Reposted by Sunny HeAdam Wills @adamwills1.bsky.social · 10/09/2026@hyharryzhou.bsky.social opening up the first ever QEC course at MIT to a packed classroom. So exciting!!! 192
Sunny He @sunnyhe.bsky.social · 24/07/2026I gave a talk titled "Building a Quantum Computer with QLDPC Codes" at Simons. This is an overview talk on the recent developments in QLDPC-based fault-tolerant architectures, with more emphasis on high-level ideas. Here is the recording: simons.berkeley.edu/talks/sunny-...simons.berkeley.eduBuilding a Quantum Computer with QLDPC CodesThe early days of fault-tolerant quantum computing (FTQC) are rapidly approaching. Many contemporary architecture proposals are built on quantum low-density parity-check (QLDPC) codes — a subject that... 1171
Reposted by Sunny HeLaura Lewis @laura-lewis.bsky.social · 01/07/2026New paper with Ewin and John on learning local Lindbladians! arxiv.org/abs/2606.30358 As a special case, we also get structure learning of Hamiltonians from high-temperature Gibbs states, which was wide open before our work 🙂 1141
Sunny He @sunnyhe.bsky.social · 17/06/2026I’m starting a blog! Here is the first post: ‘Round-robin CCZ is all you need’. sunnyzhiyanghe.github.io/blog/round-robin-ccz/ It shows a fun observation on CCZ gates, proved by Claude Opus 4.8 and verified in Lean by an auto-formalization model MerLean. The blog has the full story.sunnyzhiyanghe.github.ioAI-Derived: Round-robin CCZ is All You NeedAfter much procrastination, I am starting a blog with a fun AI-derived observation. Here is a note, the abstract says it all: Round-robin CCZ is All You Need. 1121
Reposted by Sunny HeVictor V. Albert @vva.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Five years of work in the making: manual marathon followed by an AI-assisted verification sprint. Thank you @phfaist.bsky.social for being a steadfast and attentive architect! Suggestions on where to go from here very welcome. 1201
Sunny He @sunnyhe.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Extractors: smaller than the code, enable full logical processing, same error rate as memory, compatible with fixed connectivity. As promised, they turn quantum memories into quantum processors. arxiv.org/abs/2606.03507 Joint work with the wonderful John Blue, Harry Zhou, and Ike Chuang.arxiv.orgFull Extractors for Logical Processing in Hypergraph Product CodesQuantum low-density parity-check (QLDPC) codes are promising candidates for practical low-overhead quantum memories. For large-scale fault-tolerant quantum computation, we further need logical process... 0161
Reposted by Sunny HeAdam Wills @adamwills1.bsky.social · 22/05/2026I’m very happy to be able to talk about this new paper, which came out of my internship at IBM last summer - scirate.com/arxiv/2605.2... . It’s being posted just in time for my next IBM internship this summer - lots to work on!scirate.comConcatenating Algebraic Codes over High-Rate Quantum LDPC CodesDifferent quantum error correction schemes trade off overhead, error suppression, and hardware connectivity. Code concatenation can relax these tradeoffs by using an outer code whose non-local connect... 1171
Reposted by Sunny HeHarry Zhou @hyharryzhou.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Excited to share our paper arxiv.org/abs/2604.16209 on ultra-high-rate codes co-designed for atom arrays! We co-design qLDPC codes with rates around 1/2, showing that they can reach good logical error rates under a circuit-level noise model. This was a fun project with Chen, Nishad, Casey and Andi.arxiv.orgTowards Ultra-High-Rate Quantum Error Correction with Reconfigurable Atom ArraysQuantum error correction is widely believed to be essential for large-scale quantum computation, but the required qubit overhead remains a central challenge. Quantum low-density parity-check codes can... 1161
Reposted by Sunny HeDripto Debroy @dripto.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Accepted submissions for QEC26 are out: qec-conference.org/2026/accepte.... Congratulations! If you are attending QEC, a few reminders below:qec-conference.orgAccepted PapersInvited Speakers Natalie C. Brown (Quantinuum) Vedika Khemani (Stanford University) Anthony Leverrier (Inria) Yue Wu (Microsoft) List of Accepted Contributed Talks (presented in order of submission) T... 163
