On
the left are Renato Renner and Eleni Diamanti (Pro team). The moderator
is Giacomo Mauro D'Ariano. On the right are Vadim Makarov and Horace
Yuen (Con team).
On the left are Neal Anderson and Renato Renner (Pro team). The
moderator is Alexander Kirk. Next Ferdinand Peper (Pro/Con). Then on the
right Robert Alicki,
Wolfgang Porod, and Laszlo B. Kish (Con team).
On the left are Phil Hemmer and Derek Abbott (Pro team). The moderator
is Wolfgang Porod. Then Alexander Kirk Pro/Con. On the right are
Michel Dyakonov and Laszlo B. Kish (Con team).
Dates:
November 10-13, 2013. Paper submission: see below. Location: The Fourth Conference Room of Jixian Hotel, Hunan
University, Changsha city, Hunan, China.
Note:
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Scope of HOTPI-2013:
Physical informatics is the field where the laws of physics are
utilized to make new schemes for logic, computing, and
communication systems or to analyze the fundamental limits of
their performance. In-spite of years of development (and much hype
in the media), there remains a great deal of controversy
surrounding many of the developments, and this has clouded the
interpretation of the relevant physics in numerous discussions.
During the regular sessions invited and regular speakers
will present their papers. Out of these sessions, several debate
sessions will also be arranged, see below. At these
discussions, a "Pro" and a "Con" team will present their points and then publicly debate the other panel's arguments
with the active participation of a Moderator and that
of the Audience, while these sessions will be recorded and
published.
The following public discussions are planned:
i) Debate session about the security of quantum key distribution.
Questions to be debated:
Can a perfectly secure
key be generated in QKD and under what security measure?
Can practical
implementations of QKD ever be made as secure as predicted
by the security proofs?
Moderator: Giacomo
Mauro D'Ariano (Univ. Pavia)
Pro Team: Eleni
Diamanti (CNRS -
Télécom ParisTech) and Renato Renner (ETH)
Con Team: Vadim Makarov (Univ. Waterloo)
and Horace Yuen
(Northwestern Univ.)
ii) Debate session about the possibility of reversible computing and
the validity of Landauer's
principle (including Maxwell demons and Szilard engines).
Questions to be debated:
Are reversible computers possible
or they do violate thermodynamics?
Are non-reversible (dissipative)
Brownian computers possible and, if yes, do they dissipate
more heat than regular computers?
Does (non-secure) erasure of
memories dissipate more heat, or the writing of the same
amount of information?
Is Landauer's principle valid; or
the same is true for writing the information; or it is
simply invalid?
Moderator: Dave
Ferry/Alexander Kirk (ASU)
Pro Team: Neal
Anderson (Univ. Massach. Amherst), Renato Renner (ETH)
Pro-only-irreversible-but-dissipative-Brownian
computers: Ferdinand
Peper
(NICT, Kobe); Rest: Con
Con Team: Robert Alicki, Laszlo
B. Kish (TAMU), Wolfgang
Porod (Univ. Notre Dame)
iii) Debate session about
the future of quantum computing.
Questions to be debated:
Will general-purpose quantum
computing be feasible?
If special-purpose quantum
computing (new computer for each task) will be used, what
purpose and what limitations (accuracy, dissipation, etc)?
Team-independent question: Is D-Wave's computer an analog
computer with quantum devices and classical bits, a
quantum computer with qubits, or something else?
Moderator: Wolfgang
Porod (Univ. Notre Dame)
Pro Team: Derek
Abbott (Univ. Adelaide), Phil Hemmer (TAMU), Dave Ferry/Alexander Kirk (ASU) -
partial-Pro
Con Team: FTM 2012 article updatedMichel Dyakonov (Univ. Montpellier), Laszlo Kish (TAMU) Publication:
Papers will be published as open-access
publications in International Journal of Modern
Physics: Conference Series
after the meeting. Note change of deadline at the bottom of this
page. (Also note other change: due to participants' requests, no
pre-conference virtual proceedings will be published.) Keywords (incomplete
list):
Logic, computing and
communications schemes;
Energy dissipation
versus speed, error probability;
Irreversibility
versus reversibility;
Computational
complexity (hardware/time) and energy dissipation;
Secure physical
information schemes;
Tools:
Error correction; Signal processing; etc;
Contact: He Wen <he_wen@hnu.edu.cn>;
David Ferry <ferry@asu.edu>; Laszlo Kish
<Laszlokish@tamu.edu> Invited talks
Derek
Abbott (Univ. Adelaide): Is unconditionally secure classical communication without
a public key possible?
Robert Alicki (Univ.
Gdansk): Stability versus reversibility in information
processing
Neal Anderson (Univ.
Massach. Amherst): Irreversible Information Loss: Fundamental
Notions and Physical Costs FTM 2012 article updated Giacomo Mauro D'Ariano (Univ. Pavia): Quantum field theory
as emergent from pure processing of quantum information Eleni Diamanti (CNRS - Télécom ParisTech): Implementation of quantum
cryptographic protocols using practical photonic systems
Michel Dyakonov (Univ. Montpellier II, France): Prospects for Quantum Computing: Extremely Doubtful
Dave Ferry
(ASU): Are there quantum jumps?
Phil Hemmer (TAMU): Biological spinoffs of room-temperature
diamond-based quantum computers
Laszlo B. Kish
(TAMU): Demons: Maxwell demon; Szilard engine; and Landauer's erasure-dissipation
Vadim
Makarov (Univ. Waterloo): Hacking of quantum cryptography
Robert Mingesz
(Univ. Szeged): Unconditional security by classical physics:
experiments
Makoto Naruse (NICT,
Tokyo): Near-field nanophotonics for computing and security
John D. Norton (Univ. Pittsburgh): A No Go Result for the
Thermodynamics of Computation
Masanao Ozawa (Nagoya Univ.): Universal uncertainty principle
implies limitations
on quantum computing and security of
quantum communication.
Ferdinand
Peper (NICT,
Kobe): On token-based fluctuation-driven circuits and their energy
consumption
Wolfgang Porod
(Univ. Notre Dame): Physical and Logical Reversibility in
Computation
