DENMARK AND JAPAN STI SEMINAR
QUANTUM TECHNOLOGY CREATING THE FUTURE! ~How collaboration of Japanese and Danish researchers is contributing to current and future innovation ~ Thursday, 12 April 2018 2017 年 11 月 16 日（木
9 April 2018
Invitation to the world of Quantum technology
The Danish Ministry of Higher Education and Science and the Royal Danish Embassy in Tokyo are pleased to organize this seminar “QUANTUM TEHNOLOGY CREATING THE FUTURE!” in Tokyo, Japan.
Today, technical challenges and social issues cannot be solved by only one country. Technologies such as next processing, data analysis, and cyber security are gaining strong attention among both academia and industries. Japan and Denmark have a long research collaboration history within quantum technology since Yoshio Nishina (Former president of RIKEN) studied at Niels Bohr Institute in Denmark in 1927 and invited Niels Bohr (Nobel Prize Physicist) to RIKEN in 1937. “Quantum Technology” is chosen as a research seminar topic this year because it’s an area in which international research collaboration is essential. Carlos Moedas, the Commissioner of Research, Science and Innovation of the European Commission, and Yoshimasa Hayashi, the Minister of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan agreed in January 2018 to strengthen cooperation between EU and Japan within this area. The aim of this seminar is to discuss what would be possible and how will our future life look like if the quantum technologies develop thanks to the research collaboration around the world. The invited speakers will give a talk on variety of topics from fundamental research to future applications including tangible examples.
We hope this seminar is inspirational and provides a great match-making environment for talents and key persons from various fields to create new relationship for the start of new projects and accelerate technical development of both countries.
We look very much forward to your participation.
Contact: Akiko Kamigori (Senior Commercial Officer, Royal Danish Embassy) Email: akikam**um.dk (Please change ** to @ when sending message)
TECHNICAL SEMINAR QUANTUM TECHNOLOGY CREATING THE FUTURE!
~ HOW COLLABORATION OF JAPANESE AND DANISH RESEARCHERS IS CONTRIBUTING TO THE FUTURE INNOVATION ~
Date 12 April 2018 10:00 – 17:00 (Door open 9:30) (Networking reception: 17:00-18:00) Venue Ground floor, DNP Gotanda Building Hall 3-5-20 Gotanda, Shinagawa-ku Tokyo 141-8001 Language English
Program Speaker and Program may subject to change
TIME TITLE SPEAKER
09:30 Registration
10:00 Opening remarks Mr. Søren Pind Minister, Danish Ministry of Higher Education and Science
AM SESSION: (SPEECH 30 MIN. Q&A 5 MIN.)
Chairperson: Dr. Yoshihisa Yamamoto
Program Manager for Impulsive Paradigm Change through Disruptive Technologies Program (ImPACT) of Council for Science, Technology and Innovation, Cabinet Office, Government of Japan Emeritus Professor, Stanford University Emeritus Professor, National Institute of Informatics
10:05 Quantum Physics of Today, Dr. Jan W. Thomsen Tomorrow and the Future Professor, Head of Niels Bohr Institute,
The University of Copenhagen
10:40 Optical Lattice Clocks: Seeking Dr. Hidetoshi Katori for a New Second Professor, Department of Applied Physics, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo Chief Scientist, Katori Quantum Metrology Laboratory, RIKEN
11:15 Hybrid quantum systems based Dr. Yasunobu Nakamura on superconducting circuits Professor, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo Team Leader, Center for Emergent Matter Science, RIKEN
11:50 Lunch
PM SESSION: (SPEECH 30 MIN. Q&A 5 MIN.)
