nick farina
@nfarina.bsky.social
ringleader of eeroq
i work on helping people smarter than me build a quantum computer using single electrons floating on superfluid helium
i work on helping people smarter than me build a quantum computer using single electrons floating on superfluid helium
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nick farina
@nfarina.bsky.social
· Oct 5
New from EeroQ in Physical Review X: controlling and sensing of single electrons above superfluid helium at temperatures above 1 K! An important step on the long journey to aid efforts to develop large-scale quantum processors.
journals.aps.org/prx/abstract...
journals.aps.org/prx/abstract...
New from EeroQ in Physical Review X: controlling and sensing of single electrons above superfluid helium at temperatures above 1 K! An important step on the long journey to aid efforts to develop large-scale quantum processors.
journals.aps.org/prx/abstract...
journals.aps.org/prx/abstract...
October 5, 2025 at 9:34 PM
New from EeroQ in Physical Review X: controlling and sensing of single electrons above superfluid helium at temperatures above 1 K! An important step on the long journey to aid efforts to develop large-scale quantum processors.
journals.aps.org/prx/abstract...
journals.aps.org/prx/abstract...
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Working on LSD was fun! - Our paper on Localized statistics decoding (LSD) for qLDPC codes is now in print.
LSD is a highly parallelizable, reliability-guided inversion decoder that exploits the clustering of errors. Think of it as a parallel version of OSD.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
LSD is a highly parallelizable, reliability-guided inversion decoder that exploits the clustering of errors. Think of it as a parallel version of OSD.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Localized statistics decoding for quantum low-density parity-check codes - Nature Communications
Quantum low-density parity-check (QLDPC) codes offer lower overhead than topological quantum error-correcting codes, but decoding remains a key challenge for scalable fault-tolerant quantum computing....
www.nature.com
September 3, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Working on LSD was fun! - Our paper on Localized statistics decoding (LSD) for qLDPC codes is now in print.
LSD is a highly parallelizable, reliability-guided inversion decoder that exploits the clustering of errors. Think of it as a parallel version of OSD.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
LSD is a highly parallelizable, reliability-guided inversion decoder that exploits the clustering of errors. Think of it as a parallel version of OSD.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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How would you respond if your lab got destroyed by a missile?
"I wish that a day will come very, very soon in which Iranian scientists and Israeli scientists will collaborate and work together and perform scientific research for the future of mankind."
apnews.com/article/isra...
"I wish that a day will come very, very soon in which Iranian scientists and Israeli scientists will collaborate and work together and perform scientific research for the future of mankind."
apnews.com/article/isra...
June 22, 2025 at 7:42 AM
How would you respond if your lab got destroyed by a missile?
"I wish that a day will come very, very soon in which Iranian scientists and Israeli scientists will collaborate and work together and perform scientific research for the future of mankind."
apnews.com/article/isra...
"I wish that a day will come very, very soon in which Iranian scientists and Israeli scientists will collaborate and work together and perform scientific research for the future of mankind."
apnews.com/article/isra...
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I remember getting a $300k grant 10 years ago to perform non-abelian braiding in 2 years
It is funny, but it is also sad. "The people" want miracles from science, right now, and for free. If one is achieved, they move on immediately and just want more, different, fresh like distracted children.
It is funny, but it is also sad. "The people" want miracles from science, right now, and for free. If one is achieved, they move on immediately and just want more, different, fresh like distracted children.
My favorite roadmap is from 2004: qist.lanl.gov/qcomp_map.sh...
“By the year 2007, to
* encode a single qubit into the state of a logical qubit formed from several physical qubits,
* perform repetitive error correction of the logical qubit”
“By the year 2007, to
* encode a single qubit into the state of a logical qubit formed from several physical qubits,
* perform repetitive error correction of the logical qubit”
qist.lanl.gov
June 5, 2025 at 6:20 AM
I remember getting a $300k grant 10 years ago to perform non-abelian braiding in 2 years
It is funny, but it is also sad. "The people" want miracles from science, right now, and for free. If one is achieved, they move on immediately and just want more, different, fresh like distracted children.
It is funny, but it is also sad. "The people" want miracles from science, right now, and for free. If one is achieved, they move on immediately and just want more, different, fresh like distracted children.
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Prof. Roee Ozeri runs a trapped ions lab.
www.weizmann.ac.il/complex/ozer...
www.weizmann.ac.il/complex/ozer...
Welcome to the Weizmann trapped-ions lab!
Our group studies quantum physics using ultra cold trapped ions. When we say cold we mean very cold, as cold as it gets. We laser-cool our ions to a temperature of a few µK (a millionth of a degree ab...
www.weizmann.ac.il
June 22, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Prof. Roee Ozeri runs a trapped ions lab.
www.weizmann.ac.il/complex/ozer...
www.weizmann.ac.il/complex/ozer...
