To elevate science and technology in Alberta by empowering research, commercializing technology, and educating our future generations.

To be the catalyst for advancement and commercialization of Alberta-based quantum research in Canada and around the world. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 2 RESEARCH PROGRAM OVERVIEW 4 RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS 5 Awards 7 MANAGEMENT & MEMBERSHIP 10 Proposed Structure and Governance 10 PUBLICATIONS 18 Refereed Journal Publications (published) 18 Refereed Conference Proceedings 24 Books and Chapters 26 Student Theses 26 Intellectual Property 27 Invited Presentations at Workshops/Conferences 27 LINKAGE 31 Collaborations 31 Visitors 33 GRADUATE COURSES 34 SERVICES & OUTREACH 37 Conferences/Workshops 37 Professional Services 38 Quantum Public Lecture 40 Outreach Lectures 40 Media Coverage 41 TRAINEE DESTINATIONS 42 RESEARCH GRANTS (unaudited) 43 OBJECTIVES FOR NEXT YEAR 44 The world is moving quickly with articulates a roadmap emphasizing quantum respect to quantum science sensing and metrology, quantum communication, and technology. Several major quantum simulation and . companies and many start-ups China is beyond roadmaps and is well-advanced focus on building quantum in quantum-technology infrastructure and is computing capacity through software delivering phenomenal results: the quantum satellite, and hardware. establishment of a Shanghai-Beijing quantum- and quantum communication in general secured optical-fibre link; and demonstrated and has surpassed the thousand-kilometre rapidly improved multiqubit quantum computing range via China’s quantum satellite with superconducting circuits. Smaller countries “Micius”. , sensing, have notable strengths in , with imaging and illumination are examples Singapore and Australia performing extremely well. of exciting near-term technologies that Canada enjoys great quantum-technology strength exploit quantum resources to deliver and played key roles in quantum-technology performance exceeding what is possible advancement including conceiving quantum without quantum resources. cryptography and , establishing This explosion in quantum technology is significant quantum-communication and quantum- mirrored by strategic national policies. computing complexity bounds, and being home to In the United States of America, House D-Wave Systems, which is the world’s first proclaimed Resolution 6227, known as the National quantum-computing company. Recently, Canada Quantum Initiative Act, aims “to provide has begun to invest strongly in quantum technology, for a coordinated Federal program notably through three major Canada Research to accelerate quantum research and First Excellence Fund investments located at the development for the economic and Universities of British Columbia, Sherbrooke and national security of the United States” and Waterloo. Further Canadian investment is expected is valued at 1.275 billion United States following the path articulated by Quantum Canada, dollars. The billion-Euro quantum flagship which “is a national initiative to grow in

2 QUANTUM ALBERTA 2017/2018 ANNUAL REPORT Canada’s vibrant quantum ecosystem” that views “Canada [a]s well-positioned to become a global leader in the future quantum industry”. Alberta has a formidable set of experts working in quantum science and technology at the Universities of Alberta, Calgary and Lethbridge and in Alberta industry and a government laboratory. The face of Alberta’s strength is Quantum Alberta, which has been supported by Alberta Innovates and the three Universities. Furthermore, members of Quantum Alberta hold or have held Alberta Innovates, NSERC and Canada Research Chairs, with concomitant generous funding. Quantum Alberta members lead a Canada Foundation for Innovation project for quantum networks and a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Collaborative Research and Training Experience Program in quantum technology. This broad, strategic support has enabled Quantum Alberta to be a bastion of quantum-technology strength in the country and to have the capacity and credibility to play a key role in developing Canada’s quantum strategy. Now is the proverbial watershed moment when funding for quantum research and development is going to be increased significantly and Quantum Alberta is well positioned to be a beneficiary of this investment and a partner in the creation of quantum technology.

QUANTUM ALBERTA 2017/2018 ANNUAL REPORT 3 Quantum Alberta is a is www.quantumalberta.ca and Quantum Alberta consortium of 38 faculty, creates promotional materials, organizes provincial industry and affiliate members workshops, supports inter-institutional research, and plus 45 postdoctoral fosters joint promotional activities. researchers and 160 graduate Quantum Alberta provides an organizational students undertaking quantum research structure for Alberta to achieve and maintain global and development in the Province of prominence in quantum science and technology. Alberta. The consortium has membership The organization is a network of academic and at the Universities of Alberta, Calgary industry experts who have joined together to elevate and Lethbridge, and in industry and quantum science research, development and government laboratories. The consortium commercialization in Alberta. Quantum Alberta’s aims to (i) nurture and showcase Alberta- vision is to elevate quantum science and technology based quantum research, development in Alberta by empowering research, commercializing and activities, (ii) encourage and support technology, and educating our future generations. industrial, national, and international The mission is to be the catalyst for advancement partnerships and collaborations, (iii) foster and commercialization of Alberta-based quantum linkage between Alberta’s institutions research in Canada and around the world. of higher learning, public laboratories and facilities, and cognate businesses, The five research themes ofQuantum Alberta are (iv) provide seed funding for rapid (a) and multi-scale modelling led exploitation of extraordinary opportunities by Alex Brown (UAlberta), (b) in quantum research and development, and led by Saurya Das (ULethbridge), (v) develop pan-provincial educational and (c) quantum materials led by Joseph Maciejko training programs in quantum science, (UAlberta), (d) quantum nanoscience and technology and (vi) provide product and business led by Paul Barclay (UCalgary) and (e) quantum development support to new start-ups optics and led by Christoph and existing Alberta ventures. Quantum Simon (UCalgary). These themes foster opportunities Alberta’s main administrative support to interconnect Quantum Alberta researchers and and director are based at the University technologists who have common interests and of Calgary. Quantum Alberta’s web page complementary skills and infrastructure to build new initiatives. 4 QUANTUM ALBERTA 2017/2018 ANNUAL REPORT Quantum Alberta is proud of significant can magnetically dampen the torsional mode from research achievements by its members room-temperature to 11.6 K thereby improving the over the past year. The following mechanical response time while maintaining torque exposition provides a sample of sensitivity. breakthroughs by Quantum Alberta Together Feder and Sanders and their team reported members. in how to detect topological In an influential Nature Photonics paper, Lvovsky transitions in two dimensions by Hamiltonian showed enlargement of optical Schrödinger evolution. Their novel quantum-walk approach cat states, which are important states both reveals transitions between topological phases for exploring foundational perplexing issues in the form of a kink in the mean width of the in as well as quantum- particle distribution, which signals the closing of a information applications for which Schrödinger band gap. These results had an immediate impact cat states serve as quantum bits. Another of on cold-atom experiments. Also on the topic of Lvovsky’s major endeavours concerning hybridized quantum walks for detecting topological effects, continuous-discrete quantum information bore Sanders collaborated with Xue’s group at Southeast fruit, resulting in the group’s Physical Review University on two notable experiments. Both Letters article on quantum teleportation between experiments probe topological effects for non-unitary discrete and continuous encodings of an optical quantum mechanics, with non-unitarity implying qubit. irreversibility. One experiment observed topological Davis and Freeman reported in Nature edge states in parity-time-symmetric quantum walks Communications 2017 the achievement of and was published in Nature Physics. The other magnetic actuation and feedback cooling of experimental paper showed topological invariants a cavity optomechanical torque sensor. This in nonunitary discrete-time quantum walks and hybrid optomechanical system integrates a appeared in Physical Review Letters. mesoscopic ferromagnetic needle with an Wolkow’s group reports in ACS Nano their results optomechanical torsional resonator with on resolving and tuning carrier capture rates at a applications to nanomagnetism. Furthermore, they single silicon atom gap state. They tune carrier

5 capture events at a single dangling-bond midgap overcome the deleterious effect of thermo-optic state by varying substrate temperature, doping instability by formidable engineering methods. type and doping concentration, and they measure The group of Tittel and Oblak demonstrated heralded with time-resolved scanning tunneling microscopy, single photons based on spectral multiplexing which reveals nanosecond-scale carrier capture and feed-forward control, and this significant rates. Such detailed studies of individual atoms in achievement was reported in Physical Review semiconductors are valuable for future technology Letters. In a notable tour de force, Tittel, Oblak, and including computing. Simon realized entanglement between more than Thompson is a member of the international two hundred macroscopic atomic ensembles in a Antihydrogen Laser PHysics Apparatus (ALPHA) solid. This work, reported in Nature Communications, collaboration based at CERN, which is the European achieves entanglement in Dicke states for which Organization for Nuclear Research. ALPHA creates multipartite entanglement is realized as a single trapped antihydrogen atoms and performs precise delocalized excitation in a crystal with many atoms comparison with hydrogen to study symmetries having distinct resonance frequencies. between matter and antimatter. During the past year, Thompson and the ALPHA team reported significant new results including an observation of the hyperfine spectrum of antihydrogen in Nature, antihydrogen accumulation for fundamental symmetry tests in Nature Communications, and enhanced control and reproducibility of non-neutral plasmas in Physical Review Letters. Barclay’s group has become a leader with diamond microcavities. In their ACS Photonics paper, the group reports optomechanically induced transparency and cooling in thermally stable diamond microcavities. Their achievement is especially notable as they

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INTERNATIONAL AWARDS MITACS Globalink China Scholarship Council Award Mathurin Lagree Dylan Sutherland Zhengcai Zhang National Research Council’s NINT Research Haimin Zheng Award CONACYT Scholarship (Mexico) Robert Wolkow Jesus Alejandro Marin Calzada NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Canada Feodor Lynen Postdoctoral Fellowship Graduate Scholarship – Doctoral (Humboldt Foundation, Germany) Roshan Achal Matthias Heger Callum Doolin TUBITAK Award (The Scientific and Joel Hutchinson Technological Research Council of Turkey) David Lake Matthew Mitchell Yusuf Simsek Clinton Potts Wenner-Gren Fellowship (Sweden) Stephen Wein Peter Kusalik NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship – Master NATIONAL AWARDS Graham Hornig Canadian Society for Chemistry E.W.R. Steacie Mason Protter Matthew Robbins Award NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship – Doctoral Jillian Buriak Cameron Hugh MITACS Scholarship Vedran Jalic Rishabh Shukla Peter Nguyen Hugh Ramp Wyatt Vine

QUANTUM ALBERTA 2017/2018 ANNUAL REPORT 7 NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship Matthew Mitchell Ghazal Haji Salem Hugh Ramp Mariam Taheri Drew Shepherd Stephen Wein NSERC USRA Hennadii Yerzhakov Sebastian Garcia Parisa Zarkeshian Michael Grabowecky TEC Edmonton’s Innovation Patent Award Taryn Haluza-Delay Alissa Kuhn Robert Wolkow Manak Singh Connor Stephens UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA AWARDS NSERC Vanier Scholarship Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Scholarship Carlos Enriquez-Victorero Bradley D. Hauer PIMS Postdoctoral Fellowship Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship Mehdi Ahmadi Jeremy Croshaw Hoan Bui Dang Wyatt Wine PROVINCIAL AWARDS UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY AWARDS Alberta Innovates Graduate Students Alberta Innovates/Eyes High Postdoctoral Scholarship Fellowship Alex Cameron Nikolai Lauk Callum Doolin Namrata Shukla Sumit Goswami Canadian Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Chris Healey Graduate Scholarship Joel Hutchinson Sourabh Kumar Archismita Dalal David Lake Simanraj Sadana

