Tutorial #3

Fundamentals of Quantum Entanglement

Pre-registration only — no on-site registration for tutorials

Sunday, March 9
8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
La Galerie 2
New Orleans Marriott Hotel
555 Canal Street

Who Should Attend
Graduate students, post-docs, principal investigators, and funding agents interested in understanding the key ideas behind the current theory of quantum entanglement and in obtaining selected points of entry to the extensive literature on the subject.

Tutorial Description
It has become clear in recent years that entanglement is not only a concept at the very heart of quantum mechanics but a distinctive resource for quantum communication and computation tasks which cannot be performed based solely on classical means. The mathematical structure of entanglement turns out to be extremely rich and non-trivial and, apart from simple scenarios (few distinguishable subsystems, small dimensions, pure quantum states), a number of outstanding questions remains only partly understood at present. As such, entanglement is among the most active and rapidly evolving research areas within quantum information science, both from an abstract and applied perspective. The goal of this tutorial would be to provide a high-level introduction to our present knowledge about fundamental qualitative and quantitative aspects of entanglement, including: entanglement characterization via appropriate separability criteria; entanglement detection by entanglement witnesses; classification according to operational protocols such as distillation; entanglement quantification in bipartite and multipartite systems via appropriate measures. Time permitting, recent applications and implications in quantum many-body systems will also be surveyed.

Topics
Entanglement as an Information Resource
Characterizing Entanglement
Entanglement at the Condensed Matter Interface
Experimental Aspects of Entanglement

Instructors
Dagmar Bruss, Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet Duesseldorf
Antonio Acin, Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques, Barcelona
Gerardo Ortiz, Indiana University, Bloomington
Harald Weinfurter, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen

Organizer
Lorenza Viola, Dartmouth College, lorenza.viola@dartmouth.edu