Martin's virtual lair

Here is the conference talk I gave at the AQIS 2010 conference in Tokyo, Japan on 28th August 2010. It outlines our various findings related to permutation-symmetric states of n qubits, the Majorana representation and symmetric state entanglement classes.

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The presentation contains animated vector graphics which may not display correctly on some PDF readers, so to be safe please view it with the Adobe Reader (v9 or higher, Win, Mac or Linux). If you want to learn more about the technical aspects of this LaTeX beamer presentation, please have a look at this article where I outline most of the points in detail.

Recently the Design Office of my university acquired a 3D printer, and they offered free print-outs during a trial period. This was a perfect opportunity for me to bring one of the abstract spherical functions appearing in my work to life. The function is closely related to the icosahedron, a regular polyhedron, in the sense that it has an icosahedral rotational symmetry. A more detailed description of the function as well as its relation to quantum mechanical entanglement can be found further below.

Here is the talk I gave at the annual Postgraduate Research Symposium of the University of Leeds on 30 June 2010. It uses the LaTeX beamer class for presentations together with some specific packages and templates. In this article I will explain these technical aspects of my presentation.

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• the custom theme is progressbar v0.32 of Sylvain Bouveret: http://recherche.noiraudes.net/en/LaTeX.php
• the font used is Palatino
• the animated vector graphics on page 11 were done with the PSTricks extension pst-solides3d

I am a frequent visitor to the Centre for Quantum Technologies (CQT) of the National University of Singapore (NUS). So far I have visited Singapore five times:

• February 2008
• June 2008
• 9 April - 11 May 2009
• 27 June - 25 July 2009 (attended Les Houches School of Physics at NTU)
• 21 July - 10 September 2010
  

The aim of this page is to collect useful stuff for people visiting Singapore, especially those visiting CQT, and for listing some helpful information.

Transport

If you don't have an EZ-Link card yet, get one as soon as you arrive in Singapore. It is by far the most convenient way to pay for busses and subways/trains (MRT), and fares will be cheaper too when paying with this prepaid card. EZ-Link cards can be bought at any subway station, and you can also recharge them there. All busses and subway gates are equipped with electronic card readers that deduct the correct amount from your card. When riding the bus you need to hold the card to the card reader both during boarding and alighting, otherwise you may get overcharged for your journey.

Mobile phones, networks and WiFi in Singapore

For this topic I have written a separate article that can be found here.