8 QUANTUM ALBERTA 2017/2018 ANNUAL REPORT Eyes High Doctoral Recruitment Scholarship Program for Undergraduate Research Andrew Evans Experience (PURE) Award Sourabh Kumar Alex Gherasim Eyes High International Doctoral Scholarship Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship Faezeh Kimiaee Asadi Alex Cameron Faculty of Graduate Studies Travel Award Katelynn Daly Hamidreza Kaviani Aaron Barclay Tamiko Masuda Jiawei Ji Taozhe Wu Matthew Mitchell Yadong Wu Silver Anniversary Graduate Fellowship Faculty of Science Early Career Researcher Kyle Hall Award T. Cheng Fong Postdoctoral Fellowship in Paul E. Barclay Medical Imaging Science Faculty of Science Excellence Award in Ronnie Banerjee Research (Established Career) UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE AWARDS Barry C. Sanders Medal of Merit Faculty of Graduate Studies GREAT Supervisor Award Pasquale Bosso Paul E. Barclay Izaak Walton Killam Doctoral Scholarship Sumit Goswami

QUANTUM ALBERTA 2017/2018 ANNUAL REPORT 9 PROPOSED STRUCTURE AND GOVERNANCE Daily operation of Quantum Alberta shall A Scientific Advisory Committee shall be established be led by the Executive Director, who and report directly to the Board of Directors. Each reports to the Board of Directors. The academic institute shall establish a branch and have Executive Director is assisted by the its own Branch Directors and administration, as Executive Committee, the administrator, appropriate. Quantum Alberta’s Board of Directors and by the Theme Leaders who are shall have representatives from academia, industry, individually responsible for each of business and government from within and outside the Quantum Alberta research-and- Alberta. The board shall have a minimum of 10 development themes. The Executive members. Director works with the Finance and Business Advisory Committee.

10 QUANTUM ALBERTA 2017/2018 ANNUAL REPORT QUANTUM ALBERTA BOARD OF DIRECTORS

FINANCE SCIENTIFIC AND EXECUTIVE ADVISORY BUSINESS DIRECTOR COMMITTEE BRANCH ADVISORY DIRECTORS

EXECUTIVE THEME COMMITTEE LEADERS

OPERATION AND ADMINISTRATION BRANCH COMMERCIALIZATION ADMINISTRATION AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Paul E. Barclay Hooman Hosseinkhannazer Department of Physics and Astronomy Director of Business Development University of Calgary Norcada Alex Brown Lindsay LeBlanc Department of Chemistry Department of Physics University of Alberta University of Alberta Saurya Das Barry C. Sanders Department of Physics and Astronomy Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Lethbridge University of Calgary John P. Davis Department of Physics University of Alberta

QUANTUM ALBERTA 2017/2018 ANNUAL REPORT 11 MEMBERS Dr. Paul E. Barclay Dr. Saurya Das Associate Professor, Physics & Professor, Physics & Astronomy, Astronomy, University of Calgary University of Lethbridge Research: Quantum Nanophotonics Research: Quantum Gravity and Theme: QNano and QOptics Cosmology barclaylab.ucalgary.ca Theme: QFoundations directory.uleth.ca/users/saurya.das Dr. John Beamish Dr. John P. Davis Professor, Physics, University of Alberta Research: Low-temperature Quantum Associate Professor, Physics, University Fluids and Solids of Alberta Theme: QMaterials Sloan Research Fellow www.ualberta.ca/physics/Faculty/ Research: Quantum Optomechanics, JohnBeamish Nanoscale Superfluids, and Hybrid Quantum Systems Theme: QNano Dr. Robert Benkoczi ualberta.ca/~jdavis/ Associate Professor, Mathematics & Computer Science, University of Dr. Ray DeCorby Lethbridge Research: Network Optimization, Professor, Electrical & Computer Approximation Algorithms, Quantum Engineering, University of Alberta Algorithms Research: Design and Fabrication of Theme: QFoundations Microphotonic Devices www.cs.uleth.ca/~benkoczi/wordpress/ Theme: QNano and QOptics www.ece.ualberta.ca/~decorby/ Dr. Alex Brown Dr. David Feder Professor, Chemistry, University of Alberta Research: Laser-molecule Interactions Associate Professor, Physics and Theme: QChem Astronomy, University of Calgary alexbrown.chem.ualberta.ca Research: Quantum Computation and Condensed Matter Physics Theme: QOptics phas.ucalgary.ca/profiles/david-feder Dr. Jillian Buriak Canada Research Chair and Professor, Chemistry, University of Alberta Dr. Mark Freeman Research: Nanoscience and Materials Canada Research Chair and Professor, Chemistry Physics, University of Alberta Theme: QMaterials and QNano Research: Nanoscale Magnetic buriak.chem.ualberta.ca Phenomena Theme: QMaterials and QNano www.ualberta.ca/~freemanm/ Dr. Robin Cockett Professor, Computer Science, University of Calgary Dr. Daya Gaur Research: Categorical Quantum Professor, Mathematics & Computer Mechanics, Resource Theories and Science, University of Lethbridge Foundations Research: Approximation Algorithms and Theme: QFoundations Large-scale Optimization http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~robin Theme: QOptcis www.cs.uleth.ca/~gaur/

12 QUANTUM ALBERTA 2017/2018 ANNUAL REPORT Dr. Gilad Gour Dr. Peter Kusalik Professor, Mathematics & Statistics, Professor, Chemistry, University of University of Calgary Calgary Research: Quantum Information Theory Research: Molecular Simulation Theme: QOptics Theme: QChem and QMaterials people.ucalgary.ca/~gour/ homepages.ucalgary.ca/~pkusalik/

Dr. Frank Hegmann Dr. Lindsay LeBlanc Professor, Physics, University of Alberta Canada Research Chair and Assistant Research: Ultrafast Dynamics and Professor, Physics, University of Alberta Terahertz Spectroscopy Research: Quantum Simulation with Ultracold Theme: QMaterials and QNano Gases and Hybrid Quantum Systems hegmannthz.wordpress.com/ Theme: QMaterials, QNano and QOptics sites.ualberta.ca/~ljleblan/ Dr. Shahadat Hossain Dr. Alex Lvovsky Professor, Mathematics & Computer Science, University of Lethbridge Professor, Physics & Astronomy, Research: Numerical Optimization and its University of Calgary Applications Research: Quantum Information Theme: QOptics Technology www.cs.uleth.ca/~hossain/ Theme: QOptics people.ucalgary.ca/~lvov/ Mr. Hooman Hosseinkhannazer Dr. Joseph Maciejko PEng & PMP Director of Business Development, Canada Research Chair and Assistant Norcada Professor, Physics, University of Alberta Research: Development of Quantum- Research: Topological Materials Nano Applications (high-Q mechanical Theme: QMaterials structures, NEMS) ualberta.ca/~maciejko/ Theme: QMaterials and QNano www.norcada.com/ Dr. Frank Marsiglio Dr. Peter Høyer Professor, Physics, University of Alberta Associate Professor, Computer Science, Research: High-temperature University of Calgary Superconductivity and Strongly Correlated Research: Quantum Computing Electron Systems Theme: QFoundations and QOptics Theme: QMaterials pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~hoyer/ sites.ualberta.ca/~fm3/

Dr. Marlene Huerta Dr. Kirk Michaelian Emeritus Scientist, Natural Resources Principal Business Advisor Canada Campus Alberta Small Business Research: Raman and Photoacoustic Engagement Program Infrared Spectroscopy Alberta Innovates Theme: QChem and Qmaterials albertatechfutures.ca/nanoAlberta/ nrcan.gc.ca/science/scientists/11694 Contact.aspx

Dr. Wolfgang Jäger Dr. Nasser Moazzen-Ahmadi Professor, Physics & Astronomy, Canada Research Chair and Professor, University of Calgary Chemistry, University of Alberta Research: Molecular Spectroscopy Research: Nanodrop and Molecular Theme: QChem and QMaterials Cluster Spectroscopy iqst.ca/people/peoplepage.php?id=345 Theme: QChem and QNano www.chem.ualberta.ca/~jaeger/

QUANTUM ALBERTA 2017/2018 ANNUAL REPORT 13 Dr. Sergei Noskov Dr. Wolfgang Tittel Professor, Biological Science, University (resigned March 2018) of Calgary Professor, Physics and Astronomy, Research: Biochemistry and Structural University of Calgary Biology Research: Quantum Cryptography and Theme: Qchem Communication iqst.ca/people/peoplepage.php?id=411 Theme: QNano and QOptics www.qc2lab.com Dr. Dennis Salahub Professor Emeritus of Chemistry, Dr. Simon Trudel University of Calgary Associate Professor, Chemistry, University Research: Multiscale Modelling of of Calgary Molecules in Complex Environments Research: Functional Nanomaterials Theme: QChem and QNano Theme: QNano iqst.ca/people/peoplepage.php?id=267 www.chem.ucalgary.ca/research/groups/ trudels/simon-trudel.html

Dr. Barry C. Sanders Dr. Jack Tuszynski Professor, Physics and Astronomy, Professor, Oncology, University of Alberta University of Calgary Research: Computational Drug Research: Quantum Information Science Design, Systems Biology of Cancer Theme: QOptics and Neurodegenerative Diseases, and iqst.ca/people/peoplepage.php?id=4 Pharmacokinetic Models Theme: QFoundations Dr. Yujun Shi https://www.ualberta.ca/science/ about-us/contact-us/faculty-directory/ Professor, Chemistry, University of jack-tuszynski Calgary Research: Diagnostics of Chemical Vapour Deposition, Metal Nanoparticle Dr. Mark Walton Formation by Laser Dewetting Professor, Physics & Astronomy, Theme: QChem and QNano University of Lethbridge ucalgary.ca/shiy/ Research: Quantum Mechanics and Conformal Field Theory Dr. Christoph Simon Theme: QFoundations directory.uleth.ca/users/Walton Professor, Physics and Astronomy, University of Calgary Research: Theoretical Dr. Robert Wolkow Theme: QFoundations, QNano and Professor, Physics, University of Alberta QOptics Chief Technical Officer, Quantum Silicon Inc. iqst.ca/people/peoplepage.php?id=225 Research: Low-power Atom-scale Electronics Dr. Robert I. Thompson Theme: QMaterials, QNano and QOptics www.robertwolkow.com Professor, Physics and Astronomy, University of Calgary Research: Trapped Ions and Antimatter Dr. Yunjie Xu Theme: QChem, QFoundations and Canada Research Chair and Professor, QOptics Chemistry, University of Alberta iqst.ca/people/peoplepage.php?id=15 Research: Molecular Chirality Theme: QChem www.chem.ualberta.ca/~xu/

