Café KITP – Generating Entanglement Through Measurements: A Time to Tear Down and a Time to Build

After 3 years on hiatus, Café KITP is back! The evening begins with a presentation by our featured physicist, then continues into a discussion/Q&A that is facilitated by an interlocutor who inspires the audience to engage with the subject and the speaker. Join us September 21 for a talk from Postdoctoral Scholar Zhu-Xi Luo (KITP and Harvard) titled “Generating Entanglement through Measurements: A Time to Tear Down and a Time to Build.”

Entanglement is one of the primary features of quantum systems, which characterizes how one part of a system is independent of the remainder. To reveal entanglement, measurements can be conducted. However, in the quantum world, one cannot measure a system without affecting it. In many situations, measurements simply destroy the entanglement of interest. Zhu-Xi Luo will describe how to turn the game around: we design competing measurements to generate more entanglement, realizing exotic phases of matter that are potentially useful for robust quantum computation.

Event website: https://www.kitp.ucsb.edu/outreach/cafe-kitp
Location: SOho Restaurant & Music Club (1221 State Street #205, Santa Barbara, CA)
Doors open at 5PM
Seating is first-come, first-served
Food and drinks will be available for purchase, and there is no drink minimum or cover charge.
Contact friends@kitp.ucsb.edu for more information