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Markus Heinrich

@markusheinrich.bsky.social
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Quantum computing researcher at U Cologne | random quantum circuits | benchmarking and learning | Clifford group nerd

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Markus Heinrich @markusheinrich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
See also: "No. All arXiv rate limit policies apply only to submitters. If you submit a paper with several co-authors, that only counts towards your submission rate, not theirs. It is important for co-authors to coordinate their submissions accordingly."
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Markus Heinrich @markusheinrich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This only affects *submitters* not coauthors. Typically, these are the first authors, but one may have to distribute that for future QIP deadlines and such.
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Markus Heinrich @markusheinrich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Here's the 2026 edition
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Markus Heinrich @markusheinrich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Feels accurate again
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Anna Neumaier @annaneumaier.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Alter. 21627 Einreichungen auf ein Fellowship-Programm. Wer soll das alles begutachten? 😶‍🌫️ Wer jetzt nicht für mehr Grundförderung und weniger Drittmittel argumentiert, der ist doch nicht gescheit.
Text, dass bei einem Fellowship-Call 21627 Bewerbungen eingegangen sind, von der Webseite der Funding Agency.
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Markus Heinrich @markusheinrich.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
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Markus Heinrich @markusheinrich.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I don't know a good solution. For QIP I could think of an AI session for very interesting results. Similar submissions should be merged as always. Perhaps one can even ask a LLM to give the talk ;)
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Markus Heinrich @markusheinrich.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
But we want to get recognized. It's the currency of science and strongly influences whether you even get a job or not. As long as this is true, there will be a problem with AI-assisted results and with people hiding their use.
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Markus Heinrich @markusheinrich.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
This AI discussion is to a large extent less about using AI but rather about a fundamental issue with our way of doing science: is it about solving an important problem and learning the techniques behind it? If yes, it shouldn't matter who came up with the solution. Only the outcome matters.
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Markus Heinrich @markusheinrich.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Congratulations!
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Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft @dfg.de · 28/07/2026
Canada-G7-Nordic Joint #CallForProposals on bilateral/multilateral collaborative research projects on #quantum science and technologies. The call will be managed via a Lead Agency Procedure by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). Details: www.dfg.de/de/aktuelles...
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Canada-G7-Nordic Joint Call for Proposals on Quantum Technologies
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Alexander Jahn @physicistalex.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Big news: I'll be moving to APCTP in Pohang, South Korea, starting a new group in October! I'll be hiring two postdocs on a range of topics from high-energy to quantum information theory, collaborating across the Asia-Pacific region and beyond. Deadline Aug 12. More: www.apctp.org/bbs/board.ph...
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Markus Heinrich @markusheinrich.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
📢 Fully-funded 3-year PhD in my Quantum Randomness Group @ Uni Cologne as part of our QuantERA consortium: benchmarking, characterization, and learning on bosonic quantum computers. Deadline 12 Aug 2026. More info: www.quantum-randomness.com/joinus #PhD #Quantum #QuantERA
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Quantum Randomness Group / Join us
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QIP @qipconference.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
We're pleased to announce the key dates for QIP 2027, as follows (refer to the website qipconference.org/2027/ for up-to-date information). We look forward to your participation!
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Ben Brubaker @benbenbrubaker.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
After 20 years, researchers finally have strong evidence that “quantum proofs” are more powerful than ordinary classical ones. The results suggest that at least in computation, there’s no way around the complexity of the quantum world. Read more in @quantamagazine.bsky.social:
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Researchers Reveal the Power of ‘Quantum Proofs’ | Quanta Magazine
When checking that solutions to certain problems are correct, it turns out, you can’t get around the inherent complexity of the quantum world.
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Markus Heinrich @markusheinrich.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
I'm happy to share that our paper "Symmetry-Accelerated Classical Simulation of Clifford-Dominated Circuits" is now published in PRX Quantum! Many thanks to Giulio, Filipa, and Juani for the great collaboration! journals.aps.org/prxquantum/a...
