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FTQC at Pasqal

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Louis Vignoli @lvignoli.eu · 12/06/2026
arxiv.org/abs/2606.13521 claims a "new S gate in the rotated surface code". To me the protocol is quite the same as the one described in Ismail et al. 2025 arxiv.org/abs/2509.18294, see Fig. 12 !
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Quantum Logic Codes: Complete Transversal Logical Clifford Instruction Sets for High-Rate Stabilizer Quantum Error Correcting Codes
We study the structure and transversal logical capabilities of stabilizer quantum error correcting codes. Among our results, we identify universal lower bounds on circuit depth to generate a full logi...
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Louis Vignoli @lvignoli.eu · 03/06/2026
There is an exciting job opening as Pasqal right now careers.pasqal.com/jobs/7821621... A position to work at the crossing of quantum algorithms, their fault-tolerant implementations and neutral atoms technology! ✨
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Mid-Senior Quantum Developer - W/M - Pasqal
Participez au développement rapide d’une start-up deep-tech à l’avant-garde de la seconde révolution quantique !
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Craig Gidney @craiggidney.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Blog post: "The French have the Quantum Circuits" algassert.com/post/2602 André Schrottenloher just published a preprint showing how to construct quantum ECDLP circuits with costs similar to the ones in our zero knowledge proofs.
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The French have the Quantum Circuits
Craig Gidney's computer science blog
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Louis Vignoli @lvignoli.eu · 01/04/2026
Between two property flips, Fowler giving some thoughts to QEC. He is still hooked! arxiv.org/abs/2603.28852
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Color code off-the-hook: avoiding hook errors with a single auxiliary per plaquette
Syndrome extraction in the planar color code is complicated by high weight stabilizers and hook errors that can reduce the circuit-level distance. With a single auxiliary qubit per plaquette, any spat...
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Error Correction Zoo @eczoo.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
The forward-looking Oratomic time-efficient architecture claims to "potentially enable runtimes of 10 days for ECC–256 with ≈26,000 qubits, and 97 days for RSA–2048 with ≈102,000." This is based on stitching together several gadgets and plausibly assuming they can work together on an atom platform.
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Louis Vignoli @lvignoli.eu · 31/03/2026
Recently Scott Aaronson was suggesting that progresses on RSA number factoring should maybe kept reasonably private for sensitivity reasons scottaaronson.blog?p=9564
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On reducing the cost of breaking RSA-2048 to 100,000 physical qubits
So, a group based in Sydney, Australia has put out a preprint with a new estimate of the resource requirements for Shor’s algorithm, claiming that if you use LDPC codes rather than the surfac…
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Louis Vignoli @lvignoli.eu · 31/03/2026
Having been logged off unexpectedly, I was surprised and thrilled to discover that @odpomery.bsky.social did the Bluesky login screen illustration, only to find out few hours later he actually did two! Such a treat to see an artist you cherish pop up at a place you value 😃 Thank you Owen!
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Frédéric Magniez @fmagniez.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
After years of projects and actions led by core teams at MPQ and IRIF, Université Paris Cité is now scaling up with its own Quantum Initiative, bringing together its labs. Expanding research, training & innovate on across quantum technologies, from local to European levels. 🌐 quantum.u-pariscite.fr
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Quantech | Université Paris Cité
Les sciences et technologies quantiques reposent sur la capacité de contrôler individuellement des objets quantiques. Nées de la rencontre entre physique, informatique et mathématiques, elles s’appuient sur des concepts fascinants comme la superposition et l’intrication pour ouvrir des perspectives inédites : calculs ultra-puissants, capteurs d’une précision extrême et communications inviolables. À UPCité, recherche, formation et innovation s’unissent pour accélérer la transition vers une nouvelle ère scientifique et technologique.
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Louis Vignoli @lvignoli.eu · 13/03/2026
Keep thinking about arxiv.org/abs/2505.13587
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Louis Vignoli @lvignoli.eu · 18/02/2026
After the CEA in France and Jülich in Germany, this is the 3rd QPU installed and operational in a European HPC center! Huge congrats to all my involved colleagues at @pasqal-quantum.bsky.social!
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Louis Vignoli @lvignoli.eu · 28/01/2026
Indépendance stratégique quantique 🐓🇫🇷
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Louis Vignoli @lvignoli.eu · 21/01/2026
TIL about the atmospheric sponge effect 🧽 www.latimes.com/california/s...
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California is free of all drought, dryness for first time in 25 years. Inside the remarkable turnaround
After experiencing one of the wettest holiday seasons on record, still soggy California hit a major milestone this week — having zero areas of abnormal dryness for the first time in 25 years.