Chairperson: Dr. Yoshihisa Yamamoto Program Manager for Impulsive Paradigm Change through Disruptive Technologies Program (ImPACT) of Council for Science, Technology and Innovation, Cabinet Office, Government of Japan Emeritus Professor, Stanford University Emeritus Professor, National Institute of Informatics
13:15 Architecture for Quantum Dr. Kae Nemoto Information Systems Principles of Informatics Research Division, National Institute of Informatics
13:50 Quantum sensing of fields and forces Dr. Eugene Simon Polzik beyond the limits of the Heisenberg Professor, Centre for Quantum Optics (QUANTOP), uncertainty Niels Bohr Institute, The University of Copenhagen
14:25 Basic research activities at Nippon Dr. Tetsuomi Sogawa Telegraph and Telephone Director, NTT Basic Research Laboratories, Corporation toward quantum information and communications Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation technologies
15:00 Break
15:15 High-fidelity and scale-up Dr. Seigo Tarucha of quantum gates in Si- Professor, Department of Applied Physics, based quantum computing Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo Deputy Director, RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science, RIKEN
15:50 Photonic quantum circuits and Dr. Shigeki Takeuchi quantum metrology Professor, Department of Electronic Science and Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University
16:25 Using Topology to Build a Better Dr. Charlie Marcus Qubit Centre for Quantum Devices and Station Q Copenhagen, Niels Bohr Institute, The University of Copenhagen
16:55 Closing remarks Mr. Hideki Niizuma Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan
Networking reception Venue 2F, DNP Gotanda Building Hall, 3-5-20 Gotanda, Shinagawa-ku Tokyo 141-8001
TIME TITLE SPEAKER
17:00 Registration and Networking
17:15 Welcome speech Dr. Jan W. Thomsen
17:55 Closing speech Dr. Yoshihisa Yamamoto
18:00 Close
Presented by The Danish Ministry of Higher Education, Science and the Royal Danish Embassy in Tokyo
Sponsored by Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
Supported by The Japan Society of Applied Physics, The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, The Physical Society of Japan and RIKEN
SPEAKERS & CHAIRPERSON
Dr. Jan Westenkær Thomsen Professor Head of Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen Blegdamsvej 17, 2100 Copenhagen
Biography: Education: 1995 Ph.D. Université de Paris-Sud, Orsay, mention très honorable avec les félicitations du jury 1992 D.E.A. de Physico-Chemie Moléculaire Université de Paris-Sud, Orsay (French master degree i physics) 1992 M. Sc. in Mathematics and Physics, University of Copenhagen Employment: 2017- Head of Institute, The Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen 2017- Full Professor, The Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen 2002-17 Associate Professor, The Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen 2001-04 Steno talent researcher, University of Copenhagen 1998-01 Carlsberg Research Fellowship, University of Copenhagen, financed by Carlsberg Foundation 1998-98 FOM fellow, The Debye Institute, Utrecht University, financed by Dutch Government 1996-98 TMR Marie Curie Fellow, The Debye Institute, Utrecht University, financed by EU 1995-96 Postdoc, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen 1992-95 PhD student, LCAM, Université de Paris-Sud, Orsay, bourse de la Ministere de Recherché et Technologie Awards/Academic Achievements: 2016 KU Science faculty teaching award 2016 2015 NBI Jens Martin Knudsen teaching award 2015 2007-08 JILA fellow, Universiy of Colorado, Boulder, USA. 1996-98 TMR Marie Curie Fellow individual grant from the European Union 1992-95 Ph.D. grant, bourse de la Ministere de Recherché et Technologie, from the French Government 1990-91 Internationalization grant from Copenhagen University
Title: “Quantum Physics of Today, Tomorrow and the Future” Abstract: Quantum physics is one of the most successful theories funded back in the early 20th century and has had a tremendous influence on our society. While it may seem like quantum physics is arcane and remote from everyday experience it is crucial for many of our modern life style objects. A few examples list semiconductor electronics in every computer or smart phone, atomic clocks for GPS and navigation, magnetic resonance for medicine diagnostics, lasers for sensors and gauges etc. Today it is believed that results of quantum physics - the first phase- is responsible for about 1/3 of the world’s economy and still growing. Now quantum initiatives are pushed into a second phase aiming to new heights. Here some of the initiatives, where the Niels Bohr Institute is active, includes: quantum computing predicted to perform certain tasks significantly faster compared to classical computers, quantum cryptography targeting secure transmission of information, macroscopic quantum effects like superconductivity, new quantum materials strongly correlated electronic systems etc. Dr. Hidetoshi KATORI Professor Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo 7-3-1, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8656 E-mail: [email protected]
Biography: Hidetoshi Katori was born in Tokyo, Japan, in 1964. He received his Master of Engineering in 1990 and in 1994 a Doctor of Engineering in Applied Physics at The University of Tokyo. Subsequently he worked at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching in Germany until 1997 as a visiting scientist. He joined the Engineering Research Institute at The University of Tokyo in 1999. Since then he has been engaged in the precision measurements with ultracold atoms, in particular “optical lattice clocks” that he proposed in 2001. This research on the optical lattice clocks brought him The Medal Honor with Purple Ribbon from the Japanese government in 2014. In 2010 he became professor at the department of applied physics at the graduate school of engineering, The University of Tokyo, and the year after chief scientist at the Quantum Metrology Laboratory for RIKEN’s interdisciplinary research system.