Reposted by Sunny HeChris Pattison @chris-pattison.bsky.social · 10/04/2026This is a good example of why you should be cautious when extrapolating to the low logical error rate regime arxiv.org/abs/2604.08358 081
Reposted by Sunny HeCraig Gidney @craiggidney.bsky.social · 25/03/2026I would bet against Q day by 2030, but I wouldn't bet against it at 10:1 odds. ~10% risk is unacceptably high here, so I'm very in favor of transitioning to quantum-safe cryptography by 2029: blog.google/innovation-a... Yes this means I 90% expect to be made fun of in 2030. Oh well.blog.googleQuantum frontiers may be closer than they appearAn overview of how Google is accelerating its timeline for post-quantum cryptography migration. 1227
Sunny He @sunnyhe.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Good old code surgery, now more parsimonious than ever. arxiv.org/abs/2603.05082 Joint work with amazing collaborators Andrew Yuan, Alex Cowtan, David Lin, and Dom Williamson.arxiv.orgParsimonious Quantum Low-Density Parity-Check Code SurgeryQuantum code surgery offers a flexible, low-overhead framework for executing logical measurements within quantum error-correcting codes. It encompasses several fault-tolerant logical computation schem... 091
Reposted by Sunny Heacowtan.bsky.social @acowtan.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Gave a talk recently at Coogee on constructing and analysing spacetime volumes of LDPC codes & surgeries thereof. Thanks to @sunnyhe.bsky.social @domwilliamson.bsky.social and Ted Yoder for the wonderful collaboration. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lxzw...youtube.comCoogee '26 Talks - Alex Cowtan (Xanadu)YouTube video by Quantum @ Sydney 062
Sunny He @sunnyhe.bsky.social · 03/03/2026Quantum code surgery: fast, addressable, parallel, (almost) constant space overhead, all at once on your favorite hypergraph product codes. arxiv.org/abs/2603.021...arxiv.orgConstant-Time Surgery on 2D Hypergraph Product Codes with Near-Constant Space OverheadGeneralized code surgery is a versatile and low-overhead technique for performing fault-tolerant computation on quantum low-density parity-check (qLDPC) codes. In many settings, surgery exhibits pract... 1161
Reposted by Sunny HeHarry Zhou @hyharryzhou.bsky.social · 22/12/2025Excited to share our perspective article, written with Maddie Cain and Misha Lukin, on designing low-overhead fault-tolerant architectures: rdcu.be/eVTiB. The landscape is rapidly evolving, and excited to see where the field goes next!rdcu.beOpportunities in full-stack design of low-overhead fault-tolerant quantum computationNature Computational Science - Quantum error correction is vital for scalable quantum computing, but it incurs high resource overheads. This Perspective outlines recent breakthroughs and explores... 192
Reposted by Sunny HeDom Williamson @domwilliamson.bsky.social · 17/10/2025Fault-tolerant logical measurement just got a lot faster! In new work, we show that code surgeries based on hypergraphs, rather than graphs, allow fast and parallel fault-tolerant logical measurements with low qubit overhead (without requiring the code to be single-shot). arxiv.org/abs/2510.14895 1268
Sunny He @sunnyhe.bsky.social · 17/10/2025Quantum code surgery, but get them for constant time a piece if you run many of them. arxiv.org/abs/2510.14895 Joint work with Alex Cowtan, Dom Williamson and Ted Yoder.arxiv.orgFast and fault-tolerant logical measurements: Auxiliary hypergraphs and transversal surgeryQuantum code surgery is a promising technique to perform fault-tolerant computation on quantum low-density parity-check codes. Recent developments have significantly reduced the space overhead of surg... 080
