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Steven Touzard

@steventouzard.bsky.social
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Quantum Physicist and Engineer at Singapore’s Centre for Quantum Technology and National University of Singapore.

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Centre for Quantum Technologies @quantumlah.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
🚨 Job alert! 🚨 The group of Principal Investigator @steventouzard.bsky.social is looking for a Research Fellow. The candidate will be part of a well-funded initiative to create quantum networks using Erbium ions in solid-state and integrated photonics. 📥 Apply: careers.nus.edu.sg/job/Research...
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Victor V. Albert @vva.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
ArXiv quant-ph needs to be split up! Paul Ginsparg lists Daniel Gottesman's proposed subcategories at his @aspenphysics.bsky.social talk. He is looking for feedback: please reply, dm, or email.
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Sifted @sifted.eu · 29/01/2025
The startup, launched in 2020, is focusing on improving its devices before it enters a commercialisation phase. #QuantumComputing #StartupEurope
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Quantum computing startup Alice & Bob raises 100m Series B to double down on R&D and open new production site
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Diego Ruiz @diego-ruiz.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Happy to share our work with @anthony-leverrier.bsky.social, @christophe.vuillot.info, Jérémie Guillaud and Mazyar Mirrahimi on the LDPC-cat architecture was published in Nature Communications! Thanks to the reviewers for their useful feedback www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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LDPC-cat codes for low-overhead quantum computing in 2D - Nature Communications
Implementing full quantum error correction incurs a significant hardware overhead. Here, the authors propose a quantum computing architecture combining superconducting cat qubits with 2D local LDPC co...
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Steven Touzard @steventouzard.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Basic applied topology problem with Xanadu stickers
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Yvonne Gao @yvonnegao.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
What a brilliant start of the year with two experiments from @qcrew-sg.bsky.social published in PRX Quantum! Both are investigations we did using a single qubit coupled to a cavity in the standard bosonic cQED systems, which are small devices but such rich #quantum playgrounds! Links below 👇
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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Mathematical physicist Cécile DeWitt-Morette was born #OTD in 1922. She made foundational contributions to Feynman functional integrals, organized the first American conference on general relativity (important for gravitational waves), and started the Les Houches Summer School. 🧪 ⚛️ 👩‍🔬 (1/n)
Black and white photo of Cécile in the 1940s or 50s. She is smiling and looking to the right of the camera. Her hair is short and she is wearing a collared blouse.A black and white photo of Cécile take in her office at UT Austin in the early or mid 2000s. A blackboard with diagrams and a well-known file cabinet sit in the background. Cécile’s hair is short and she wears a floral print shirt.
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juliankelly.bsky.social @juliankelly.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
We've been getting a lot of questions about alternate QEC codes, and are we looking into any? Yes! Here's experiments for two on Willow. The color code: arxiv.org/abs/2412.14256 Dynamic surface codes: arxiv.org/abs/2412.14360
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Scaling and logic in the color code on a superconducting quantum processor
Quantum error correction is essential for bridging the gap between the error rates of physical devices and the extremely low logical error rates required for quantum algorithms. Recent error-correctio...
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Steven Touzard @steventouzard.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
A disheartening paper, signed by an esteemed and admired researcher. The attempt to quote a record breaking number leads to an equivalent disappointment when you realize there is no attempt (and even dishonesty) regarding QNDness.
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Steve Flammia @sflammia.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Here is the referee report for that paper. :) Same would apply here.
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John Preskill @preskill.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Congratulations to all who contributed to the advances in quantum error correction recognized by the Physics World Breakthrough of the Year. physicsworld.com/a/two-advanc...
