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Alex

@itsmealeale.bsky.social
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I think about Maxwell’s demon more than I should. Currently, a postdoc at DTU thinking about different quantum stuff.

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Alex @itsmealeale.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Can a physically motivated symmetry make many-body magic analytically solvable? If so, at what cost? We answer this question (arxiv.org/abs/2609.38319), by looking at pairwise parity symmetry. This gives rise to a family of quantum states known as X-states. (continue..)/n
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Jake Xuereb @curlyqubit.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Today on the arXiv with @itsmealeale.bsky.social we provide insights into the question of whether the presence of quantum entanglement at equilibrium can influence how an interacting system responds to changes in temperature. scirate.com/arxiv/2608.2...
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Valerio Scarani @valerioscarani.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Every civilization have martial heroes, people with highly sophisticated skills developed for war. Then firearms came, which any idiot can use, and became the tool for the task. Martial arts remain as prowess for sports or cultural shows. Are mathematicians the next samurais?
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Dulwich Quantum Computing @dulwichquantum.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
My mom: What have you been doing all these years? Me:
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Alex @itsmealeale.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
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Saulo Moreira @saulovmo.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Quantum Quest is now available in five languages! 🐈‍⬛ ambercentre.ie/additional-l... For those of you who know me, Bob’s voice might sound a little familiar in Portuguese… www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfIH... #SciComm #STEMEducation #Quantum
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Quantum Quest Portuguese Version. An animated short explaining quantum science in an accessible way.
YouTube video by AMBER Centre
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Rafael Macêdo @rafammacedo.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
new paper! energy is one of the simplest and main quantum observables: it is experimentally friendly and theoretically simple. can we witness magic by looking at energy/heat measurements? well, "every little heat is magic"! arxiv.org/abs/2604.08663 1/n
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Alex @itsmealeale.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Strict or correlated catalysis?
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Centre for Quantum Technologies @quantumlah.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
CQT Fellow Nelly Ng, group members Jeongrak Son and Ray Ganardi and their collaborators present a new analysis of the conditions for robust catalysis in the quantum regime.
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Researchers lay out rules for robust catalysis - CQT - Centre for Quantum Technologies
The group of CQT Fellow Nelly Ng and collaborators find conditions that make quantum catalysts fully reusable
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Alex @itsmealeale.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
My debut as a professional Maxwell’s demon designer
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APS DSNP @aps-dsnp.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
🎉 30 years of Statistical & Nonlinear Physics — and we're just getting started! To mark the transition from APS G to D, @physreve.bsky.social have highlighted the most influential papers that drew the map of the field. 📖 journals.aps.org/over-30-years #StatisticalPhysics #DSNP #Physics
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Over 30 years of Statistical and Nonlinear Physics in _Physical Review E_
APS Division of Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and <em>Physical Review E</em> review over 30 years of research in the division’s areas.
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Jake Xuereb @curlyqubit.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
The Qalypso School on Quantum Science in Malta returns for its 3rd edition Aug 31 - Sep 4 this year! 🏖️ We have a great line up of lecturers covering Quantum Optimisation, Quantum Thermodynamics and Quantum Gibbs Sampling. Pre-registrations opens today at forms.gle/3NkMJ3Br9V8b... Do Share!
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Rafael Macêdo @rafammacedo.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
new paper! how can one predict and detect magic of many-body quantum states using few body measurements ? what are the fundamental complexity-theoretic limitations ? we tackle this question in arxiv.org/abs/2602.18939 1/n
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Predicting Magic from Very Few Measurements
The nonstabilizerness of quantum states is a necessary resource for universal quantum computation, yet its characterization is notoriously demanding. Quantifying nonstabilizerness typically requires a...
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Lauritz van Luijk @lvanluijk.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Happy to see our paper Uniqueness of Purifications Is Equivalent to Haag Duality with @arrr.de and @stotti-alex.bsky.social published in PRL! 🥳 doi.org/10.1103/d7nm...
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Uniqueness of Purifications Is Equivalent to Haag Duality
The uniqueness of purifications of quantum states on a system $A$ up to local unitary transformations on a purifying system $B$ is central to quantum information theory. We show that, if the two syste...
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Alex @itsmealeale.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Can Gottesman–Kitaev–Preskill (GKP) encoding turn homodyne detection into a practical tool for revealing Bell nonlocality? The answer is yes, and in fact GKP states also lead to strong and robust multipartite nonlocality with homodyne detection! Today on arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2601.16189 1/n.
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Florian Meier @mathsmire.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
From one tick to the next, small timing uncertainties in clocks usually add up because of the independence of errors. Using fermions tunneling through a quantum wire as clock ticks, we found a way to build a clock where errors cancel out rather than accumulate. arxiv.org/abs/2601.10785
Chain of quantum two level systems. Excitations traveling from left to right, each time marking a tick when they leave on the right.
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Alex @itsmealeale.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Save the date: sun, sea & science, where wave–particle duality means talks in the morning, surf in the afternoon. Quantum at the Dunes (IIP, Natal 🇧🇷) — School 23–27 Feb 2026 → Workshop 2–6 Mar 2026. www.even3.com.br/quantum-at-t...
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Ryuji Takagi @ryujitakagi.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Posted a joint work with Naoto Shiraishi on quantum thermodynamics. We managed to characterize the state transformability (for general coherent states!) with a correlated catalyst by the single free energy ordering. arxiv.org/abs/2510.05642
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Recovery of the second law in fully quantum thermodynamics
Quantum thermodynamics investigates how robust the second law of thermodynamics serves as the unique fundamental law in the small quantum world. To tackle this problem, the quantum coherence constitut...