Sunny He @sunnyhe.bsky.social · 09/10/2025Have you heard of high-density parity-check codes before? Anyways, layer codes with random HDPC input codes have provable and numerical partial self-correction properties. arxiv.org/abs/2510.06659 Joint work with Shouzhen Gu, Libor Caha, Shin Ho Choe, Aleksander Kubica, and Eugene Tang.arxiv.orgLayer codes as partially self-correcting quantum memoriesWe investigate layer codes, a family of three-dimensional stabilizer codes that can achieve optimal scaling of code parameters and a polynomial energy barrier, as candidates for self-correcting quantu... 030
Sunny He @sunnyhe.bsky.social · 07/10/2025Check it out: permutation unitaries in the 3rd level of the Clifford hierarchy whose inverses escape any fixed, finite level of the hierarchy. arxiv.org/abs/2510.04993 Joint work with Luke Robitaille and Xinyu (Norah) Tan.arxiv.orgCharacterization of permutation gates in the third level of the Clifford hierarchyThe Clifford hierarchy is a fundamental structure in quantum computation whose mathematical properties are not fully understood. In this work, we characterize permutation gates -- unitaries which perm... 030
Reposted by Sunny Heanthony-leverrier.bsky.social @anthony-leverrier.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Can ChatGPT help with research? Maybe not yet for finding new results, but it can certainly speed up some tedious tasks. An example about quantum Tanner codes #qLDPC Working with qudits (d=5) lets you use nice local codes [4,2,3]_5. Then the idea is simply to enumerate small groups and (1/4) 6153
Reposted by Sunny HeError Correction Zoo @eczoo.bsky.social · 14/08/2025Peter Shor receives a small gift on the 30th anniversary of his QEC paper at #QEC2025. 0243
Reposted by Sunny HeStephen Bartlett @bartlettquantum.bsky.social · 12/08/2025Very exciting announcement, the next Quantum Error Correction conference QEC26 will be hosted by Google 7-12 June 2026 in Santa Barbara. See you there! @dripto.bsky.social @mattmcewen.bsky.social 0479
Sunny He @sunnyhe.bsky.social · 12/08/2025Fault-tolerance is, at its core, a combinatorial study. arxiv.org/abs/2508.08246arxiv.orgComposable Quantum Fault-ToleranceProving threshold theorems for fault-tolerant quantum computation is a burdensome endeavor with many moving parts that come together in relatively formulaic but lengthy ways. It is difficult and rare ... 040
Reposted by Sunny HeRobin Kothari @robinkothari.bsky.social · 06/08/2025The 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 02815
Sunny He @sunnyhe.bsky.social · 17/07/2025In May I gave a talk at Simons about our recent work on extractors architectures, which is a surgery-powered proposal to perform universal Pauli-based computation on any QLDPC codes, with reasonable overheads. arxiv.org/abs/2503.10390 The talk recording is here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6cDAbaW2Zsyoutube.comExtractors: Building a Quantum Computer with QLDPC CodesYouTube video by Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing 140
Sunny He @sunnyhe.bsky.social · 17/07/2025Our paper on logical magic state distillation was just published in Nature! www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comExperimental demonstration of logical magic state distillation - NatureNature - Experimental demonstration of logical magic state distillation 140
Reposted by Sunny HeAdam Wills @adamwills1.bsky.social · 09/07/2025New preprint out!! scirate.com/arxiv/2507.0... Here, we follow up our previous work by constructing the first asymptotically good quantum codes to have transversally addressable non-Clifford gates.scirate.comAsymptotically Good Quantum Codes with Addressable and Transversal Non-Clifford GatesConstructing quantum codes with good parameters and useful transversal gates is a central problem in quantum error correction. In this paper, we continue our work in arXiv:2502.01864 and construct the... 1222
Reposted by Sunny HeJohn Preskill @preskill.bsky.social · 21/06/2025Raymond Laflamme 1960-2025. A great scientist, renowned for his pioneering contributions to quantum error correction. A great leader, founding director of the Institute for Quantum Computing. A great colleague and teacher whose legacy continues to inspire us. uwaterloo.ca/institute-fo...uwaterloo.caIQC and Waterloo mourn the loss of Raymond Laflamme | Institute for Quantum Computing | University of WaterlooRaymond Laflamme, a trailblazer in quantum information processing and pioneer of the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) at the University of Waterloo, died on June 19 after a lengthy battle with ca... 08421
