TBH, quantum international navigation systems in flight could well be the first useful application of quantum technologies given the now widespread GPS spoofing. That would require making it sufficiently small to put on a plane though...
Yeah - in Europe, even most CEOs of for-profit companies of that size don’t make 300k. That’s 5% of the total current income from donations!
Error Correction and Algorithms. For example, it is becoming increasingly clear that simplified metrics such as T gate count or circuit depth are by far not the full story to find an algorithm’s runtime or qubit requirements.
So true!
Sidecomment: copy editing and formatting at “prestigious” journals is useless anyway (even often introducing errors). Quantum Journal for example gives this responsibility to the authors - they know way better how to format their work.
The time to switch to post-quantum is now. Advances in both algorithms and hardware have been mind-boggling in the last couple of months - @bsi.bund.de's "End of 2030" recommendation for a switch seems highly risky. @signal.org's PQC protocol shows how to switch without removing classical safety.
Super happy to be part of this amazing initiative. Scientific publishing how it should be - community-led, open-access and donation-funded. We're always looking for motivated editor colleagues!
This is a pretty accurate description of what it’s like to do a postdoc in science - without the silicon valley pay. Everyone agrees this must change, but no-one seriously touches the part that actually could (yes, I am looking at you, faculty hiring committees) www.theguardian.com/technology/n...
Very nice demonstration of the fundamentals of quantum thermodynamics, but just to be clear: it seems entirely impractical to try to build a battery with a superconducting qubit chip which uses tons of energy in order to be cooled down to 10s of millikelvin.
Not quite fair play to compare to Craig‘s 1M qubits bsky.app/profile/crai...
Btw, there is also excellent higher education in other countries - much of it in English.
Prof. Dr. Annabelle Bohrdt, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, steht lächelnd vor einer Tafel und hält ein Stück Kreide.
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Annabelle ist theoretische Physikerin an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.
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I fondly remember idli vada breakfast after an overnight train ride from Kerala to Bengaluru in second class 🔥
Quantinuum announcing they have the smalles most efficient physical-to-logical qubit ratio (2!) certainly felt quite B
Really interesting event that would require black holes thatcan't be produced via any conventional mechanism!
Another reason to not pay 13k to publish with a „professional“ publisher - use community-driven journals such as Quantum or SciPost Physics instead.
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QuICS Hartree fellowship application is out! A competitive and completely free-range postdoc. Anyone interested in quantum science and technology topics is encouraged to apply, preferably by Dec. 1. umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UMCP/j...
Its bonkers to me that the CEO of a company with no quantum hardware effort has such a large voice, especially given Nvidia sells the most important competitor hardware and therefore has an interest in downplaying progress. It’s like asking Elon whether trains are promising, or fuel cells.
One of the best places in the world to do a PhD in quantum - I did mine with this fellowship and it was awesome! Apart from great environment in Munich, lots of opportunities to mingle with other quantum centers in the world in summer schools, workshops etc.
So much agree. The actual peer review happens after publication anyway.
Coming out of social media hibernation to ask:
Are you interested in hosting a future QEC conf?
We are looking for detailed bids for QEC27 over the next month (provisional deadline 21st November). For more info: DM or email me.
QEC26 will be in Santa Barbara
I held this fellowship and loved it! QuICS and JQI are dream places to do postdoc research, the promised freedom of the Fellowship is not just a paper tiger here like in many other places.
They could have, but then they would have had to cite different works. Quantum computing kicked off only 20 years later for a reason: it required additional nobel-prize worthy discoveries (including by this year’s laureates) to reach the many orders of magnitude improvement in device quality.
The cited discoveries were not enough for quantum computing because of the huge amount of charge noise present in these devices. The transmon with its charge noise insensitivity was the breakthrough discovery that enabled quantum computing in superconducting circuits.
![Screenshot of first part of letter (continues in next image). Text reads:
Dear Sir Adrian
I write to request that in its deliberations tomorrow the Council resolves to take a principled stand to defend the scientific values written into its code of conduct.
In its attempts to deal with the actions of Elon Musk FRS, the Royal Society has repeatedly failed to explain how his repudiation of those values is consistent with the code of conduct that all Fellows must adhere to as a condition of their fellowship. As is now well established, these actions include attacking Antony Fauci FRS without good cause; spreading scientific misinformation on X [through his own utterances and by relaxing controls on the platform]; recklessly and unlawfully degrading the research ecosystem of the US as part of DOGE; and bragging publicly about "feeding USAID into the wood chipper", which the Lancet estimates will cause the deaths of 14 million people, many of them children under the age of five, by 2030.
The Society’s inaction extends to the recent brief exchange of correspondence between Prof Sir Paul Nurse and Mr Musk. Although there was some initial contact, when Sir Paul laid out the Society’s specific concerns there was no reply or explanation from Musk. For reasons that I’m afraid I cannot fathom, you chose once again not to enforce your code of conduct.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jviud2kbpxo3lwd3do4mqepg/bafkreiev6nrcxar4eabbnj3t2p5tfi4icoeagakrqrtc5jhcq6op3424me)
Screenshot of first part of letter (continues in next image). Text reads: Dear Sir Adrian I write to request that in its deliberations tomorrow the Council resolves to take a principled stand to defend the scientific values written into its code of conduct. In its attempts to deal with the actions of Elon Musk FRS, the Royal Society has repeatedly failed to explain how his repudiation of those values is consistent with the code of conduct that all Fellows must adhere to as a condition of their fellowship. As is now well established, these actions include attacking Antony Fauci FRS without good cause; spreading scientific misinformation on X [through his own utterances and by relaxing controls on the platform]; recklessly and unlawfully degrading the research ecosystem of the US as part of DOGE; and bragging publicly about "feeding USAID into the wood chipper", which the Lancet estimates will cause the deaths of 14 million people, many of them children under the age of five, by 2030. The Society’s inaction extends to the recent brief exchange of correspondence between Prof Sir Paul Nurse and Mr Musk. Although there was some initial contact, when Sir Paul laid out the Society’s specific concerns there was no reply or explanation from Musk. For reasons that I’m afraid I cannot fathom, you chose once again not to enforce your code of conduct.
Screenshot of letter. Text continues: "You will be aware that the sense of bewildered dismay over this affair is shared by Royal Society Fellows, medallists and journals editors, and many thousands within the scientific community here and abroad. The Royal Society still claims to speak for scientists in the UK, but on this vital issue, its inaction represents an inexplicable rupture with values that our community holds very dear. In all this my primary concern is has been for the good standing of the Royal Society as the UK’s national academy. As I am sure you understand all too well (given your recent remarks in the wake of Mr Musk’s ill-judged speech at the Tommy Robinson rally), the country, the world at large, and the very practice of science itself face severe challenges from technologies and populist politics that foment division and ignorance. In such troubled times, people look to our established institutions to have the courage to stand by long-held values of truth and decency. It is my sincere hope the Royal Society will demonstrate tomorrow that it is just such an institution. Yours faithfully, Stephen"
I am so dismayed a the statement today from the President of the @royalsociety.org that I want to publish here the letter I wrote to him yesterday urging him to address the clear concerns of the UK scientific community.
The tragic is that there is some real, accelerating progress in this field but these announcements overshadow those actual breakthroughs (such as googles surface code demo), which are harder to make sound flashy
I guess I was thinking academically, he’s old enough so that his PhD students now have PhD students themselves ;)
They did not. Read the facts from one of the grandfathers of quantum computing: scottaaronson.blog?p=9170
