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12 April 2023
Pioneers in Quantum, including 2022 Nobel Laureates, to headline Optica’s Quantum 2.0 Conference
Quantum 2.0 Nobel Symposium will feature Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser, and Anton Zeilinger speaking on the past and future of quantum
DENVER—Quantum technology continues to advance rapidly in areas like computing, communications and telescopy. Thanks to investments from both the public and private sectors, developing new quantum technology presents opportunities for the optics and photonics community. Quantum 2.0 will provide a platform to discuss new advancements in the quantum space and to hear from the pioneers who have made much of this technology possible. 2022 Physics Nobel Laureates Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger are set to headline a Nobel symposium at Quantum 2.0.
“The Nobel keynote symposium is one of the most highly anticipated components of Quantum 2.0, and we are particularly excited to present this year’s line-up of keynote speakers,” said Eden Figueroa, SUNY Stony Brook, United States. “Each year, we select individuals who inspire us by making great strides in the development of mature quantum technologies that will allow us to build Quantum 2.0 systems capable of quantum advantage.”
Optica’s Quantum 2.0 conference will be presented in a hybrid format, 18 – 22 June 2023, in Denver, Colorado, USA with five days of technical sessions. The exhibition will include industry-focused sessions and companies showcasing market-ready technologies across a wide range of quantum applications.
“The opportunity to interact with experts in the field, form partnerships and discuss new technologies in the quantum information science and technology community is the main attraction of the conference,” said Ronald Holzwarth, Menlo Systems GmbH, Germany, Co-Chair. “Attendees can discover common ground and build collaborations leading to new concepts or development opportunities in the quantum space.”
Quantum 2.0 technical presentations cover a range of emerging technologies, quantum computing and simulation, quantum communications systems, quantum metrology, and sensors, quantum interconnects, and more. The comprehensive programming draws global attendees to connect, teach, learn—and move the industry forward.
Quantum 2.0 Nobel Symposium Speakers
Alain Aspect is known for his experiments illuminating the most intriguing properties of quantum mechanics. His Bell's inequalities tests with pairs of entangled photons (1982) have contributed to settling a debate between Albert Einstein and Nils Bohr, started in 1935. He has also, with Philippe Grangier, given a striking demonstration of wave-particle duality for a single photon and realized Wheeler's delayed choice experiment. After his contribution to the development of laser cooling of atoms with Claude Cohen-Tannoudji (1985-1992), he switched to atom optics, where the group he established revisits landmarks in quantum optics and develops quantum simulators of disordered materials. A professor at the Institut d'Optique graduate school and Ecole Polytechnique (University Paris-Saclay), he is a member of several academies (France, USA, Austria). Among the awards he has received are the CNRS gold medal (2005), the Wolf prize in Physics (2010), the Nils Bohr Gold medal and the Albert Einstein medal (2012), the Ives medal/Quinn prize from Optica (2013) and the Balzan prize in quantum information (2014).
John F. Clauser is an American experimental and theoretical physicist. He is best known for his contributions to the foundations of quantum mechanics, in particular for the Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt (CHSH) inequality, the first experimental proof that non-local quantum entanglement is real (Freedman-Clauser), and for the formulation of the theory of Local Realism (Clauser-Horne). From 1987-1991 he proposed (and patented) atom interferometers as useful ultra-sensitive inertial and gravity sensors. In 1992, with Matthias Reinsch, Clauser first deduced the number-theoretic properties of the fractional Talbot effect and invented the Talbot-Lau interferometer. From 1990-1997, with Shifang Li, Clauser first used Talbot-Lau interferometry to build an atom interferometer. In 1998 he invented and patented the Talbot-Lau interferometry for "Ultrahigh Resolution Interferometric X-ray Imaging." This invention, in turn, allows x-ray phase-contrast medical imaging of soft tissue. Clauser was awarded the Reality Foundation Prize in 1982, the Wolf Prize in 2010 and the 2011 Thompson-Reuters Citation Laureate in Physics.
Anton Zeilinger, Nobel Laureate, Optica Fellow, and professor of Physics emeritus at the University of Vienna, is an Austrian quantum physicist. Zeilinger has pioneered quantum mechanics through theoretical and experimental work on entanglement, most notably his demonstration of quantum teleportation in 1997. In 1998, his group was also the first to experimentally demonstrate entanglement swapping — the teleportation of an entangled state between qubits, a critical mechanism for quantum computation networks. Zeilinger was awarded the inaugural Isaac Newton Medal of the Institute of Physics in 2008, recognizing his "pioneering conceptual and experimental contributions to the foundations of quantum physics, which have become the cornerstone for the rapidly-evolving field of quantum information." He received many other awards including the Wolf Prize in 2010 and the Cozzarelli Prize from the National Academy of Sciences in 2019.
Show Floor Programming
Quantum 2.0 will feature a show floor program with six programs focused exploring challenges facing the nascent quantum industry. The programs will cover the prospects and barriers facing quantum sensors, quantum networks, quantum internet and quantum computing. The session on quantum computing will explore the role of photonics in quantum computing, examining optical approaches to quantum computing and how photonics can be used to interconnect individual quantum processor units.
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About Optica
Optica, Advancing Optics and Photonics Worldwide, is the society dedicated to promoting the generation, application, archiving and dissemination of knowledge in the field. Founded in 1916, it is the leading organization for scientists, engineers, business professionals, students and others interested in the science of light. Optica's renowned publications, meetings, online resources and in-person activities fuel discoveries, shape real-life applications and accelerate scientific, technical and educational achievement. Discover more at: Optica.org
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