Math & Stats Colloquium Series - Dr. Michael Vasmer

Speaker: Dr. Michael Vasmer

Talk Title: Teleporting quantum errors: Knill's vision in the era of modern quantum processors

Abstract: 
Quantum computing hardware has continued its advance in recent years, with modern processors capable of executing larger circuits with reduced noise.
However, these processors are still not large or reliable enough to perform large-scale algorithms such as Shor's factoring algorithm.
To achieve this goal, it is widely believed that quantum error correction will be necessary, as it enables the protection of quantum information through redundancy and entanglement.
In this talk, I will review an approach to quantum error correction based on quantum teleportation, originally proposed by Knill.
I will argue that Knill's approach offers many advantages, such as reducing the impact of leakage errors and simplifying the decoding problem.
This approach is particularly well-suited to hardware platforms with enhanced connectivity, such as neutral atoms and photonics, making it a promising candidate for future fault-tolerant quantum computing.

Bio: 

Michael Vasmer completed his PhD under the supervision of Dan Browne at University College London.
Subsequently, he held a joint joint postdoctoral fellowship at the Perimeter Institute and the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC), where his mentors were Raymond Laflamme and Daniel Gottesman.
He then worked as a Senior Quantum Architecture Scientist at Xanadu Quantum Technologies Inc. and as a Research Scientist at the Perimeter Institute.
Presently, he holds a starting faculty position at Inria Paris, France.