@kenbrownquantum.bsky.social
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🎆As the year ends, I want to remind everyone that our summer school applications are open!
Please apply/encourage your students to apply here:
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31108
We also have a handshake link too🤝 :
app.joinhandshake.com/emp/jobs/105...
Shares appreciated!
Please apply/encourage your students to apply here:
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31108
We also have a handshake link too🤝 :
app.joinhandshake.com/emp/jobs/105...
Shares appreciated!
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Condensed Matter and Complex Systems
Job #AJO31108, 2026 Los Alamos Quantum Computing Summer School, Condensed Matter and Complex Systems, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, US
academicjobsonline.org
December 22, 2025 at 3:24 PM
🎆As the year ends, I want to remind everyone that our summer school applications are open!
Please apply/encourage your students to apply here:
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31108
We also have a handshake link too🤝 :
app.joinhandshake.com/emp/jobs/105...
Shares appreciated!
Please apply/encourage your students to apply here:
academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31108
We also have a handshake link too🤝 :
app.joinhandshake.com/emp/jobs/105...
Shares appreciated!
INTERNET makes your job easier, INTERNET gives your job to ROBOT, by me in 2015. If I drew it today, ROBOT would be AI.
December 22, 2025 at 7:16 PM
INTERNET makes your job easier, INTERNET gives your job to ROBOT, by me in 2015. If I drew it today, ROBOT would be AI.
Last stop in Korea the ICAMD conference in Busan. They had a booth to dress up in Joseon dynasty dress. Here I am dressed as a scholar.
December 18, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Last stop in Korea the ICAMD conference in Busan. They had a booth to dress up in Joseon dynasty dress. Here I am dressed as a scholar.
Third stop on the Korea Tour was Seoul National University. I met with Prof. Taehyun Kim and his group. Here we are in the Yb+ lab.
December 17, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Third stop on the Korea Tour was Seoul National University. I met with Prof. Taehyun Kim and his group. Here we are in the Yb+ lab.
Next stop on the Korea tour was Sungkyunkwan University. I met with Profs. Yonuk Chong, Junki Kim, Dongmoon Min, and Seok-hyung Lee. Here I am with Prof. Chog, Prof. Kim and Dr. Quantum.
December 16, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Next stop on the Korea tour was Sungkyunkwan University. I met with Profs. Yonuk Chong, Junki Kim, Dongmoon Min, and Seok-hyung Lee. Here I am with Prof. Chog, Prof. Kim and Dr. Quantum.
First stop on Korea trip last week: Ewha University and the labs of Prof. Taeyoung Choi.
December 16, 2025 at 3:01 AM
First stop on Korea trip last week: Ewha University and the labs of Prof. Taeyoung Choi.
Great visit to Tufts a few weeks ago. They have an open-rank job in Quantum Information / Computing theory. Open Positions | Department of Physics and Astronomy share.google/NosuSUs77OZU...
Open Positions | Department of Physics and Astronomy
Below are job opportunities within the Department of Physics and Astronomy. For additional employment opportunities at Tufts University, please visit Careers at Tufts.Full-time Positions:
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December 9, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Great visit to Tufts a few weeks ago. They have an open-rank job in Quantum Information / Computing theory. Open Positions | Department of Physics and Astronomy share.google/NosuSUs77OZU...
QUITS now out in Quantum
quantum-journal.org/papers/q-202...
quantum-journal.org/papers/q-202...
QUITS: A modular Qldpc code circUIT Simulator
Mingyu Kang, Yingjia Lin, Hanwen Yao, Mert Gökduman, Arianna Meinking, and Kenneth R. Brown,
Quantum 9, 1931 (2025).
To achieve quantum fault tolerance with lower overhead, quantum low-density parity-...
quantum-journal.org
December 6, 2025 at 4:07 PM
QUITS now out in Quantum
quantum-journal.org/papers/q-202...
quantum-journal.org/papers/q-202...
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Hi, #quantum researchers and authors! Some friendly, informal, totally non-binding advice from your Editor in Chief at IEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering (TQE).
#QuantumComputing #QuantumInternet
1/about a hundred
#QuantumComputing #QuantumInternet
1/about a hundred
November 24, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Hi, #quantum researchers and authors! Some friendly, informal, totally non-binding advice from your Editor in Chief at IEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering (TQE).
