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Working Seminar on Quantum Computation and Quantum Information

Spring 2019

 

Date:January 24, 2019
Time:11:00am
Location:BLOC 111
Speaker:Michael Brannan , TAMU
Title:Operator systems and quantum graphs
Abstract:The plan of this working seminar is to survey some of the existing literature on ``quantum graphs'' and their applications/uses in the mathematics of quantum information theory. Some references: Quantum relations – Nik Weaver, 2010 (arxiv:1005.0354) Quantum graphs as quantum relations – Nik Weaver, 2015 (arxiv:1506.03892) A “quantum” Ramsey theory for operator systems – Nik Weaver, 2016 (arxiv:1601.01259) Zero-error communication via quantum channels, non-commutative graphs, and a quantum Lovasz theta function – Runyao Duan, Simone Severini, Andreas Winter, 2010 (arxiv:1002.2514) No-signalling assisted zero-error capacity of quantum channels and an information-theoretic interpretation of the Lovasz number – Runyao Duan, Andreas Winter, 2015 (arxiv:1409.3426) On zero-error communication via quantum channels in the presence of noiseless feedback – Runyao Duan, Simone Severini, Andreas Winter, 2016 (arxiv:1502.02987) Complexity and capacity bounds for quantum channels – Rupert Levene, Vern Paulsen, and Ivan Todorov, 2017 (arxiv:1710.06456) No quantum Brooks’ theorem – Steven Lu, 2014 – (arxiv:1411.7666) On the noncommutative deformation of the operator graph corresponding to the Klein group – G.G. Amosov and I. Yu. Zhdanovskiy, 2017 (arxiv:1604.05387) On construction of anticliques for non-commutative operator graphs – GG. Amosov and A.S. Mokeev, 2017 (arxiv:1709.08062)

Date:January 31, 2019
Time:11:00am
Location:BLOC 111
Speaker:Michael Brannan, TAMU
Title:Quantum relations and Operator Systems
Abstract:We will continue our discussion of Quantum Relations (after Nik Weaver), quantum graphs, and operator systems.

Date:February 7, 2019
Time:11:00am
Location:BLOC 111
Speaker:Michael Brannan, TAMU
Title:Quantum confusability graphs, quantum Lovasz theta function, and zero-error quantum capacity.

Date:February 14, 2019
Time:11:00am
Location:BLOC 111
Speaker:Michael Brannan, TAMU
Title:Quantum confusability graphs, quantum Lovasz theta function, and zero-error quantum capacity, part II

Date:February 28, 2019
Time:11:00am
Location:BLOC 111
Speaker:Michael Brannan, TAMU
Title:Quantum relations vs quantum adjacency matrices

Date:March 21, 2019
Time:11:00am
Location:BLOC 111
Speaker:Michael Brannan, TAMU
Title:Clebsch-Gordan Quantum Channels
Abstract:I will describe some examples and properties of G-covariant quantum channels, where G is some compact (quantum) group. I will highlight how representation theory is a powerful tool to study properties of such channels and I will also highlight some open problems about these channels. Joint work with B. Collins, H.-H. Lee, and S. Youn.

Date:April 4, 2019
Time:11:00am
Location:BLOC 111
Speaker:Michael Brannan, TAMU
Title:Introduction to rigid C*-tensor categories

Date:April 11, 2019
Time:11:00am
Location:BLOC 111
Speaker:Michael Brannan, TAMU
Title:Introduction to rigid C*tensor categories, part 2

Date:April 18, 2019
Time:11:00am
Location:BLOC 11
Speaker:Michael Brannan, TAMU
Title:Rigid C*-tensor categories, part III

Date:April 25, 2019
Time:11:00am
Location:BLOC 11
Speaker:Michael Brannan, TAMU
Title:Rigid C*-tensor categories, part IV

Date:April 25, 2019
Time:11:00am
Location:BLOC 111
Speaker:Michael Brannan, TAMU
Title:Rigid C*-tensor categories, V

Date:April 26, 2019
Time:10:30am
Location:BLOC 624
Speaker:Michael Brannan, TAMU
Title:Rigid C*-tensor categories, VI