14 QUANTUM ALBERTA 2017/2018 ANNUAL REPORT POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS Javix Thomas (completed 2017 A Researcher, Alberta Health Services) Mehdi Ahmadi (resigned June 2017 A Professor, Santa Vaisakh Vadakkumbatt Clara University) Tianwu Wang Shideh Ahmadi Yunlong Xiao Gustavo Amaral Zhengcai Zhang Morteza Amirani (completed January 2018 A Postdoc, University of Calgary) Seyed Azmayesh-Fard RESEARCH ASSOCIATES/ Ronnie Banerjee (completed December 2017) COORDINATORS/ENGINEERS Pablo Diaz Benito (completed 2017 A Postdoc, Institute Naaman Amer (Research Associate) for Basic Science, Republic of Korea) Joseph Cheramy (Research Associate) Rufus Boyack Martin Cloutier (NSC Technician) Bing Cao Tate Hauger (Research Engineer) Chun Chen Taras Hrushevskyi (Research Assistant) Hoan Bui Dang (completed June 2017 A Consultant, Data Peter Kalisvaart (Research Associate) Scientist, Capco Canada) Mohammad Koleini (Research Assistant) Fatemeh Fani Sani (completed March 2018 A Postdoc, Erik Luber (Research Engineer/Associate) Delft University of Technology) Sayed Nagy (Research Associate) Roohollah Ghobadi Daniel Oblak (Research Coordinator) John Patrick Hadden (completed February 2018 A Brian Olsen (Lab Systems Designer) Postdoc, University of Cardiff) Jason Pitters (NRC Staff Scientist) Matthias Heger Mark Salomons (NRC Instrument Design Engineer) Jiri Hostas Beipei Shi (Technician) Nikolai Lauk Radovan Urban (Research Associate) A Shu-Ping Lee (completed October 2017 Postdoc, Johns Philip Winter (Software Analyst) Hopkins University) Chien-Hung Lin (completed September 2017 A Postdoc, University of Minnesota) GRADUATE STUDENTS (PHD PROGRAM) Joseph Losby Wali Abdullah Jalal Norooz Oliaee (resigned October 2017 A Postdoc, Roshan Achal National Research Council Canada) Sanaa Al-Sumaidae Gustavo de Oliveira Luiz Shudipto Amin Yang Luo Mahmoud Almadhoun Thomas Lutz (resigned March 2018 A Postdoc, ETH Mohsen Bagheri Mehrab Switzerland) Lizandra Barrios Bruno Martins Tushar Biswas (graduated June 2017 A Research Akihiro Nishiyama Scientist, Avalon Holographics) Young Choon Park Mohammad Bitarafa (graduated November 2017 A Jordane Preto Postdoc, Tampere University of Technology) Moe Rashidi Isaac Boateng Erhan Saglamyurek Pasquale Bosso (graduated August 2017) Ghazal Haji Salem Stephanie Bovincini Vincent Sauer Jesus Alejandro Marin Calzada Namrata Shukla Logan Cooke Yusuf Simsek Ram Dahal (gradudated July 2017 A Software Engineer, Neil Sinclair (resigned July 2017 A Postdoc, Harvard Cisco) University & California Institute of Technology) Archismita Dalal Chukman So (completed March 2018) Katelynn Daly Fabien Souris (completed March 2018 A Postdoc, Institut Raphael Dong (graduated March 2018) NEEL-CNRS, Grenoble, France) Callum Doolin Mariam Taheri Carlos Enriquez-Victorero Koorosh Esteki

QUANTUM ALBERTA 2017/2018 ANNUAL REPORT 15 Andrew Evans Ebenezer Owusu-Ansah (graduated October 2017 A Mohsen Falamarzi Askarani Postdoc, University of Calgary) Fatemeh Fani Sani (graduated May 2017 A Postdoc, Eduardo Paez University of Alberta) Pantita Palittapongarnpim Christopher Fetterly Shyam Parshotam Jose da Costa Filho Angelo Shehan Perera Akihiko Fujii (terminated December 2017) Alireza Poostindouz Melis Gedik (graduated June 2017 A Lecturer, University Clinton Potts of Alberta) Marcel.li Grimau Puigibert (graduated February 2017 A Francesco Gentile Postdoc, University of Basel) Gayashani Ginige David Purschke Mark Girard (graduated August 2017 A Postdoc, University Anastasia Pushkina of Waterloo) Hugh Ramp Sumit Goswami Chengcheng Rao Kyle Hall (graduated March 2018 A Postdoc, Temple Maria Rossano-Tapia University) Nafiseh Sang-Nourpour (graduated July 2017 A Postdoc, Bradley Hauer Institut National d’Optique) Chris Healey Benjamin Smith Cameron Hough Priyaa Varshinee Srinivasan Minjia Hu Arina Tashchilina Taleana Huff Vasil Todorinov Joel Hutchinson Andrei Tretiakov Vedran Jelic Raju Valivarthi Charles Jensen Shakib Vedaie Cong Jin (graduated September 2017 A Researcher, Hao Wang Applied Nanotools) Lei Wang Hamidreza Kaviani Jasper Woodard Abdullah Khalid Bowei Wu Majid Kheirkhah Taozhe Wu Paul Kim Yadong Wu Faezeh Kimiaee Asadi Fan Xie Aaron Kirkey Hezhen Xie Sourabh Kumar Dan Yang David Lake Ryan Yang Hon-Wai Lau (graduated August 2017 A Postdoc, Max Hennadii Yerzhakov Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems) Parisa Zarkeshian Pascal Lefebvre Dan Li GRADUATE STUDENTS (MSC PROGRAM) Thomas Lutz (graduated December 2017 A Postdoc, University of Calgary) Nurgul Aimaiti Adam Mayer Sharmin Akter (graduated August 2017) Matthew Mitchell Ahmed Shoeb Al-Hasan Kellly McPhee (graduated December 2017) Muhammad Ruhul Amin (graduated 2017 A PhD, Amin Moazeni University of Saskatchewan) Ali Mohandesi Eric Ampong Eugene Moiseev Paul Anderson (graduated February 2018 A PhD, James Moncreiff University of Waterloo) Mary Alvean Narreto Lazima Ansari (graduated August 2017 A Developer, Peter Nguyen Constellation Software) Yasser Novo-Fernández Umair Arif (graduated July 2017 A Research Assistant, Mahmood Noweir University of Lethbridge) Sara Ibrahim Omar Aaron Barclay Khairul Bashar Clayton Bell 16 QUANTUM ALBERTA 2017/2018 ANNUAL REPORT Alex Cameron UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS Tommy Clark Cole Comfort Russell Bate (UofC PHYS598) Jeremy Croshaw Dante Bencivenga (UofC PHYS598) Rajib Das Colton Carlson (UofA CHEM401) Jacob Davidson Xining Chen (UofC PHYS598) Masoud Habibi Davijani Zhihao Chen (UofA CHEM401) Nuiok Dicaire Sebastian Garcia (NSERC USRA & UofC PHYS599) Alison Fulton Lou-ann de Geoij (UofA CHEM299) Shankar Ganesh Alex Gherasim (UofC PURE Award) Tim Harrison Michael Grabowecky (NSERC USRA & UofC PHYS598) Graham Hornig Rysa Greenwood (UofC CHEM402) Sharmin Islam Taryn Haluza-Delay (NSERC USRA) Shreyas Jalnapurkar David Ham (UofC PHAS598) Charles Jensen (graduated August 2017 A PhD, University Chenxi Huang (UofA ISWEP) of Alberta) Cat-Tuong Huynh (lab volunteer) Tasnuba Jesmin Anabelle Jones (lab volunteer) Jiawei Ji Yasmeen Kamaliddin (UofC PHYS598) Aarat Kalra Alissa Kuhn (NSERC USRA) Mojtaba Komeili Guojie Li (UofA CHEM403 & CHEM401) Prasoon Kumar Shandilya Linh Ly (UofC CHEM402) Erika Lloyd Christopher Mannes (UofA PHYS499) Sakib Mahmud Sean McClure (research assistant) James Maldaner Blaine McLaughlin (undergraduate research) Tamiko Masuda Daniel Mildenberger (undergraduate research) Reed Parsons Kimberley Ann Owen (research assistant) Mason Protter Ted Robinson (research assistant) Danny Pulikkaseril Matthew Rudd (UofA Engineering Physics co-op) Parijat Purohit (graduated August 2017) Charmaine Sablay (UofC CHEM402) Hamza Qureshi Arta Seify (undergraduate research) Mohammad Rahmati Jonathan Shabash (undergraduate research) Anindya Rastogi Fengyuan Shan (UofA CHEM401) Matthew Robbins (graduated August 2017 A PhD, Manak Singh (NSERC USRA) University of Waterloo) Raunak Singh (UofC CHEM502) Peash Ranjan Saha Connor Stephens (NSERC USRA) Drew Shepherd (graduated August 2017 A Junior Energy Roland Tran (UofC PHYS599) Analyst, Energy Profiles) Carter Trautmann (UofA Engineering co-op) Alex Shook Haolu Wang (UofA CHEM401) Rishabh Shukla Andrew Wiedemann (UofA CHEM401) Michael Staelens Wei Zeng (UofC CHEM402) Jerry Sun Chao Zhang (UofA CHEM399) Husain Syed Ajay Raj Tedlapu ADMINISTRATION Jacques Thibault Xining Chen (Part-time Webmaster) John Thibault Jing (Nancy) Lu (Administrator) Prathwiraj Umesh Priyaa Varshinee Srinivasan (Part-Time Webmaster/ Elena Vialykh resigned December 2017) Wyatt Vine Lucia Wang (Administrative Assistant, transferred May Zhibo Wang 2017 A Cumming School of Medicine, University of Stephen Wein Calgary) John Wood Weihuang Xu

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A. Banerjee, B. Blasiak, E. Pasquier, B. Tomanek and S. Trudel, P. Bosso, S. Das and R. B. Mann, “Planck scale corrections “Synthesis, characterization, and evaluation of PEGylated to the harmonic oscillator, coherent, and squeezed states”, first-row transition metal ferrite nanoparticles asT 2 contrast Physical Review D 96(6): 06608 (12 pp.), September 2017. agents for high-field MRI”,RCA Advances 7(61), pp. 38125—38134, July 2017. K. N. Broda, J. S. Olfert, M. Irwin, G. P. Schill, G. R. McMeeking, E. G. Schnitzler and W. Jäger, “A novel inversion method to A. J. Barclay, A. Mohandesi, K. H. Michaelian, A. R. W. determine the mass distribution of non-refractory coatings McKellar and N. Moazzen-Ahmadi, “Infrared observation on refractory black carbon using a centrifugal particle mass of OC-C2H2, OC-(C2H2)2 and their isotopologues”, Molecular analyzer and single particle soot photometer”, Aerosol Science Physics, pp. 1—7, December 2017. and Technology 52(5): pp. 567—578, February 2018.

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T. L. Cocker, D. Baillie, M. Buruma, L. V. Titova, R. D. Sydora, A. T. Gallant, M. Alansaari, J. C. Bale, C. Andreoiu, B. R. F. Marsiglio and F. A. Hegmann, “Microscopic origin of the Barquest, U. Chowdhury, J. Even, A. Finlay, D. Frekers, G. Drude-Smith model”, Physical Review B 96(20): 205439 (16 Gwinner, R. Klawitter, B. Kootte, A. A. Kwiatkowski, D. Lascar, pp.), November 2017. K. G. Leach, E. Leistenschneider, A. Lennarz, A. J. Mayer, D. Short, R. I. Thompson, M. Wieser, D. Lunney and J. Dilling, T. J. A. Craddock, P. Kurian, J. Preto, K. Sahu, S. R. Hameroff, “Mass determination near N=20 for Al and Na isotopes”, M. Klobukowski, and J. A. Tuszynski, “Anesthetic alterations Physical Review C 96(2): 024325 (5 pp.), August 2017. of collective terahertz oscillations in tubulin correlates with clinical potency: Implications for anesthetic action and D. R. Gaur and R. R. Singh, “A heuristic for cumulative post-operative cognitive dysfunction”, Scientific Reports 7(1): vehicle routing using column generation”, Discrete Applied 9877 (12 pp.), August 2017. Mathematics 228: pp. 140—157, September 2017.