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I'm curious about the sudden surge in QT/QC news. It can't just be due to the end-of-quarter reporting, can it?
June 14, 2025 at 2:06 PM
I'm curious about the sudden surge in QT/QC news. It can't just be due to the end-of-quarter reporting, can it?
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On Friday I made my first-ever calls to congress to oppose funding cuts to NSF. It was super easy — it took just a couple minutes, and I read off a script provided by Save NSF (www.savensf.com). Afterwards, I felt good. The pervasive sense of powerlessness was held at bay, at least temporarily.(1/8)
Home | Save NSF
Save NSF is a coalition of concerned scientists and allies who are working to save funding for scientific grants through the U.S. National Science Foundation.
Our mission is to support the science...
www.savensf.com
May 18, 2025 at 3:30 AM
On Friday I made my first-ever calls to congress to oppose funding cuts to NSF. It was super easy — it took just a couple minutes, and I read off a script provided by Save NSF (www.savensf.com). Afterwards, I felt good. The pervasive sense of powerlessness was held at bay, at least temporarily.(1/8)
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We’d love to find more #QEC experts here on BlueSky and have created this starter pack to help connect the error correction community.
It’s just a start – if you’re working QEC, please follow this account and message us. We’ll happily add you to the pack!
go.bsky.app/RiZfVco 🧪
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It’s just a start – if you’re working QEC, please follow this account and message us. We’ll happily add you to the pack!
go.bsky.app/RiZfVco 🧪
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Riverlane's Quantum Error Correction Pack
Join the conversation
go.bsky.app
May 9, 2025 at 10:41 AM
We’d love to find more #QEC experts here on BlueSky and have created this starter pack to help connect the error correction community.
It’s just a start – if you’re working QEC, please follow this account and message us. We’ll happily add you to the pack!
go.bsky.app/RiZfVco 🧪
🧵[2/2]
It’s just a start – if you’re working QEC, please follow this account and message us. We’ll happily add you to the pack!
go.bsky.app/RiZfVco 🧪
🧵[2/2]
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Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.
Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions
Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund
scim.ag
May 8, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.
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An NSF PO on its upcoming 75th anniversary: "In nature, systems evolve towards minimum of energy, following the laws of physics. In the US today things evolve to a location of maximum pain, violating the laws of the land." www.linkedin.com/posts/tomasz...
May 7, 2025 at 4:06 PM
An NSF PO on its upcoming 75th anniversary: "In nature, systems evolve towards minimum of energy, following the laws of physics. In the US today things evolve to a location of maximum pain, violating the laws of the land." www.linkedin.com/posts/tomasz...
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Great explanation of the basics of quantum computing and Grover's algorithm by 3Blue1Brown. He also addresses the common misconception of "exponential parallelism".
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQWp...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQWp...
But what is quantum computing? (Grover's Algorithm)
YouTube video by 3Blue1Brown
www.youtube.com
May 3, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Great explanation of the basics of quantum computing and Grover's algorithm by 3Blue1Brown. He also addresses the common misconception of "exponential parallelism".
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQWp...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQWp...
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Genuinely unclear, but many NSF staff have wondered if it is designed to impound funds and reduce the budget this FY, in preparation for extremely large cuts next year. If you pause funding long enough, you just won't be able to get it all out the door. Unused money helps justify a larger cut.
May 2, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Genuinely unclear, but many NSF staff have wondered if it is designed to impound funds and reduce the budget this FY, in preparation for extremely large cuts next year. If you pause funding long enough, you just won't be able to get it all out the door. Unused money helps justify a larger cut.
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BREAKING: NSF has frozen all grant funding, as of yesterday. It's unclear when they will resume funding awards, or why the pause has been put in place. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.
www.nature.com
May 1, 2025 at 10:58 PM
BREAKING: NSF has frozen all grant funding, as of yesterday. It's unclear when they will resume funding awards, or why the pause has been put in place. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Excited to be in illustrious company in this @techcrunch.com piece on leading contenders in QC chip race!
techcrunch.com/2025/04/28/m...
techcrunch.com/2025/04/28/m...
Meet the companies racing to build quantum chips | TechCrunch
Quantum computing has long been announced as “just around the corner,” but several companies are now determined to make this a commercial reality, with
techcrunch.com
May 1, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Excited to be in illustrious company in this @techcrunch.com piece on leading contenders in QC chip race!
techcrunch.com/2025/04/28/m...
techcrunch.com/2025/04/28/m...
