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International Workshop on Statistical-Mechanical Informatics 2008 (IW-SMI2008)

Objective

Statistical mechanical informatics (SMI) is an approach that applies physics to information science, in which many-body problems in information processing are tackled using statistical mechanics methods. In the last decade, SMI has resulted in great advances in research into classical information processing, in particular, theories of information and communications, probabilistic inference and combinatorial optimization problems. It is expected that the success of SMI can be extended to quantum systems.

The importance of many-body problems is also being recognized in quantum information theory (QIT), for which estimation theory of few-body systems has recently been almost completely established after considerable effort. SMI and QIT are sufficiently well developed that it is now appropriate to consider applying SMI to quantum systems and developing many-body theory in QIT. This combination of SMI and QIT is highly likely to contribute significantly to the development of both fields.

The purpose of this workshop is to explore the interactions between SMI and QIT. For this reason, the achievements of classical SMI, attempts to expand SMI to quantum systems and QIT research on quantum (entangled) many-body systems will be introduced by leading researchers in each field, and possible future directions and joint research initiatives will be discussed.

Date

September 14-17, 2008

Venue

Sendai International Center
Aobayama, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-0856, Japan
Access: Sendai airport -> Sendai station -> Sendai International Center

Registration

There is no registration fee.

We encourage prospective attendees to the workshop to register (although the registration is not mandatory).
Please send an e-mail to

iw-smi2008-reg [- ATMARK -] as.sys.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp

with the following information:

[Name]: (Example: Kazuyuki Tanaka)
[Affiliation]: (Example: Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Japan)
[E-mail Address]: (Example: kazu [- ATMARK - ] smapip.is.tohoku.ac.jp)
[Whether or not to attend the Banquet on September 16. (Fee: 7,000 Japanese Yen, To be paid on-site)]:

Banquet

Banquet will be held at Restorant "La Foret" in Sendai International Center from 18:30 on 16 September, 2008. Banquet fee is 7,000 Japanese Yen (To be paid on site).

Programme

A PDF file of the program is available here

List of Speakers

To speakers: Information about paper submission
Organized session only: we do not accept submissions from non-invited speakers.
Antonello Scardicchio (Princeton Center for Theoretical Physics and Physics Department, Princeton University, USA): Quantum spin glasses at finite connectivity: cavity method and quantum satisfiability
Mike Titterington (Department of Statistics, University of Glasgow, UK) Variational Bayesian inference for partially observed stochastic dynamical systems
Arnab Das (Condense Matter and Statistical Physics Division, The Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste Italy): Non-classical role of potential energy in adiabatic quantum annealing
Bikas K. Chakrabarti (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, India): A novel quantum transition in a fully frustrated transverse Ising antiferromagnet
Leticia Cugliandolo (Universite' Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France): Dissipative quantum dynamics
Gerardo Ortiz (Department of Physics, Indiana University, USA): Symmetries, dimensional reduction, and topological quantum order
Frank Verstraete (Institut fur Theoretische Physik, University of Vienna, Austria): Strongly correlated quantum systems from the point of view of quantum information theory
Kwek Leong Chuan (National Institute of Education, Singapore): Spin chains with next nearest neighbor interaction
Fernando Brandao (Imperial College London, UK): Entanglement Manipulation under Non-Entangling Operations
Michele Mosca (Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo, Canada): Quantum information and quantum computer algorithms
Vlatko Vedral (School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds, UK; The Centre for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore, Singapore): Entanglement production in non-equilibrium
thermodynamics
Debbie Leung (Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo, Canada): On locking and hiding of various quantum information theoretic quantities
Denes Petz (Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Hungary): Complementarity and the algebraic structure of finite quantum systems
Koji Tsuda (Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Germany): Machine learning with quantum relative entropy
Naoki Kawashima (Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo, Japan): Monte Carlo approach to phase transitions in quantum systems
Masato Koashi (Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Japan): On the irreversiblity of measurements of correlations
Seiji Miyashita (Department of Physics, University of Tokyo, Japan): Quantum response to time-dependent external field
Sei Suzuki (Department of Physics and Mathematics, Aoyama Gakuin University): A comparison of classical and quantum annealing dynamics
Jun-ichi Inoue (Hokkaido University): Quantum mean-field decoding algorithm for error-correcting codes
Masahito Hayashi (Tohoku University): Quantum universal coding protocols and universal approximation of multi-copy states
Yoshiyuki Kabashima (Tokyo Institute of Technology): How could the replica method improve accuracy of performance assessment of channel coding?
Hidetoshi Nishimori (Tokyo Institute of Technology): Quantum annealing for problems with ground-state degeneracy
Kazuyuki Tanaka (Tohoku University): Mathematical structures of loopy belief propagation and cluster variation method
Toshiyuki Tanaka (Kyoto University): Re`class'ification of `quant'ified classical simulated annealing

Advisory Board

Enzo Marinari (Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy)
Mike Titterington (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom)

Organizing Committee

Jun-ichi Inoue (Hokkaido University)(Program Chair)
Masahito Hayashi (Tohoku University)
Yoshiyuki Kabashima (Tokyo Institute of Technology)(Vice-General Chair, DEX-SMI Head Invetigator)
Hidetoshi Nishimori (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Kazuyuki Tanaka (Tohoku University)(General Chair)
Toshiyuki Tanaka (Kyoto University)