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S. Durdagi, I. Erol, R. E. Salmas, M. Patterson and S. Y. G. Gour, B. Kraus and N. R. Wallach, “Almost all multipartite Noskov, “First universal pharmacophore model for hERG1 K+ qubit quantum states have trivial stabilizer”, Journal of channel activators: acthER”, Journal of Molecular Graphics and Mathematical Physics 58(9): 092204 (15 pp.), September Modelling 74: pp. 153—170, June 2017. 2017.

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S. H. McGuire, E. A. Rietman, H. Siegelmann and J. A. P. Palittapongarnpim, P. Wittek, E. Zahedinejad, S. Vedaie and Tuszynski, “Gibbs free energy as a measure of complexity B. C. Sanders, “Learning in quantum control: High-dimensional correlates with time within C. elegans embryonic global optimization for noisy ”, development”, Journal of Biological Physics 43(4): Neurocomputing 268, pp. 116—126, April 2017. pp. 551—563, December 2017. P. Piazzetta, T. Marino, N. Russo and D. R. Salahub, “The R. A. Mendes, B. L. S. e Silva, R. Takeara, R. G. Freitas, A. role of metal substitution in the promiscuity of natural and Brown, G. L. C. de Souza, “Probing the antioxidant potential of artificial carbonic anhydrases”,Coordination Chemistry phloretin and phlorizin through a computational investigation”, Reviews 345, pp. 73—85, August 2017. Journal of Molecular Modeling 24:101 (10 pp.), March 2018. C. M. Platnich, A. Banerjee, V. O. Kollath, K. Karan and W. E. Miranda, V. A. Ngo, L. L. Perissinotti and S. Y. Noskov, S. Trudel, “Thiol-ene click microcontact printing of gold “Computational membrane biophysics: From ion channel nanoparticles onto silicon surfaces”, Canadian Journal of interactions with drugs to cellular function”, Biochimica et Chemistry 96(2), pp. 190—195, September 2017. Biophysica Acta (BBA) – Proteins and Proteomics 1865(11 part B): pp. 1643—1653, November 2017. E. Pradhan and A. Brown, “A potential energy surface for HONO based on a neural network with exponential A. Mohandesi and P. G. Kusalik, “Probing ice growth from fitting functions”, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 19(33): vapor phase: A molecular dynamics simulation approach”, pp. 22272—22281, August 2017. Journal of Crystal Growth 483, pp. 156—163, February 2018.

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T. Masuda, M. J. Mitchell, B. Khanaliloo, D. Lake, T. Lutz, E. Tiunov, D. Sychev, A. E. Ulanov, A. A. Pushkina, A. Fedorov, J. P. Hadden, W. Tittel and P. E. Barclay, “High-Q diamond V. Novikov and A. I. Lvovsky, “Towards interconversion microdisks for coupling to SiV quantum emitters”, between discrete- and continuous-variable encodings in Proceedings of CLEO: Science and Innovations 2017, JTh3E.2 quantum optics”, AIP Conference Proceedings, Proceedings San Jose, United States of America, 14 May 2017—19 May of 4th International Conference on Quantum Technologies 2017. 1936(1), 020017 (6 pp.), Moscow, Russia, 12 July 2017—16 July 2017. M. J. Mitchell, D. Lake, J. P. Hadden and P. E. Barclay, “Optomechanically induced transparency in diamond QUANTUM ALBERTA 2017/2018 ANNUAL REPORT 25 P. E. Ghaly, “Synthesis and biological evaluation of C-2 BOOKS AND CHAPTERS modified D-fructose derivatives as molecular imaging agents for breast cancer detection” (PhD Thesis), August 2017. S. Abdelhamid, R. Benkoczi and H. S. Hassanein, “Vehicular clouds: Ubiquitous computing on wheels”, section in book: M. Girard, “Convex analysis in quantum information” (PhD Emergent Computation: A Festschrift for Selim G. Akl, A. Thesis), July 2017. Adamatzky, eds.: pp. 435—452, Springer, Berlin, 2017. K. Wm. Hall, “Interweaving computational chemistry and P. Calaminici, A. Alvarez-Ibarra, D. Cruz-Olvera, V. D. visualization: Explorations into molecular processes, Domínguez-Soria, R. Flores-Moreno, G. U. Gamboa, G. simulation analysis, and visualization design” (PhD Thesis), Geudtner, A. Goursot, D. Mejía-Rodríguez, D. R. Salahub, B. May 2017. Zuniga-Gutierrez and A. M. Köster, “Auxiliary density functional theory: from molecules to nanostructures”, section in book: S. Jalnapurkar, “Measuring decay rate of spontaneous Handbook of Computational Chemistry, J. Leszczynski, A. emission from an ensemble of cold atoms by homodyne Kaczmarek-Kedziera, T. Puzyn, M. G. Papadopoulos, H. Reis, detection” (MSc Thesis), February 2018. M. K. Shukla , eds.: pp. 795—860, Springer, Dordrecht, 2017. C. Jin, “Block copolymer nanotlithograpy” (PhD Thesis), L. J. LeBlanc and I. B. Spielman “Bose-Einstein condensates September 2017. in artificial gauge fields”, section in book:Universal Themes of Bose-Einstein Condensation, N. Proukakis, D. Snoken, C. Jensen, “Ultrafast imaging of terahertz dynamics.” (MSc P. Littlewood, eds.: Chapter 15: pp. 299—321, Cambridge Thesis), July 2017. University Press, Cambridge, 2017. H. W. Lau, “Nonlinear dynamics of mathematical models and E. Rietman and J. A. Tuszynski, “Using thermodynamic proposed implementations in ultracold atoms” (PhD Thesis), functions as an organizing principle in cancer biology”, July 2017. section in book: Theoretical and Applied Aspects of Systems Biology, F. A. B. da Silva, N. Carels, F. P. Silva Junior, eds., T. Lutz, “Engineered impurity-doped materials for quantum Springer, Berlin, 2018. information and processing applications – nano-structures and disordered materials” (PhD Thesis), December 2017. B. C. Sanders, “How to build a quantum computer” (book), IOP Publishing, Bristol, 2017. K. McPhee, “Relaxometry in the human brain using high field STUDENT THESES MRI” (PhD Thesis), December 2017. E. Owusu-Ansah, “Applications of nanosecond pulsed lasers: P. Anderson, “Synthesis and thermodynamics of tapered Electronic transitions of atomic Si to dewetting of Pt and Ag optical nanofibers” (MSc Thesis), February 2018. metal thin films” (PhD Thesis), October 2017.

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Lvovsky, “Manipulating Schrödinger cats in Canadian Society for Chemistry Conference (CSC 2017), quantum optics”, Bristol Quantum Information Technologies Toronto, Canada, 28 May 2017—1 June 2017. Workshop, Bristol, United Kingdom, 5 April 2017—7 April 2017. 29 May 2017, M. Hu, T. C. Hauger and J. M. Buriak, “From 21 April 2017, D. R. Salahub, “Multiscale modeling of molecules to nanomaterials: The Chemistry of silicon chemical reactions in complex environments”, Symposium surfaces”, 100th Canadian Chemistry Conference and on Computational Chemistry at the ICCMSE (International Exhibition, Toronto, Canada, 28 May 2017—1 June 2017. Symposium on Computational Methods in Science and Engineering), Thessaloniki, Greece, 21 April 2017—25 April 30 May 2017, F. Liu, E. J. Luber, B. C. Olsen, C. Jin and 2017. J. M. Buriak, “Plasmonic stamps: Using plasmons to drive nanopatterned chemistry on silicon”, 100th Canadian 24 April 2017, A. I. Lvovsky, “Beating the Rayleigh limit”, Chemistry Conference and Exhibition, Toronto, Canada, 28 Quantum Field Framework for Structured Light Interactions, May 2017—1 June 2017. Banff International Research Station, Canada, 24 April 2017—28 April 2017. 31 May 2017, V. R. R. Valivarthi, Q. Zhou, M. L. Grimau Puigibert, G. Aguilar, D. Bola, F. Marsili, M. D. Shaw, V. B. 28 April 2017, M. Freeman, “Magnetic resonance Verma, S. W. Nam and W. Tittel, “Quantum communication spectroscopy with torsional optomechanics”, INTERMAG across Calgary”, Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP) Europe, Dublin, Ireland, 24 April 2017—28 April 2017. Congress 2017, Kingston, Ontario, 28 May 2017—2 June 2017. 4 May 2017, P. E. Barclay, “Spin-optomechanics”, Alberta Nanosymposium, Calgary, Canada, 4 May 2017. 3 June 2017, J. Maciejko, “Topological materials: From spin- orbit coupling to supersymmetry-on-a-chip” (plenary), 18th 16 May 2017, G. Gour, “Single-shot quantum resource Annual Meeting of the APS Northwest Section, Forest Grove, theories”, 2017 Langenhop Lecture and SIU Mathematics Oregon, United States of America, 1 June 2017—3 June 2017. Conference , Carbondale, United States of America, 15 May 2017—16 May 2017. 4 June 2017, F. Marsiglio, “High temperature superconductivity in H$_3$S — why so high?”, Superstripes 21 May 2017, G. Gour, “Theories of Quantum Resources” 2017 Quantum Physics in Complex Matter: Superconductivity, (plenary), Calgary Applied and Industrial Mathematical Magnetism and Ferroelectricity, Ischia, Italy, 4 June 2017—10 Sciences Conference, Calgary, Canada, 21 May 2017. June 2017. QUANTUM ALBERTA 2017/2018 ANNUAL REPORT 27 5 June 2017, J. A. Tuszynski, “Microtubules as subcellular Collaborative Conference on Materials Research (CCMR) 2017, memristors” (plenary), Science of Consciousness Conference, JejJu Island, South Korea, 26 June 2017—30 June 2017. San Diego, United States of America, 5 June 2017—10 June 2017. 12 July 2017, A. I. Lvovsky, A. E. Ulanov, D. Sychev, A. A. Pushkina, I. A. Fedorov, E. Tiunov, V. Novikov, T. C. Ralph, 6 June 2017, R. G. DeCorby and M. H. Bitarafan, “Integrated P. Grangier and Y. Kurochkin, “Hybrid discrete-continuous arrays of open-access microcavities,” Photonics North 2017, quantum optical technology at the Russian Quantum Center”, Ottawa, Canada, 6 June 2017—8 June 2017. 4th International Conference on Quantum Technologies, Moscow, Russia, 12 July 2017—16 July 2017. 6 June 2017, J. A. Tuszynski, “Introduction to ” (plenary), Quantum Biology Workshop of the Science 17 July 2017, P. G. Kusalik, “Bridging scales in molecular of Consciousness Conference, San Diego, United States of simulations of crystallization and self-assembly” (keynote), America, 5 June 2017—10 June 2017. Swedish Theoretical Chemistry 2017, Gothenburg, Sweden, 16 August 2017—18 August 2017. 7 June 2017, J. P. Davis, “Approaching the standard quantum limit of measurement and control of nanomechanical 20 July 2017, G. Gour, “Quantum majorization: resonators using telecom wavelength light”, Photonics North From degradation of quantum channels to quantum 2017, Ottawa, Canada, 6 June 2017—8 June 2017. thermodynamics”, Concentration Week of Workshop in Analysis and Probability: Probabilistic and Algebraic Methods 7 June 2017, J. Maciejko, “Superconducting Dirac fermions in Quantum Information Theory, College Station, United States and mirror symmetry”, Workshop on Spin Dynamics in Dirac of America, 17 July 2017—21 July 2017. Systems, Spin Phenomena Interdisciplinary Center (SPICE), Mainz, Germany, 6 June 2017—9 June 2017. 24 July 2017, B. C. Sanders, “Wavelets for generation”, Mathematical Congress of the Americas (MCA 7 June 2017, J. A. Tuszynski, “Physics and consciousness 2017), Montreal, Canada, 24 July 2017—28 July 2017. (1): Memristors in the brain? (plenary)”, Pre-Plenary Workshop East Meets West of The Science of Consciousness, San 26 July 2017, M. Freeman, “A low-cost approach to Diego, United States of America, 5 June 2017—10 June 2017. computerizing hands-on physics”, American Association of Physics Teachers Summer Meeting, Cincinnati, United States 11 June 2017, Y.-J. Xu, “Infrared and vibrational circular of America, 22 July 2017—26 July 2017. dichroism spectra of lactic acid and its aggregates in cold rare gas matrices and in solution”, 9th International Conference on 7 August 2017, J. A. Tuszynski, “Microtubules as subcellular Advanced Vibrational Spectroscopy, Victoria, Canada, 11 June memristors”, Workshop on Biological Mentality, Ann Arbor, 2017—16 June 2017. United States of America, 7 August 2017—9 August 2017.

