Student Travel Support, First International Conference on Quantum Error Correction

学生支持第一届国际会议 关于量子纠错知识价值：量子计算和量子信息通过利用量子系统的内在特性为信息处理提供了一个新的范例。在过去的十年里，这一领域在量子算法、通信协议和其他信息处理思想方面的工作量激增。虽然理论进展迅速，但实验进展缓慢，这主要是由于在处理量子系统中的退相干和其他噪声源时遇到了很大的困难。控制这种噪声是构建量子计算机和其他信息处理设备的最大障碍。对退相干和错误控制操作的量子纠错构成了所有量子信息处理的基础。尽管自从十年前Shor和Steane发现量子纠错码以来，在这方面取得了显著的进展，但在理论和应用于真实的物理系统方面仍然存在重要的开放问题。量子纠错码是一个非常活跃的研究领域，在量子纠错码、无消相干子空间和子系统、动力学解耦和噪声隔离等方面取得了持续的进展和突破。本次会议将汇集来自世界各地的该领域的主要研究人员，讨论量子纠错和错误抑制的现状，无论是理论上还是实验上。所有解决这个问题的主要方法都将被介绍。这是第一次专门针对量子纠错的大型会议。本次会议将于2007年12月17日至21日在洛杉矶的南加州大学举行。为了确保大量的学生参加这次会议，需要提供差旅支持。更广泛的影响：鉴于该领域的快速发展，不同领域的研究人员相互了解不再容易？s工作。这次会议将促进纠正或防止量子错误问题的不同方法之间的相互促进。它还将使这一领域的实验者和理论家能够进行交流。通过支持学生，本次会议将促进下一代量子信息处理新工作者的发展。量子信息处理的进展关键取决于量子纠错的进展。剑桥大学出版社将出版一本关于量子纠错的书，作为此次会议的成果。章节的贡献已征求了一组选定的发言者，组织者将编辑一本书，将形成一个全面的介绍，并调查，量子纠错领域。

Student Support for First International Conference on Quantum Error CorrectionIntellectual Merit:Quantum computation and quantum information provides a new paradigm for information processing, by exploiting the intrinsic properties of quantum systems. In the last ten years this field has exploded with a huge amount of work in quantum algorithms,communication protocols, and otherinformation processing ideas. While the theory hasprogressed rapidly, experiment has advanced at a more modest pace, largely due to the great difficulty in dealing with decoherence and other sources of noise in quantum systems. Controlling this noise is the single largest obstacle to the construction of quantum computers and other information processing devices. Quantum error correction of decoherence and faulty control operations forms thebackbone of all of quantum information processing. In spite of remarkable progress on this front ever since the discovery of quantum error correcting codes by Shor and Steane a decade ago, there remain important open problems in both theory and applications to real physical systems. The subject remains a very active area of research with acontinuing stream of progress and breakthroughs from a wide variety of different approaches, including quantum error-correcting codes, decoherence-free subspaces and subsystems, dynamical decoupling, and noise isolation.This conference will bring together leading researchers in this field from all over the world to discuss the current state of quantum error correction and error suppression, both in theory and experiment. All major approaches to this problem will be represented. This is the first large-scale meeting of its kind specifically on quantum error correction. This conference will take place December 17-21, 2007 at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Travel support is requestedto ensure a large student participation in this meeting.Broader Impact:Given the rapid growth of the field, it is no longer easy for researchers in different areas to keep abreast of each other?s work. This conference will stimulate cross-fertilization between different approaches to the problem of correcting or preventing quantum errors. It will also enable exchanges between experimenters and theorists in this area. By supporting students, this conference will foster the development of the upcoming generation of new workers in quantum information processing. Progress in quantum information processing depends crucially on the advancement of quantum error correction.Cambridge University Press will publish a book on quantum error correction as an outcome of this meeting. Chapter contributions have been solicited from a select group ofspeakers, and the organizers will edit a book that will form a comprehensive introduction to, and survey of, the field of quantum error correction.