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Symmetry-Accelerated Classical Simulation of Clifford-Dominated Circuits
Strong and weak symmetry reductions render optimal stabilizer decompositions tractable for multiqubit unitaries beyond previous limits.
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Ivan Šupić @quantumsupic.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
We are very happy to share that Grenoble will host TQC, one of the most important quantum computing conferences, in 2027! Excited to welcome the community in the heart of the Alpes! tqc-conference.org/2026/2027/
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Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 15/03/2026
It's official! The Theory of #Quantum Computation, Communication and Cryptography conference (TQC) 2028 will be held in Sydney, 🇦🇺 Australia, in August'28! tqc-conference.org/2026/2027/ #TQC2028 (TQC 2027 will take place in Grenoble, France)
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a white cockatoo with a yellow beak is standing on a brown surface
Alt: a sulphur-crested cockatoo, looking very happy, showing its head
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Tamás Kriváchy @krivachytamas.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
🥳 And actual change is happening!!! Crossref updated their reference matching algo. Thanks @crossref.bsky.social team, for being on top of this! community.crossref.org/t/improving-...
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Improving our reference matching strategy to reduce incorrect citation links
In December, thanks to the concerns raised in the preprint “Incorrect Citation Association for Articles in Online-Only Springer Nature Journals”, we identified approximately 150k incorrect citation li...
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Steve Flammia @sflammia.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
The arXiv is becoming a nonprofit separate from Cornell, and they're looking for a CEO. Please repost to let good candidates know! @dabacon.tachyon.institute, @harrowing.bsky.social, @michaelnielsen.bsky.social jobs.chronicle.com/job/37961678...
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Chief Executive Officer - New York City, New York (US) job with arXiv | 37961678
arXiv seeks its first CEO to champion open, free scientific discovery and guide the platform’s next chapter as an independent nonprofit.
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Markus Heinrich @markusheinrich.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Looking forward to seeing you there in a week, Richard!
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Markus Heinrich @markusheinrich.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Mmmh #qip2026 ... (The map is awesome btw!)
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Juan José García-Ripoll @jjgarciaripoll.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
The Cluster of Excellence ML4Q is offering fellowships to outstanding postdoctoral researchers on quantum computing and networking architectures based on solid-state physics, quantum optics, and quantum information science ml4q.de/ml4q-fellows...
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Markus Heinrich @markusheinrich.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
100% agree. Especially since we have author IDs that are matched to the papers when they are claimed!
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Richard Kueng @richardkueng.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
This year's Quantum Computing Theory in Practice Conference (QCTiP) is scheduled for 04/20/2026-04/25/2026 in Oxford, UK 🇬🇧: qctipconf.github.io Talk submission deadline is just round the corner: 01/11/2026. Looking forward to many exciting contributions and a great time in Hogwarts🪄, aehm Oxford🎓.
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John Preskill @preskill.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Dominik Hangleiter weighs in with an informative post about a much debated question: Has quantum advantage been achieved? This is the first post in a three-part series. quantumfrontiers.com/2026/01/06/h...
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Has quantum advantage been achieved?
Recently, I gave a couple of perspective talks on quantum advantage, one at the annual retreat of the CIQC and one at a recent KITP programme. I started off by polling the audience on who believed …
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Markus Heinrich @markusheinrich.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Have fun, Richard, and take care :)
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Francesco Buscemi @quantumquia.com · 13/12/2025
I just received a paper for a Springer journal that was obviously LLM-generated, complete with non-existent theorems, missing proofs, and hallucinated references. The journal has double-blind review. You see the problem? Stone thrown, hand hidden. No one to name-shame.
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pbassler.bsky.social @pbassler.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Now published in PRX Quantum: A robust control framework based on optimized pulse sequences enables faithful realization of arbitrary local Hamiltonians, scaling efficiently to hundreds of qubits. Together with @markusheinrich.bsky.social and Martin Kliesch. go.aps.org/3MmZa10
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Markus Heinrich @markusheinrich.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
... typical entangled many-body states is even too high to be useful for quantum computing in the very same way as too much entanglement can be bad. doi.org/10.1103/PRXQ... doi.org/10.1103/Phys...