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My latest pod is out! Please subscribe if you’re into pop culture nonsense. This week it’s all Sinners. And Labubu of course.
youtu.be/zi-Zv-WH-x8
youtu.be/zi-Zv-WH-x8
Episode 2: GO WATCH SINNERS
YouTube video by Pop Culture Mondays on Thursdays
youtu.be
May 1, 2025 at 3:50 PM
My latest pod is out! Please subscribe if you’re into pop culture nonsense. This week it’s all Sinners. And Labubu of course.
youtu.be/zi-Zv-WH-x8
youtu.be/zi-Zv-WH-x8
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Glad to see our work on potential applications of quantum computing to biomarker discovery out in the @cellpress.bsky.social Patterns journal :)
www.cell.com/patterns/ful...
www.cell.com/patterns/ful...
May 1, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Glad to see our work on potential applications of quantum computing to biomarker discovery out in the @cellpress.bsky.social Patterns journal :)
www.cell.com/patterns/ful...
www.cell.com/patterns/ful...
Great article in Quantum Computing Report on our latest peer reviewed advance:
quantumcomputingreport-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/quantumc...
quantumcomputingreport-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/quantumc...
EeroQ Advances Qubit Readout for their Electrons-on-Helium Qubits with Novel Microwave Resonators - Quantum Computing Report
EeroQ has developed new microwave resonators designed to enhance the speed and accuracy of qubit readout in its electrons-on-helium quantum computing platform. Published in Physical Review Applied, th...
quantumcomputingreport-com.cdn.ampproject.org
February 23, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Great article in Quantum Computing Report on our latest peer reviewed advance:
quantumcomputingreport-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/quantumc...
quantumcomputingreport-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/quantumc...
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Super happy to see our work on the LDPC cat architecture published! What's not to love about cat qubit and LDPC codes?
Great collaboration with @diego-ruiz.bsky.social @christophe.vuillot.info Jérémie Guillaud and Mazyar Mirrahimi
rdcu.be/d7wtt
Great collaboration with @diego-ruiz.bsky.social @christophe.vuillot.info Jérémie Guillaud and Mazyar Mirrahimi
rdcu.be/d7wtt
LDPC-cat codes for low-overhead quantum computing in 2D
Nature Communications - Implementing full quantum error correction incurs a significant hardware overhead. Here, the authors propose a quantum computing architecture combining superconducting cat...
rdcu.be
January 27, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Super happy to see our work on the LDPC cat architecture published! What's not to love about cat qubit and LDPC codes?
Great collaboration with @diego-ruiz.bsky.social @christophe.vuillot.info Jérémie Guillaud and Mazyar Mirrahimi
rdcu.be/d7wtt
Great collaboration with @diego-ruiz.bsky.social @christophe.vuillot.info Jérémie Guillaud and Mazyar Mirrahimi
rdcu.be/d7wtt
An international flight attendant couldn’t bear to pour out the hardly drank bottle of Châteauneuf-du-Pape… so she gave it to me to put in my bag
January 19, 2025 at 7:01 PM
An international flight attendant couldn’t bear to pour out the hardly drank bottle of Châteauneuf-du-Pape… so she gave it to me to put in my bag
what was the final moment you realized you had to leave twitter?
(even if you occasionally relapse)
(even if you occasionally relapse)
January 17, 2025 at 10:16 AM
what was the final moment you realized you had to leave twitter?
(even if you occasionally relapse)
(even if you occasionally relapse)
I'm working on slowly building a list of the NYC quantum community (I travel between here and Chicago) to keep track of the growing ecosystem. Who should I add? Reply or DM!
January 5, 2025 at 10:00 PM
I'm working on slowly building a list of the NYC quantum community (I travel between here and Chicago) to keep track of the growing ecosystem. Who should I add? Reply or DM!
Great opportunity!
Happy New Year! I’m looking for a postdoc to join our new lab at UC Berkeley starting in summer 2025 (flexible). We are building Hybrid quantum systems based on neutral atoms platform with nanophotonics and superconducting circuits. ⚛️⚡️❄️ suleymanzadelab.com
SuleymanzadeLab – Home
Suleymanzade lab at UC Berkeley
suleymanzadelab.com
January 5, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Great opportunity!
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the rich and powerful are getting richer and more powerful while communities at the margins are increasingly left with no say, ever cornered into `no exit’ from a technology that most didn’t ask for
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January 1, 2025 at 6:41 PM
the rich and powerful are getting richer and more powerful while communities at the margins are increasingly left with no say, ever cornered into `no exit’ from a technology that most didn’t ask for
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On the other platform, immigration is the hot topic. On this one, my feed looks like a mix of "in a promising new research avenue, quantum computers will be used to test the quantumness of consciousness" and "the new samsung galaxy will be quantum"
January 1, 2025 at 5:24 PM
On the other platform, immigration is the hot topic. On this one, my feed looks like a mix of "in a promising new research avenue, quantum computers will be used to test the quantumness of consciousness" and "the new samsung galaxy will be quantum"
fireworks in chicago!
January 1, 2025 at 6:25 AM
fireworks in chicago!