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Review on quantum algorithms for scientific computing just published in Reports on Progress in Physics (open access): doi.org/10.1088/1361... with many thanks to co-authors Rhonda Au Yeung, Bruno Camino, Omer Rathore

New paper dance! With @jbennett107.bsky.social @quantumchancellor.bsky.social and Wolfgang Lechner journals.aps.org/pra/abstract...

We won!

UCU Newcastle University@newcastleucu.bsky.social · last yr.

A MASSIVE WIN AT NEWCASTLE UNI ICU

On the last day of the strike we had our own school of computing picket line

Out in force at the Newcastle Pickets today! Nick rocking the picket sign! 🪧❤️ @ucu.org.uk @quantumchancellor.bsky.social

New paper dance! Excellent work by @jbennett107.bsky.social at @iqoqi.bsky.social with @quantumchancellor.bsky.social and Wolfgang Lechner, showing that the LHZ encoding works with quantum walks, i.e., diabatic driving.

arxiv quant-ph@arxiv-quant-ph.bsky.social · last yr.

Jemma Bennett, Nicholas Chancellor, Viv Kendon, Wolfgang Lechner Improving success probability in the LHZ parity embedding by computing with quantum walks https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.18324

Now over 2200 signatures and still rising.

Stephen Curry@scurry.bsky.social · last yr.

Tally just ticked past 1900 signatures. Please keep spreading the word about the letter & asking people to sign. It's important to make the Royal Society aware (at their meeting on 03 March) just how much the scientific community wants them to speak up for their values. forms.gle/SfsDemyS8QhP...

OK folks, I have now created a google form that allows people to sign to show their support for my open letter to the President of the Royal Society. Please sign and share widely: forms.gle/miDciq35oxyw...

Open letter to the President of the Royal Society – time to stand up for your values

If you wish to show your support for the letter below regarding apparent inaction by the Royal Society in the face of breaches of its code of conduct by Elon Musk FRS, please sign below. I invite anyo...

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Stephen Curry@scurry.bsky.social · last yr.

An open letter to the President of the @royalsociety.org – time to stand up for your values. occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2025/...

Our members have given a clear message, cuts this way is not the way forward. They want a more democratic governance of their university, reasonable workloads, and most importantly, to stop this devastating approach to HE as a business. oh, and if you want to sign the letter the article refers to:

Juliette Rowsell@julietterowsell.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨📰 Union members at Newcastle University have become the latest to vote in favour of strike action, seeing them join a growing wave of unions announcing industrial action across UK higher education @newcastleucu.bsky.social @timeshighered.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/news/newcast...

Not just a comprehensive review of metrics and benchmarking for quantum computing, the launch of a living resource including software for characterising and comparing quantum computing hardware. Led by Ivan Rungger @ NPL (UK National Physical Lab).

arxiv quant-ph@arxiv-quant-ph.bsky.social · last yr.

Deep Lall, Abhishek Agarwal, Weixi Zhang, Lachlan Lindoy, Tobias Lindstr\"om, Stephanie Webster, Simon Hall, Nicholas Chancellor, ... A Review and Collection of Metrics and Benchmarks for Quantum Computers: definitions, methodologies and software https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.06717

I’m proud to have played a (small, I wrote the annealing bits) part in this comprehensive review on benchmarking and metrics for quantum computing arxiv.org/abs/2502.06717

A Review and Collection of Metrics and Benchmarks for Quantum Computers: definitions, methodologies and software

Quantum computers have the potential to provide an advantage over classical computers in a number of areas. Numerous metrics to benchmark the performance of quantum computers, ranging from their indiv...

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Extremely proud to have played a part in creating this video game to learn about quantum computing store.steampowered.com/app/2802710/... uses full state space representation in an entirely visible way, worth checking out no matter your level of expertise

Save 10% on Quantum Odyssey on Steam

Master Quantum Computing on the world’s most acclaimed simulator. No math or coding needed, but you WILL be exposed to it! Solve open-ended puzzles, learn through play, and compete online to pioneer n...

