If you shuffle a deck of cards and then hide most of the labels on the cards, no-one will know what permutations you made. But in the #quantum world, this intuition fails in surprising ways, hinting at deep links between information, symmetry and computation. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/physicists...
In Natal, Brazil for the "Quantum at the Dunes" Workshop, it's been great!
In case you're interested, CSIC is still looking for experimentalists on quantum technologies. Just keep an eye on these and other calls, or talk to us for possible future openings.
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“Individual ICE agents get money per head that they detain – the guards told me that,” [...] "administration ordered ICE officials to detain more people, [...]. Reports immediately began to emerge of international travellers being detained by ICE officers." It does not feel very safe.
Dr. Walborn and I spoke about QRNG use cases, self-testing and certification, the underlying mechanism for guaranteeing randomness, API versus on-premises options, and Sequre Quantum’s plans for integrating its QRNG into its own PQC and/or QKD solutions.
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Check out this course, if you want to learn about our quantum pictures!
Link: neurossance.com/courses/quan...
I’ve been very lucky to learn so many things together with them along their PhD journeys. Looking forward to following the next steps in their careers! 6/n, n=6.
@sara-franco.bsky.social is a 2nd-year PhD student working on scaling up photonic quantum computers - currently we’re looking at ideas to explore together with quantum computing company quandela.bsky.social, where she’ll be an intern later this year. 5/n www.linkedin.com/in/sara-fran...
Mafalda Ramôa works on optimizing variational quantum algorithms, in particular for quantum chemistry. Check out her many publications with co-supervisors Luís Paulo Santos (Univ. Minho) and Sofia Economou from Virginia Tech, where Mafalda is currently based: 3/n
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Alexandra Ramôa works on Bayesian methods for quantum amplitude estimation, device calibration, and planning. She’s done internships with groups in Tokyo (Akihito Soeda), Texas (Scott Aaronson), and Valencia (Germán Rodrigo) – Lucky them! 4/n sites.google.com/view/alexand...
Anita Camillini is already writing up her thesis, and she currently works in the quantum computing group of Cineca (Italian HPC). Her work spans linear-optical protocols for device certification and indistinguishability distillation, among other topics. 2/n www.hpc.cineca.it/staff/camill...
Feb. 11th was the International Day of Women and Girls in Science - let me briefly highlight here the 4 brilliant female PhD students I currently supervise, hosted at @inlnano.bsky.social : Anita Camillini, Alexandra Ramôa, Mafalda Ramôa, and Sara Franco. A thread 1/n
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1/4 RIP Micius 🛰️
The world's first quantum satellite crashed into the Pacific last week (to the west of Ecuador) after an almost 10-year mission
Also known as Mozi (& QUESS) it was famously the first to teleport a photon to space (or at least its quantum state)
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We take randomness for granted.
Early PRNGs were BAD.
Thousands of scientific papers used to rely on RANDU, created by IBM in the 1960s.
In 1D space, it looks ok!
Map in 3D…you start to see the issues. Now, there *was* a better solution...but it would cost you.
Just wrapped up my minicourse on photonic quantum computation, as part of the XVIII Jorge André Swieca Optics Summer School, held at UFF. Here are some notes notes and slides: sites.google.com/id.uff.br/sw...
New preprint out! Jointly with Marco Robbio and Leonardo Novo (INL), and Nicolas Cerf (ULB). We show how to efficiently measure multivariate traces of quantum states (AKA Bargmann invariants) using linear optics, with multiple applications. scirate.com/arxiv/2601.1...
Tenure-track faculty position in quantum info at Perimeter Institute.
“Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.”
Imagine if the US attempted to learn from Uruguay instead of invading Venezuela
New paper published in @physreva.bsky.social, jointly with Kyrylo Simonov (Vienna) and Rafael Wagner (INL/Minho/Ulm)! We simplify the estimation of multivariate traces/Bargmann invariants using partial classical info. Thanks @quantumrw.bsky.social and Kyrylo! journals.aps.org/pra/abstract...
2025 is almost over! Looking forward to 2026, when I'll finally do all the things I didn't get to in 2024
Tell me what the best thing is that you did for your *soul* this year. I don't mean in the religious sense, I mean that gives your life meaning, or joy, something *not* work. The best book, play, musical performance, film, hiking trip, whatever it was that brought you some peace and happiness.
Perhaps the best live gig I've attended this year, the year I returned to Rio. The "Baile do Hamilton" was a blast, great instrumental music and dancing at Circo Voador! www.instagram.com/p/DMJDcDGyDJ...
Rockets owners expand talks to buy, move Sun
Terrifying headline if you don’t realize they are sports teams.
The term "qubit" was born out of a joke between Ben Schumacher and Bill Wootters!
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Peter Shor: we haven't found many new quantum algorithms, in part, because we need larger quantum devices for testing our heuristics. He gives several examples of algorithms that were discovered computationally, including turbo codes, @fermilab.bsky.social quantum symposium by the SQMS center.
Research Associate position available at the University of Edinburgh Quantum Software Lab to work on a joint project on orchestration of heterogeneous quantum computers with Fujitsu. Apply here: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
New paper published in @physreva.bsky.social ! The first author is my former PhD student Filipa Peres, now a postdoc with Jara Juani Bermejo-Vega group in Granada. We optimize depth and measurement complexity for Pauli-based (quantum) computation. Congrats Filipa! journals.aps.org/pra/abstract...
