Zakaria Mzaouali ۞

Morocco is a key partner for us and serves as an important bridge between Europe and Africa. This year we are celebrating 70 years of diplomatic relations. - @AussenMinDE (1/4)

As I look to this picture on the wall of my office, I feel honored to have served as the ambassador to our oldest ally, The Kingdom of Morocco. 250 years ago, Morocco opened it's ports to the United States, and recognized us as a nation. With the leadership of HM King Mohammed VI, the next 250 years are poised to be spectacular.

Does it matter thermodynamically how to code your algorithm? On quantum annealers it matters a lot: arxiv.org/abs/2601.04402 with Emery Doucet, @moorishqubit , Bartłomiej Gardas, @quthermo_comp and @optipubtrans

L’hymne national du Maroc 🇲🇦

Quantum and classical algorithms for daily railway rolling stock circulation plans. EMU assignment with depots, coupling, seat & bike capacities (Koleje Śląskie). Classical ILP scales; QUBO methods mark today’s frontier, pointing to hybrid planning. 📄 arxiv.org/abs/2512.19340

Train scheduling goes quantum feat. Dr. Emery Doucet and Reece Robertson: nature.com/articles/s4159… youtube.com/watch?v=xWKRhI…

New preprint: Quantum thermodynamics of Gross-Pitaevskii qubits arxiv.org/abs/2510.12599

New work on recasting real-time evolution as a binary optimization task, runnable unchanged on @dwavequantum and classical solvers. Advantage2 improves, but a GPU solver still wins at this scale. Many thanks to @fz_juelich @WM_BW and @NCN_PL arxiv.org/abs/2509.03952

Opening for postdoctoral researcher! Do you have a PhD in Theoretical Physics? Are you interested to work with me on quantum information scrambling? Then this position might be for you: apply.interfolio.com/172719

News: opening in my group for a Postdoc coming soon. Research: quantum information scrambling.

🚆 New Scientific Reports paper: “On the Baltimore Light RailLink into the quantum future.” Real railway scheduling problem solved on @dwavequantum & @IonQ_Inc (ILP→QUBO). Supported by @MNiSW_GOV__PL with @quthermo_comp @UMBC. 🔗 nature.com/articles/s4159…

@Nabil_Kouzkouz Congrats. Keep up the good work.

Today, I had the opportunity to present my first PhD results at the European College of Sport Science Congress in Rimini, Italy 😃 It was a fantastic experience to share my research with the scientific community and exchange ideas.

@SatoyaImai Congrats

Excited to share I'm starting as a tenure-track assistant professor at the University of Tsukuba! I will work on quantum information theory, especially entanglement & metrology. Tsukuba is less than 1 hour from Tokyo by train, let me know if you’re nearby!

First paper of my graduate student Reece Robertson, first paper of my collaborator Ernest Spicer, guided and supervised by my postdoc Dr. Emery Doucet. mdpi.com/1099-4300/27/7…

Thank you Minister Bourita for your kind welcome to Morocco. I look forward to strengthening the 800-year relationship between our two Kingdoms working together to enhance regional stability and economic opportunity.

Interested in dipping your toes into quantum thermodynamics, and wondering which are the big open questions? Check out this new roadmap for the field! arxiv.org/abs/2504.20145 @quantumwizard @QThermodynamics

New paper on implementing Simon’s period-finding algorithm on the quantum annealer at @fzj_jsc ! Another fruitful collaboration with @quthermo_comp's team @UMBC. @uni_tue @NCN_PL @WM_BW arxiv.org/abs/2504.10771

@quthermo_comp @APSphysics @SimonsFdn Unfortunately I will not make it. Timing is very tight with the start of my new position.

@moorishqubit @APSphysics @SimonsFdn Does this mean we will seen you in Anaheim?

Honored to receive the APS-Simons Travel and Professional Development Award! 🎉 Grateful to @APSphysics and @SimonsFdn for supporting my research and collaborations in quantum computing. aps.org/funding-recogn…

A big thank you to @NCN_PL for their support in advancing quantum-inspired optimization methods!

Applications? 🔹 Solving large Ising/QUBO problems 🔹 Benchmarking quantum/classical annealers 🔹 Computer vision (e.g., inpainting problems) 🔹 Exploring new tensor network methods in optimization

Introducing SpinGlassPEPS.jl 🧵 A new Julia-based tensor-network package for solving Ising-like optimization problems on quasi-2D graphs! 🔗 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2502.02317 🔗 Code: github.com/euro-hpc-pl/Sp…