21 June 2017, D. R. Salahub, “Beyond structure: on the role 14 August 2017, B. C. Sanders, “Introduction to quantum of dynamics and entropy in nanocatalysis”, International computing”, Mathematical and Numerical Methods for Conference on Chemical Bonding (ICCB), Kauai, Hawaii, Time-Dependent Quantum Mechanics – from Dynamics to United States of America, 21 June 2017—26 June 2017. Quantum Information, Casa Matemática Oaxaca, Mexico, 13 August 2017—18 August 2017. 27 June 2017, A. I. Lvovsky, “Hybrid discrete+continuous- variable quantum repeaters “, CIFAR Workshop on Quantum 17 August 2017, G. Gour, “Quantum majorization: Networks, Calgary, Canada, 27 June 2017—28 June 2017. From degradation of quantum channels to quantum thermodynamics”, Workshop on Operator Systems in Quantum 27 June 2017, D. Oblak, “Bell-state measurements and Information, Guelph, Canada, 14 August 2017—17 August detectors for quantum networks”, CIFAR Workshop on 2017. Quantum Networks, Calgary, Canada, 27 June 2017—28 June 2017. 20 August 2017, D. R. Salahub, “Beyond structure – Multiscale modeling of chemical reactions in complex environments” 27 June 2017, C. Simon, “Towards a global ”, (plenary), International Materials Research Conference, CIFAR Workshop on Quantum Repeaters, Calgary, Canada, 27 Cancun, Mexico, 20 August 2017—25 August 2017. June 2017—28 June 2017. 21 August 2017, D. R. Salahub, “Multiscale modeling for oil 28 June 2017, A. Brown, I Aguiar, G. L. C. de Souza and sands upgrading, a progress report”, International Materials E. Rivard, “New phosphorescent molecules: Insights from Research Conference, Cancun, Mexico, 20 August 2017—25 time-dependent density functional theory computations”, August 2017. 28 QUANTUM ALBERTA 2017/2018 ANNUAL REPORT 24 August 2017, R. A. Wolkow, “Toward atom scale ultra low 27 October 2017, M. Walton, “Phase-space quantization”, power classical circuitry and quantum circuitry”, International Workshop on Contemporary Topics in Mathematical Physics, Conference on Theoretical and Applied Nanoscience and Banff International Research Station, Canada, 27 October (TANN’17), Toronto, Canada, 23 August 2017—29 October 2017. 2017—25 August 2017. 28 October 2017, J. Maciejko, “Superconducting Dirac 27 August 2017, C. M. Hough, D. N. Purschke, C. Huang, fermions and mirror symmetry”, Workshop on Contemporary L. V. Titova, O. Kovalchuk, B. J. Warkentin, F. A. Hegmann, Topics in Mathematical Physics, Banff International Research “Biological effects of intense THz pulses on human skin tissue Station, Canada, 27 October 2017—29 October 2017. models” (keynote), 42nd International Conference on Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves (IRMMW-THz), Cancun, 3 November 2017, D. R. Salahub, “Simulating electron Mexico, 27 August 2017—1 September 2017. dynamics in polarizable environments”, Ions, Complexes, Biological Systems, Clusters and Surfaces in Catalysis – CAT- 24 September 2017, P. E. Barclay, “Quantum information ICBSC 2017, Cosenza, Italy, 3 November 2017—4 November processing with diamond”, Nano-Canada, Montreal, Canada, 2017. 25 September 2017—26 September 2017.

4 November 2017, J. Maciejko, “Simple Z2 lattice gauge 25 September 2017, F. A. Hegmann, “Ultrafast terahertz theories with fermionic matter at finite density”, Workshop scanning tunneling microscopy”, 2017 CINT (Center for on Chaos, Duality, and Topology in Condensed Matter Theory, Integrated Nanotechologies, Los Alamos Laboratory) Annual Urbana, United States of America, 3 November 2017—5 Meeting, Santa Fe, United Sates of America, 25 September November 2017. 2017—27 September 2017. 13 November 2017, B. C. Sanders, “Reinforcement learning for 1 October 2017, P. E. Barclay, “Diamond optomechanics”, IEEE quantum control”, Workshop: Quantum artificial intelligence Photonics Conference, Orlando, United States of America, 1 and quantum computing, Shanghai University, People’s October 2017—5 October 2017. Republic of China, 13 November 2017.

2 October 2017, D. R. Salahub, “Simulating electron dynamics 14 November 2017, G. Gour, “Quantum majorization: in polarizable environments”, International Symposium on From November of quantum channels to quantum Atomic Cluster Collisions, Varadero, Cuba, 2 October 2017—6 thermodynamics”, International Workshop on Quantum October 2017. Computing and Quantum Information Processing 2017, Beijing, People’s Republic of China, 1 November 2017—21 4 October 2017, C. Hough, D. N. Purschke, C. Huang, L. V. November 2017. Titova, O. Kovalchuk, B. J. Warkentin and F. A. Hegmann, “Effects of intense THz pulses on gene expression in human 28 November 2017, R. A. Wolkow, “Binary silicon atomic skin tissue models” (keynote), 8th International THz-Bio logic”, 2017 Workshop on Innovative Nanoscale Devices Workshop, Frascati, Italy, 4 October 2017—6 October 2017. and Systems (WINDS 2017), Kohala Coast, United States of America, 26 November 2017—1 December 2017. 5 October 2017, A. I. Lvovsky, “Quantum as a worldwide technology trend “ (keynote), PriceWaterhouseCoopers 1 December 2017, J. A. Tuszynski, “Microtubules as Central and Eastern Europe Partner Conference, St. subcellular memristors”, 41st National Systems Conference Petersburg, Russia, 5 October 2017. on Super Intelligent Machines and Man, Dayalbagh, Agra, India, 1 December 2017—3 December 2017. 5 October 2017, D. Oblak, P. Zarkeshian, C. Deshmukh, P. Lefebvre, K. Owen, C. John, V. R. R. Valivarthi, M. L. Grimau 4 December 2017, C. Hough, D. N. Purschke, C. Huang, L.V. Puigibert, S. K. Goyal, K. Heshami, N. Sinclair, Q. Zhou, G. Titova, O. Kovalchuk, B. J. Warkentin and F. A. Hegmann, Aguilar, W. Tittel and C. Simon, “Building quantum networks”, “Global gene expression dynamics in human skin tissue Workshop on Quantum Innovators in Science and Engineering, models induced by intense terahertz pulses”, 6th Shenzhen Waterloo, Canada, 2 October 2017—5 October 2017. International Conference on Advanced Science and Technology (SICAST), Shenzhen, People’s Republic of China, 4 24 October 2017, Y. J. Shi, “Formation of metal nanoparticles December 2017—7 December 2017. by pulsed laser-induced thin film dewetting and their applications”, 7th Annual World Congress of Nano Science & 14 December 2017, D. Oblak, K. Owen, C. John, M. Falamarzi Technology, Fukuoka, Japan, 24 October 2017—26 October Askarani, V. R. R. Valivarthi, M. L. Grimau Puigibert, T. Lutz, L. 2017. Veissier, N. Sinclair, Q. Zhou, G. Aguilar and W. Tittel, “Quantum networks and repeaters”, 5th International Workshop on QUANTUM ALBERTA 2017/2018 ANNUAL REPORT 29 Engineering of Quantum Emitter Properties (EQEP 2017), 13 February 2018, J. Maciejko, “Emergent Dirac fermions in Z2 Waterloo, Canada, 13 December 2017—15 Dec December. gauge theories with fermionic matter”, Workshop on Relativistic Fermions and Nodal Semimetals from Topology, Banff 14 December 2017, B. C. Sanders, “Overview of quantum International Research Station, Canada, 11 February 2018—16 computing and communication for mining”, National Research February 2018. Council Quantum Canada Industry Workshop on Quantum Mining, MaRS District, Toronto, Canada, 14 Dec 2017. 14 February 2018, M. Freeman, “Nano- and optomechanics- enabled magnetometries, Spin Mechanics 5 and Nano MRI6 21 December 2017, B. C. Sanders, “Reinforcement learning for Workshop, Les Houches, France, 11 February 2018—16 quantum control”, 2017 International Workshop on Quantum February 2018. Information, Quantum Computing and Quantum Control, Shanghai University, People’s Republic of China, 19 December 3 March 2018, Y.-J. Xu, “An unusual water tunnelling path in 2017—21 December 2017. the methyl glycidate-water complex and solvation of methyl glycidate in water”, 27th Austin Symposium on Molecular 8 January 2018, A. I. Lvovsky, “Interfacing discrete and Structure and Dynamics at Dallas (ASMD@D), Dallas, United continuous variable encodings in quantum optical information”, States of America, 3 March 2018—5 March 2018. Hong Kong Workshop on Quantum Information and Foundations, Hong Kong, 8 January 2018—12 January 2018. 8 March 2018, G. Gour, “Mathematical structures and features of quantum resource theories”, S26.00002, APS March Meeting 9 January 2018, P. G. Kusalik, “Characterizing key features in the 2018, Los Angeles, United States of America, 5 March 2018—9 formation mechanisms of ice”, 14th International Conference March 2018. on the Physics and Chemistry of Ice, Zurich, Switzerland, 7 January 2018—12 January 2018. 8 March 2018, J. Maciejko, “Helical Fermi liquids and their breakdown”, APS March Meeting 2018, Los Angeles, United 9 January 2018, C. Simon, “Quantum networks: Global, warm, States of America, 5 March 2018—9 March 2018. biological?”, 48th Winter Colloquium on the Physics of Quantum Electronics (PQE-2018), Snowbird, United States of America, 7 18 March 2018, Y.-J. Xu, “Non-covalent interactions in chiral January 2018—12 January 2018. molecular clusters: Chirality recognition/transfer /amplification”, 255th ACS National Meeting and Exposition, New Orleans, 11 January 2018, A. Brown and E. Pradhan, “Determining United States of America, 18 March 2018—22 March 2018. vibrational energies with MCTDH on potential energy surfaces fit to sum-of-products form using neural networks with 19 March 2018, J. M. Buriak, B. Cao, B. Olsen, E. J. Luber, exponential neurons”, Telluride Science Research Centre “Optimization of organic solar cell processing parameters: Workshop on New Challenges for Theory in Chemical Combining machine learning and experimental design”, 255th Dynamics, Telluride, United States of America, 8 January ACS National Meeting and Exposition, New Orleans, United 2018—12 January 2018. States of America, 18 March 2018—22 March 2018.

