Co-hosts: Maryland Quantum-Thermodynamics Hub & University of Rochester Center for Coherence and Quantum Science (CQS)

There is no registration fee, but registration is required.

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Accommodation

Participants of the QTD Conference can reserve rooms at a discounted group rate. Please use the following links to book your stay:

• Staybridge Suites Rochester University

Additional hotel options offering conference discounts will be announced soon.

Keynote Speaker

Novelist and Scientific American contributing editor Mark Alpert, author of Final Theory, The Omega Theory, and other science-inspired novels.

Quantum Crash: Turning Science into Fiction and Vice Versa

Both fiction and physics require lots of imagination. Albert Einstein famously imagined chasing after a light beam, and his thought experiments about quantum entanglement paved the way for laboratory experiments several decades later. Meanwhile, novelists such as H.G. Wells and Arthur C. Clarke not only imagined science-based stories – their fiction also suggested new directions for researchers to explore. Mark Alpert, a former editor at Scientific American who has written eleven science-based novels, will discuss how his education in physics inspired his first two novels, Final Theory and The Omega Theory (originally titled Quantum Crash). He’ll explain how a visit to a lab at the University of Maryland – to help him edit a Scientific American story about quantum computing by Christopher Monroe and David Wineland – led to the writing of Quantum Crash, which featured speculations on the connection between quantum physics and information theory. And he’ll talk about his continuing efforts to encourage collaboration between physicists and fiction writers, who have a mutual interest in stimulating new ideas for research and boosting the public’s interest in science.

Invited Science Speakers

• Felipe Barra (University of Chile)
• Lea Ferreira dos Santos (University of Connecticut)
• Saikat Guha (University of Maryland)
• Giulia Rubino (University of Bristol)
• Bayan Karimi (University of Chicago)
• Charles Stafford (University of Arizona)
• Mark Wilde (Cornell University)

Poster Session

A poster session will include a competition for student and postdoctoral entrants. The Fidelity Center for Applied Technology is offering prizes.

Travel Scholarships

Early-career researchers will be able to apply for travel grants sponsored by Normal Computing. Check back later for details.

Titles and Abstracts

Lea Ferreira dos Santos

University of Connecticut

Dissipation as a Resource: Coherence Recovery and Chaos Control

Dissipation is commonly regarded as an obstacle to quantum control, as it induces decoherence and irreversibility. In this talk, we show that dissipation can instead be exploited as a resource to engineer and regulate complex dynamics in interacting quantum systems. Using an experimentally realizable two-species Bose-Josephson junction, we demonstrate that dissipation enables distinct dynamical regimes, including synchronized phase-locked oscillations, transient chaos, and steady-state chaos. The emergence of each behavior is determined by experimentally tunable parameters. Remarkably, dissipation regulates the duration of chaotic behavior and information scrambling, and can restore coherence at long times.