Emerging Directions in Neutral‐Atom Quantum Information Science

The purpose of this seminar is to bring together young and experienced researchers in the rapidly developing field of neutral-atom quantum information processing, and to give them the opportunity to interact and develop new ideas in a pleasant scientific environment. We will target and discuss the latest developments and major challenges on the way to controlling large-scale quantum systems. 

The target audience includes researchers from both theory and experiment, who work on small- to intermediate-scale quantum systems. We aim at including researchers working on a variety of platforms (atom microscopes in optical lattices, optical tweezers, atom-photon interactions). This allows us to explore the similarities and differences among those platforms, and to identify their respective strengths and challenges.

From the theoretical side, we want to include researchers working on novel detection and manipulation schemes for those systems (quantum optics theory, quantum information theory). During the seminar, we want to identify new synergies between theory and experiment, which tend to approach each other at a rapid pace in this field.

The conference language will be English. The Wilhelm and Else Heraeus-Foundation bears the cost of full-board accommodation for all participants.