Mini-ions at it again, this time, catching the wave (function).

The mini-ions are back.

Highly recommended!

So What Do We Know QC To Be Good For? - Simulating quantum physics and chemistry - Breaking current public-key encryption (RSA, DH, ECC) - Eventually, modest (square-root) speedups from Grover - We’ll have to get lucky for most other applications! (The world has been systemically lied to about this)

Le Palais de la Découverte est clairement menacé. Voici une petite vidéo où j'essaye de vous expliquer pourquoi, à mon avis, ce serait une vraie erreur de ne pas le réouvrir. youtube.com/shorts/8adIA...

The Palais de la Découverte is facing possible eviction from its historical location in the center of Paris. Consider signing the petition in support of this beloved institution devoted to sharing science with the general public www.change.org/p/sauvons-le...

To demystify the notion that quantum computing owes its advantage to "massive parallelism" I find it useful to compare it to a random walk in a maze. A marble can explore many paths in the maze...

Last week @pintofscience.fr, the werewolves attacked some of our quantum channels but thankfully Alice and Bob were able to detect the intrusion.

Pint of Science is the highlight of my year when it comes to science outreach activities. Thanks to all the organizers for making it happen.

The werewolves are on the prowl but the villagers are prepared! Next week at @pintofscience.fr, werewolves will attack BB84 quantum channels #pint25

Getting ready for our game of quantum werewolves @pintofscience.fr

C'est déjà épuisé!

Venez faire une partie loup garou quantique avec nous le 21 mai au Carillon pintofscience.fr/event/crypto...

Jeudi 3 Avril: nouvelle mobilisation #StandUpForScience Objectif: élargir le mouvement, y faire pleinement entrer les étudiant-es et la société civile pour défendre l’Université et la recherche, et soutenir celles et ceux qui résistent pour préserver les sciences comme bien commun! #ESR #VeilleESR

The villagers are asleep. Alice and Bob are trying to establish a secret key but the Werewolves are on the prowl. Register on April 14th for Pint of Science to join a game of quantum werewolves. pintofscience.fr/event/crypto...

We have to let go of the Bloch Sphere when adressing the general public. Yes, it is a mathematically correct representation of a single qubit but what intuition do we expect people to get from it? I think the only thing is conveys is "it's complicated". And we've got to do better than that.

A teleportation device that fits in your wallet. (1/2) Designed by @louvettier.bsky.social

Collapsing the wave function. Performed by Le Cirque Graphique

We had such a blast working with Le Cirque Graphique. Do you see what quantum gate they are illustrating here?

Start with a qubit in state |0>, apply X, then measure. (Le Cirque Graphique)

Wave functions and superpositions with Le Cirque Graphique.

I strongly believe that mathematical notation, not mathematics, is the biggest obstacle when communicating about quantum computing. Two eye-opening reads.

Two qubits side by side, are correlated by a cog to illustrate entanglement. If we stack the qubits, we can see that 2 qubits form a 4-dimensional system. It becomes easy to visualize partial traces and partial measurements.

A device to help visualize quantum entanglement. Each qubit is a 2-colored disc. We measure them by spinning around and stopping at a random spot. Whatever is visible in the measurement window is the outcome. We can see the correlation between the meausurement outcomes when the cog is in place.

Introducing mini-ions technology, our revolutionary new quantum technology

Join us Jan 15th for a roundtable on science outreach and popularization of quantum computing and technologies. (In French) Venez nous retrouver à la table ronde sur la médiation autour de l'informatique et des technologies quantiques qics.sorbonne-universite.fr/actualites-q...

Meet the qubobs, little blue, little orange, and superposition.