Dripto Debroy

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!

The call for submissions is now live on the QEC website! deadline is March 6th, AOE We'd appreciate it if you spread the word :)

If you or your organisation is interested in sponsoring QEC26, please reach out to me as well and we can discuss the different sponsorship levels and opportunities we’ve set up!

Last week we put up the website for QEC26, which can be found at qec-conference.org! It should have all conference information and deadline details needed, but if anything is missing please reach out to the admin email and we’ll get back to you asap.

Congrats to Michel Devoret, John Martinis, and John Clarke on the Nobel Prize in Physics. 🔬🥼 Michel is chief scientist of hardware at our Quantum AI lab and John Martinis led the hardware team for many years. Their pioneering work in quantum mechanics in the 1980s made recent breakthroughs possible, and paved the way for error-corrected quantum computers to come. I was just at our quantum lab in Santa Barbara yesterday seeing the incredible progress, hope they are celebrating today. Feeling lucky this morning to work at a company that has had 5 Nobel Laureates among our ranks - 3 prizes in 2 years!

@QuantumGizmos @earltcampbell @TeamPhotonic Will that talk be streamed online?

This project started in 2022 when Adam and I wanted an excuse to understand the at-the-time unpublished work from Matt and Craig. Glad it’s finally out since I was struggling to talk about it at QEC23 in Sydney haha. Please take a look and enjoy the pretty pictures!

In general, LUCI provides a very flexible framework allowing for anisotropic or aperiodic circuits, or ones that interchange data and measure qubit roles. They can even be randomly generated, while still guaranteeing matchability and fault-tolerance.

Picture yourself with a chip made of qubits, with couplers between them for two-qubit gates. In scirate.com/arxiv/2410.148…, we outline a protocol called LUCI which adapts QEC circuits to chips where some of these components have been rendered non-functional.

@TheRealLenneth The picture makes it look like you have the skinniest tie in history

As a neutral observer, I have to say this guy really nailed it

@JarrodMcclean tbf in this case it would have been a shade of purple

We should celebrate the courage to have some echos of the fun we have doing science in our work and not let bureaucrats paint everything we do in an insufferable shade of gray for the sake of "formality".

@abe_asfaw Yeah I got my dad one and was really impressed with the screen and the notes he's able to take on it, but the syncing seems a bit clunky.

@DriptoDebroy Ah yeah in that case it sounds like you almost want an intentionally poor OS that only cares about reading and writing. My friend keeps raving about the remarkable and how it feels, but not sure about pdf download and annotate capability… would love to learn what you settle on

Science Twitter: I need a tablet + paper markup system that allows automated syncing to an online account. Requirements: - stylus markup so I can scribble - lightweight - system for syncing to a web viewer Nice to have: - e-ink screen Currently looking at paperpile + boox

@abe_asfaw Yeah I'm less bothered about making this machine a work companion in that way. Part of the reason I want the e-paper screen is that I want it to be a disconnect-from-work device. I really like the reMarkable being b/w, but figures are rarely b/w friendly.

@DriptoDebroy I do iPad + notability because I want to be able to share screen (lectures etc). That requirement means need mature OS

@JarrodMcclean He should really look into a pooling scheme, like this one from @nikobreu and coauthors: thelancet.com/journals/lanin…

Putting forth his petition for sainthood

@JoshKoomz @dajmeyer @ucsantabarbara There are some other huge pinecones on ucsb campus! I picked one up after particle physics in like 2015 and had it on my desk for the rest of understand and all of grad school!

Bunya pine @ucsantabarbara:

@AndreasAtETH Yeah it's been quieter here as well, hopefully as people pick one central app again things get livelier.

@DriptoDebroy Still too quiet. But it has some nice features to make custom threads on topics of your liking that you can share with everyone.

I have another invited code for the place where the grass is greener and the sky is bluer for a #quantum person who wants to check it out. Let me know if you are interested to be active there.