Dulwich Quantum Computing
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Parody quantum computing startup from South London
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so Zapata patented QIR... the project that got started as a collaborative + open standard by multiple orgs (none of with was zapata).
First, why were they granted this patent, and second... wtf Zapata, and third, I thought they turned into an AI company?
investors.zapataquantum.com/news-release...
First, why were they granted this patent, and second... wtf Zapata, and third, I thought they turned into an AI company?
investors.zapataquantum.com/news-release...
February 9, 2026 at 10:22 AM
so Zapata patented QIR... the project that got started as a collaborative + open standard by multiple orgs (none of with was zapata).
First, why were they granted this patent, and second... wtf Zapata, and third, I thought they turned into an AI company?
investors.zapataquantum.com/news-release...
First, why were they granted this patent, and second... wtf Zapata, and third, I thought they turned into an AI company?
investors.zapataquantum.com/news-release...
Me: Immediately buying a train ticket to Germany.
February 10, 2026 at 10:51 AM
Me: Immediately buying a train ticket to Germany.
Preparing approximate ground states has never been hotter 🔥, nor cooler🥶
scirate.com/arxiv/2602.0...
In short: we combine warm-started variational quantum circuits with adiabatic principles to show how iterative training strategies can be useful to prepare approximate ground states.
scirate.com/arxiv/2602.0...
In short: we combine warm-started variational quantum circuits with adiabatic principles to show how iterative training strategies can be useful to prepare approximate ground states.
February 9, 2026 at 6:34 PM
We've studied iterative strategies for finding ground states
We use the ground state of an easy Hamiltonian to `warm start' finding the ground states for some harder Hamiltonians
We derive gradient guarantees that (as for adiabatic methods) depend on the gap and a few other natural properties
🧵👇
We use the ground state of an easy Hamiltonian to `warm start' finding the ground states for some harder Hamiltonians
We derive gradient guarantees that (as for adiabatic methods) depend on the gap and a few other natural properties
🧵👇
February 9, 2026 at 6:32 PM
Can you find the actual patent online? Their press release doesn't link to it, and I don't see it on Google Patents either.
patents.google.com?assignee=Zap...
patents.google.com?assignee=Zap...
Google Patents
Search and read the full text of patents from around the world with Google Patents, and find prior art in our index of non-patent literature.
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February 9, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Can you find the actual patent online? Their press release doesn't link to it, and I don't see it on Google Patents either.
patents.google.com?assignee=Zap...
patents.google.com?assignee=Zap...
Hoping the profits from Amazon's $75m invested in "Melania" movie will bolster its quantum efforts!
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Worse comes to worse, I'm sure that quantum folks will get opportunities in other parts of the Amazon empire. We all know how good Amazon treats its employees!
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Worse comes to worse, I'm sure that quantum folks will get opportunities in other parts of the Amazon empire. We all know how good Amazon treats its employees!
Melania Trump documentary opens to underwhelming reception: ‘It’s not a gripping film’
$75m Amazon-produced paean to the first lady saw empty seats and faint praise as it opened in New York City
www.theguardian.com
February 7, 2026 at 3:13 AM
Hoping the profits from Amazon's $75m invested in "Melania" movie will bolster its quantum efforts!
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Worse comes to worse, I'm sure that quantum folks will get opportunities in other parts of the Amazon empire. We all know how good Amazon treats its employees!
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Worse comes to worse, I'm sure that quantum folks will get opportunities in other parts of the Amazon empire. We all know how good Amazon treats its employees!
It's not easy to work for Jeff Bezos these days. Sending prayers to John Preskill @preskill.bsky.social, Fernando Brandao and others at Amazon Quantum, and hoping it won't go down like Washington Post. 🙏 Luckily quantum is a priority for Trump (unlike free press)!
www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...
www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...
‘It’s an absolute bloodbath’: Washington Post lays off hundreds of workers
Former Post executive editor blasts owner Jeff Bezos’s ‘sickening efforts to curry favor’ with Trump
www.theguardian.com
February 7, 2026 at 3:13 AM
It's not easy to work for Jeff Bezos these days. Sending prayers to John Preskill @preskill.bsky.social, Fernando Brandao and others at Amazon Quantum, and hoping it won't go down like Washington Post. 🙏 Luckily quantum is a priority for Trump (unlike free press)!
www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...
www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...
February 6, 2026 at 2:17 PM
Every paper should be announced like this! 🤘
Here's a power metal summary of scipost.org/10.21468/Sci.... It is fairly comprehensive and accurate. The text is generated by codex, the graphic by chatGPT, and the music by ACE-step. The research is of me and my coauthors :) I am honestly impressed by ACE-step.
February 6, 2026 at 2:16 PM
Every paper should be announced like this! 🤘
When your butt slides into DMs with Dulwich without you being aware of it.
February 6, 2026 at 12:35 PM
When your butt slides into DMs with Dulwich without you being aware of it.
For those who want to read the [mtl] paper...
![[mtl] Too many to list. 2](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tepknacn7qtpcddry35b3g2x/bafkreiaph4etvskbsokocvaatfdbnslz77vyl5tlvlkj6yav62hg7lzbwi@jpeg)
February 6, 2026 at 9:32 AM
For those who want to read the [mtl] paper...
Just LOVE the "Advanced Quantum Algorithms" lecture notes of Stacey Jeffery!!!
homepages.cwi.nl/~jeffery/not...
Everyone teaching quantum computing should read this paragraph out loud to their students!
homepages.cwi.nl/~jeffery/not...
homepages.cwi.nl/~jeffery/not...
Everyone teaching quantum computing should read this paragraph out loud to their students!
homepages.cwi.nl/~jeffery/not...