14 January 2018, C. Simon, “Quantum networks: Global, warm, 19 March 2018, J. M. Buriak, M. Hu and T Hauger, biological?”, Physics of the Universe Summit 2018 (POTUS “Functionalizing silicon surfaces: Mechanistic connections 2018), Hawthorne & Pasadena, United States of America, 12 between molecules and interfaces”, 255th ACS National January 2018—14 January 2018. Meeting and Exposition, New Orleans, United States of America, 18 March 2018—22 March 2018. 24 January 2018, J. M. Buriak, E. J. Luber, C. Jin and B. C. Olsen, “Polymers to patterns: Using self-assembly to 20 March 2018, J. M. Buriak, F. Liu, E. J. Luber and B. Olsen, produce complex nanopatterns on semiconductors and “Polymers, plasmons, and patterns”, 255th ACS National flexible substrates”, Atlantic Basin Conference on Chemistry Meeting and Exposition, New Orleans, United States of America, (ABCChem), Cancum, Mexico, 23 January 2018—26 January 18 March 2018—22 March 2018. 2018. 21 March 2018, J. M. Buriak, C. Jin, E. J. Luber and B. Olsen, 27 January 2018, P. E. Barclay, “Spin nano-optomechanics”, “Self-assembly of block copolymer nanopatterns on surfaces”, SPIE Photonics West 2018, San Francisco, United States of 255th ACS National Meeting and Exposition, New Orleans, America, 27 January 2018—1 February 2018 United States of America, 18 March 2018—22 March 2018.

1 February 2018, P. E. Barclay, “Diamond cavity and waveguide optomechanics”, SPIE Photonics West 2018, San Francisco, United States of America, 27 January 2018—1 February 2018. 30 QUANTUM ALBERTA 2017/2018 ANNUAL REPORT COLLABORATIONS Instituto Potosino de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica (IPICYT), Mexico INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS Indian Institute of Science Education and Research – Mohali, India Aarhus University, Denmark Indian Institute of Information Technology – Allahabad, India An-Najah National University, Palestine Institut d’Optique, France Bahcesehir University, Turkey Institut Langevin, France Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Institut Universitaire de France, France People’s Republic of China Isfahan University of Technology, Iran Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel James Madison University, United States of America Brown University, United States of America Jilin University, People’s Republic of China California Institute of Technology, United States of Kazan Quantum Center, Russia America Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Republic Carnegie Mellon University, United States of America of Korea Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados Kuwait University, Kuwait (CINVESTAV), Mexico Kuvempu University, India Chimie ParisTech, France Macquarie University, Australia Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Geology and Marquette University, United States of America Geophysics, People’s Republic of China Max Planck Institute for Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Chinese University of Hong Kong, People’s Republic of Germany China Max Planck Institute for Solid State Physics, Germany Cockcroft Institute, United Kingdom Montana State University, United States of America Collège de France, France Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia Colorado State University, United States of America National Institutes of Health, United States of America Czech Academy of Sciences, Czechia National Institute for Standards and Technology (Boulder), Czech Technical University, Czechia United States of America Durham University, United Kingdom National Institute for Standards and Technology East China Normal University, People’s Republic of China (Gaithersburg), United States of America Fudan University, People’s Republic of China National University of Singapore, Singapore Gebze Technical University, Turkey Osaka University, Japan Ghent University, Belgium P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Hartnell College, United States of America Sciences, Russia Harvard University, United States of America Pacific Lutheran University, United States of America Henan University of Technology, People’s Republic of China Princeton University, United States of America Purdue University, United States of America 31 Raman Research Institute, India NATIONAL INSTITUTIONS Rice University, United States of America Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Italy Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Soreq Nuclear Research Center, Israel McGill University Southeast University, People’s Republic of China National Research Council of Canada Ottawa Stanford University, United States of America Queen’s University Stockholm University, Sweden Simon Fraser University Swansea University, United Kingdom TRIUMF Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India University of British Columbia Texas A& M University, United States of America University of Manitoba Technische Universität München, Germany University of Ottawa Technische Universität Wien, Germany University of Victoria The Russian Quantum Center, Russia University of Waterloo Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan University of Windsor Tsinghua University, People’s Republic of China University of Winnipeg Tufts University, United States of America Université de Sherbrooke Tyndall National Institute, Ireland York University Università della Calabria, Italy Universität Regensburg, Germany INDUSTRIAL & GOVERNMENT Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Cambustion Ltd. University Paris-Sud, France Carbon Masters University of California at Berkeley, United States of America City of Calgary University of California at Davis, United States of America Gaussian Inc. University of Cape Town, South Africa Handix Scientific University of Electronic Science and Technology, People’s Hitachi High Technologies Canada Republic of China Katal Engergy Inc. University of Freiburg, Germany Microsoft Research (station Q) University of Glasgow, United Kingdom NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory University of Illinois at Chicago, United States of America Natural Resources Canada (CanmetENERGY) University of Louisville, United States of America Quantiam Technologies Inc. University of Leeds, United Kingdom Quantum Silicon Inc. University of Liverpool, United Kingdom Sandia National Labs University of Manchester, United Kingdom University of Maryland, United States of America University of Mato Grosso, Brazil University of Nevada, United States of America University of Notre Dame, United States of America University of Oxford, United Kingdom University of Queensland, Australia University of Science and Technology of China, People’s Republic of China University of Shizuoka, Japan University of Sussex, United Kingdom University of Tennessee Health Science Center, United States of America University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, United States of America University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, United States of America University of Tokyo, Japan Xidian University, People’s Republic of China Ximen University, People’s Republic of China Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel Wolfgang Pauli Institute, Austria Worcester Polytechnic Institute, United States of America

32 QUANTUM ALBERTA 2017/2018 ANNUAL REPORT VISITORS NAME INSTITUTION NAME INSTITUTION Simon Apers Ghent University Abhi Saxena Indian Institute of Technology Ken Brown Georgia Institute of Technology Delhi Alexandre Blais Université de Sherbrooke Hannah Schamoni Technical University of Munich Chiangqiang Cao Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Kumar Sharma Louisiana State University Institute of Geology and John Sipe University of Toronto Geophysics Youngdong Song Korea Advanced Institute of Jason Crann Carleton University Science and Technology Guo-Liang Dai Suzhou University of Science Raymond Spiteri University of Saskatchewan and Technology Taylor Stock London Centre for Shmuel Friedland University of Illinois at Chicago Nanotechnology Michael Giebel Technical University of Munich Dylan Sutherland Indian Institute of Technology Jianqiang Gu Tianjin University Bombay Hubert de Guise Lakehead University Chunhao Wang University of Waterloo Yu Guo Shanxi Datong University Yunjiang Wang Xidian University John Hepburn Canadian Institute for Lianao Wu Basque Foundation for Science Advanced Research Wanjun Wu Fuzhou University Pervez Hoodbhoy Forman Christian College Charles Zhaoxi Xiong Harvard University Ali Ilkhani Islamic Azad University Naotaka Yoshikawa Kyoto University Said Jalife Jacobo Centro de investigacion Haider Zia University of Electronic Science y de estudios avanzados and Technology of China (CINVESTAV) Haimin Zheng China University of Petroleum Jianhua Jiang Soochow University Salini Karuvade Dartmouth College Aeysha Khalique National University of Science and Technology Mathurin Lagree Grenoble Institute of Technology – Phelma Nathalie de Leon Princeton University Daniel Lidar University of Southern California Alireza Marandi Stanford University Evan Meyer-Scott University of Paderborn Jonathan Oppenheim University College London Soenke Oswald University of Göttingen Pernille Klarskov Pedersen Brown University Simon Pfaehler Technical University of Munich Bartosz Regula University of Nottingham Simanraj Sadana Raman Research Institute Yuval Sanders Macquarie University David Sauerwein University of Innsbruck

QUANTUM ALBERTA 2017/2018 ANNUAL REPORT 33 UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA

COURSE NAME INSTRUCTOR DESCRIPTION CHEM477/577 Y. J. Xu To provide students with an understanding of advanced Molecular Symmetry theoretical treatments in molecular spectroscopy and a and Spectroscopy knowledge of current spectroscopic instrumentation.

ECE770 R . G. DeCorby Fundamental aspects of the physics of light: waves, Optics for beams and polarization, optical materials and interfaces, Microsystems coherence and interference. Interferometers, resonant cavities, multilayers and interference filters. Reflective, refractive, and diffractive micro-optics: micromirrors and micro-lenses. Guided-wave optics: dielectric waveguides and components. Advanced topics and applications: micro-optics in lab-on-a-chip and micro- electromechanical systems, photonic crystals, plasmonics and metamaterials. PHYS495/595 J. P. Davis Thinking about pursuing a non-academic career path with Special Topics in your physics degree? In this class, we will explore physics Physics: Physics in industry and the path of entrepreneurship. Topics Innovation and will include a review of physics in modern technology, Entrepreneurship the technology readiness scale, levels of prototypes, the essentials of a business plan, incorporation, IP, and industrially relevant soft-skills such as writing and presenting.

34 QUANTUM ALBERTA 2017/2018 ANNUAL REPORT COURSE NAME INSTRUCTOR DESCRIPTION PHYS495/595 L. J. LeBlanc Introduction to quantum atomic and optical physics, with Special Topics in a focus on the quantum light-matter interaction. Topics Physics: Quantum include: a detailed study of the two-level problem using both Atomic and Optical semiclassical and quantum optics (Rabi flopping, AC Stark Physics shift, optical Bloch equations); the fundamentals of atomic structure (fine, hyperfine, Zeeman interactions); quantization of the electromagnetic field (Jaynes-Cummings model, quantum states of light); applications to current research topics (laser cooling and trapping, cavity QED, quantum information). PHYS541 J. Maciejko Crystal structure and symmetries; electrons and band structure; Condensed Matter semiconductors and heterostructures; lattice vibrations and Physics I thermal properties. PHYS543 F. Marsiglio Dielectric and optical properties of solids; magnetism; Condensed Matter electronic transport; disordered systems; electron-phonon Physics II interaction and superconductivity; strongly correlated electronic systems.