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Jens Eisert @jenseisert.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Quantum metrology in the finite-sample regime journals.aps.org/prxquantum/a... We propose an operational framework of #quantummetrology in the practically meaningful regime of a few measurement samples, introducing probably approximately correct (#PAC) metrology.
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Alex @itsmealeale.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Our tutorial "A friendly guide to exorcising Maxwell's demon" (journals.aps.org/prxquantum/p...) is out! The big question after the tutorial is whether I’m finally done drawing demons?
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Alex @itsmealeale.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
When I grow up I wanna be like Kristian: talk about quantum gravity while wearing a black-flag t-shirt. (arxiv.org/abs/2503.03585)
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Nelly Ng @nellynghy.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Whether or not you're a fan of thermal operations, there's something fundamentally special about them: by pinning down what it means to equilibrate, thermal operations uniquely emerge! With this, we also uncover nice hierarchy of unital channels, in contrast with the classical Birkhoff theorem.
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Alex @itsmealeale.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Back in Krakow after 1.5 years. First stop: my old office (just had to see it). Somehow got in and boom 💥: everything was exactly the same: Kamil’s notes on my desk, unfinished (now finished) calcs from Marti’s project, old running gear, and the cactus I bought when I started my PhD!
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Jake Xuereb @curlyqubit.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
(1/n) Today on the arXiv, we examine the folklore that cooling a quantum system with access to another requires one to order their joint state eigenvalues in decreasing order and find that this sorting is actually dictated by a simple set of inequalities. scirate.com/arxiv/2506.1...
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Álvaro M. Alhambra @alvalhambra.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
New paper today! Very excited to announce we obtain, from first principles, a quantum master equation that both applies in the many-body regime and provably converges to the exact Gibbs state: arxiv.org/abs/2505.20064
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Thermalization in open many-body systems and KMS detailed balance
Starting from a microscopic description of weak system-bath interactions, we derive from first principles a quantum master equation that does not rely on the well-known rotating wave approximation. Th...
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Jeongrak Son @perp-waterfall.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Our paper (w/ Marek, @ryujitakagi.bsky.social, @nellynghy.bsky.social ) on Quantum Dynamic Programming has recently been published in PRL: journals.aps.org/prl/abstract... Xin Yi from CQT wrote a great highlight article for this paper: www.cqt.sg/highlight/20...
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Quantum Dynamic Programming
We introduce a quantum extension of dynamic programming, a fundamental computational method that efficiently solves recursive problems using memory. Our innovation lies in showing how to coherently ge...
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Alex @itsmealeale.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Started reading “the physics of filter coffee” by @jgagneastrocoffee.bsky.social —highly recommend! While browsing around, I found out he also developed an app to measure grind size distribution. Super useful—I’ve always found it hard to get clear grind size advice or compare grinders properly.
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Felix Leditzky 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @felixled.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
I've been revamping and updating my collection of selected references to topics in quantum information on my homepage. Comments, feedback and suggestions welcome! felixleditzky.info/selected_ref...
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Philip Taranto 🍋 @tarantophilip.eurosky.social · 14/03/2025
Wrote up a little tutorial + review on higher-order quantum operations. If you love quantum channels, you can think of these as linear maps that act on channels themselves in manner fully consistent with quantum theory! I hope it helps future students / researchers! 🤗 arxiv.org/abs/2503.09693
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Higher-Order Quantum Operations
An operational description of quantum phenomena concerns developing models that describe experimentally observed behaviour. $\textit{Higher-order quantum operations}\unicode{x2014}$quantum operations ...
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Alex @itsmealeale.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Maxwell’s demon was on holiday, just catching up on recent updates… until it thought, ‘Hmmm, I should write a tutorial!' Very happy to share "a friendly guide to exorcising Maxwell's demon" (arxiv.org/pdf/2503.07740).
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Henrik Wilming @arrr.de · 07/03/2025
We have a new paper 🎉: The large-scale structure of entanglement in quantum many-body systems Thanks to @lvanluijk.bsky.social and @stotti-alex.bsky.social for the great collaboration. arxiv.org/abs/2503.03833 Short thread below 👇 (1/n) #entanglement #quantum #quantuminformation
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The Large-Scale Structure of Entanglement in Quantum Many-body Systems
We show that the thermodynamic limit of a many-body system can reveal entanglement properties that are hard to detect in finite-size systems -- similar to how phase transitions only sharply emerge in ...
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Alex @itsmealeale.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Had to say goodbye to my usual Maxwell’s demon for a talk that I’m preparing (not about quantum thermo this time)… but fear not! A unitary transformation later, and voilà—a Gaussian ghost appears to say thanks instead!
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Science X / Phys.org @sciencex.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
A novel method detects quantum properties by observing heat flow, linking thermodynamics with quantum information theory, offering an alternative to traditional measurement techniques. doi.org/g86pcf
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Inspired by Maxwell's demon, heat flow acts as a witness to quantum properties
In a new study published in Physical Review Letters, scientists have discovered a novel approach to detecting the quantum properties of a system by simply using heat as a witness, requiring no direct measurement of the quantum system itself.
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Jake Xuereb @curlyqubit.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
(1/n) Been taking sm time off that's so far included, snow hiking, dog running and espresso machine cloning. Now headed to Copenhagen by train for long runs w @itsmealeale.bsky.social En route I'm reading thought provoking essays and articles that force you to take a step back Commentary below 👇
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Alex @itsmealeale.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Hi all, I was uncertain about joining a new social media, but after seeing so many great “tweets” from quantum people, I decided to give it a shot! Below is a gif I made a few months ago while bored—just something to catch your attention.
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