Extremely proud to see our paper "Quantum Convolutional Neural Networks are Effectively Classically Simulable" published in @PRX_Quantum journals.aps.org/prxquantum/… This is an instantiation of our work, provable absence of barren plateaus implies classical simulability.

I am so, so happy to see this article published as a perspective in Nature Communications: nature.com/articles/s41467-0… More than the paper itself, I thoroughly enjoyed chatting with all my co-authors on the implications of the absence of BPs ~ classical simulability connection

Welcoming summer the best way we know how: with pasta, physics, and a phenomenal team 🍝⚛️ A warm #Google #Quantum #AI welcome to Manuel Rudolph, who’s joining us this summer! 🎉 We’re thrilled to have his sharp mind and curious spirit with us Thx Nikita team for organizing

Had some great time welcoming our student researcher @QuantumManuel at @GoogleQuantumAI . He will be designing our new beyond-classical applications!

New paper on arxiv 🔥We present a unifying characterization of “patches” in BP landscapes with substantial gradients for a broad family of circuits including physically motivated ansatz that could not be analyzed before ! scirate.com/arxiv/2502.07889

It should be considered disrespectful to waste everyone's time by giving a talk that is super difficult to follow and basically unintelligible to anyone in the room who doesn't work on the exact topic being discussed. There is a perverse incentive to deliver unintelligible talks because the audience just assumes the speaker is too smart to deliver the talk in any other way and often believes they themselves aren't smart enough to follow. Moreover, this format shields the speaker from having to answer any thoughtful questions at the end of their talk because only those who already understood everything could follow along. Over the last three years, I've probably attended over 100 hep-th talks, and this is a chronic issue. Everyone in the room has the intellectual capacity and background to understand what the speaker is saying if only the speaker would actually deliver their talk at an appropriate level.

Just released two papers on classical simulation of quantum circuits with arbitrary local noise! Huge thanks to my collaborators Victor Martinez, @QuAntonioMele, @QuantumManuel, Ekaterina Pankovets, Omar Fawzi, @MvsCerezo, @dsfranca & @qZoeHolmes! 🧵👇

Another amazing paper from our Summer School student @QuAntonioMele (is that 3 papers already form the school?!), and from our collaboration with the power house that are @acl_angrisani and @QuantumManuel from @qZoeHolmes 's incredible group. arxiv.org/abs/2501.13101

Check out the open-source library at github.com/MSRudolph/PauliPr…!

Submit to our special issue of IOP QS&T! We’re broadly after: 🔎 Careful non-hyped analyses on the state of Variational Quantum Computing (benchmarks, resource analyses etc) & ☀️ Big new (maybe half-baked!) ideas about how to combine quantum and variational components

Just a friendly reminder that applications to our summer school are open until January 19th 2025!! Apply here if you haven't: lanl-summer-school-programs.… Or please complete your application by the 19th

🚨Applications for LANL's 2025 Quantum Computing Summer School are open! Please apply here 👇 lanl-summer-school-programs.… Reposts appreciated!

In the spirit of friendly academic shit posting... (Or because we lack imagination?) We used another IBM experiment to benchmark our small-angle Pauli propagation alg. This time: arXiv:2404.08053 @QuantumManuel's plot below is for TFI on 127 qubits in a heavy hex topology