Alex Townsend-Teague
townsend-teague.bsky.social
Alex Townsend-Teague
@townsend-teague.bsky.social
Working on quantum error correction. Interested in maths, coding and spaced repetition. PhD student at Freie Universität Berlin.
Add another regular Hadamard to the three legged one to get an AND gate on computational basis states:
July 10, 2025 at 10:42 PM
In general it's this bunch of symbols:
July 10, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Yeah I'm mostly joking, I agree with providing circuit diagrams - but if you're having to make up new notation anyway...

Hadamard box is "all ones matrix except for the bottom corner", e.g.:
July 10, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Or we could all use the ZX-calculus!
July 10, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Cinema-goers agree that the proof technique is unsatisfying:
April 25, 2025 at 8:16 AM
New proof technique unlocked:
April 25, 2025 at 6:58 AM
More fun footnotes in papers please! On 'copy cup' gates (scirate.com/arxiv/2410.1...):
March 28, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Noice bit of whimsy from Hinze and Marsden: 'In addition to the ear, we meet two old acquaintances, the doughnut and the hourglass... and we get to know a new one, the “spiral.” All of them share the fate of the ears in that they collapse to the identity.'
December 4, 2024 at 7:59 AM
Alternatively: the ZX-calculus representation is the best way of depicting surface codes (arxiv.org/abs/2204.14038)
November 21, 2024 at 11:39 AM