Last week I defended my thesis "Quantum Qomrades: Catalysts in Resource Theories and Memories in Dynamic Programming". This journey was possible thanks to all my human comrades, especially my amazing adviser @nellynghy.bsky.social !

Our Grover preprint just popped up! (with Yudai Suzuki, @qzoeholmes.bsky.social, @marekgluza.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy, @nellynghy.bsky.social, @perp-waterfall.bsky.social) Turns out… Grover's algorithm is secretly moonlighting as a first-order approximation to the imaginary time evolution!