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Markus Heinrich @markusheinrich.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Thanks for the nice article, I enjoyed the read. A comment: magic and entanglement are two distinct properties. Magic states don't need to be entangled, in fact the mentioned supply 'fueling' a quantum computer is given by individual single qubit states. The magic in ...
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Felix Leditzky 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @felixled.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
The list of accepted papers for #QIP2026 is now online at qip2026.lu.lv/programme/ac...
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Accepted papers
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Markus Heinrich @markusheinrich.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
... but still pretty dear to us people caring about designs and magic :)
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Markus Heinrich @markusheinrich.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
I think PxPxPxP would like to have a word
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Markus Heinrich @markusheinrich.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
In our case, they changed the formulations of funding acknowledgements. These are typically dictated by the agencies, and deviating from that is highly discouraged. Why do they mingle with this at all?
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Omar Rivasplata @omarrivasplata.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Reminder of the preferred approach when sharing arXiv preprint links
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Markus Heinrich @markusheinrich.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
A meme on how arXiv/quant-ph and scirate is currently flooded with QIP submissions. quant-ph is depicted as a city upon which three tidal waves of increasing height are collapsing. The smallest one is titled "< 8 Oct", the middle one "QIP papers 9 Oct" and the largest one "QIP papers 10 Oct".
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Markus Heinrich @markusheinrich.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Scirate will break today
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Markus Heinrich @markusheinrich.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
QIP deadline. I expect the same (or even worse) tomorrow :)
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Quantiki @quantiki.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
PhD position on quantum computing at at ETH Zurich, advised by Dominik Hangleiter and co-advised by Renato Renner www.quantiki.org/position/phd...
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Markus Heinrich @markusheinrich.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
I know that at least one submission was way ahead deadline (#280). Any last minute submissions @zoltanzimboras.bsky.social ?
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Markus Heinrich @markusheinrich.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
@dulwichquantum.bsky.social
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Markus Heinrich @markusheinrich.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Very interesting work, thanks for the summary, Pieter! But you forgot the mandatory meme! bsky.app/profile/dulw...
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Robin Kothari @robinkothari.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
The QIP 2026 call for papers is out! QIP 2026 will be held in Riga, Latvia from January 24–30, 2026. See you there! qip2026.lu.lv
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Andreea Lefterovici @andreealefterovici.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Are you a student or early-career researcher in quantum computing or quantum information? Then the following is for you. We're organising a focused, community-driven conference at Leibniz Universität Hannover, hosted by Prof. Robert Raussendorf. 🗓️ Save the date: August 27–29, 2025
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Markus Heinrich @markusheinrich.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
LLM?
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Victor V. Albert @vva.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
From Barbara Terhal: On July 17-18 a small symposium "Dreams of Quantum" will be held in honor of David DiVincenzo's work and retirement at RWTH Aachen. The event can be attended by all via a Zoom link. www.quantuminfo.physik.rwth-aachen.de/cms/~bmmwed
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Symposium | Institut für Quanteninformation | RWTH Aachen University | DE
July 17-18, 2025 Ford Saal, Super C RWTH Aachen University
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Markus Heinrich @markusheinrich.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Many thanks for the great work to my coauthors Lorenzo Grevink, @haferjonas.bsky.social, Jonas Helsen, Marcel Hinsche, Tommy Schuster, and Zoltan Zimboras. This work was started during the workshop on random quantum circuits 2024 in Amsterdam, stay tuned for the next one 2026 in Cologne!
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Markus Heinrich @markusheinrich.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
See also the great parallel work by M. West, D. García-Martín, N.L. Diaz, M. Cerezo, and M. Larocca. scirate.com/arxiv/2506.1...
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No-go theorems for sublinear-depth group designs
Constructing ensembles of circuits which efficiently approximate the Haar measure over various groups is a long-standing and fundamental problem in quantum information theory. Recently it was shown th...
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