Title: “Optical Lattice Clocks: Seeking for a New Second”
Abstract: The ‘magic frequency’ protocol has made it possible to design new type of atomic clocks based on well- engineered perturbations. Such ‘optical lattice clocks’ will allow extremely precise and speedy timekeeping, which targets fractional uncertainty of 10-18. Progress of optical lattice clocks in the last decade is overviewed. Possible impacts and future applications of optical clocks are discussed, such as testing the fundamental laws of physics and developing relativistic geodesy that relies on the general relativistic time dilation.
Dr. Yasunobu Nakamura Professor Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST), The University of Tokyo 4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8904, Japan Email address: [email protected]
Biography: Yasunobu Nakamura studied physical properties of high-temperature superconductors and received BSc in Department of Applied Physics, The University of Tokyo in 1990 and MSc in Superconductivity Research Course, The University of Tokyo in 1992. He joined Fundamental Research Laboratories of NEC Corporation in 1992 and started working on mesoscopic electronic devices. In 1999 he demonstrated the first superconducting qubit. During 2001-2002, he spent a year in Department of Applied Physics, TU Delft as a Visiting Researcher. He received D. Eng. from Department of Applied Physics, The University of Tokyo in 2011. He moved to the current position in Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST), The University of Tokyo, in 2012. He is also affiliated to RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science as a Team Leader of Superconducting Quantum Electronics Team since 2014. He has been the Director of ERATO Macroscopic Quantum Machines Project of Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) since 2016. His current research interests are quantum information processing using superconducting circuits, microwave quantum optics, and hybrid quantum systems. He has received Sir Martin Wood Prize and Nishina Memorial Prize in 1999, Agilent Technologies Europhysics Prize in 2004, Simon Memorial Prize in 2008, and Leo Esaki Prize in 2014.
Title: “Hybrid quantum systems based on superconducting circuits”
Abstract: Superconducting quantum circuits have proven to be a versatile platform for quantum state control and measurement as well as quantum information processing. Besides controlling qubits, we apply the techniques to construct various types of hybrid quantum systems, in which quantum degrees of freedom in other physical systems are coherently controlled by superconducting qubits. The examples include microwave photons in cavities and transmission lines, magnons in ferromagnetic crystals, and phonons in nanomechanical systems and surface acoustic wave resonators. Such fusions extend the scope of quantum technology by exploiting the advantages of each quantum system.
Dr. Kae Nemoto Professor Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST), The University of Tokyo 4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8904, Japan Email address: [email protected]
Biography: Kae Nemoto is the director of the Global Research Center for Quantum Information Science at the National Institute of Informatics in Tokyo and also the Japanese director for the Japanese-French Laboratory for Informatics (JFLI). She is currently the group leader for the Theoretical Research program in the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas “Science of Hybrid Quantum Systems” funded by MEXT.
Over recent years, her research efforts have focused in the implementation of quantum information systems exploring the possibilities and limitations of these newly emerging systems. While her research is theoretical in nature she actively collaborates with a number of well known experimental groups.
She was awarded her PhD in Theoretical Physics from Ochanomizu University (Tokyo) in 1996. After spending several years abroad as a researcher in Australia and the United Kingdom, she returned to Japan in 2003 to conduct ground breaking quantum information science research at NII. She is one of the pioneers in the field of quantum information systems and is the recipient of the Hewlett-Packard Innovation Research Award for Distributed Quantum Information Processing and Hybrid Quantum Devices in 2008. Since 2010 she is a full professor both at NII and the Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI). She is a Fellow of both the APS(US) and the IoP (UK).