PHYS495/595 R. Wolkow A broad range of topics will be studied in order to understand Special Topics in the principles and tools that we can deploy to create Physics: revolutionary . For example, we will discuss many forms of bonding, how and when those act and also Physical Principles examples of how those might be harnessed to achieve of Nanotechnology designed properties. State of the art microscopes and manipulation tools and the key underlying physical principles of those will refine our insights. Likewise, we will consider diverse examples of electrical transport, how and why that is different at the nanoscale, when Ohm’s law doesn’t apply and how extraordinary new devices work. Cutting edge quantum computing designs will coalesce and enhance our discussions of the new marvels enabled by nano-scale physics. Beyond the technical, real experiences of physicist entrepreneurs will be injected throughout to impart actual lab-to-market know how. Moreover, extra classes and question and answer sessions with successful CEOs and CTOs will be arranged to cover questions such as, what are TR levels? how do I write a successful business plan? when do I need a lawyer? And more, to match student’s interests.

QUANTUM ALBERTA 2017/2018 ANNUAL REPORT 35 UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY COURSE NAME INSTRUCTOR DESCRIPTION CHEM701 S. Trudel Independent study not directly related to the student’s thesis Independent Study: project normally under the direction of any chemistry faculty Self-assembled member. A course information sheet must be provided and a Monolayers student report must be submitted on completion of the course. MATH667 G. Gour Focus on the mathematical treatment of a broad range of Introduction topics in quantum Shannon theory. Topics include quantum to Quantum states, quantum channels, quantum measurements, completely Information positive maps, Neumarkís theorem, Stinespring dilation theorem, Choi-Jamiolkowski isomorphism, the theory of majorization and entanglement, the Peres-Horodecki criterion for separability, Shannon’s noiseless and noisy channel coding theorems, Lieb’s theorem and the strong subadditivity of the von Neumann entropy, Schumacher’s quantum noiseless channel coding theorem, and the Holevo-Schumacher-Westmoreland theorem. PHYS543 A. I. Lvovsky Theory of angular momentum and applications, perturbation Quantum theory and applications. Identical particles. Introduction to Mechanics II relativistic wave equations.

PHYS615 B. C. Sanders Formalism of quantum mechanics. Entangled systems and their Advanced Quantum applications. , Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Mechanics paradox, Bell theorem. Interpretations of quantum mechanics. Second quantization. Quantum theory of the electromagnetic field. Addition of angular momenta, Clebsch-Gordan coefficients, Wigner-Eckart theorem.

UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE COURSE NAME INSTRUCTOR DESCRIPTION Physics5015/7015 M. Walton Advanced topics in quantum mechanical theory. General topics Advanced Quantum will include path integrals, perturbation theory, semi- approximation, and quantum angular momentum. More advanced and special topics may include quantum statistical mechanics, and relativistic quantum mechanics, Aharanov- Bohm effect, quantum optics, coherent states, , , and quantum computing.

36 QUANTUM ALBERTA 2017/2018 ANNUAL REPORT CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS MEMBERS COMMITTEE CONFERENCE/WORKSHOP LOCATION DATES P. E. Barclay Chair, Program OSA Frontiers in Optics 2017 Washington DC, 18–21 Subcommittee, United States of Sep 2017 FiO4: Photonics America P. E. Barclay Chair, Program OSA Frontiers in Optics 2018 Washington DC, 16–20 Subcommittee, United States of Sep 2018 FiO4: Photonics America A. Brown Chair, Physical, 101st Canadian Chemistry Edmonton, 27–31 Theoretical, and Conference and Exhibition Canada May Computational 2018 Chemistry Program A. Brown Scientific Executive 12th Triennial Congress of the World Vancouver, 16–21 Association of Theoretical and Canada Aug 2020 Computational Chemists (WATOC 2020) J. P. Davis Co-chair, Organizing 2019 International Symposium Edmonton, 7–13 Aug Committee on Quantum Fluids and Solids Canada 2019 (QFS2019) J. P. Davis Chair, sub- 14th International Workshop on Hawaii, United 4–7 Apr committee Nanomechanical Sensors States of 2017 America A. I. Lvovsky Chair, Program International Conference on Moscow, Russia 12–16 Committee Quantum Technologies Jul 2017 D. Oblak Co-chair, Organizing 2nd Workshop for Quantum Seefeld, Austria 25–26 Committee Repeaters and Networks Sep 201737 MEMBERS COMMITTEE CONFERENCE/ LOCATION DATES WORKSHOP S. Trudel Co-organizer 25th Canadian Symposium on Saskatoon, 8–11 May Catalysis Canada 2018 S. Trudel Co-organizer 101st Canadian Chemistry Edmonton, 27–31 May Conference and Exhibition Canada 2018 Y.-J. Xu Co-organizer International Symposium on Champaign- 19–23 Jun and Chairperson, Molecular Spectroscopy Urbana, United 2017 Mini-symposium on States of America “Chirality-Sensitive Spectroscopy” PROFESSIONAL SERVICES NAME ROLE JOURNAL/SOCIETY/INSTITUTION P. E. Barclay Chair, Division of Atomic, Molecular and Canadian Association of Physicists Optical Physics P. E. Barclay Associate Editor Optics Letters A. Brown Secretary-Treasurer Canadian Association of Theoretical Chemists J. Buriak Member, Editorial Board ACS Nano J. Buriak Member, Editorial Board Advanced Materials J. Buriak Editor-in-Chief Chemistry of Materials S. Das Lecture Tour Coordinator, BC and Western Canadian Association of Physicists Prairies S. Das Member, Editorial Board Galaxies S. Das Member, Advisory Board Journal of Applied and Fundamental Sciences J. P. Davis Co-Founder, VP & Chief Innovation Officer Resolved Instruments P. G. Kusalik Reviewer, FIRST EFRC Red Team Oakridge National Laboratory A. I. Lvovsky Member, International Advisory Board Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics A. I. Lvovsky Deputy Editor Optics Express S. Noskov Associate Editor BBA-Biomembranes S. Noskov Associate Editor BMC Pharmacology and Toxicology S. Noskov Volume Editor Current Topics in Membrane Science S. Noskov Member, Editorial Board European Journal of Biophysics S. Noskov Review Editor Frontiers in Pharmacology S. Noskov Member, ANTON Allocation Committee National Academy of Sciences (NAS-USA) D. R. Salahub Member, Editorial Board Advances in Physical Chemistry D. R. Salahub Member, Editorial Board Advances in Quantum Chemistry D. R. Salahub Member, Editorial Board Computation

38 QUANTUM ALBERTA 2017/2018 ANNUAL REPORT NAME ROLE JOURNAL/SOCIETY/INSTITUTION D. R. Salahub Vice Chair, Editorial Board Interdisciplinary Science: Computational Life Sciences D. R. Salahub Member, Editorial Board Journal of Computational Chemistry D. R. Salahub Member, Academic Editorial Board PLOS-One B. C. Sanders Member, Editorial Board IOP ebooksTM B. C. Sanders Chair, Steering Committee Quantum Africa Conference Series B. C. Sanders Editor-in-Chief New Journal of Physics Y. J. Shi Associate Editor Canadian Journal of Chemistry W. Tittel Member, Editorial Board Quantum Science and Technology S. Trudel Chair, Materials Chemistry Division Chemical Institute of Canada M. Walton Vice-chair, Division of Theoretical Physics Canadian Association of Physcists R. A. Wolkow Department Panel Members Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Alberta Y. J. Xu Member, International Advisory Board Austin Symposium on Molecular Structure and Dynamics at Dallas Y. J. Xu Chair, International Advisory Committee International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy Y. J. Xu Member, International Steering Committee International Conference on High Resolution Molecular Spectroscopy

QUANTUM ALBERTA 2017/2018 ANNUAL REPORT 39 QUANTUM PUBLIC LECTURE

The Quantum Public Lectures serve to convey leading breakthroughs in quantum science and technology to the general public. The public appetite is indeed high for learning the latest advances in the quantum world. Professor Michael Roukes from California Institute of Technology delivered a public lecture titled “Can we reverse-engineer the brain?” to about 200 persons on 6 June 2017, and this event was supported by the Faculty of Science Alumni Relations team as a joint outreach effort. OUTREACH LECTURES

10 April 2017, D. R. Salahub, “Multiscale modeling of 2 October 2017, B. C. Sanders, “Solving the mysteries (bio)chemical reactions in complex environments: of the quantum world”, SNS Physics Society Public Today – RNA Polymerase”, Shenzhen University, 3rd Lecture, Islamabad, Pakistan. Hospital. 4 October 2017, B. C. Sanders, “Building a quantum 20 April 2017, R. A. Wolkow, “Toward atom scale ultra computer” (plenary), International Mini-School low power classical circuitry and quantum circuitry”, on Quantum and Ultrafast Optics: Theory and Simon Fraser University Data Centre Launch, Burnaby, Experiment (TUD-CIIT), Islamabad, Pakistan, 4 Canada. October 2017—6 October 2017. 21 April 2017, W. Tittel, “Being a Professor at the 6 October 2017, B. C. Sanders,, “Machine learning University of Calgary”, Calgary Youth Science Fair, for hard quantum control” (keynote), International Calgary, Canada, 21 April 2017. Mini-School on Quantum and Ultrafast Optics: Theory and Experiment (TUD-CIIT), Islamabad, Pakistan, 4 8 May 2017, A. I. Lvovsky, “Superresolution in linear October 2017—6 October 2017. optical imaging “, EMN Open Access Week 2017, Chengdu, People’s Republic of China, 8 May 2017—12 12 October 2017, A. Brown and E. Pradhan, “Fitting May 2017. potential energy surfaces to sum-of-products form with neural networks using exponential neurons”, 10 May 2017, Q. Zhou, V. R. R. Valivarthi, M. L. Grimau International School on Quantum Dynamics with Puigibert, G. Aguilar, F. Marsili, M. D. Shaw, V. B. the Multi-Configuration Time-Dependent Hartree Verma, S. W. Nam, D. Oblak and W. Tittel, “Quantum (MCTDH) method : future and perspectives, Orsay, teleportation through a metropolitan fibre networks”, France, 25 September 2017—20 October 2017. EMN Open Access Week 2017, Chengdu, People’s Republic of China, 8 May 2017—12 May 2017. 22 Feb 2018, J. Maciejko, “Axions, supersymmetry, and all that: Emergent phenomena in condensed 23 June 2017, W. Tittel, “Smoke and mirrors. Science matter physics” (keynote), Lake Louise Winter needs excitement” (keynote), TEDXYYC, Calgary, Institute 2018, Lake Louise, Canada, 18 February Canada. 2018—24 February 2018. 5 July 2017, J. A. Tuszynski, “Systems biology and 1 March 2018, A. I. Lvovsky, “Quantum: from paradox disease”, International Course on Theoretical and to technology “ (keynote), Think and Drink Event, Applied Apsects of Systems Biology, Rio de Janeiro, Moscow, Russia. Brazil, 3 July 2017—7 July 2017.

