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Chris Heunen

@chrisheunen.bsky.social
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computer scientist, mathematician, father, karateka, pianist

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Chris Heunen @chrisheunen.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Quantum computing is usually framed in complex linear algebra. This paper asks: what is the least you need to add to reversible classical computing to recover quantum computation? www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @manchegobaby.bsky.social
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Free quantum computing | PNAS
Quantum computing improves substantially on known classical algorithms for various important problems, but the nature of the relationship between q...
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Chris Heunen @chrisheunen.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
At the closing of the UN International Year of Quantum today, the Quantum Software Alliance was born! Founded by institutions from 15 countries over 4 continents, QSA will champion and co-ordinate the development of #quantumsoftware: quantumsoftwarealliance.org
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Chris Heunen @chrisheunen.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Research Associate position available at the University of Edinburgh Quantum Software Lab to work on a joint project on orchestration of heterogeneous quantum computers with Fujitsu. Apply here: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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Research Associate
The School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh invites applications for a Research Associate.The post holder will work on the project “Optimal orchestration of heterogeneous quantum computers”.
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Chris Heunen @chrisheunen.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
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Six weeks left to apply: 16 fully funded Quantum Informatics PhDs
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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 11/11/2025
The number of low-quality or fraudulent publications is rising to hundreds of thousands per year. It is time to reevaluate current publishing models and outline a global plan. Read the 'Reformation of science publishing: the Stockholm Declaration': royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... #RSOS 🧪
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Chris Heunen @chrisheunen.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Coverages, or Grothendieck topologies, describe when a collection of regions covers another region in a space. But what if your space is a spacetime? The topological space may have a causal order saying which (spacetime) points 'come before' which other points, for example.
Illustration of causal coverage: region U is covered by regions A because any path that ends in U must pass through A.
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Chris Heunen @chrisheunen.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Have you ever wondered why we describe circuits with matrices? I mean, circuits are about tensor products, while matrices are about direct sums. This new paper with Louis Lemonnier and @manchegobaby.bsky.social gives a practically useful explanation: arxiv.org/abs/2510.05032.
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Chris Heunen @chrisheunen.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
A new quantum programming construct: more abstract than circuits, capturing important examples elegantly and in fact universal, yet simple and intuitive. With prototype compiler and clean categorical semantics to boot! With Alex Rice, Chris McNally, and Louis Lemonnier: arxiv.org/abs/2507.11676
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Quantum circuits are just a phase
Quantum programs today are written at a low level of abstraction - quantum circuits akin to assembly languages - and even advanced quantum programming languages essentially function as circuit descrip...
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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 12/06/2025
I presented a taster poster on our upcoming work in distributed quantum compilation at the Uni of Edinburgh’s Informatics internal research showcase this Tuesday. Focus: our upcoming model/hardware-agnostic intermediate representation for compilation of quantum programs (quite a mouthful I know!)
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Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
A discussion of the success of Bell Labs as a research organization and why we have nothing like it anymore.
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Fabio Manganiello (@fabio@manganiello.social)
Why Bell Labs worked so well, and could innovate so much, while today’s innovation, in spite of the huge private funding, goes in hype-and-fizzle cycles that leave relatively little behind, is a qu...
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Chris Heunen @chrisheunen.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
A sound and complete finite system of equations to manipulate Toffoli+Hadamard quantum circuits you say, so you can automate circuit optimisation, you say? Why of course, here you go: arxiv.org/abs/2506.06835, with Wang Fang and @manchegobaby.bsky.social.
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Hadamard-$Π$: Equational Quantum Programming
Quantum computing offers advantages over classical computation, yet the precise features that set the two apart remain unclear. In the standard quantum circuit model, adding a 1-qubit basis-changing g...
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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
90% of doing science is being open to new ideas.
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Chris Heunen @chrisheunen.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
🚨 New preprint alert 🚨 Always wanted to know the connection between analytic limits and categorical limits? Tired of having to establish directed colimits of contractions when directed colimits of isometries suffice? You're in luck! Now on www.arxiv.org/abs/2505.17432. With Matt Di Meglio.
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M*-categories: Where limits in analysis and category theory meet
This article introduces M*-categories: an abstraction of categories with similar algebraic and analytic properties to the categories of real, complex, and quaternionic Hilbert spaces and bounded linea...
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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 25/04/2025
Edinburgh local curious about how physics is shaping computer science? Come along to this light & fun Pint of science session, and hear me ramble about quantum computers. Perfect for the curious general public! Register here: pintofscience.co.uk/event/subato...
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qi-cdt.bsky.social @qi-cdt.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Two more days to get your application in! Apply now at quantuminformatics-cdt.ac.uk.
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Chris Heunen @chrisheunen.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Applications are now open for September 2025 entry to the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Quantum Informatics. At least 16 fully-funded PhD studentships are available! Apply at quantuminformatics-cdt.ac.uk.
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Joschka Roffe @qec.codes · 18/11/2024
📢PhD Positions in Quantum Computing Applications are now open for the new CDT in Quantum Informatics. We are recruiting 16 students to start Sept 2025. Positions are fully funded for 4 years. Apply now: quantuminformatics-cdt.ac.uk
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QI CDT – EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Quantum Informatics
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