcting codes Daichi Sasaki and Tsuyoshi Sasaki Usuda
- Broadcasting of correlation and its use in quantum information processing Sourav Chatterjee, Anubhav Chaturvedi, Maharshi Ray and Indranil Chakrabarty
- Single-photon scattering in a waveguide coupled to a nanocavity Zheyong Zhang, Yuli Dong and Shiqun Zhu
- Ancilla assisted quantum state tomography in multiqubit registers Abhishek Shukla, K. Rama Koteswara Rao and T. S. Mahesh
- Entropic uncertainty relation for successive measurements Kyunghyun Baek and Wonmin Son
- Estimation of quantum states by weak and projective measurements: A comparative study Debmalya Das and Arvind
- Maximal average fidelity in quantum teleportation of single qubit mixed information state by using two qubits X-state as resource Hari Prakash and Vikram Verma
- Tomographic reconstruction of generic three-qubit states on an NMR quantum computer using only two qubit detectors Shruti Dogra, Kavita Dorai and Arvind
- A cumulative method of Page ranking using quantum algorithm for diffusing a Google bomb Monisha Loganathan
- Formula of channel matrix for a certain class of (G, χ)-covariant signals Yoshihiro Ishikawa, Keisuke Shiromoto and Tsuyoshi Sasaki Usuda
- Engineered quantum noise: Characterization by noise spectroscopy and suppression by dynamical decoupling Swathi S. Hegde and T. S. Mahesh
- Maximization of Holevo information for entanglement-assisted classical communication using quasi-Bell states Shota Yamaguchi and Tsuyoshi Sasaki Usuda
- Secret key generation over a lossy optical channel with a passive quantum eavesdropper: Capacity bounds and new explicit protocols Saikat Guha, Masahiro Takeoka, Hari Krovi, Mark Wilde and Cosmo Lupo
- Entanglement in the Grover’s search algorithm Shantanav Chakraborty, Subhashish Banerjee, Satyabrata Adhikari and Atul Kumar