Sunny He @sunnyhe.bsky.social · 05/06/2025Amazing work from the IBM Quantum team on the bicycle architecture, a proposal for a modular quantum computer built using bivariate bicycle codes as memory and code surgery + automorphisms + T state factory for universal computation. arxiv.org/abs/2506.03094arxiv.orgTour de gross: A modular quantum computer based on bivariate bicycle codesWe present the bicycle architecture, a modular quantum computing framework based on high-rate, low-overhead quantum LDPC codes identified in prior work. For two specific bivariate bicycle codes with d... 160
Reposted by Sunny HeAnupam Gupta @anupamg.bsky.social · 03/06/2025It's a thrill to announce names of the amazing set of theory people joining NYU CS+CSE this year: @aineshbakshi.bsky.social, Allen Liu, @fermima.bsky.social, Sanjeev Khanna, Tony Metger, and Juan Perdomo. @nyucourant.bsky.social @nyutandon.bsky.social 5466
Reposted by Sunny HeTimo Hillmann @timohillmann.bsky.social · 03/06/2025Great work by the IBM Quantum team on Relay-BP, a BP-only heuristic decoder for general qLDPC codes. From a first look, the performance seems strong and further supports qLDPC architectures from a decoding-focused perspective. arxiv.org/abs/2506.01779arxiv.orgImproved belief propagation is sufficient for real-time decoding of quantum memoryWe introduce a new heuristic decoder, Relay-BP, targeting real-time quantum circuit decoding for large-scale quantum computers. Relay-BP achieves high accuracy across circuit-noise decoding problems: ... 1151
Reposted by Sunny HeCraig Gidney @craiggidney.bsky.social · 23/05/2025I'm often asked if I'll redo the 2019 quantum factoring estimate. Denser storage by yokes, smaller magic factories by cultivation, slimmer approx arithmetic by Chevignard et al… surely the cost is lower now? Yes, it's lower now. security.googleblog.com/2025/05/trac... arxiv.org/abs/2505.15917 27314
Reposted by Sunny HeCraig Gidney @craiggidney.bsky.social · 14/05/2025Mike finally paid for the "pro" version of sketchup, so we owned the 3d models attached to the paper, meaning the yoked surface codes paper is now published! www.nature.com/articles/s41... The message of this paper is: anytime someone says they're 10x better than surface codes, actually it's 4x. 0212
Reposted by Sunny HeChris Pattison @chris-pattison.bsky.social · 09/05/2025Happy to share that some previous work with @krishnanirudh.bsky.social and @preskill.bsky.social that we call hierarchical codes (2303.04798) was recently published in Quantum! 1/9 1122
Reposted by Sunny HeCraig Gidney @craiggidney.bsky.social · 01/04/2025For sigbovik, I factored all 8 bit ints (up to 255) with a quantum computer github.com/strilanc/fal... I did it as legit as I possibly could. I ran a correct circuit with no optimization shenanigans. I did correct pre/postprocessing. It took 121 quantum samples to finish the entire task. But... 2637
Reposted by Sunny HeSteve Flammia @sflammia.bsky.social · 21/03/2025Only one week left to submit a contributed talk to QEC 25! qec25.yalepages.org August 11 - 15, 2025, hosted at Yale University. This promises to be the best QEC yet! Please repost!qec25.yalepages.orgQEC25 12311
Reposted by Sunny HeDom Williamson @domwilliamson.bsky.social · 14/03/2025QLDPC codes are a promising approach to efficient quantum memory. However, performing computation on such high-density memory is notoriously difficult. In a new work, we introduce extractors, which can be attached to any code block to augment it into a quantum processor. arxiv.org/abs/2503.10390arxiv.orgExtractors: QLDPC Architectures for Efficient Pauli-Based ComputationIn pursuit of large-scale fault-tolerant quantum computation, quantum low-density parity-check (LPDC) codes have been established as promising candidates for low-overhead memory when compared to conve... 1141