Focus Session: Quantum Foundations I

Presentations

• Almost quantum theory: classical theories with a constraint on knowledge

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 5, 2007, 11:15 AM – March 5, 2007, 11:51 AM

  Authors

  • Robert Spekkens

    University of Cambridge

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• Cloning, Broadcasting and the de Finetti theorem in Generalized Probablistic Theories

  ORAL

  March 5, 2007, 11:51 AM – March 5, 2007, 12:03 PM

  Authors

  • Matthew Leifer

    University of Waterloo/Perimeter Institute, University of Waterloo / Perimeter Institute

  • Howard Barnum

    Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Jonathan Barrett

    Perimeter Institute

  • Alexander Wilce

    Susquehana University

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• Quantum Mechanics on Phase Space and Informational Completeness

  ORAL

  March 5, 2007, 12:03 PM – March 5, 2007, 12:15 PM

  Authors

  • Franklin E. Schroeck, Jr.

    The University of Denver

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• Quasi-Orthonormal Bases for the Space of Density Operators

  ORAL

  March 5, 2007, 12:15 PM – March 5, 2007, 12:27 PM

  Authors

  • Christopher A. Fuchs

    Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies

  • D. M. Appleby

    Queen Mary University of London

  • Hoan B. Dang

    Princeton University

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• Macrorealism Emerging from Quantum Physics

  ORAL

  March 5, 2007, 12:27 PM – March 5, 2007, 12:39 PM

  Authors

  • Caslav Brukner

    Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna, Boltzmanngasse 5, 1090 Vienna, Austria

  • Johannes Kofler

    Institute of Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, Boltzmanngasse 3, 1090 Vienna, Austria

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• Critical sets of rays in four dimensions proving the Bell-Kochen-Specker theorem

  ORAL

  March 5, 2007, 12:39 PM – March 5, 2007, 12:51 PM

  Authors

  • P.K. Aravind

    Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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• Probing Contextuality with Pre- and Post-selection

  ORAL

  March 5, 2007, 12:51 PM – March 5, 2007, 1:03 PM

  Authors

  • Jeff Tollaksen

    Center for Quantum Studies, Department of Physics and Department of Computational and Data Sciences, College of Science, George Mason University

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• On the logical structure of Bell theorems.

  ORAL

  March 5, 2007, 1:03 PM – March 5, 2007, 1:15 PM

  Authors

  • Jonathan Walgate

    Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Canada, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

  • Anne Broadbent

    Universite de Montreal

  • Hilary Carteret

    University of Calgary

  • Andre Methot

    Universite de Montreal

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• Tests of local realism and the coincidence-time problem

  ORAL

  March 5, 2007, 1:15 PM – March 5, 2007, 1:27 PM

  Authors

  • Jan-{\AA}ke Larsson

    Link\"oping University, Link\"{o}ping University

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• Entanglement and correlations in mixed-state quantum computation

  ORAL

  March 5, 2007, 1:27 PM – March 5, 2007, 1:39 PM

  Authors

  • Animesh Datta

    Dept. of Physics \& Astronomy, University of New Mexico

  • Steven Flammia

    University of New Mexico, Dept. of Physics \& Astronomy, University of New Mexico

  • Carlton Caves

    University of New Mexico, The University of New Mexico, Dept. of Physics \& Astronomy, University of New Mexico

  • Guifre Vidal

    University of Queensland, School of Physical Sciences, The University of Queensland, QLD 4072, Australia

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• Multiply constrained bounds on measures of entanglement

  ORAL

  March 5, 2007, 1:39 PM – March 5, 2007, 1:51 PM

  Authors

  • Anil Shaji

    The University of New Mexico

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• Graphical description of the action of Clifford operators on stabilizer states

  ORAL

  March 5, 2007, 1:51 PM – March 5, 2007, 2:03 PM

  Authors

  • Matthew Elliott

    The University of New Mexico

  • Bryan Eastin

    University of New Mexico, The University of New Mexico

  • Carlton Caves

    University of New Mexico, The University of New Mexico, Dept. of Physics \& Astronomy, University of New Mexico

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• Entanglement and the second law

  ORAL

  March 5, 2007, 2:03 PM – March 5, 2007, 2:15 PM

  Authors

  • Ian Durham

    Saint Anselm College

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