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Two advances in quantum error correction share the Physics World 2024 Breakthrough of the Year – Physics World
Complementary research brings practical quantum computing closer
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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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Yvonne Gao @yvonnegao.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Came here looking for the quantum crowd. Super excited to see the lively discussions on not only #quantumphysics but also #scicomm, #womeninSTEM, and many more. Here is my team @qcrew-sg.bsky.social and I, pleased to be here! 😇
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Steven Touzard @steventouzard.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
These slides are great and seems to address all the clouds of Quantum Computing. Here are my (obviously) favorite ones as they highlight the clear vision of a few actors, starting 10 years ago now (and making great progress)
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Steven Touzard @steventouzard.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
It is now official as it is on the blog. My summary: - Excited for the QEC results - Remember that computation claim cannot be verified classically, need better test algorithms for QC - Funny Gil Kalai bit (although why platforming him? I had mostly forgotten him) scottaaronson.blog?p=8525
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The Google Willow thing
Yesterday I arrived in Santa Clara for the Q2B (Quantum 2 Business) conference, which starts this morning, and where I’ll be speaking Thursday on “Quantum Algorithms in 2024: How Should…
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Alec Eickbusch @aeickbusch.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Check out Willow, our latest chip from Google Quantum AI!
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Aziza Suleymanzade @azizasuleymanzade.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Our paper on distributed blind computing is out on Arxiv! In short: we performed gates on our spin qubits remotely using photons without our nodes knowing what we did - all thanks to distributed matter-light entanglement 🥳
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Steven Touzard @steventouzard.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
I am absolutely thrilled to see Google crushing milestones after milestones in quantum computing, in particular in quantum error correction! (Quickly leaving the NISQ era behind). Here is some personal anecdote regarding this precise Quanta article👇🏻 www.quantamagazine.org/quantum-comp...
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Quantum Computers Cross Critical Error Threshold | Quanta Magazine
In a first, researchers have shown that adding more “qubits” to a quantum computer can make it more resilient. It’s an essential step on the long road to practical applications.
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John Preskill @preskill.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
I was thrilled to hear about the surface code when Alexei Kitaev visited @caltech.edu in April 1997. It's heartening to see the hardware catching up with the theory of quantum error correction. There's still far to go but this is encouraging progress. www.quantamagazine.org/quantum-comp...
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Quantum Computers Cross Critical Error Threshold | Quanta Magazine
In a first, researchers have shown that adding more “qubits” to a quantum computer can make it more resilient. It’s an essential step on the long road to practical applications.
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Yvonne Gao @yvonnegao.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Thanks for highlighting our work!
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The Hilbert Space Post @hilbertspacepost.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Today #quantum arXiv selection: Single qubit gates errors at 10^-7 level, mapping for wavepacket dynamics, enhanced qubit readout via reinforcement learning, Bayesian quantum amplitude estimation, and optimized molecular vibrational dynamic. More details and links below:
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Steven Touzard @steventouzard.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Hey this is Yvonne’s work, check it out!
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Andreas Wallraff @andreasateth.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Mark your calendars! The second big lecture series of the term on #quantum #science and #technology at @ethzurich.bsky.social will be given by one of the pioneers of mesoscopic physics and superconducting quantum circuits Michel Devoret. - math.ethz.ch/news-and-eve... Hope to see you there.
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arxiv quant-ph @arxiv-quant-ph.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Max Geier, Frederik Nathan Self-correcting GKP qubit in a superconducting circuit with an oscillating voltage bias arxiv.org/abs/2412.03650
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The Hilbert Space Post @hilbertspacepost.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Alice & Bob has released its new quantum roadmap. alice-bob.com/wp-content/u...
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Jonathan Conrad @jonconrad.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Hi all! I just uploaded my recently defended thesis, I hope you like it. Hit me up if you want to chat about anything GKP/QEC or life. :) arxiv.org/abs/2412.02442
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The fabulous world of GKP codes
Quantum error correction is an essential ingredient in the development of quantum technologies. Its subject is to investigate ways to embed quantum Hilbert spaces into a physical system such that this...
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Steven Touzard @steventouzard.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Any feedback on Alice&Bob roadmap? Quantum computing in 5 years with cats, requiring 200x less qubits than qubit based architectures? alice-bob.com/roadmap/
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Roadmap - Alice & Bob
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Steven Touzard @steventouzard.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
So that’s where the Quantum community went (I guess with LinkedIn). I think Bluesky could make a cozy refuge as the other platform becomes unliveable!
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Will Kinney @wkcosmo.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
If the universe started out in a pure quantum state, how is anything in a mixed state now?
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