#QuantumComputing #QuantumInternet
1/about a hundred
#QuantumComputing #QuantumInternet
1/about a hundred
Nice collection @rdvquantum.bsky.social I really like "Coming of the Light" in Broken Stars.
A handful of candidates to go to @nerdnitetokyo.bsky.social's end-of-year book exchange next month! Some may get added, some removed.
November 30, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Nice collection @rdvquantum.bsky.social I really like "Coming of the Light" in Broken Stars.
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🚀 We just posted a new paper on arXiv!
“Dynamic local single-shot checks for the toric code”
arxiv.org/abs/2511.20576
“Dynamic local single-shot checks for the toric code”
arxiv.org/abs/2511.20576
Dynamic local single-shot checks for toric codes
Quantum error correction typically requires repeated syndrome extraction due to measurement noise, which results in substantial time overhead in fault-tolerant computation. Single-shot error correctio...
arxiv.org
November 26, 2025 at 6:16 AM
🚀 We just posted a new paper on arXiv!
“Dynamic local single-shot checks for the toric code”
arxiv.org/abs/2511.20576
“Dynamic local single-shot checks for the toric code”
arxiv.org/abs/2511.20576
A few quick notes:
1) Magic - not my favorite word choice - comes from magic angle directions and into quantum computing by arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph... . It is not about entanglement.
1) Magic - not my favorite word choice - comes from magic angle directions and into quantum computing by arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph... . It is not about entanglement.
The Large Hadron Collider has a new job. It’s being used to study how information flows through quantum systems — ideas that lie at the core of quantum computing. @shalmawegs.bsky.social reports: www.quantamagazine.org/particle-phy...
Particle Physicists Detect ‘Magic’ at the Large Hadron Collider | Quanta Magazine
The supercollider is now being used to explore quantum phenomena, including a “magic” form of quantum entanglement.
www.quantamagazine.org
November 25, 2025 at 4:26 PM
A few quick notes:
1) Magic - not my favorite word choice - comes from magic angle directions and into quantum computing by arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph... . It is not about entanglement.
1) Magic - not my favorite word choice - comes from magic angle directions and into quantum computing by arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph... . It is not about entanglement.
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If I believed in the simulation hypothesis (see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulat... for my opinion that somehow made it to Wikipedia) I’d say this is obviously how magic works arxiv.org/abs/2511.15304
Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models
We present evidence that adversarial poetry functions as a universal single-turn jailbreak technique for Large Language Models (LLMs). Across 25 frontier proprietary and open-weight models, curated po...
arxiv.org
November 24, 2025 at 3:58 PM
If I believed in the simulation hypothesis (see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulat... for my opinion that somehow made it to Wikipedia) I’d say this is obviously how magic works arxiv.org/abs/2511.15304
Congrats to Samuel Phiri for successfully defending his thesis!
November 19, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Congrats to Samuel Phiri for successfully defending his thesis!
November 15, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Also my experience. Academic culture benefits immensely from terrific people at the top. To put it more bluntly "Dave Wineland is super nice. Why do you think you can be a <insert favorite expletive here for someone who is a pain to work with >?"
My Ph.D. advisor was Bill Phillips, who's a terrific person. Alain Aspect, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Eric Cornell, Jean Dalibard, Wolfgang Ketterle, Dan Kleppner (RIP), Norman Ramsey (RIP), and Dave Wineland were also great whenever I interacted with them. AMO physics is full of good folks.
Right, enough of James Watson - who's a senior academic you've met who's been an utter delight?
I'll go first: Jocelyn Bell Burnell
I'll go first: Jocelyn Bell Burnell
November 10, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Also my experience. Academic culture benefits immensely from terrific people at the top. To put it more bluntly "Dave Wineland is super nice. Why do you think you can be a <insert favorite expletive here for someone who is a pain to work with >?"
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If you are interested in doing a postdoc with me, please apply to the IQC postdoctoral fellowship here: iqc-uwaterloo.slideroom.com#/login/progr...
University of Waterloo
Attn: Institute for Quantum Computing - SlideRoom
Apply to University of Waterloo
Attn: Institute for Quantum Computing. Powered by SlideRoom.
iqc-uwaterloo.slideroom.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:12 PM
If you are interested in doing a postdoc with me, please apply to the IQC postdoctoral fellowship here: iqc-uwaterloo.slideroom.com#/login/progr...
A great example of the challenge of writing tests.
