The fault-tolerant quantum technologies workshop will bring together researchers exploring different techniques for tackling noise in quantum devices for computing, communication, sensing and metrology. The workshop's goal is to accelerate development of new theoretical tools to improve the performance, efficiency and practicality of fault-tolerance protocols. The resulting theoretical work will help developers of quantum technology hardware to overcome challenges posed by decoherence.

The workshop will host a small number of morning talks reporting the latest advances while providing ample free time for researchers to exchange ideas and strike up new collaborations. The morning schedule of the first week will include invited talks (titles TBA) by:

- Vadym Kliuchnikov (Microsoft, USA)
- Barbara Terhal (Aachen, Germany)
- Steve Flammia (Sydney, Australia)
- Hector Bombin (Copenhagen, Denmark)
- Robert König (Munich, Germany)

Contributed talks accepted to date are:

Topological Subsystem Codes with High-Weight Stabilizers and Moderate Thresholds
Ben Criger and Barbara Terhal

Single-shot error correction with the gauge color code
Benjamin J. Brown, Naomi H. Nickerson and Dan E. Browne

Optimizing Gates for Large-Scale Linear-Optical Quantum Computation
H. Cable, M. Gimeno-Segovia, P. Shadbolt, and J. L. O'Brien

A decoding algorithm for proof-of-principle quantum error correction
James R. Wootton, Janos R. Winkler and Daniel Loss

A hypergroup stabilizer formalism
Juan Bermejo-Vega, Kevin Zatloukal

Quantum error correction with a bond loss model
Mercedes Gimeno-Segovia, James M. Auger, Hussain Anwar, Tom Stace and Dan E. Browne

Generalized surface codes and packing of logical qubits in a planar lattice
Nicolas Delfosse, Pavithran Iyer and David Poulin

Efficient Large Block Codes Ancilla States Preparation for Fault-tolerant Quantum Computation
Yi-Cong Zheng, Ching-yi-Lai and Todd. Brun

Building anyon wavefunctions with tensor networks
Nick Bultinck, Michael Marien, Dominic Williamson, Mehmet Burak Sahinoglu, Jutho Haegeman, and Frank Verstraete

Improving the overhead of fault-tolerant quantum computation with magic state distillation
Joe O'Gorman and Earl Campbell

Resource cost of fault-tolerant quantum computing in hybrid quantum computers and linear-optical quantum computers
Ying Li, Peter C. Humphreys, Gabriel J. Mendoza, and Simon C. Benjamin

Submission for oral contributions

The workshop programme will consist of a limited number of contributed talks. These talks are intended to guide discussions and interactions, with most of the meeting being unscheduled and reserved for collaboration.

Submissions for talks should be sent here.

Deadline for talk submissions: 31st March 2016
Notification of acceptance: 4th April 2016

* Short abstract (maximum 1 page)
* You have to be registered before submit talks.

Benasque science center facilities

Bus transportation for participants will be organized by the CCBPP on select dates between Barcelona (including university and airport) and Benasque. The trip takes approximately 5,5 hours. Alternatively the trip by car takes approximately 3,5 hours. The CCBPP center can also be reached with public transportation, using buses that depart from Zaragoza's (4 hours) and Barcelona's (6 hours) high speed train stations. The CCBPP will assist in securing a number of affordable accommodation options including hotels and short-term apartment rentals. The registration fee (see below for details) covers the use of the CCBPP (offices, computers room, etc), the bus transportation, a coffee break every day, and a wine and cheese.

Accommodation bursary

Participants with restricted travel budgets can request partial support by emailing [email protected]. We will provide support solely through accommodation provisions, rather than travel costs. Typically, offered accommodation will be in shared apartments, so participants are invited to suggest individuals that they might share with. This accommodation bursary will only cover a limited number of participants, who might not otherwise be able to attend.

Sponsors

The workshop gratefully acknowledges financial assistance from the Niels Bohr International Academy, Copenhagen, and UK quantum technology hub on Networked Quantum Information Technologies.

        

Registration fee information

Further Information.

• List of participants.
• Scientific program.
• Pictures.