Accepted submissions for QEC26 are out: qec-conference.org/2026/accepte.... Congratulations!

If you are attending QEC, a few reminders below:

We beat Google’s zero-knowledge proof of quantum cryptanalysis Trail of Bits discovered and exploited memory safety and logic vulnerabilities in Google’s Rust zero-knowledge proof code to forge a proof claiming better quantum circuit performance metrics than Goog...

Congrats to Keegan Ryan for being the first to exploit the simulator we used to validate the secret quantum circuits: blog.trailofbits.com/2026/04/17/w...

It kills me that the (now fixed) bugs were simple (we didn't port the op validation code from C++ to Rust!), but that's to be expected.

In this MURI project with Sebastian Will (Columbia), Yongshan Ding (Yale), Shruti Puri (Yale), and Daniel Grier (UCSD), we will explore the potential uses and benefits (and limitations!) of using quantum gates that can act on many qubits at a time.

Swarnadeep Majumder, Brown Lab Alumni, at the APS Global Summit!

John Preskill expressing thanks to quantum pioneers of the past century and wishing good fortune to the audience, the quantum explorers of the future in an inspiring talk at
#APSSummit26 #quantum

I'm looking forward to the Kavli Symposium tomorrow at the APS Global Physics Summit, where I'll speak about "The Road to Quantum Advantage."

summit.aps.org/events/MAR-X02

Quantum Cryptography Pioneers Win Turing Award | Quanta Magazine Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard were recognized for their foundational work in quantum information science.

Wow, amazing!!

www.quantamagazine.org/quantum-cryp...

To close out the first day, I'm in a session where Michael Turner and Maria Spiropulu are presenting the EPP report for the future of particle physics, which came out last year. (Separate from the '24 P5 report)

EPP Report: www.nationalacademies.org/read/28839/c...

Dropping in to this session on changes to student visas. summit.aps.org/events/EVM-J...

On another note, I’m looking for a 6‑month intern to work with me. Feel free to reach out to me.

#QuantumComputing #QuantumErrorMitigation #MachineLearning #APSSummit26 #QuantumResearch

Starting off Monday with the... well, memorial plenary for the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC).

2026 Quantum papers! Congratulations Quantum community! It’s hard to believe 10 years have passed and we’re en route to our 10-year founding anniversary in April 2026. On that occasion we wanted to announce ...

Celebrate with us Quantum's approaching 10 year anniversary in 2026 with the publication of the 2026th paper! Do you know which paper that is?
quantum-journal.org/2026-quantum...

The APS Meeting in Denver starts in earnest tomorrow and as sort of an experiment to see if this still works, I've resolved to actually cover the conference on social media (like we did in days of yore), so bear with me for what will be a couple days of posting about physics.

View of downtown denver from a high-level hotel room

Here is my #hotelview

I am the #APSSummit26 (aka #MarchMeeting26 and #AprilMeeting26) and speaking at the session celebrating Abhinav Kandala being awarded the 2026 Landauer Bennett Award in Quantum Computing. If you are at the meeting, please join us on Tuesday summit.aps.org/events/MAR-G03

A picture of the computer science building, Morgridge Hall, at the University of Wosconsin Madison at night from a hotel room in South Union.

Had a great visit to the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Here is the #hotelview photo of the amazing new CS building, Morgridge Hall.

If you are interested in working in the intersection of QEC and software check out our job posting for a position at Quantinuum: jobs.eu.lever.co/quantinuum/b...

Areas of research include QEC software development, logical noise modeling, resource estimation, QEC/Hardware co-design, and more.

Have you ever wondered about the dimensionality of the massive Schwinger model with a two-dimensional, non-periodic electric field? Well, we counted it and proved that it follows the bisection of the Lucas numbers (oeis.org/A005248). This leads to incompatibility with Gauss's law stabilizer QEC.

Registration is now open for QEC26, to be held this June in sunny Santa Barbara, CA! See the registration page at qec-conference.org for a link.

Also, the deadline for submissions is next Friday. Make sure to get those in and spread the word to friends and collaborators!

10 years after its founding, driven by the energy, enthusiasm, & dedication of the community @quantum-journal.bsky.social quietly published paper #2000 some days ago.

At least I think this is a big deal, big shout out to the founders & all authors, reviewers, editors, board members & contributors!

Four former Brown lab members smiling at the camera with a ski mountain behind them.

Excited to see Swapnil Patel's paper measuring charge exchange between K and CaH+ on the arXiv arxiv.org/abs/2602.09142 . Joint work with @michaltomza.bsky.social and Dibyendu Sardar at the University of Warsaw. Here is a picture of Swapnil (orange jacket) skiing with other Brown lab alumni.

The Call for Submissions for QEC26 is now up: qec-conference.org/2026/call/
Follow the link to submit your paper or poster by March 6th AOE.

The call for submissions is now live on the QEC website! Deadline is March 6th, AoE.

Please consider submitting and we'd appreciate it if you spread the word! :)

Logical qubits encoded in the fusion space of non-Abelian anyons in a generalized surface code.

Not the most efficient way to build a quantum computer, but definitely the coolest!

Quantinuum and co show how it's done on one of their H2 devices.

arxiv.org/abs/2601.20956

The real harm of only recording the speaker is you can't tell if any of the jokes landed.

Great list from Dave. Also if you haven't visited the Museum of Jurassic Technologies you should.

I have never listened to the album as a whole. Thanks for the suggestion!

I know. Portishead Dummy is still a perfect CD.

post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, pearl jam, etc etc

🎆As the year ends, I want to remind everyone that our summer school applications are open!

Please apply/encourage your students to apply here:

academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31108

We also have a handshake link too🤝 :

app.joinhandshake.com/emp/jobs/105...

Shares appreciated!