Michael Newman
mikenewmquantum.bsky.social
Michael Newman
@mikenewmquantum.bsky.social
Research scientist @ Google Quantum AI, perennially disappointed Michigan fan, amateur Go player.
Reposted by Michael Newman
I'm often asked if I'll redo the 2019 quantum factoring estimate. Denser storage by yokes, smaller magic factories by cultivation, slimmer approx arithmetic by Chevignard et al… surely the cost is lower now?

Yes, it's lower now.

security.googleblog.com/2025/05/trac...

arxiv.org/abs/2505.15917
May 23, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Reposted by Michael Newman
Mike finally paid for the "pro" version of sketchup, so we owned the 3d models attached to the paper, meaning the yoked surface codes paper is now published! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The message of this paper is: anytime someone says they're 10x better than surface codes, actually it's 4x.
May 14, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Our work nature.com/articles/s41... on below-threshold error correction has won IOP Publishing's Physics World Breakthrough of the Year!

Shared with Bluvstein et al’s work on neutral atoms

Congrats to the field of quantum error correction! Excited for what's next

physicsworld.com/a/two-advanc...
Two advances in quantum error correction share the Physics World 2024 Breakthrough of the Year – Physics World
Complementary research brings practical quantum computing closer
physicsworld.com
December 19, 2024 at 7:56 PM