I guess the joke would be funny 🤣 But I simply meant Bluvstein+Huang+Preskill in a startup sounds like a very strong starting team - they all have stellar track record of delivering high impact science. Of course running a startup will need more - but it is a strong starting point.
Now that's a powerhouse of co-founders
Which book is it?
You know you worked too much in QEC when you misread Senate in a news article for Steane.
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!
...with Natalie Klco is now available on arXiv: scirate.com/arxiv/2602.2...
Only in theories with periodic electric fields will work with stabilizer GLQEC. Other trade-offs popped up as we simulated the Rajput-Roggero-Wiebe QEC scheme, including a higher mixing speed in the logical channel compared to using a regular old application-agnostic QEC scheme. Our new paper...
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.
An upbeat blog post for Christmas: Quantum Error Correction goes FOOM
algassert.com/post/2503
Journeymen is a long-running organization that fosters healthy masculinity and starts education and mentorship early with teenage boys. Please consider donating through my page, where you can see how and why I got involved. @givebutter givebutter.com/c/circleup25...
After #SQuInT2025 concluded, @balintpato.bsky.social , Cole Maurer, & I opted for a post-conference discussion on quantum computing, its capabilities, public perception of it, and various geopolitical issues that have arisen recently. Recording available here:
www.reverbnation.com/markwilde/so...
I feel very grateful towards the #QEC25 organizers and the QEC community! I had an amazing time, came out with a ton more knowledge, new collaborators, new friends, some great times with old friends, and even new paths towards job opportunities!
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PlanqTN is here.
Build quantum codes like LEGO.
Play, hack, and contribute.
🎥 youtu.be/TNnE3hReYVk
🌐 planqtn.com
🔗 github.com/planqtn/plan...
#QuantumComputing #QEC #OpenSource #QuantumLEGO #AItools #TensorNetworks #PlanqTN
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I built PlanqTN Studio from scratch in 4 months with the help of
@cursor_ai
. It was a fantastic experience!
💻 Learned React, Zustand, Supabase, Terraform
⚡️ AI prototyping: 6–7× faster
🛠️ Full dev: ~2–4× faster
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Massive thanks to:
🧠 Charles Cao & Brad Lackey for the foundational QL framework + support
🎓 June Vanlerberghe (Duke MS student) already using PlanqTN in research
🧑🏫 Ken Brown for giving me the space and support to do this
🪙 Unitary Fund for the microgrant + encouragement
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Coming soon:
📚 QL layout database
⚙️ Optimized contraction (C++ / GPU)
🔄 non-Pauli Logical ops
🧠 Qudit support
If this sounds cool — we’re open source and would love contributions!
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Weight enumerators? Yep.
PlanqTN + Cotengra = compute them on any QL layout.
⚡ Way faster than brute force (though still #P-hard) for most interesting cases.
Tensor networks meet actual usability.
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PlanqTN lets you learn, build, and analyze tensor network QEC codes interactively.
🧱 Quantum LEGO
🌀 ZX calculus
📈 Graph states
🧮 Stabilizer codes
All in one interface: PlanqTN Studio.
Explore features: planqtn.com/docs/features
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🚀 Super excited to launch PlanqTN — an open-source Python lib + interactive web app for exploring quantum LEGO-based QEC codes!
🎥 Intro video: youtu.be/TNnE3hReYVk
🔗 GitHub: github.com/planqtn/plan...
🌐 Studio: planqtn.com
We’d love to find more #QEC experts here on BlueSky and have created this starter pack to help connect the error correction community.
It’s just a start – if you’re working QEC, please follow this account and message us. We’ll happily add you to the pack!
go.bsky.app/RiZfVco 🧪
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This is a mega-thread of all Microsoft problems related to topological qubits.
NOTE: I skip the numerous news reports and press releases, this thread is for serious _scientific_ and procedural materials
First retraction: Quantized Majorana Conductance, from Nature
www.nature.com/articles/nat...
These notes are great for a somewhat beginner level too - they helped me get intuition even before I started my PhD.
Great reference on the role and power of homology in constructing the surface code: notes by Dan Browne. drive.google.com/file/d/1AB0K...
Happy International Year of Quantum Science & Technology! #IYQ2025
In case you were ever confused by the Knill-Laflamme conditions for QEC codes - I drew a picture of it on the QC StackExchange quantumcomputing.stackexchange.com/a/40802/4986... #quantum
scirate.com/arxiv/2412.1... looks very interesting - I always found cellular automaton decoders fascinating. I guess if these result all hold - this might provide a way forward towards an even more scalable locally decodable surface code? I wonder what the catch is? Any thoughts here?
When we've been there in a group
closed under the sum,
To represent we took the trace,
character has first begun.
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Density matrices are fun
to observe with the trace!
Mean was lost, but now is found,
in the large Hilbert space.
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’Twas trace that taught my heart to fear,
and trace my fears relieved;
How precious did that trace appear
the hour I first believed!
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