While drafting this blog post, I googled Jim Simons for some fact-checking...on May 10. With gratitude. (And with cameos by Sean Carroll and Brian Swingle) quantumfrontiers.com/2024/05/12/let…

A new concept called quantum spherical codes could make the notoriously fragile information in a photon-based quantum computer less susceptible to errors. Researchers at NIST, QuICS, Joint Quantum Institute and UMD Science published their work in Nature Physics: nature.com/articles/s4156…

#UMD researchers affiliated with QuICS, Institute for Robust Quantum Simulation, National Institute of Standards and Technology are developing a new concept built on quantum spherical codes that could make the notoriously fragile information in a photon-based quantum computer less susceptible to errors. Learn more: go.umd.edu/spherical

My thanks to Joe Morelle and his staff for hosting me for a discussion of National Institute of Standards and Technology’s capabilities in quantum information science and post-quantum cryptography. To secure our future, the U.S. must continue to lead in quantum and other critical and emerging tech.

The UN has designated 2025 as the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology. Advances in quantum tech will enable leaps in precision and efficiency across every manufacturing sector—and NIST will help lead with basic science, data and methods, and standards leadership.

Daniel Gottesman, Univ. of Maryland's Brin Family Professor in Theoretical Computer Science, has been appointed the new co-director of the Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science (QuICS) effective July 1. Learn more: go.umd.edu/gottesman

Congratulations to Univ. of Maryland QuICS Fellow, Alexey Gorshkov, for winning the IEEE Photonics Society Quantum Electronics Award! Gorshkov is also an adjunct associate professor in UMD Physics and @UMIACS and a Fellow in Joint Quantum Institute umiacs.umd.edu/about-us/news/…

#QuICS Fellows Andrew Childs (Andrew Childs) & Victor Albert (Victor V. Albert) are active in this year's Research Experiences for Undergraduates program, working with visiting scholars on topics like classical & quantum error connection (Albert) & quantum simulation (Childs).

My experimental collaborator Kater Murch WashU made a video about our most recent paper. He's talented! youtube.com/watch?v=wkuqtd…

🎓 Join us to honor Prof. John John Preskill at the 2024 Bell Prize Ceremony. With intros by Paul Brumer & Hoi-Kwong Lo and lectures by Nicole Yunger Halpern NicoleYunger Halpern & Daniel Gottesman, it's a must-attend event. Register by Aug 12 🔗 lnkd.in/gEa3Zwup

A tensor-network approach significantly improves the efficiency of computing the quantum weight-enumerator polynomials, thereby pushing enumerators to quantum error-correction codes that contain hundreds of qubits. QuICS go.aps.org/3YfsLgW

Congrats to 5 current and recent QuICS students/postdocs on this Physical Review Letters paper (and to Alexey 😉)! How precisely can we learn Hamiltonian parameters from thermal states? The answer depends on one of my favorite quantum phenomena, commutation. journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/1…

New paper: we show quantum advantage in Gibbs sampling with local Hamiltonians at constant temperature! This tackles one of my favourite questions: how "quantum" are systems at non-zero temperature? Work with the fantastic Joel Rajakumar! Link: scirate.com/arxiv/2408.015…

A novel algorithm that can characterize topological orders in both prime- and nonprime-dimensional qudit stabilizer codes is introduced. Yijia Xu Joseph Iosue QuICS go.aps.org/46CCyQi

Quantum computers could imperil the security of confidential electronic information, such as emails. To counter this threat, NIST has finalized its set of three encryption algorithms designed to withstand a future quantum computer’s cyberattacks: nist.gov/news-events/ne…

The Indian delegation, led by Prof. Ajay Sood, Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India, visited University of Maryland (Univ. of Maryland) to have meaningful discussions over university’s ongoing cutting edge research works in Quantum Science and Technologies. The

#QuICS co-director Daniel Gottesman is part of a team of current & former researchers Perimeter Institute exploring a new universal boundary that separates ‘nontrivial’ quantum error-correction codes from the rest. Their work was published today in Nature Physics go.umd.edu/1r0n

We may be a small agency, but our impacts are mighty. Studies show that on National Institute of Standards and Technology’s main campuses in MD and CO, operations alone generated $2.7 billion in national economic activity and 17,064 jobs. $1 of funding for NIST results in $9 in economic output.

The Quantum Leap Career Nexus Career Fair—a global networking, recruitment, and mentorship workshop for careers in quantum—is taking place Univ. of Maryland on Thursday, Sept 12. Register and learn more: rqs.umd.edu/events/annual-…