Happy to share my thesis, "Quantum Control and Error Correction of Grid States in a Superconducting Oscillator", is now online. Here's a direct link: bpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/campus…
BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPrize in Physics to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit.”
I had a great time back at Yale at #QEC25. Here’s a recording of my talk on our realization of below-threshold quantum error correction:
yale.hosted.panopto.com/Pano…
Using time-dynamics, the surface code can be embedded on a hexagonal lattice rather than a square lattice. In our new paper, we show that these hex-grid circuits can still be adapted to broken qubits and couplers, despite their sparser connectivity: arxiv.org/abs/2508.08116.
Thrilled to share my PhD thesis is now public! 📖
📎 proquest.com/docview/3225356…
Aside from an introduction to quantum computing in CV and DV architectures, some unpublished ideas include:
Scientists have demonstrated that direct quantum info transfer is feasible at far lower transmission rates than previously thought — as low as 10% — with the help of GKP states. This work opens new possibilities for #quantum computing and communication.
go.aps.org/4ceAxfT
ALT Set of ten plots showing the gradual transfer optimization of a quantum message through a system that only allows 33 percent transmission. In the top row of plots, the message (red and blue regions) starts messy then becomes clearer from left to right. In the bottom row, the surrounding environment (indicated by red and blue regions) is also adjusted and becomes more aligned from left to right, supporting the transfer of the quantum message. Though inefficiency remains low in the system, the information is transferred reliably.
Our paper that tells you how to make millisecond transmons just appeared. Congrats, Matthew, Faranak and team! In collaboration with Nathalie de Leon and Bob Cava, and building on five years of work in @C2QAdvantagearxiv.org/abs/2503.14798
I'm happy to share one of two experimental quantum error correction preprints released today from our team at @GoogleQuantumAI , where we realize three time-dynamic implementations of the surface code! Check it out here: arxiv.org/abs/2412.14360
Our results open the door to many new possibilities for QEC circuit design in hardware and software. This is one of two new preprints out by our team today, the second being a demonstration of the color code with logical operations, check it out here! - arxiv.org/abs/2412.14256
Thanks to my colleagues @mattjmcewen , @AlexisMorvan1 , and the rest of the Google Quantum AI team. Congrats to @NathanLacroix , Alex Bourassa, @KJSatz, and the rest of the team for the impressive color code results out today. It is a great year for experimental QEC!
Meet Willow: Our state-of-the-art quantum chip. It's the first quantum chip to show exponential error reduction as qubits scale, paving the way for large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computers. Dive in → go.nature.com/3OKVLY6
Today we're introducing our new quantum chip, Willow!
Willow is our first below-threshold quantum processor, which you can now read about in Nature t.ly/q7mVH.
@KJSatz and I also wrote a blog about it t.ly/gEaQA.
TLDR: QEC is blasting off. 🚀🚀🚀
Picture yourself with a chip made of qubits, with couplers between them for two-qubit gates. In scirate.com/arxiv/2410.14891, we outline a protocol called LUCI which adapts QEC circuits to chips where some of these components have been rendered non-functional.
Been working on "Magic state cultivation: growing T states as cheap as CNOT gates" all year. It's finally out: arxiv.org/abs/2409.17595
The reign of the T gate is coming to an end. It's now nearly the cost of a lattice surgery CNOT gate, and I bet there's more improvements yet.
It'll be interesting to apply their methods to the updated experiments in arxiv.org/abs/2304.11119.
Under extremely idealized assumptions for the classical compute, that paper estimates it would take 6 seconds to run the 2019 experiments, but many years to run the updated ones.