![Many of the potential applications of Hamiltonian simulation are not algorithms themselves, but
rather, the idea that having a better understanding of certain physical or chemical systems would likely
lead to new scientific and technological breakthroughs. Some of these are well worked out ideas (for
example, nitrogen fixation [RWS+17]), but many of them are very tenuous, which unfortunately does
not stop popular science news, and technology-enthusiasts who have decided to make a career talking
a lot about quantum computing without really understanding it, from treating such applications as
being just around the corner. You will find headlines and ted talks claiming quantum computers can
solve every futuristic-sounding problem, including fixing climate change [mtl], curing cancer [Kak24],
and finding the secret to immortality [Gre20]. I mean, science could solve any of these (but could it?),
and faster Hamiltonian simulation would mean we can do better science, so. . . The reality is, there
probably will be many applications to being able to simulate physical systems, but we do not yet know
what they will be. We will not discuss applications of Hamiltonian simulation in this course, but it
is important to understand that there is a lot of hype around quantum computing, some of which is
justified, and some of which is not.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tepknacn7qtpcddry35b3g2x/bafkreibcs6y26budwxemzcdm4sxf4ltootd5f76rwvr4efnbebvrc2nm3a@jpeg)
February 6, 2026 at 9:32 AM
Just LOVE the "Advanced Quantum Algorithms" lecture notes of Stacey Jeffery!!!
homepages.cwi.nl/~jeffery/not...
Everyone teaching quantum computing should read this paragraph out loud to their students!
homepages.cwi.nl/~jeffery/not...
homepages.cwi.nl/~jeffery/not...
Everyone teaching quantum computing should read this paragraph out loud to their students!
homepages.cwi.nl/~jeffery/not...
Next time you're making a wish on a shooting star, it might actually be a quantum satellite burning up in the atmosphere. 🌠
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)
🧪⚛️
www.nature.com/articles/nat...
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)
🧪⚛️
www.nature.com/articles/nat...
Quantum teleportation is even weirder than you think - Nature
Don't let the catchy name distract you, says Philip Ball: the questions inspired by this arguably misnamed phenomenon go to the heart of quantum theory.
www.nature.com
February 5, 2026 at 7:58 PM
Next time you're making a wish on a shooting star, it might actually be a quantum satellite burning up in the atmosphere. 🌠
Hey - we've extended Pauli and Majorana propagation to simulating thermal states
The trick is to imaginary-time evolve identity and then normalize by the trace of the Pauli (or Majorana) sum at the end
The catch is that both our analytics and numerics suggest it only works at high temperatures
🧵👇
The trick is to imaginary-time evolve identity and then normalize by the trace of the Pauli (or Majorana) sum at the end
The catch is that both our analytics and numerics suggest it only works at high temperatures
🧵👇
February 5, 2026 at 7:53 PM
Did you know you can simulate quantum states with Pauli and Majorana propagation?
In short: High-temperature states are provably and practically sparse, and we can use imaginary time evolution to get there starting from the infinite-temperature state.
scirate.com/arxiv/2602.0...
In short: High-temperature states are provably and practically sparse, and we can use imaginary time evolution to get there starting from the infinite-temperature state.
scirate.com/arxiv/2602.0...
February 5, 2026 at 12:51 PM
You too can go from zero to Kitaev in 3 weeks!
www.coursera.org/learn/quantu...
www.coursera.org/learn/quantu...
February 4, 2026 at 3:08 PM
You too can go from zero to Kitaev in 3 weeks!
www.coursera.org/learn/quantu...
www.coursera.org/learn/quantu...
Are these ice cream flavours or finance terminology?
arxiv.org/abs/2602.03725
arxiv.org/abs/2602.03725
February 4, 2026 at 10:57 AM
Are these ice cream flavours or finance terminology?
arxiv.org/abs/2602.03725
arxiv.org/abs/2602.03725
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That’s nothing: Topological qubits have only reached the same point that the Catholic church did 2000 years ago. (Made up stories and claims of miracles).
February 3, 2026 at 2:01 PM
That’s nothing: Topological qubits have only reached the same point that the Catholic church did 2000 years ago. (Made up stories and claims of miracles).
My TQC submission.
February 2, 2026 at 10:12 PM
My TQC submission.
Looks like we'll be having some trouble deciding how fast our quantum internet connections actually are.
arxiv.org/abs/2601.22471
arxiv.org/abs/2601.22471
On the undecidability of quantum channel capacities
An important distinction in our understanding of capacities of classical versus quantum channels is marked by the following question: is there an algorithm which can compute (or even efficiently compu...
arxiv.org
February 2, 2026 at 9:18 PM
Looks like we'll be having some trouble deciding how fast our quantum internet connections actually are.
arxiv.org/abs/2601.22471
arxiv.org/abs/2601.22471
One more hour left till the TQC deadline!
a cat is sitting in front of a laptop computer with its paws on the keyboard .
ALT: a cat is sitting in front of a laptop computer with its paws on the keyboard .
media.tenor.com
February 2, 2026 at 10:56 AM
One more hour left till the TQC deadline!
Once you're done with your TQC submission, give yourself a small reward and check out the YouTube comments section of the MELANIA trailer. It is a goldmine!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxXJ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxXJ...
February 1, 2026 at 10:30 AM
Once you're done with your TQC submission, give yourself a small reward and check out the YouTube comments section of the MELANIA trailer. It is a goldmine!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxXJ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxXJ...
Official bids for #QIP2028 are Ottawa, Chicago, Austin, and Virginia Tech. The crowd votes overwhelmingly for Ottawa. This is not definitive yet, but will be part of the input for the steering committee.
January 28, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Official bids for #QIP2028 are Ottawa, Chicago, Austin, and Virginia Tech. The crowd votes overwhelmingly for Ottawa. This is not definitive yet, but will be part of the input for the steering committee.
