===== Group seminars - 2008 =====
**Friday, 12/12/2008**, 11 am, room A5-01.\\
Seminar: Antonio Zelaquett Khoury (IF-UFF)\\
Title: Quebra espontânea de simetria e hiperemaranhamento em um oscilador paramétrico óptico com momento angular orbital\\
[[:seminars:khoury122008|Abstract]].

**Friday, 5/12/2008**, 11 am, room A5-01.\\
Journal Club. Raphael Dias on models for measurement-based quantum computation.\\
[[:seminars:dias122008|Abstract and references]].

**Wednesday, 3/12/2008**, 4 pm, room A5-01.\\
Seminar: Sandra Vianna (DF - UFPE)\\
Title: Acumulação coerente em átomos de rubídio excitados por um trem de pulsos ultra-curtos.\\
[[:seminars:vianna122008|Abstract]].\\
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**Friday 31/10/2008**, 11 am, room A5-01.\\
Seminar: José Augusto Huguenin (EEIMVR - PUVR - UFF)\\
Title: Propriedades transversas na oscilação paramétrica\\
[[:seminars:huguenin102008|Abstract]].\\
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**Friday 26/9/2008**, 11 am, room A5-01.\\
Seminar: Rômulo de Abreu (IF-UFF).\\
Title: Estados e Operadores Unitários Aleatórios para Informação Quântica\\
[[:seminars:abreu092008|Abstract]].\\
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**Friday 12/9/2008**, 11 am, room A5-01\\
Journal Club: Marcelo Hahn on Quantum Noise in the Collective Abstraction Reaction A+B_{2} --> AB+B.\\
References:\\
Jing et al., [[http://arxiv.org/abs/0801.2653|Quantum Noise in the Collective Abstraction Reaction A+B_{2} --> AB+B]].
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**Friday 5/9/2008**, 11 am, room A5-01\\
Journal Club: Igor Diniz on quantum pseudo-random algorithms.\\
References:\\
Harrow, [[http://arxiv.org/abs/0802.1919|Random Quantum Circuits are Aproximate 2-designs]].
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Yonatan Most, [[http://arxiv.org/abs/0708.3481|Formation of Multipartite Entanglement Using Random
Quantum Gates]].
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Ambainis and A.Smith. [[http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0404075|Small Pseudo-Random Families of Matrices:Derandomizing Approximate Quantum Encryption]]. 
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**Friday 30/5/2008**, 11 am, room A2-07\\
Seminar: [[http://www.phy.duke.edu/~enovais/|Eduardo Novais]] (Duke University)\\
Title: Resilient Quantum Computation in Correlated Environments: A Quantum Phase Transition Perspective\\
[[seminars:novais05_2008|Abstract]].\\


**Friday 9/5/2008**, 11 am, room A5-01\\
Journal Club: Ernesto Galvão on the convex geometry of the set of quantum states.\\
References:\\
1- [[http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0407117|Jones, Linden]]. \\
2- [[http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0410120|Bengtsson, Ericsson]]. \\

**Friday 18/4/2008**, 11 am, room A5-01\\
Kaled Dechoum on critical phenomena in non-linear quantum optical systems.\\
[[seminars:kaled04_2008|Abstract]].\\

**Friday 11/4/2008**, 11 am, room A5-01\\
Journal Club meeting, Carlos Eduardo Souza on:\\
Quantum CNOT gates with orbital angular momentum and polarization of single-photon quantum logic. Li-Ping Deng, Haibo Wang, and Kaige Wang, JOSA B, Vol. 24, Issue 9, pp. 2517-2520.


**Friday 4/4/2008**, 11 am, room A5-01\\
Journal Club meeting, Ernesto Galvão on contextuality and experimental demonstrations of this quantum property. Based on\\

1- [[http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0212124| Ernesto's thesis, section 2.2]].

2- [[http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0009061|Michler et al.]]

3- [[http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0309017|Barret and Kent]].

**Friday 29/3/2008**, 11 am, room A5-01\\
Journal Club meeting, Antonio Zelaquett on a photonic implementation of selective efficient quantum process tomography, based on [[http://arxiv.org/abs/0801.0758|this paper]] by Paz et al.\\

**Friday 7/3/2008**, 11 am, room A5-01\\
Speaker: Sérgio M. Dutra (Commerzbank - Londres)\\
Title: O que os físicos fazem em bancos de investimento?\\
[[seminars:dutra03_2008|Abstract]].\\