Title: “Architectures for Quantum Information Systems”
Abstract: How can a large-scale quantum information system be built? As noise is the fundamental obstacle for quantum nature to be observed in the macroscopic scale, this is indeed a fundamental question for quantum information processing both scientifically and technologically. A large-scale quantum information system hosts many components (qubits), and these components need to be coherently maintained and manipulated. In the last two decades, the theory to achieve quantum coherence in large- scale quantum systems, such as quantum computer architectures and error correction techniques, has been rapidly developed, while the mechanism to exploit quantum superiority has only been partially uncovered. This talk will introduce the current status of implementation of quantum information and communication systems and show how these systems can be used to preform different information tasks.
Dr. Eugene S. Polzik Professor Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen The Danish Center for Quantum Optics (QUANTOP) Blegdamsvej 17, 2100 Copenhagen, Bygning T, Building: Ta2b http://quantop.nbi.ku.dk/ E-mail: [email protected] ORCID 0000-0001-9859-6591
Biography: Eugene Polzik is American citizen, who has worked in different countries before he came to Denmark 24 years ago. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from Leningrad University in 1980. He served at California Institute of Technology as associate scientist from 1990-1995. In 1994 he came to Denmark serving as professor of Physics at University of Aarhus. Eugene founded The Danish Center for Quantum Optics in 2001, where he has since then been the scientific leader. He became Professor of Physics in 2003 at Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen University. In 2012 he became Head of the Quantum Optics and Atomic Physics Division at Niels Bohr Institute. Eugene’s research interests focus on quantum teleportation, quantum opto-mechanics, and atomic memory for light. He became particular famous for his discoveries within the field of quantum information. At the QUANTOP he has recently conducted observation of nerve signaling with an optical quantum magnetometer (2015) and measurements of motion not limited by the Heisenberg uncertainty principle (2017). Furthermore, he has received a variety of honors and prizes throughout the years among these are Gordon Moore Distinguished Scholar Award (2010), European Research Council Advanced Grant award 2011 and Danish Research Result of the Year by Ingeniøren magazine (2013).
Title: “Quantum sensing of fields and forces beyond the limits of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle”
Abstract: Sensors of electromagnetic fields, acceleration, and position are at the heart of numerous devices surrounding us in everyday life. Quantum mechanics puts limits on the sensitivity of such sensors which come from the fundamental balance between information we obtain and disturbance we impose by the measurement. Such limits, called fundamental quantum limits, have been for long time thought to be unsurpassable. In this talk, I will present ideas which allow for overcoming standard quantum limits for measurements of magnetic field and position of a nano-object. I will present the results of experiments where those ideas have been implemented. Finally, I will outline a proposal for employing those principles for improving precision of Gravitational Wave Detectors.
Dr. Tetsuomi Sogawa Director NTT Basic Research Laboratories Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation 3-1 Morinosato Wakamiya, Atsugi-shi, Kanagawa 243-0198, Japan Email address: [email protected]
Biography: Tetsuomi Sogawa was born in 1964 in Wakayama, Japan. He received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Tokyo in 1986, 1988, and 1991, respectively. In 1991, He joined NTT-BRL. From 1999 to 2000, he worked at Paul Drude Institute in Berlin, Germany, as a guest scientist to investigate acoustic spin transport phenomena in semiconductor quantum structures. From 2004 to 2006, he worked for the Council for Science and Technology Policy, Cabinet Office, Japan, as a deputy director for policy planning. After serving as the leader of the Quantum Optical Physics Research Group and the executive manager of the Optical Science Laboratory, he was appointed as the director of NTT-BRL in 2013. He has also served as a visiting professor at the Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, since 2014. His current research interests include fabrication technology for low- dimensional nanostructures, optical properties of quantum dots/wires and photonic crystals, spin-related phenomena in semiconductors, and the application of surface acoustic wave technology to nanostructures. He is a member of the Japan Society of Applied Physics.
Title: “Basic research activities at Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation toward quantum information and communications technologies” Abstract: At Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT), 2300 researchers are engaged in R&D including future network architecture, cloud network services and security, AI and IoT technology, cutting-edge electronic and photonic components/systems, and computer science. Research on quantum information and communications technologies is performed in NTT Basic Research Laboratories (NTT-BRL), whose mission is to overcome technological obstacles in future ICT network systems, such as the limits on energy consumption, transmission capacity, computation speed, and security. In this talk, we will introduce our activities related to the following quantum technologies: magnetic field sensing with a superconducting quantum circuit; quantum hybrid memories using NV centers and flux qubits; integrated quantum optical circuits technology, such as a reprogrammable universal linear optics chip and Si photonics quantum chip; and non-von Neumann computation using quantum optics.
