# Video Library

Since 2002 Perimeter Institute has been recording seminars, conference talks, public outreach events such as talks from top scientists using video cameras installed in our lecture theatres.  Perimeter now has 7 formal presentation spaces for its many scientific conferences, seminars, workshops and educational outreach activities, all with advanced audio-visual technical capabilities.

Recordings of events in these areas are all available and On-Demand from this Video Library and on Perimeter Institute Recorded Seminar Archive (PIRSA)PIRSA is a permanent, free, searchable, and citable archive of recorded seminars from relevant bodies in physics. This resource has been partially modelled after Cornell University's arXiv.org.

Accessibly by anyone with internet, Perimeter aims to share the power and wonder of science with this free library.

## Distributed phase reference schemes for QKD: Explicit attacks and security considerations

Saturday Jun 02, 2007
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"Distributed phase reference schemes are a new class of protocols for Quantum Key Distribution, in which the quantum signals have overall phase-relationships to each other. This is expected to protect against some loss-related attacks. However, proving the full security of these schemes is a new challenge for theorists, as one can no longer identify individual signals (such as qubits in BB84, for instance), and so the security proof techniques do not apply directly.

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## An Introduction to Decoherence-Free Subspaces

Saturday Jun 02, 2007
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## Information Flow in the Heisenberg Picture

Saturday Jun 02, 2007
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## Quantum Mechanics in Phase Space

Saturday Jun 02, 2007

Many authors have proposed what are known as "phase-space" or "classical" representations of quantum mechanics.  A unifying framework is given which illustrates the relationship among these various theories.  Examples relevant to quantum computing will be given.

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## An Introduction to One-Way Patterns

Friday Jun 01, 2007

The one-way measurement model is a model of quantum computation which is intriguing for its' potential as a means of implementing quantum computers, but also for theoretical purposes for the different way in which it allows quantum operations to be described. Instead of a sequence of unitary gates on an array of wires'', operations are described in terms of emph{patterns}, consisting of a graph of entanglement relations on a set of qubits, together with a collection of measurement angles for these qubits (except possibly for a subset which will support a final quantum state).

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## Cluster State Quatum Computing in Optical Fibres

Friday Jun 01, 2007
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In this presentation I will briefly explain the cluster state model of quantum computing. Then will talk about a scheme that uses polarization and time-bin degrees of freedom of photons in optical fibres for the optical realization of this model. We are currently working on the implementation of this scheme in our lab.

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## A New Protocol for Loss-Tolerant Quantum Coin Tossing

Friday Jun 01, 2007

Quantum coin tossing is a cryptographic task in which two parties, Alice and Bob, wish to generate a shared random bit but do not necessarily trust each other. This task is completely impossible to realize with classical asynchronous communication but becomes at least partially feasible when quantum communication is also available. The best quantum protocol known so far, due to Ambainis, uses qutrits and is near optimal in the sense that either party can bias the outcome with at most a 75% probability of success.

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## Degradability of Bosonic Gaussian Channels

Friday Jun 01, 2007
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The notion of weak-degradability of quantum channels is introduced by generalizing the degradability definition given by Devetak and Shor.  Exploiting the unitary equivalence with beam-splitter/amplifier channels we then prove that a large class of one-mode Bosonic Gaussian channels are either weakly degradable or anti-degradable. In the latter case this implies that their quantum capacity Q is null.

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## Subsystem Quantum Error Correcting Codes

Friday Jun 01, 2007
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The essential insight of quantum error correction was that quantum information can be protected by suitably encoding this quantum information across multiple independently erred quantum systems. Recently it was realized that, since the most general method for encoding quantum information is to encode it into a subsystem, there exists a novel form of quantum error correction beyond the traditional quantum error correcting subspace codes.

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## Single Photon Source on a Breadboard

Friday Jun 01, 2007
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In quantum information, one can prove that a secure quantum cryptography channel based on photon key distribution requires reliable single photon sources. If not, a potential eavesdropper may be able to get information using the extra photons. Current sources are based on either attenuated laser beams, which may produce randomly 2 or even more photons at a time following a poissonian statistics, or either based on two level-systems providing single photon sources often requiring cooling or complex set-ups.

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