40 QUANTUM ALBERTA 2017/2018 ANNUAL REPORT MEDIA COVERAGE SOURCE TITLE OF ARTICLE DATE Physorg.com Physicists breeding Schrödinger cat states: A. I. Lvovsky 1 May 2017 Dailymail.co.uk Physicists manage to “breed” Schrödinger's cat in breakthrough that could 2 May 2017 help explain the quantum world: A. I. Lvovsky Express.co.uk Scientists “BREED” Schrödinger’s cat in massive quantum physics 2 May 2017 breakthrough: A. I. Lvovsky Mail Online Physicists manage to “breed” Schrödinger's cat in breakthrough that could 2 May 2017 help explain the quantum world: A. I. Lvovsky Wired Physicists “breed” largest ever Schrödinger's cat – and it could help unlock 2 May 2017 the quantum world: A. I. Lvovsky CIFAR How to breed Schrödinger’s cats: A. I. Lvovsky 17 May 2017 UToday “Cats” bred by international scientific team help advance understanding of 25 May 2017 quantum mechanics: A. I. Lvovsky CBC Nan-Oh-Canada researchers make the world’s smallest maple leaf: R. A. 27 Jun 2017 Wolkow Global TV Nan-Oh-Canada researchers make the world’s smallest maple leaf: R. A. 27 Jun 2017 Wolkow CMC Story about our spin-off, Resolved Instruments: J. P. Davis 1 Aug 2017 Microsystems Newsletter Explore.ucalgary. Beyond the final frontier: Exploring the mysterious quantum world: R. I. 30 Jul 2016 ca Thompson, B. C. Sanders, W. Tittel and C. Simon Futurism World’s leading physicist says quantum computers are “tools of destruction, 9 Aug 2017 not creation”: A. I. Lvovsky MIT Technology Are there optical communication channels in our brains?: P. Zarkeshian 6 Sep 2017 Review Bigthink.com There are biophotons in the brain. Is something light-based going on?: P. 14 Sep 2017 Zarkeshian, S. Kumar, J. A. Tuszynski, P. E. Barclay and C. Simon UToday Four UCalgary scholars named new Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada: 14 Sep 2017 B. C. Sanders Physorg.com Cost effective quantum moves a step closer: R. Valivarthi, Q. Zhou and W. 19 Sep 2017 Tittel UToday Faculty of Science physicists link billions of atoms in very large quantum 13 Oct 2017 entanglement : W. Tittel, C. Simon, N. Sinclair and P. Zarkeshian UToday Minister Hehr announces more than $20M in funding for health, science 13 Oct 2017 research: W. Tittel The Hindu A quantum leap: A. Dalal and B. C. Sanders 5 Nov 2017 ualberta.ca The second coming of quantum : P. E. Barclay, C. Simon and W. Tittel 27 Nov 2017 folio.ca New grad program in quantum technologies to prepare students for 28 Nov 2017 entrepreneurship and industry: P. E. Barclay, C. Simon and W. Tittel CTV Calgary Calgary remembers Stephen Hawking (video): D. Hobill 16 Mar 2018 QUANTUM ALBERTA 2017/2018 ANNUAL REPORT 41 25 23

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INTERNATIONAL FUNDING [1.68%] 43 PAUL BARCLAY SAURYA DAS ƒƒ Demonstrate device ƒƒ Formulate a Lorentz covariant version of the exhibiting bichromatic optical Generalized Uncertainty Principle and apply to switching. Quantum gravity Phenomenology. ƒƒ Demonstrate reservoir ƒƒ Extract signatures of a Bose-Einstein engineering in optomechanical quantum condensate of light bosons as Dark Matter memories. candidate. ƒƒ Develop hybrid quantum ƒƒ Study Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in gravity optomechanical devices incorporating as a viable mechanism of dimensional reduction. diamond colour centres for quantum transducers. JOHN P. DAVIS ƒƒ Finish development of our nuclear ALEX BROWN demagnetization refrigerator, enabling ƒƒ Apply/develop machine learning temperatures below 1 mK and the study of techniques for potential energy surface the topological superfluid 3He. This will be the fitting. only such system in Canada, and one of only a ƒƒ Develop techniques for the quantum handful in the world. control of population transfer and ƒƒ Demonstrate permanent fiber coupling isomerization in small molecules. of optomechanical devices at cryogenic ƒƒ Further understand and design temperatures, enabling development of new fluorescent proteins for two-photon ‘packaged’ quantum-limited sensors. imaging. ƒƒ Demonstrate conversion of microwave signals ƒƒ Develop software tools for “on-the- to telecom wavelengths, the starting point for fly” non-adiabatic molecular dynamics. interconnecting superconducting qubits. ƒƒ Develop models for understanding ƒƒ Hybridize disparate systems through 3D second harmonic generation and sum microwave cavities, such as optomechanical frequency generation.

44 resonators, magnonic spheres, or PETER KUSALIK superconducting qubits. ƒƒ Further develop and validate effective interaction potentials for OH radical in water that faithfully RAY DECORBY reproduces the structural features observed from ƒƒ Develop techniques for monolithic integration ab initio simulations. of active light emitters (diamond NV centers, 2D ƒƒ Determine the stability and reactivity of hemi- materials, rare earth ions, and quantum dots). bonded complexes of OH radical with Cl- or ƒƒ Develop techniques for coupling to cold atom Br- anions. emitters. ƒƒ Develop and test empirical and coarse grain ƒƒ Develop techniques for monolithic integration of potential models appropriate for simulations high Q mechanical elements (SiN membranes). studies of self assemble processes in Zn/ carboxylate MOFs. ƒƒ Develop techniques for monolithic integration of actuation circuitry for tuning (piezoelectric, ƒƒ Identify appropriate measures for tracking electrostatic, etc.). formation of order during MOF self-assembly. ƒƒ Develop techniques for monolithic integration of ƒƒ Determine the key structural features in the microwave/magnetic control circuitry. nucleation processes of ice and gas clathrate hydrates. DAVID FEDER ƒƒ Examine the factors important in the nucleation of gas hydrates from water-in-oil emulations. ƒƒ Determine the kinds of symmetry-protected topological states in quantum many-body systems that are resources for universal LINDSAY LEBLANC measurement-based quantum computation. ƒƒ Demonstrate broadband, efficient optical ƒƒ Using the matchgate formalism, obtain the in cold and ultracold rubidium parameters under which the Fermi-Hubbard gases using our new “Autler-Townes splitting” model can perform universal quantum protocol. computation. ƒƒ Demonstrate artificial spin-orbit coupling in ƒƒ Explore the entanglement entropy scaling ultracold rubidium BECs and study the many- relationships for gapped and gapless body physics of this system. one-dimensional systems at zero and finite ƒƒ Build and test vapour-cell based optical quantum temperature. memory and microwave-to-optical transduction ƒƒ Employ algebraic graph theory to the problem via high-optical-density rubidium atoms. of determining the ground state of hard-core ƒƒ Demonstrate atom-chip trapping of rubidium bosons on a graph. atoms and couple atoms to chip-based nanomechanical devices. GILAD GOUR ƒƒ Couple rubidium atoms to high-quality 3D ƒƒ Develop resource theories for quantum microwave cavities. processes, including resource theory of entanglement, asymmetry, and athermality. ALEX LVOVSKY ƒƒ Solve open problems in quantum information. ƒƒ Apply the technique of far-field linear-optical ƒƒ Formalize the distinction between entanglement superresolution microscopy to the problems and Bell non-locality. of measuring the distance between two

QUANTUM ALBERTA 2017/2018 ANNUAL REPORT 45 microscopic source emitters and full image ƒƒ Develop protocol for optical to microwave reconstruction beyond the Rayleigh limit. transduction in rare-earth ion doped material. ƒƒ Develop and characterize a nanofiber-based ƒƒ Set up measurement-device independent QKD tactile sensor with position detection. system with quantum-dot based single photon ƒƒ Demonstrate a continuous-variable analogue of sources. the Duan-Lukin-Cirac-Zoller protocol. ƒƒ Demonstrate spectrally multi-mode entangled pair source based on cavity based spontaneous JOSEPH MACIEJKO parametric down-conversion. ƒƒ Study quantum phase transitions between spin liquid states. DENNIS SALAHUB ƒƒ Investigate quenched disorder on fermionic ƒƒ Consolidate advances in multi-scale modelling quantum critical points. methodologies and their implementation in efficient computer codes, with a focus on ƒƒ Construct exactly soluble quantum impurity/ implementation of the GGA+U methodology lattice models with Majorana fermions. for strongly correlated systems and quantum ƒƒ Explore emergent supersymmetry in topological capping potentials for QM/MM calculations. superfluids. ƒƒ Develop multiscale modelling of nanocatalysis for oil sands upgrading by extending our work FRANK MARSIGLIO on molybdenum carbide to include molybdenum ƒƒ Work on superconductivity in H3S. sulfide for hydrogenation and mixed-valence ceria-metal catalysts to split water, using the ƒƒ Study Bloch oscillations. produced hydrogen for hydrocracking over ƒƒ Research on Kronig-Penney model in the molybdenum carbide. presence of a magnetic field. ƒƒ Perform multiscale QM/MM studies of the ƒƒ Investigate superconductivity in the Dynamic mechanism of action of important enzymes; Hubbard model in the presence of spin-orbit continue studies of the heme peroxidases in coupling. order to verify, or falsify, the presence of electron ƒƒ Research on inhomogeneous superconductivity density circuits. near surfaces with spin-orbit coupling ƒƒ Explore the interactions between oxygen species and hydrocarbons in the context of a process to NASSER MOAZZEN-AHMADI extend the volume of diesel fuel. ƒƒ Measure mid-infrared spectral signatures of BARRY C. SANDERS weakly-bound complex CO-H2O. ƒƒ Develop a for quantum ƒƒ Study halogen substitution on CO2 micro- solvation. computer simulation of a multi-scale renormalizable . ƒƒ Employ infra-red multiphoton dissociation to selectively excite and break a particular bond in ƒƒ Operationalize fundamental quantum protocols. hydrocarbons in condensed phase. ƒƒ Formalize the machine-learning description of quantum control. DANIEL OBLAK ƒƒ Develop plan for a quantum-satellite ground ƒƒ Realize efficient quantum memory based on station in Alberta. cavity assisted atomic frequency comb protocol ƒƒ Devise implementations of quantum computing in Tm:YAG. on the cloud.

46 QUANTUM ALBERTA 2017/2018 ANNUAL REPORT YUJUN SHI ƒƒ Develop understanding on the chemical vapor deposition of silicon nitride using aminosilane as precursors. ƒƒ Develop methods of forming Si-based nanostructures usinf chemical vapor deposition. ƒƒ Investigate the coke formation chemistry during ethane cracking. ƒƒ Explore pulsed laser dewetting method for the formation of metal nanoparticles.

CHRISTOPH SIMON ƒƒ Design microwave to optical transducers based on rare-earth doped crystals. ƒƒ Work towards designing a quantum network architecture involving superconducting qubits and transducers. ƒƒ Study the potential for entanglement creation in the brain due to the emission of photons by singlet oxygen molecules. ƒƒ Design a quantum repeater architecture based on single Erbium ions with non-zero nuclear spin. ƒƒ Work towards designing a quantum network architecture with single spins in diamond that can work at room temperature.

ROBERT THOMPSON ƒƒ Determine if antimatter falls up or down. ƒƒ Resolve atomic structures of antihydrogen. ƒƒ Develop precision ion source for TITAN.

SIMON TRUDEL ƒƒ Further development of in situ and in operando synchrotron spectroscopy methods for catalysts. ƒƒ Advanced spectroscopy of electrocatlysts.

ROBERT A. WOLKOW ƒƒ Fabricate atom-scale electronic circuitry for fast, efficient classical quantum computation. ƒƒ Fabricate ultra-sharp, single atom terminated tips.

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