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vva.bsky.social
Theoretical physicist @NIST, QuICS Fellow, Zookeeper @eczoo.bsky.social. Views my own.
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Here are slides for my @qip2025.bsky.social tutorial on quantum error correction. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

Quantum community should be aware that this kind of misleading advertising is happening. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGXT...

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

ArXiv quant-ph needs to be split up! Paul Ginsparg lists Daniel Gottesman's proposed subcategories at his @aspenphysics.bsky.social talk. He is looking for feedback: please reply, dm, or email.

submitted 16 days ago • 4 comments

Our third tutorial of QIP 2025 is “Quantum error correction: a guided tour" by Victor Albert (@vva.bsky.social) from NIST and QuICS, who will gently introduce and visit increasingly important corners of the mega-field of QEC (Sun Feb 23, 9am-12:30pm, Room 302ABC). Overview below:

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Slides from my talk @aspenphysics.bsky.social AI+Quantum conference overviewing use cases of AI in quantum error correction + semantic literature search. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

Adam Brown at his @aspenphysics.bsky.social talk updates us on the dramatic improvements in LLM performance on technical exams and makes a compelling case that this improvement will continue for another five years. Not one but many Einsteins coming up!

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

NSF is back on! new.nsf.gov/executive-or...

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

OTOH, not so good news from @NSF: "all review panels, new awards and all payments of funds under open awards will be paused as the agency conducts the required reviews and analysis" new.nsf.gov/executive-or...

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Re federal funding freeze from UMD: "The university has not received overarching stop-work orders or suspension notices. Work on grants and cooperative agreements should continue ... unless the Office of Research Administration (ORA) has provided other guidance."

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

Happy 10th anniversary QuICS!

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

2025 REU-CAAR is out! @domwilliamson.bsky.social and I are looking for an REU summer student on bivariate bicycle codes. Yifan Hong and Yu-Xin Wang have a nice project on QLDPC codes. Shubham Jain is looking to find record breaking qutrit codes. www.cs.umd.edu/projects/reu...

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

Congrats to Justyna Zwolak, Norm Yao, Zohreh Davoudi, Vedika Khemani, Douglas Stanford, Adam Kaufman, Stephen Eckel, Barry Bradlyn, Amir Safavi-Naeini, Mary Wootters, and the rest of the PECASE winners! www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-up...

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

"We do not yet have proven exponential quantum speedups for end-to-end applications in machine learning, optimization, quantum chemistry, or materials science that guarantee substantial commercial and financial value." arxiv.org/pdf/2501.05694

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

Have SIC-POVMs finally been found? @sflammia.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2501.03970

submitted 53 days ago • 1 comment

A "modern perspective" "from the archives" circa 2003. digital.physicstoday.org/physicstoday...

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

x.com/victorvalber... Xmas afternoon quantum catchup

submitted 67 days ago • 1 comment

Here are slides from my Simons Center for Geometry and Physics talk on tiger codes --- a new paradigm for intrinsically multi-mode many-body CV physics. drive.google.com/file/d/1PKjp...

submitted 89 days ago • 1 comment

Second @seanski44.bsky.social Computerphile video is out; more up to date stuff this time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqHVs5zhD5g

submitted 624 days ago • 0 comments

Here is a video I did with computerphile that explains four basic principles of quantum mechanics -- discreteness, superposition, uncertainty, entanglement -- in order of complexity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5A_oupZOCE

submitted 633 days ago • 0 comments

Hello BlueSky, anyone quantum out here?

submitted 675 days ago • 0 comments