Coming out of social media hibernation to ask: Are you interested in hosting a future QEC conf? We are looking for detailed bids for QEC27 over the next month (provisional deadline 21st November). For more info: DM or email me. QEC26 will be in Santa Barbara

The pioneering work of Clarke, Devoret, and Martinis showed that very cold electrical circuits behave in ways that exhibit fundamental principles of quantum physics. www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physi...

For their student researcher-ship, Satoshi Yoshida extended our work on dynamic surface code circuits to color codes. They built and simulated iswap color code circuits and wiggling color code circuits. The iswap circuits use fewer entangling layers than CX circuits! arxiv.org/abs/2510.00370

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Very 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

Check out our new work on how to make the surface code on a hexagonal grid robust to dead components: www.arxiv.org/abs/2508.08116 It turns out adding weight-1 checks to LUCI gives you a lot of new freedom!

My fav new features are the glorious I_ERROR, II, and II_ERROR instructions. While on their face they seem nuts, they're really helpful for representing operations that stim can't simulate, but can still know are noisy or have 2Q targets. I_ERROR[LEAKAGE](p) anyone?

Submissions for QEC 2025 are now open through March 28. This will easily be the most exciting conference on quantum error correction yet! Conference homepage: qec25.yalepages.org EasyChair submission page: easychair.org/my/conferenc...

Circuits Galore! Check out our latest work demonstrating three new circuits for implementing the surface code: arxiv.org/abs/2412.14360 They all perform well below threshold on a device optimised for the standard surface code, but they each open up wild new possibilities for devices.

🌳 Excited to introduce Willow, Google Quantum AI’s latest chip. Willow 5x’s coherence times, beats the Surface Code QEC threshold, and the time to reproduce Willow's RCS on Frontier supercomputer is estimated at 10^25 years⏳! 👇 thread #Quantum #Physics #Science blog.google/technology/r...