🚀 I am excited to share @BlueQubitIO first heuristic quantum advantage claim -- run on @QuantinuumQC H2 and backed by a careful comparison against state-of-the-art classical simulators. 🙌 🔷What’s new? • We introduce a protocol for designing “peaked circuits” that can encrypt a message inside a quantum circuit with 50 qubits. 🔐 • On H2 quantum processor, our largest instance (all-to-all connectivity, ~2000 two-qubit gates) finds the target peaked bitstring in under 2 hours. ⚡️ • Best-known classical approaches—tensor networks with belief propagation, Pauli Path simulation, and others—extrapolate to years even on exascale systems (Frontier, Summit). 🖥️⏳ • Estimated ~10,000× gap in energy and time (quantum ≈ hours vs. classical ≈ years). ♻️⚙️ 🔷Why it matters • Toward verifiable quantum advantage: a practical, testable path—plus extensive numerics supporting our extrapolations. ✅ • Benchmarking tool for NISQ hardware 🧪 • Crypto angle: potentially new type of encryption method🔒 🔷Open to the community We’re releasing the circuits so others can try fresh classical techniques and pressure-test the gap. If you beat our baselines—or even narrow them—we want to hear from you! 🤝 📄 Check out the full manuscript: arxiv.org/abs/2510.25838 🙏 Huge thanks to the @BlueQubitIO team for amazing work over the last couple of months, and to the @QuantinuumQC team for many insightful discussions and access to their very powerful quantum system. #quantumcomputing #quantumadvantage #Quantinuum #NISQ #cryptography #HPC #PauliPath #tensornetworks #BlueQubit

The Quantum Algorithmic Science & Engineering (QASE) Lab at UCLA is hiring a postdoc (start 2026)! Topics: quantum algorithms, complexity, high-dimensional statistics, fault-tolerant q. systems and applications Apply by Dec 1 via AJO 👉 academicjobsonline.org/ajo/j… Please share!

Our team, Los Quanta, made up of @UCLA researchers, is a Semifinalist in the @XPRIZE #QuantumApplications competition! 133 teams from 31 countries are competing for a $5M prize, and we're thrilled be among the 20 advancing to the next stage! xprize.org/prizes/qc-apps/se…

Aside from Yang-Mills theory and parity nonconservation, Yang made so many profound contributions to physics! One that deeply impressed me as I was starting grad school: a 1975 paper with T. T. Wu highlighting the role of fiber bundles in gauge theory. nytimes.com/2025/10/18/scien…

Perk # 15 of @UCLA : you get to hear Terry Tao’s inspirational and informative public lecture on “Machine Assisted Mathematics”

🎉 Big news! BlueQubit has closed a $10M Seed round led by Nyca Partners, with support from Chaac Ventures, Restive Ventures, & others. 🚀 We're building tools & algorithms to unlock quantum advantage. Huge thanks to our team, customers, & investors! PS: We're hiring! 💙 #QuantumComputing #QuantumTech #QuantumAdvantage techcrunch.com/2024/12/19/bl…

Mitigating racial bias from LLMs is a lot easier than removing it from humans! Can’t believe this happened at the best AI conference @NeurIPSConf We have ethical reviews for authors, but missed it for invited speakers? 😡

Congratulations to my co-authors on finishing this nice work proposing HamQAOA, a quantum algo to optimize quantum Hamiltonians with provable guarantees! Ishaan did most of the writing here while juggling a full-time job and grad school applications. Expect great things from him!

Just landed in the beautiful Vancouver to attend #NeurIPS for the first time! Here to present my work on a quantum algorithm for learning tensor data with Joao Basso and @Song__Mei. Come say hi at our Spotlight poster Wednesday 11a-2p!

Excited to officially start as Assistant Professor at the beautiful campus of @UCLA today! If you are interested in a postdoc position in the theory of quantum computing, check out this position and apply by December 1: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/j…

My friends at @BlueQubitIO are hiring! If you’re passionate about useful applications of (near-future) quantum computers and thrive in a dynamic start-up environment, I highly recommend applying. It’s a lot of fun working with these guys!

Excited to share that this week, I’m wrapping up my time @Caltech and joining @PhasecraftLtd to research quantum optimization! I will be in the UK for the summer before starting as an Assistant Professor @ECE_UCLA this fall! Looking forward to new challenges and collaborations 🚀

A team of physicists has found a problem that only quantum computers can perform. Though still theoretical, this “quantum advantage” may put an end to decades of searching for a useful problem that classical computers can’t do. @science_eye reports: quantamagazine.org/physicist…

Spiked tensor model has a huge stat/comp gap classically. What happens to quantum algorithms? We show QAOA has the same comp threshold as power iteration, implying such classical hardness also exists in quantum world. arxiv.org/abs/2402.19456 w/ @leologist and Joao Basso