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rob pike @robpike.io · 25/12/2025
Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation
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Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village)

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Louis Vignoli @lvignoli.eu · 16/12/2025
Congrats Philippe! Exciting times ahead 😀
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Louis Vignoli @lvignoli.eu · 23/11/2025
If you can smell meaning, you can turn in a latent space bloodhound sniffing for global minima 🐕 writetobrain.com/olfactory
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We Induced Smells With Ultrasound
We decided to try to stimulate the olfactory bulb with focused ultrasound. As far as we know, no one seems to have done this kind of stimulation before - even in animals.
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Louis Vignoli @lvignoli.eu · 10/10/2025
Unclear to me what are the significance and practical consequences of arxiv.org/abs/2510.08451 ... The d* bound is not so large
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Deena Mousa @deenamousa.com · 25/09/2025
If benchmark performance translated to reality, radiologists should be the canary in the coal mine of AI job loss. Instead, radiology residency slots hit a record high in 2025.
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Louis Vignoli @lvignoli.eu · 25/09/2025
There are urban legends such as this one, that we know wrong from experience. Luckily there are great folks to debunk them, thanks @deenamousa.com www.worksinprogress.news/p/why-ai-isn...
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AI isn't replacing radiologists
Radiology combines digital images, clear benchmarks, and repeatable tasks. But demand for human radiologists is ay an all-time high.
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nate @loglog.wtf · 17/09/2025
I made a zine about quantum gates and distributed it at @unitary.foundation's unitaryCON this two weeks ago. check it out :) and lemme know what you think nates.place/static/ng01....
cover of zine called nates gates created on a typewriter
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Sergey Frolov🇺🇦 @spinespresso.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
perhaps making topological qubits when you know you don't have Majorana?
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Bob Coecke @coecke.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Hi, I am here! Will mostly post about Quantum Foundations/Computing and Quantum Music.
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Louis Vignoli @lvignoli.eu · 24/08/2025
It's amazing how jj is a pleasure to work with. 20 minutes ago I erased by mistake an _untracked_ file that I used to record progress while editing history on my local branch.
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Louis Vignoli @lvignoli.eu · 10/07/2025
In 30 minutes, Pascal Scholl and I will give technical details on FTQC and how we do it at Pasqal, with the plans on the coming years. See you there!
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Louis Vignoli @lvignoli.eu · 09/07/2025
My great desk buddy @francoismarie.bsky.social published arxiv.org/abs/2507.03678 earlier this week, introducing his efforts in collecting QEC experiments across all modalities into a single database at github.com/francois-mar... Check it out!
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Awesome Quantum Computing Experiments: Benchmarking Experimental Progress Towards Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation
Achieving fault-tolerant quantum computation (FTQC) demands simultaneous progress in physical qubit performance and quantum error correction (QEC). This work reviews and benchmarks experimental advanc...
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Louis Vignoli @lvignoli.eu · 13/06/2025
It has been a hot day in Paris—currently 31°; and yet we are supposed to have hail! 🌨️ Friday evening picnic cancelled as the town closed all parks…
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Dulwich Quantum Computing @dulwichquantum.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Forget the 10²⁵ years needed to simulate Google's Willow chip on world's fastest supercomputer. The most impressive number in quantum computing in this: It would take 3678 years for a quantum computing PhD student to earn the 103 million made by the IonQ CEO Niccolo de Masi in his first 90 days.
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James Sanders @jamesaltonsanders.com · 11/06/2025
Maybe we shouldn't join an unproven technology like quantum computing with an unproven financial vehicle like SPACs. —me, 2021 www.reddit.com/r/wallstreet...
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Louis Vignoli @lvignoli.eu · 13/06/2025
My deer colleague Alex has brought to publication his book Machine Learning in Quantum Sciences! Available for free on the arXiv here: arxiv.org/abs/2204.04198. www.cambridge.org/us/universit...
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Modern applications of machine learning in quantum sciences
In this book, we provide a comprehensive introduction to the most recent advances in the application of machine learning methods in quantum sciences. We cover the use of deep learning and kernel metho...
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Craig Gidney @craiggidney.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
This is a typical "making the hard part harder" paper. Making good qubits is *already* the hardest part. Replacing those qubits (2-level systems) with n-level systems isn't helping, it's hurting. But the increased difficulty is hard to quantify, whereas counting oscillators is easy, so here we are.
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Louis Vignoli @lvignoli.eu · 30/05/2025
On spot paper from @riverlane.com. arxiv.org/abs/2505.23567
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Scalable decoding protocols for fast transversal logic in the surface code
Atomic, molecular and optical (AMO) approaches to quantum computing are promising due to their increased connectivity, long coherence times and apparent scalability. However, they have a significantly...
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Louis Vignoli @lvignoli.eu · 28/05/2025
"Fault-tolerant? I prefer blunder-receptive."
