Frontiers in Nanoscale Science and Technology (FNST 2008)
A workshop on:
Nanoelectronics, Nanophotonics & Quantum Information Processing
January 6-8, 2008, University of Basel, Pharmazentrum Hoersaal 1, Switzerland
Organized jointly by:
Basel Center for Quantum Computing and Quantum Coherence (QC2)
Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center based at Harvard
Program:
January 6 (Sunday)
13:00 Opening ( Vizerektor P. Meier-Abt, D. Loss and B. Westervelt )
Session 1: General Topics on Quantum Coherence and Quantum Computing
13:15-13:45 Tony Leggett (Urbana): Mesoscopic and macroscopic qubits-Why are they so surprisingly coherent?
13:45-14:15 Charles Marcus (Harvard): Approaches to spin-based quibits
14:15-14:30 Break
14:30-15:00 David DiVincenzo (IBM Yorktown): The uses of many body perturbation theory in quantum information science
15:00-15:30 Bill Brinkman (Princeton): Quantum computing- A reality check
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
Session 2: ESR & EDSR & nuclei (1)
16:00-16:30 Seigo Tarucha (Tokyo): Single electron spin resonance with quantum dots using a micro-magnet induced slanting Zeeman field
16:30-17:00 Frank Koppens (Delft): Coherent control of a single electron spin in a quantum dot
17:00-17:15 Break
17:15-17:45 Arzhang Ardavan (Oxford): Will spin-relaxation times in molecular magnets
permit quantum information processing?
17:45-18:15 Gian Salis (IBM Ruschlikon): Measurement of Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-
orbit magnetic fields in two-dimensional electron systems
January 7 (Monday)
Session 3: ESR & EDSR & nuclei (2)
9:00- 9:30 David Reilly (Harvard): The nuclear environment for electron spins in a
double quantum dot
9:30-10:00 Pascal Simon (Basel): Magnetic ordering of nuclear spins in an interacting
2D electron gas
10:00-10:20 Coffee Break
Session 4: 1D wires
10:20-10:50 Lars Samuelson (Lund): Opportunities for nanowires in nanoelectronics and
nanophotonics
10:50-11:20 Bill Coish (Waterloo): Decoherence and dynamics in a spin bath
11:20-11:35 Break
11:35-12:05 Christian Schoenenberger (Basel): Mach-Zehnder interferometer with edge-
states
12:05-12:35 Bjoern Trauzettel (Wuerzburg): Spin qubits in carbon nanotubes and graphene
nanoribbons
12:35-14:00 Lunch and posters at the lobby
14:00-14:30 Amir Yacoby (Harvard): Charge fractionalization in quantum wires
14:30-15:00 Klaus Ensslin (ETH Zurich): Single microwave photon detection with a double
quantum dot
15:00-15:30 Coffee Break
Session 5: Graphene (1)
15:30-16:00 Kostya Novoselov (Manchester): QED in a pencil trace
16:00-16:30 Philipp Kim (Columbia): Electron transport in graphene nanostructures
16:30-17:00 Ed McCann (Lancaster): Characterization of graphene through anisotropy of
constant-energy maps in angle-resolved photoemission
17:00-18:30 Posters at the lobby
18:30-18:45 Bus Transfer from Pharmazentrum to Banquet location: Restaurant Acqua,
19:00 Apero and Banquet: Swiss Cheese Fondue at the ‘Zermatt Hütte’
Welcome address by Regierungsrat Dr. Ralph Lewin
January 8 (Tuesday)
Session 6: Graphene (2)
9:00- 9:30 Allan MacDonald (Austin): Bilayer exiton superfluidity
9:30-10:00 Alberto Morpurgo (Delft): Electronic properties of graphene revealed by
quantum interference experiments
10:00-10:30 Bart van Wees (Groningen): Spin transport, spin relaxation and spin precession in
graphene field effect transistors
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
Session 7: Optics, Spins & Cavities
11:00-11:30 Atac Imamoglu (ETH Zurich): Optical manipulation and measurement of
a quantum dot spin
11:30-12:00 Manfred Bayer (Dortmund): Optical control of electron spin in quantum dot ensembles
12:00-14:00 Lunch and posters at the lobby
14:00-14:30 Jesse Berezovsky (Santa Barbara): Optical detection and manipulation of single spin coherence in a quantum dot
14:30-15:00 Fedor Jelezko (Stuttgart): Fourier transform limited photons from single defects
in diamond
15:00-15:15 Break
15:15-15:45 Ronald Hanson (Delft): Coherent control of single spins in diamond
15:45-16:15 Gurudev Dutt (Harvard): Towards optically connected quantum spin registers
in diamond
16:15-16:45 Coffee Break
16:45-17:15 Jon Finley (TU Munich): Non-resonant coupling of single quantum dots to
photonic crystal nanocavities
17:15-17:45 Mike Stopa (Harvard): Nanosystems in realistic electrostatic environments: from
quantum computation to photovoltaics
17:45 Closing
Last Modified September 5, 2008
by the NSEC Office.