Dr. Seigo Tarucha Professor Dept. of Applied Physics, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo Deputy Director, RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science, RIKEN
Biography: Seigo Tarucha received the B. E. and M. S. degrees in applied physics from the University of Tokyo in 1976 and 1978, respectively. He joined NTT Basic Research Laboratories in 1978 and received the Ph. D degree in applied physics from the University of Tokyo in 1986. In 1998 he moved to the University of Tokyo as a professor in the Department of Physics and then to the Department of Applied Physics in 2005. He was a guest scientist in Max-Planck-Institute (Stuttgart) from Jul. 1986 to Nov. 1987 and in Delft University from Jul. to Oct. in 1995. He is currently working on quantum transport and correlation effects in semiconductor nanostructures and spin-based quantum computing with quantum dots. He was a director of Cryogenic Center in the Tokyo university from 2015 to 2017, and has been a vice director of Nano Quantum Information Institute, The University of Tokyo since 2007 and a division head of Quantum Information Electronics in Center for Emergent Matter Science, Riken since 2013. He received Japan IBM award in 1998, Kubo Ryogo award, The Quantum Devices award in 1998, Nishina award in 2002, National medal with purple ribbon in 2004, Leo Esaki Award award in 2007, and Achievement award of Japan Applied Physics Society in 2018. He has been a fellow of Japan Applied Physics Society fellow since 2010 and IOP since 2011. Title: “High-fidelity and scale-up of quantum gates in Si-based quantum computing” Abstract: Qubit number and error rate are both key parameters to characterize the ability of quantum computing, but to upgrade them is still a challenge in spin-based systems. The underlying physics for the error rate is dephasing due to coupling to the environment noise, magnetic or electrical for the case of spin qubits with quantum dots (QDs). I will first discuss the spin dephasing measured for Si QDs and how to suppress it to raise the gate fidelity exceeding the threshold of fault tolerant computation. On the other hand, for the scale-up Si QDs can be used as a promising platform. Indeed intensive effort of developing Si integration circuit technologies and making CMOS-based QDs is going on. I will review the current development progress of Si-based qubit systems.
Dr. Shigeki Takeuchi Professor Department of Electronic Science and Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University , Kyotodaigakukatsura, Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto 615-8510, Japan Email address: [email protected]
Biography: Shigeki Takeuchi is a Professor of the Department of Electronic Science and Engineering, Kyoto University. He was born in 1968 in Osaka, Japan. He received his B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph. D degrees in Physics from Kyoto University in 1991, 1993 and 2000 respectively. He belonged to Mitsubishi Electric from 1993 to 1999, and became a lecturer, associate professor, and professor of Research Institute for Electronic Science, Hokkaido University, in 1999, 2000, and 2007 respectively. He served as an Invited Professor at the ISIR, Osaka University, Japan, (residing) from 2008 to 2014, and has been in the current position since 2014. He has received several awards including the Young Scientist Award (2005), The Scientific American 50 award (2007), the 6th Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Prize (2010), the Daiwa Adrian Prize (2010), Osaka Science Prize (2015) and the Japan Society of Applied Physics Takuma Award (2016). His interest lies in understanding and controlling the nature of photons. He is also interested in the application of solid state micro-cavities and nano-optical fibers to quantum information science and biology.
Title: “Photonic quantum circuits and quantum metrology”
Abstract: Quantum information science has been attracting significant attention recently. It harnesses the intrinsic nature of quantum mechanics such as quantum superposition, the uncertainty principle, and quantum entanglement to realize novel functions. Recently, quantum metrology is emerging as another appealing application of quantum information science. In this talk, we will report our recent progresses on the development of novel quantum entangled-photon sources [1] and application to quantum measurements, including an entanglement enhanced microscope beating the standard quantum limit [2,3]. We will also report the application to quantum optical coherence tomography [4]. Here we report on the realization of 0.54 μm resolution two-photon interference, which surpasses the current record resolution 0.75 μm of low-coherence interference for OCT. In addition, the resolution for QOCT showed almost no change against the dispersion of a 1 mm thickness of water inserted in the optical path, whereas the resolution for OCT dramatically degrades.
