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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 08/09/2026

New physics world article by yours truly:

María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 11/08/2026

Finally back in Edinburgh for Fringe. Saw shitfaced Shakespeare. Quite fun. The premise is that one of the classically trained actors in the play is indeed shitfaced and the others must adapt the play to their whims whilst trying to stay serious. We somehow ended up with a puppet father in Hamlet.

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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 28/07/2026

I'm in Paris this week visiting VeriQloud! If you're working in the Paris quantum ecosystem and would like to meet up for a coffee and/or show me your awesome quantum lab, message me! I'd love to visit some of the many people working on fantastic projects around the city, despite the heat.

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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 21/07/2026

On a brilliant twist of fate I met the engineers running eduroam a couple of weeks ago. Felt like meeting superstars, & fun fact Helsinki is apparently not the only airport with eduroam! Others include Stockholm and Luxembourg. Even they are amazed and how well the project has gone down since 2002

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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 21/07/2026

It was a nice collab with collaborators at ETH, IBM and Singapore’s CQT. A full female author list too 😉 bit of a rare sight. The work has been accepted at QCE’s Workshop on AI for Circuit Synthesis, Optimization & Discovery, and will be presented there later this year.

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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 21/07/2026

New short paper exploring how variational quantum circuits (a type of QML circuit) can be either trainable, cut affordably, or non-simulable, but probably not all three. Another reason not to distribute through classical channels: scirate.com/arxiv/2607.1...

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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

For the past 70 years, scientists have taught us that female mammals are born with a finite ovarian egg supply. In humans, that supply dwindles until menopause, when it goes bankrupt. That dogma might be utterly wrong, new research suggests. www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

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The biological dogma that women don’t make new eggs after birth may be wrong

Female mammals have long thought to be born with all the eggs they would ever have, but new research is challenging that consensus

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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 04/07/2026

Coseners was great, I missed cheese and british irony. Selling quantum to a room full of classical internet & communications architects went down quite well

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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 27/06/2026

Such a pleasure to have participated at NUS’s HACKAMONTH this June! Beyond grateful to my co-hackers and the staff at Singapore’s Center of Quantum Tech, for an incredible month & wonderful collaborations! One of the papers written during this time is already out, but keep an eye out for more :)

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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 27/06/2026

I visited the first museum on the afterlife. Can now claim I have been to hell and back 😉

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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 20/06/2026

Some pictures of the orchid garden at the Singaporean botanical garden

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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 19/06/2026

New pre-print: a quantum ring all-reduce, the primitive behind large-scale ML training. We cut online communication, enable info-theoretically private aggregation, & show quadratic/exponential advantages on gradient-conflict problems. scirate.com/arxiv/2606.2...

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Quantum ring all-reduce: communication and privacy advantages for distributed learning

Machine learning models have scaled to unprecedented sizes, making training across distributed devices the de facto standard in the field. In this work, we explore how quantum communications can make ...

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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 16/06/2026

Yesterday I gave a short intro to Distributed Quantum Computing at the Center of Quantum tech in Singapore! You can check out my (20 min long) dry run here: m.youtube.com/watch?v=xUrb...

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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 09/06/2026

In case you doubt why would distribution be useful for compute: ~ from arxiv.org/pdf/1802.05799

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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 09/06/2026

It would be very nice if quantum circuit benchmarking suites like MQTBench came with expected results for the circuits in 0 noise environments so that we can test against them. It's easy enough for things like W or GHZ generators but I have no clue what your Grover implementation was converging on

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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 05/06/2026

Having a great time in sunny Singapore during the first week of CQT’s HACKMONTH

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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 02/06/2026

I’ll be at the Center of Quantum Tech in the National University if Singapore t’ill late June. Reach out if you’re around!

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James Wootton @decodoku.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

I have a few things to plug so I guess this needs to be a thread. First: new paper! What if instead of designing quantum software with H's in boxs and of weird things, what if you just play whack-a-mole with a managable set of variables. Turns out it works! scirate.com/arxiv/2605.2...

