[QIP-Sem] MIT QIP Seminar Series - Chris Moseley (Monday 12-Sep-05)

[Isaac Chuang]

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The MIT Quantum Information Processing Seminar Series
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Our second seminar of the Fall 2005 semester:

Speaker:  Chris Moseley
	  Department of Mathematical Sciences
	  U. S. Military Academy, West Point, NY
Time:     4:00pm
Date:     Monday, September 12, 2005
Location: CUA confernece room, 26-214

Title:     Geometric Optimal Control of NMR Spin Systems

Abstract:

  Khaneja, Brockett and Glaser have designed time-optimal controls for
  two- and three-spin NMR systems by finding sub-Riemannian geodesics
  on quotient spaces of SU(4) (Phys. Rev. A. 63: 032308,
  Phys. Rev. A. 65: 032301). In this talk, I will describe how to
  characterize sub-Riemannian geodesics for $SU(2^n)$ using the
  Griffiths formalism for the calculus of variations, using the
  two-spin case as an example, and describe work in progress on the
  four-spin case.

Seminars this semester will be held in the CUA Conference room, 26-214.  
Talks will begin after refreshments at 4pm.
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