[1] S. Takeuchi, Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 53 (2014) 030101. [2] T. Ono, R. Okamoto, and S. Takeuchi, Nature Communications 4 (2013) 2426. [3] T. Nagata, R. Okamoto, J. L. O'Brien, K. Sasaki and S. Takeuchi, Science 316, (2007) 726. [4] M. Okano, H. H. Lim, R. Okamoto, N. Nishizawa, S. Kurimura and S. Takeuchi, Sci. Rep. 5, (2015) 18042.
Dr. Charles Marcus Professor Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen Center for Quantum Devices and Station Q Copenhagen Universitetsparken 5, Building 3, 4th floor, Copenhagen, 2100 E-mail: [email protected]
Biography: Charles Marcus was raised in Sonoma, California, USA, and was an undergraduate at Stanford University (1980-84). He received his Ph.D. in Physics from Harvard in 1990 and was an IBM postdoctoral fellow at Harvard from 1990-92. He then served on the Physics faculty at Stanford (1992-2000) and Harvard (2000- 2011). Marcus joined the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen in 2012 as Villum Kann Rasmussen Professor. In 2016, he joined Microsoft as Principal Researcher while remaining as Professor at The Niels Bohr Institute. He is currently Director of the Center for Quantum Devices, a Center of Excellence sponsored by the Danish National Research Foundation, and Director of Station Q Copenhagen sponsored by Microsoft.
Marcus’s research interests focus on quantum mechanically coherent electronics, quantum bits, and topology in condensed matter systems. The long-term research goal is to build and explore large-scale interconnected quantum coherent systems with applications in quantum information processing.
Title: “Using Topology to Build a Better Qubit”
Abstract: This talk will describe an adventure currently underway to coax into existence excitations (particles) that have non-Abelian braiding statistics—something yet unseen in the physical world—and to not stop there, but to try to employ these new excitations, Majorana zero modes, for a topological quantum computing. Which is more challenging: the mathematics of computing by braiding particles? The material science of creating hybrid materials that support Majorana modes? The nanotechnology of fabricating the devices? The condensed matter physics of producing them in the lab? The electrical engineering of controlling and reading out their state? The software to control the electronics on submicrosecond timescales? This talk will try to cover a small amount of each of these aspects, to convey the sense of complexity of quantum computing generally.
Dr. Yoshihisa Yamamoto
Program Manager for Impulsive Paradigm Change through Disruptive Technologies Program (ImPACT) of Council for Science, Technology and Innovation, Cabinet Office, Government of Japan Emeritus Professor Stanford University Emeritus Professor National Institute of Informatics
Biography: Yoshihisa Yamamoto received his B.S. degree from Tokyo Institute of Technology and his M.S. and Ph. D. degrees from the University of Tokyo in 1973, 1975 and 1978, respectively. He joined NTT Basic Research Laboratories in 1978 and worked as a scientist till 2003. During his tenure at NTT, he visited MIT, Royal Institute of Technology, AT&T Bell Laboratories, and Stanford University in 1982, 1985, 1989, and 1991, respectively. He left NTT and worked as a Professor of Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University from 1992 to 2013. From 2003 to 2014, he concurrently served as a Professor at National Institute of Informatics. Since 2014, he has been a Program Manager for Impulsive Paradigm Change through Disruptive Technologies Program (ImPACT) of Council for Science, Technology and Innovation, Cabinet Office, Government of Japan. He is currently a Professor (emeritus) at Stanford University and National Institute of Informatics, and NTT R&D Fellow. His research interest has been in quantum optics and quantum information processing, especially quantum neural network and coherent Ising machine. He has received many distinctions for his work, including Nishina Memorial Prize (1992), Carl Zeiss Research Award (1992), IEEE/LEOS Quantum Electronics Award (2000), Medal with Purple Ribbon (2005), Shida Rinzaburo Award (2006), Hermann A. Haus Lecturer of MIT (2010), and Okawa Prize (2011).