Two-dimensional quantum platforms have simulated a process in particle physics called string breaking that generates matter–antimatter pairs

https://go.nature.com/4449MZ9

Two quantum-simulation experiments make a step towards understanding the forces between elementary particles

https://go.nature.com/3HrgpvP

An international team led by Peter Zoller together with #QuEra Computing has directly observed “string breaking” in a two-dimensional analog #quantum #simulator 🧲⚡️⚛

Read more: iqoqi.at/.../1006-str....

👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41... @nature.com

📸: Harald Ritsch @fwf-at.bsky.social #physics

Still one week to apply!

PhD position in Quantum Algorithms for High-Energy Physics at the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Madrid

www.quantiki.org/position/phd...

PhD position. PhD position in Quantum Algorithms for High-Energy Physics at Institute for Theoretical Physics (UAM-CSIC) https://www.cuantica2025.es/job-market

I am very happy to announce that I will soon join @iftuamcsic.bsky.social as a Ramon y Cajal Fellow ‼️

I am also offering a PhD position on "Quantum Algorithms for High-Energy Physics" ⚛️ Deadline is April 30 and the details can be found here: www.gonzalez-cuadra.com/open-positions

Please share!

Why were the first drawings of neurons defaced?

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We are excited to announce the workshop "Entangle This VI" that we are organizing on quantum science and technology in Madrid, 15th-19th September 2025. Registration and abstract submission is currently open! indico.ift.uam-csic.es/event/27/

Cannot stop thinking about how Octavia Butler wrote a book in 1993 about climate change. It opens with deadly fires in LA in 2025. In the story, a fascist President has just won office with the campaign slogan "Make America Great Again."

She was a modern day Nostradamus. If only we'd listened.

Amusing story by @teorth.bsky.social on Mastodon about paper rejections
mathstodon.xyz/@tao/1137212...

Constructing a fermionic quantum processor can bypass certain challenges associated with qubit mapping. However, the implementation of error correction for such processors is still uncertain. A recent article has explored this issue.
arxiv.org/abs/2412.16081

The Lukin theory (sub)group wishes you a happy winter holidays! 🎄⚛️☃️

Measuring stabilizers in a quantum error correcting code

Atoms are binary. They are either intended to be hydrogen or helium. We can't just scrap this worldview just because of a handful of exceptions

I thought by now I would be over these kinds of things, but I just saw mejillones en escabeche in a korean supermarket in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and 🥹🥹

*** cries in galician ***

Pretty cool results! It's great to see how quantum info tools (tensor networks in this case) are shedding new light into high-energy physics phenomena.

Hopefully soon 😬 quantum simulators will be able to target more complicated field theories and higher dimensions 🤞🏼

Now that the #quantum community is getting back together, I wanted to share here our last project 📃

This was a very nice theory-experiment collaboration, where we used Quera's Rydberg quantum simulator ⚛️ 💻 to observe string breaking 💥 on a (2+1)D lattice gauge theory!

arxiv.org/abs/2410.16558

Hello world! I thought I'd kick off my account here with a life update: I recently moved to Boston, where I will work in the Lukin group at Harvard as a Marie Curie fellow.

Let's keep the quantum discussion alive!