Bivariate bicycle codes in the wild. arxiv.org/abs/2506.03094

Me waiting for QIP results tomorrow.

The only thing that could possibly be hotter than Italian twins explaining entanglement in Italian is Italian triplets explaining the GHZ state.

"For an investment of just ten million dollars, I can convince a dumber, richer person to put even more money in before you cash out." -- SMBC's take on quantum computing ecosystem www.smbc-comics.com/comic/quantum

If I was the CEO of Springer Nature (instead of Dulwich Quantum), I would offer authors a new "pro" tier where you can bid to make your article be the 1st in a volume, and the bidding starts at 10 * (article processing charge).

We should add a “repurpose outdated closed and extractive paper processing fees” donate button to the @unitary.foundation website

Should I support three @unitary.foundation microgrants for creating open-source quantum tools or educational materials, or should I pay the article processing charge for one Nature paper (which is already available on arXiv for free)? Tough choice...

Turns out Springer Nature website is broken in such a way that "many references lead to the wrong article, typically to Article Number 1 of a given Volume [...] which we estimate affects the citation count of millions of authors". Poor Nature, their $12,690 APC is barely enough to run a website...

BREAKING: Trump awards himself a Nobel Prize in quantum computing!

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

"The [D-Wave Advantage2] system is expected to address mission-critical U.S. government problems, particularly in national defense, and will eventually run sensitive applications." www.dwavequantum.com/company/news...

Fun fact: the reason why Moon has craters in the first place is because it has no atmosphere and so is constantly bombarded by meteroids.

Gil Kalai would "be quite satisfied with one-in-a-thousand error rate on complex states" to admit his defeat. How far are we from achieving this (by some considered the main) application of quantum computers?

I’ve always thought the problem with quantum computers is that they don’t cost nearly enough money (ideally, at least a million dollars per kg!), and should experience heavy vibrations and crushing G-forces after being calibrated. ⚛️🧪

Please add "quantum" to your slop review articles and position papers, and submit them to quant-ph instead of CS arXiv! blog.arxiv.org/2025/10/31/a...

A violation of the no-cloning theorem! 🎃👻

An LLM-controlled robot experiences a mental breakdown during a test to pass the butter from the kitchen. arxiv.org/abs/2510.21860 Some snapshots of its inner monologue from Appendix D:

True. www.politesi.polimi.it/retrieve/c5a...

Let me try to answer this... To be a scientist means to assume that there is more good than evil in the world, for why would you dedicate your life to inventing tools that will surely end up in bad people's hands as well? 🧵

"...it’s unfortunate that this week's Nature paper by Aziz and Howl adds to the confusion. And while I don’t want to be that guy, who stays up late because people are wrong on the internet, I’ve been getting a lot of questions about the article, including Nature News..."

CEO demonstrating how cool his quantum software stack is without having an actual quantum computer that can run it.

Looks like quantum computing is becoming relevant (to technofascists). x.com/elonmusk/sta...

Remember Zapata? The company that started out quantum, then pivoted to AI, and then went bankrupt. Guess what... zapataquantum.com

🧐

I guess he's posting from inside his dil fridge.

I’m worried that the @bullshitquantum.bsky.social has been broken by recent announcements. Thoughts and prayers…😢

"Quantum hardware platforms are advancing steadily, but no one knows when quantum computers will run applications that broadly benefit society."

P ≠ NP in Lean - a milestone in computational vibe complexity! arxiv.org/abs/2510.17829

Microsoft is winning! 👇

Microsoft vs Google - who will succeed to make researchers more sceptical? www.nature.com/articles/d41... www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I'm also not sure how exciting it is to do slightly better NMR - millions of dollars of hardware kind of exciting? And, as is often in these quantum advantage claims, now that researchers will try to beef up classical calculations, the claim may not last long

Learned something new today from Google's announcement. research.google/blog/a-verif...

"When the CEO of Nvidia announced that “truly useful” quantum computers were still 2 decades away, the share prices of some leading quantum companies plummeted. They have since recovered somewhat, but such volatility reflects the fact that quantum computing has yet to prove its commercial worth."

When you run quantum state tomography on IBM's device and plot the measurement outcomes.

In case anyone needs a graphic to illustrate the quantum vs classical race.

From now on, if you find a paper that solves the problem you were interested in, you can add it to your CV. the-decoder.com/leading-open...

A rare thread of quantum memes that's better than ours!

Our 4 favorite adder architectures from Craig's slides: Minecraft adder, Conway's Life adder, domino adder and water atter.

please, no

can't wait

Metal–organic frameworks have never tasted this good!

Leiden University press release: "You could call it a ‘quantum lie detector’: Bell’s test designed by famous physicist John Bell." www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025... ScienceDaily news: "Physicists just built a quantum lie detector. It works" www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Also, MIP*=RE in Lean, anyone?

Are you ready to raise the bar for QIP next year? Shall we set the new acceptance standards to 1. paper on the arXiv, 2. Lean proof on GitHub? arxiv.org/abs/2510.08672

Great list of quantum starter packs! 👇

Which papers that came out this week would you like to read the most?