{"id":2258,"date":"2009-03-18T10:14:50","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T17:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=2258"},"modified":"2009-03-18T10:14:50","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T17:14:50","slug":"aps-march-meeting-ramblings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2009\/03\/18\/aps-march-meeting-ramblings\/","title":{"rendered":"APS March Meeting Ramblings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Things I learned at the APS March meeting.  Updated as I learn them.  That&#8217;s right: real time updates of connectivity of my neurons translated into html translated into text and pictures on your browser.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A Yale experiment led by Robert Schoelkopf has demonstrated the Deutsch-Jozsa algorithm and Grover&#8217;s algorithm (two qubit algorithms) using transmon qubits (superconducting qubits.)  Fidelities for their implementation are in the 80 to 90 percent range.  Paper: <a href=\"http:\/\/xxx.lanl.gov\/abs\/0903.2030\">arXiv:0903.2030<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Also, congrats to Robert Schoelkopft for winning the &#8220;2009 Joseph F. Keithley <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aps.org\/programs\/honors\/prizes\/prizerecipient.cfm?name=Robert%20Schoelkopf&amp;year=2009\">Award<\/a> For Advances in Measurement Science&#8221; for &#8220;the development of techniques for high frequency measurements of mesoscopic physics and quantum noise, including the radio-frequency single-electron transistor and absolute thermometry based on electron shot-noise.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Very cool experiment by Dan Stamper-Kurn&#8217;s group: <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/0901.3800\">arXiv:0901.3800<\/a>.  Possible supersolid?<\/li>\n<li>7000 physicists trying to read the arXiv sets off the arXiv&#8217;s robot machine thus denying access to the arXiv.  Doh.<\/li>\n<li>A &#8220;run of the house&#8221; reservation at a hotel can end up with your hotel room looking like a boardroom:<\/li>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><\/span><\/p>\n<li>As Ian mentions in the comments we learned that $2900 wine is only slightly better than $490 wine, but for the former the restaurant will buy your dinnner.  We were so tempted, of course.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things I learned at the APS March meeting. Updated as I learn them. That&#8217;s right: real time updates of connectivity of my neurons translated into html translated into text and pictures on your browser.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}