Quite possibly the dorkiest thing I've ever posted on Substack, about the too-complicated-for-a-midterm question that's been distracting me for a couple of days: open.substack.com/pub/chadorze...
Adventures in Exam Writing: Quantum Edition
"This will be a fun question..." is on the list of Famous Last Words
open.substack.com
October 23, 2025 at 2:20 PM
A great example of the challenge of writing tests.
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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.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/s...
Chen Ning Yang, Nobel-Winning Physicist, Is Dead at 103
www.nytimes.com
October 19, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/s...
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A little treat going into the weekend: the midterm for my quantum mechanics class was a couple weeks ago, and again the students made memes for extra credit.
Let's start out strong with a PSA about the dangers of nondegenerate perturbation theory. Do you know where your good states are?
Let's start out strong with a PSA about the dangers of nondegenerate perturbation theory. Do you know where your good states are?
October 17, 2025 at 10:53 PM
A little treat going into the weekend: the midterm for my quantum mechanics class was a couple weeks ago, and again the students made memes for extra credit.
Let's start out strong with a PSA about the dangers of nondegenerate perturbation theory. Do you know where your good states are?
Let's start out strong with a PSA about the dangers of nondegenerate perturbation theory. Do you know where your good states are?
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Fault-tolerant logical measurement just got a lot faster!
In new work, we show that code surgeries based on hypergraphs, rather than graphs, allow fast and parallel fault-tolerant logical measurements with low qubit overhead (without requiring the code to be single-shot).
arxiv.org/abs/2510.14895
In new work, we show that code surgeries based on hypergraphs, rather than graphs, allow fast and parallel fault-tolerant logical measurements with low qubit overhead (without requiring the code to be single-shot).
arxiv.org/abs/2510.14895
October 17, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Fault-tolerant logical measurement just got a lot faster!
In new work, we show that code surgeries based on hypergraphs, rather than graphs, allow fast and parallel fault-tolerant logical measurements with low qubit overhead (without requiring the code to be single-shot).
arxiv.org/abs/2510.14895
In new work, we show that code surgeries based on hypergraphs, rather than graphs, allow fast and parallel fault-tolerant logical measurements with low qubit overhead (without requiring the code to be single-shot).
arxiv.org/abs/2510.14895
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Here's the recording of my talk at the Simons institute quantum industry day: www.youtube.com/live/SULOaOQ...
And the slides: docs.google.com/presentation...
I was also on the panel discussion at the end of the day (also in the linked playlist).
And the slides: docs.google.com/presentation...
I was also on the panel discussion at the end of the day (also in the linked playlist).
Optimizing the Annoying Stuff: Reducing Costs Obscured by the Abstract Circuit Model
YouTube video by Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing
www.youtube.com
October 17, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Here's the recording of my talk at the Simons institute quantum industry day: www.youtube.com/live/SULOaOQ...
And the slides: docs.google.com/presentation...
I was also on the panel discussion at the end of the day (also in the linked playlist).
And the slides: docs.google.com/presentation...
I was also on the panel discussion at the end of the day (also in the linked playlist).
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After #SQuInT2025 concluded, @balintpato.bsky.social , Cole Maurer, & I opted for a post-conference discussion on quantum computing, its capabilities, public perception of it, and various geopolitical issues that have arisen recently. Recording available here:
www.reverbnation.com/markwilde/so...
www.reverbnation.com/markwilde/so...
Quantum Computer (SQuInT 2025) | Mark Wilde
Quantum Computer (SQuInT 2025) by Mark Wilde, Rock music from Ithaca, NY on ReverbNation
www.reverbnation.com
October 14, 2025 at 2:28 AM
After #SQuInT2025 concluded, @balintpato.bsky.social , Cole Maurer, & I opted for a post-conference discussion on quantum computing, its capabilities, public perception of it, and various geopolitical issues that have arisen recently. Recording available here:
www.reverbnation.com/markwilde/so...
www.reverbnation.com/markwilde/so...
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The pioneering work of Clarke, Devoret, and Martinis showed that very cold electrical circuits behave in ways that exhibit fundamental principles of quantum physics.
www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physi...
www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physi...
Nobel Prize in Physics 2025
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 was awarded jointly to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an...
www.nobelprize.org
October 7, 2025 at 2:35 PM
The pioneering work of Clarke, Devoret, and Martinis showed that very cold electrical circuits behave in ways that exhibit fundamental principles of quantum physics.
www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physi...
www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physi...