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Louis Vignoli @lvignoli.eu · 23/05/2025
arxiv.org/abs/2505.15917
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Louis Vignoli @lvignoli.eu · 19/05/2025
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Louis Vignoli @lvignoli.eu · 16/05/2025
Opinion: using both everyday, github.com/jj-vcs/jj had a more sizeable impact on my daily work than AI coding tools @thorstenball.com
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GitHub - jj-vcs/jj: A Git-compatible VCS that is both simple and powerful
A Git-compatible VCS that is both simple and powerful - jj-vcs/jj
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Louis Vignoli @lvignoli.eu · 07/05/2025
You may not like it, but this is what peak quantum computing looks like ✨
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anthony-leverrier.bsky.social @anthony-leverrier.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
The Paris ecosystem is great and there are many opportunities to collaborate with world-class startups in quantum computing, including @aliceandbob.bsky.social @quandela.bsky.social @pasqal.bsky.social Application deadline: 15 June (2/2)
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Graeme Smith @graemesmith.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Fantastic exposition of the most promising near-term applications of quantum computers! www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4...
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Louis Vignoli @lvignoli.eu · 03/03/2025
@dominicdudley.bsky.social why is this list “short”? The euro zone itself is 20 countries.
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Louis Vignoli @lvignoli.eu · 03/03/2025
Great paper on this important error channel that loss is for atomic platforms arxiv.org/abs/2502.20558
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Leveraging Atom Loss Errors in Fault Tolerant Quantum Algorithms
Errors associated with qubit loss constitute an important source of noise in many quantum hardware systems, particularly in neutral atom quantum computers. We develop a theoretical framework to handle...
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Louis Vignoli @lvignoli.eu · 26/02/2025
@phfaist.bsky.social how’s the fish? 😄
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Louis Vignoli @lvignoli.eu · 17/02/2025
Have you ever had to add DOIs by hand to your colleague’s legacy bibtex file? I have, so here is doizer! github.com/lvignoli/doi...
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GitHub - lvignoli/doizer: Add missing DOIs to your bibtex files
Add missing DOIs to your bibtex files. Contribute to lvignoli/doizer development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Louis Vignoli @lvignoli.eu · 15/01/2025
You may not like it, but this is what peak Zig looks like
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Louis Vignoli @lvignoli.eu · 15/01/2025
Pedro Pascal speedrun lvignoli.eu/posts/2025-01-14%20Pedro
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Pedro Pascal speedrun | Louis Vignoli
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Zoltán Zimborás @zoltanzimboras.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
To reach some consensus about the prospects of near-term (late nisq and early fault tolerant) quantum computing, we had a 3-day discussion event (“Quantum Now”) in Lapland with both optimists and pessimists. This continued at SeeQA 2024 in Oxford. See our conclusions here arxiv.org/abs/2501.05694
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Myths around quantum computation before full fault tolerance: What no-go theorems rule out and what they don't
In this perspective article, we revisit and critically evaluate prevailing viewpoints on the capabilities and limitations of near-term quantum computing and its potential transition toward fully fault...
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Louis Vignoli @lvignoli.eu · 14/01/2025
github.com/golang/go/is... > Go is usable today. Perhaps no change is better than this change. Perhaps no change is better than any change.
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proposal: spec: reduce error handling boilerplate using ? · Issue #71203 · golang/go
Proposal Details Background As discussed in the introduction to an earlier, declined, proposal, Go programs have a lot of error checking code. In surveys error handling is listed as the biggest spe...
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Louis Vignoli @lvignoli.eu · 12/01/2025
Nice visualization to remind that, despite how small and insignificant PhD work may have felt sometimes, it is still a feat to dent the knowledge boundary.
matt.might.net
The illustrated guide to a Ph.D.
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Thorsten Ball @thorstenball.com · 08/01/2025
Okay, it can't just me be: 1. Listen to music on phone via bluetooth headphones 2. Call comes in, hear ringing *via bluetooth headphones* 3. Pick up 4. Headphones are not used for call, instead phone's mic & speaker 5. "Wait a second, can't hear you" Why?
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anthony-leverrier.bsky.social @anthony-leverrier.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Oh this is great! Who said quantum computers had to work with qubits? Turns out it's possible to design a quantum algorithm for factoring that only requires 3 quantum oscillators and a single qubit! (1/4)
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Dulwich Quantum Computing @dulwichquantum.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Great timeline of quantum supremacy claims and refutations by Tom Wong on X. x.com/thomasgwong/...
Timeline of quantum supremacy claims and refutations.
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John Preskill @preskill.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
I created a transcript of my talk at the Q2B Conference: "Beyond NISQ: The Megaquop Machine." You can read it here: quantumfrontiers.com/2024/12/14/b...
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Beyond NISQ: The Megaquop Machine
On December 11, I gave a keynote address at the Q2B 2024 Conference in Silicon Valley. This is a transcript of my remarks. The slides I presented are here. NISQ and beyond I’m honored to be back at…
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