Bulletin of the American Physical Society
Mid-Atlantic Section 2022 Meeting
Volume 67, Number 20
Friday–Sunday, December 2–4, 2022; University Park, PA, Pennsylvania State University
Session A01: Plenary Session |
Hide Abstracts |
Chair: Miguel Mostafa, Pennsylvania State University Room: Pennsylvania State University HUB 233 A/B |
Friday, December 2, 2022 3:00PM - 3:35PM |
A01.00001: Recent Results from the HAWC Gamma Ray Observatory Invited Speaker: Jordan A Goodman The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Gamma-ray Observatory in the high mountains of Mexico is giving us a new view of the TeV sky. HAWC operates 24hrs/day with over a 95% on-time and observes the entire overhead sky (~8sr over the course of the day). HAWC has accumulated more seven years of data and has recently completed our “Pass 5” re-analysis giving us significant improvements in our low energy response, angular resolution, background rejection and an expanded field of view. This talk will present an overview of these recent HAWC results showing our updated sky catalog, our view of the highest energy gamma-ray sky (including sources above 50 and 100 TeV), new Micro-quasar results, long-term monitoring of nearby AGN, and recent observations of galactic Pevatrons and the galactic center. We will also present preliminary results on TeV gamma rays from the Sun. |
Friday, December 2, 2022 3:35PM - 4:10PM |
A01.00002: When will quantum computing be a big deal? Invited Speaker: James K Freericks Quantum computing has been hyped as the next revolution in computation. Is it true? Why have we not heard of huge scientific breakthroughs yet? While quantum computers do now exist, near-term quantum computers do not yet have extensive error correction and they primarily operate by applying unitary operations to a quantum state stored in the qubits. We all want to know whether we can do cutting edge science on these devices. In this talk, I will describe the types of scientific problems that are likely to lead to new scientific breakthroughs even before fault-tolerant quantum computing is available. These scientific problems can be simulated robustly even in the presence of noise and decoherence. Two problems that fall into this class are those that involve topological effects and those that involve the many-body problem in a driven and dissipative environment. I will show how both problems are robust on near-term quantum computers and what work remains to be done for them to lead to new scientific breakthroughs. Once successful, quantum computers can be employed to analyze topological properties of complex quantum systems, and we can describe the behavior of many nonequilibrium quantum systems, such as pump-probe experiments. Many of these applications are the hardest scientific problems that physicists are currently working on. In addition, I will discuss the challenges in quantum chemistry, which has been often discussed as the most likely first application of quantum computing to science. I will describe what is needed for advances in that problem as well, especially how one can use low-depth circuits (with many measurements) to solve complex problems. This talk will assume no prior expertise in quantum computing and only an undergraduate-level familiarity with quantum mechanics. |
Follow Us |
Engage
Become an APS Member |
My APS
Renew Membership |
Information for |
About APSThe American Physical Society (APS) is a non-profit membership organization working to advance the knowledge of physics. |
© 2024 American Physical Society
| All rights reserved | Terms of Use
| Contact Us
Headquarters
1 Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740-3844
(301) 209-3200
Editorial Office
100 Motor Pkwy, Suite 110, Hauppauge, NY 11788
(631) 591-4000
Office of Public Affairs
529 14th St NW, Suite 1050, Washington, D.C. 20045-2001
(202) 662-8700