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Cute Cat Plays Whack-A-Mole Game

ALT: Cute Cat Plays Whack-A-Mole Game

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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 30/05/2026

Interested in what resource estimation for minimisation looks like in DQC? Well I have a new blog post: grageragarces.github.io/dqc_articles...

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What can you tune?

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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 29/05/2026

Little pic enjoying the distillery tasting at the Isle of Skye

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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 29/05/2026

3/3 Which might sound obvious, but it’s essentially saying the context of the correlations and most importantly their no-gos is what enables magic

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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 29/05/2026

2/3 essentially arguing causality might is the trigger for advantage in the way that entanglement isn’t, is saying “the rules that differentiate QM from just a randomly probabilistic setting enable Q advantage”.

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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 29/05/2026

1/2 After a week of causality lectures and explanations over sake and whiskey I think I’m starting to get it:

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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 25/05/2026

Lovely ride to the Isle of Skye today for the QI spring school

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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 22/05/2026

better than I expected, but defo not the place for celiacs

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Rod Van Meter @rdvquantum.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

QuNAP group at the end of the day. A few people are missing, but this is a good chunk of attendees. #IEEE #INFOCOM #INFOCOM2026

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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 14/05/2026

Landed in Tokyo! First time in Asia (and thus also Japan). Quite excited and tired from the flight!

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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 09/05/2026

Recent work were Majid Haghparast and I explore how the optimisation of quantum circuits behaves when implemented before and after partitioning in a standard compiler pipeline for distributed quantum computing: arxiv.org/pdf/2605.02727 Will be presented at DisQIC within ICDCS this summer.

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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 08/05/2026

I made it to the Nova 111 student list this year! The list recognises the top 111 students contributing to maths, physics and data analysis in the country

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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 05/05/2026

Are you in the Distributed Quantum Computing space? Do you develop hypergraph partitioners? Have you evaluated these partitioners using random circuits? Well, you shouldn’t… Random circuits are a computationally expensive & misleading testbed for partitioner performance: scirate.com/arxiv/2605.0...

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On the Distortion of Partitioning Performance by Random Quantum Circuits

Hypergraph partitioning is a central component of distributed quantum computing (DQC) compilers. However, due to the limited size of available quantum benchmark suites, many partitioning studies rely ...

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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 01/05/2026

I recently wrote an article for physics world on AI generated experiments. It included thoughts from the researchers on how this technology will change the role of experimentalists (particularly junior ones) physicsworld.com/a/meta-desig...

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Meta-design: language models generate novel quantum experiments – Physics World

Researchers stretch the limits of how far artificial intelligence can contribute to scientific discovery

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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 01/05/2026

Very excited to have had two papers accepted this week! The camera ready versions should make their way to arXiv by the end of next week :) sites.google.com/view/disqic2...

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DisQIC 2026 - Accepted Papers and Program

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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 19/04/2026

Using my train ride to have a laugh about the dichotomy of recent comments on my posts … praise and hate! I must be doing something right

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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 15/04/2026

I think the paper overlords are starting to take the piss with my PhD

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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 14/04/2026

I’ll be at QCTip next week talking about Global and Local encodings for Distributed Quantum Computing, an idea that has already led to published work with more on the way. Interested? Read my blog post about it: grageragarces.github.io/dqc_articles...

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Global versus Local Encodings for DQC

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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 14/04/2026

The endorphin hit of authors actually nailing revisions ... peak

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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 10/04/2026

Edinburgh quantum science festival was a fun volunteering experience! Kids just wanted to know how fast thing were (priorities!)

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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 07/04/2026

German or autistic? I’m apparently both 🤣 To quote the result “it's people for whom the gap between how things are and how they ought to be is not an abstraction but a constant, low-grade irritation” german.millermanschool.com

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Am I German or Autistic?

A rigorous diagnostic. 15 questions. One uncomfortable truth.

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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 02/04/2026

I’ll be in Singapore June 1-26 for the @quantumlah.bsky.social’s Quantum Hackamonth! Exciting!!!

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María Gragera Garcés @grageragarces.github.io · 31/03/2026

Open research question we’re looking into! There are ways to reduce the loss and photonics definitely plays nicer

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