“(…) I started to notice gender imbalance in math (…). I hope that by continuing to pursue a research career, I can inspire other young women to (…) dive into mathematics with confidence.” - Laura Lewis
Find her full story at https://hermathsstory.eu/laura-lewis/
#Introduction Hi! I'm a physics grad student currently focusing on studying theoretical aspects of black holes. I'm interested in all sorts of theoretical physics (especially #GeneralRelativity and #QuantumInformation) as well as open and accessible science. I'm hoping to find people here interested in me rambling about papers I'm reading and/or can tolerate my occasional obscure physics puns ^^'
Entangled molecules make a novel qubit platform
https://physicsworld.com/a/entangled-molecules-make-a-novel-qubit-platform/
Two independent groups report a new tool for quantum science
#Introduction
I work on quantum technologies for networks & sensing. Mostly playing with quantum optics & quantum information.
I work at the University of Geneva in Switzerland & previously studied at the University of Queensland in Australia.
I was the inaugural chair of the Strategic Research Agenda Work Group for the European Quantum Flagship initiative & founding Editor-in-Chief for the IOP journal: Quantum Science and Technology.
In #quantumInformation often implementation estimates arise by counting options available for each of a number of qubits.
For example, if each #qubit is in a definite state |0〉 or |1〉 then there are 2ᴸ such configurations for 𝐿 qubits. If we are able to at will apply 𝑋,𝑌 or 𝑍 operations to each qubit then there are 4ᴸ such operations.
(If you do something on some qubits and nada on others then it's still a distinct operation jointly, so there are 4, not 3, options for each qubit)
How much is that?
A quick upper bound can be obtained by taking 2³=8<10 .
So for example for 𝐿=9 qubits if we want to run a protocol starting from every single configuration of definite qubit states (eg process tomography) then we will have to run it no more than thousand 10³ times. And so quickly you get an idea about what is much and what is too much.
More general operations can be decomposed into 𝑋,𝑌 or 𝑍 (and nothing, so the identity). During my PhD I was working with Marcel Goihl who was running a lot of numerics for a #quantum model of insulation arising from disorder. We were looking for charges that would get stuck and thus not participate in conductance. For transport through 𝐿=9 qubits we'd have 4⁹=2¹⁸=10⁶ million contributions that we'd need to calculate.
For 𝐿=13 this becomes 2²⁶<10⁹ contributions.
Marcel got curious that this is quite many and how much energy his calculations used on an #hpc cluster. Running a typical idea check quickly amounted to the yearly budget of a statistical German person.
He now works at a CO2 offsetting company and before graduating wrote with Ryan Sweke the proposal to keep track of what's the #enviroment cost of our calculations in #physics
#introduction Hello Mastodon! We are a computational #quantum #physics group at the FU Berlin. Our main areas for applying #QuantumControl strategies are dynamics in #AMO systems and #QuantumInformation processing.
We are using #CoherentControl as well as #OptimalControl on both isolated and open quantum systems.
A major part of our work is also the development of optimal control methods.
We collaborate with research groups all over Europe, Israel and the US.
Introductory post here after making the decision to migrate away from the bird site. I’m a #physicist with a broad range of interests but mostly working on the foundations of #quantummechanics #relativistic #quantuminformation and formal models of #consciousness. I am fascinated by the nature of #time (I teach a whole class on it) and the connections between #complexity and #emergence. I also love #geology oddly enough.
In case you are like me interested in #quantumcomputing #quantumcomputer #quantum #quantuminformation #qkd and similar topics, I have collected some links that maybe help you to find new contacts to follow.
Additions are welcome. Would like to see a growing quantum curious community 
https://qubit-social.xyz/@sreedhar/109347408198248552
maintained by @sreedhar
https://fedi.directory/tag/quantum-computing/
https://communitywiki.org/trunk/ is more general, not very specific
A belated #introduction post! I'm a science journalist covering theoretical #computerscience for Quanta Magazine.
I focus on #quantuminformation, #algorithms, #CompComplexity, and the theory of #MachineLearning. (Historically I've been averse to hashtags, but I'll get used to it.
I'm new to this beat (Until this fall I covered physics), but you'll be seeing my first CS stories very soon!
I propose that we amplify the introductions of all new people here. I am growing quite fast in followers but by seeing the amplifications of others I find a lot of other people in my fields. Let’s amplify the intro posts of other people to get them connected with others faster.