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So I actually am from the same place as the small boulder the size of a small boulder, I drove by there every day going to school

Mr. Red@mr-red.bsky.social · 2y ago

Happy “Large Boulder the size of a Small Boulder” Day to all those who celebrate.

New paper in physical review research (published by @apsphysics.bsky.social) : doi.org/10.1103/Phys... using quantum annealing for load partitioning looking at a different angle to take advantage of quantum optimization. Unfortunately I don’t think any of my coauthors are on Bluesky (yet)

People who haven’t spent much time in the LA area might imagine the surrounding forests are like the ones we have in England, but it’s actually incredibly dense brush growing on very steep slopes with cliffs in places, there isn’t a good way to “just rake up the leaves”

Vladimir Neskovic Kesma@kesma.wtf · 2y ago

Musk spreading lies again with comparisons out of context. Fuel density and moisture is different in Texas. There is much more dry fuel present in California forests. There is also more effective fuel management because of the different topography in Texas.

People who haven’t spent much time in the LA area might imagine the surrounding forests are like the ones we have in England, but it’s actually incredibly dense brush growing on very steep slopes with cliffs in places, there isn’t a good way to “just rake up the leaves”

Vladimir Neskovic Kesma@kesma.wtf · 2y ago

Musk spreading lies again with comparisons out of context. Fuel density and moisture is different in Texas. There is much more dry fuel present in California forests. There is also more effective fuel management because of the different topography in Texas.

One might think that Nazi crimes and palaeontology never overlapped, and yet... Have you ever wondered what happened to tens of palaeontologists & geologists in the Nazi-occupied Poland? How academics helped to bring down the fascist regime. And a curious story of Schindler-equivalent in geology. 🧵

We waste hundreds of billions a year on health care administrative expenses that make insurance CEOs and wealthy stockholders incredibly rich while 85 million Americans go uninsured or underinsured. Health care is a human right. We need Medicare for All.

I left the US for the UK over a decade ago and over the years I have had some very attractive offers to go back, healthcare is a big part of the reason why (of course I recognise that leaving isn’t a viable option for most people)

Senator Bernie Sanders@sanders.senate.gov · 2y ago

We waste hundreds of billions a year on health care administrative expenses that make insurance CEOs and wealthy stockholders incredibly rich while 85 million Americans go uninsured or underinsured. Health care is a human right. We need Medicare for All.

I’ve gotten a paper published in Quantum doi.org/10.22331/q-2... it always seemed like a neat journal and I’m glad I finally went for it, the review process was nice and we got some really good feedback which improved the work (co-authored with Jesse Berwald and Raouf Dridi)

Grover Speedup from Many Forms of the Zeno Effect

Jesse Berwald, Nicholas Chancellor, and Raouf Dridi, Quantum 8, 1532 (2024). It has previously been established that adiabatic quantum computation, operating based on a continuous Zeno effect due to d...

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I feel sorry for everyone I know back home in the US, but I’m REALLY glad I immigrated to the U.K. it isn’t perfect by any means, but it is a much better place to be 20th my family (it is difficult to describe to someone without US experience how bad/weird US politics and media are)

I wish that places like the UK and Canada would stop trying to shove profit models into healthcare; the US system is really bad, actually!

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 2y ago

Our private, profit-driven system means that we are paying more for less. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

New paper dance! Comparing quantum walk algorithms with QAOA, collaboration with @quantumchancellor.bsky.social Leonardo Novo, and 4 wonderful students: Lasse Gerblich, Tamanna Dasanjh, Horatio Wong and David Ross

arxiv quant-ph@arxiv-quant-ph.bsky.social · 2y ago

Lasse Gerblich, Tamanna Dasanjh, Horatio Wong, David Ross, Leonardo Novo, Nicholas Chancellor, Viv Kendon Advantages of multistage quantum walks over QAOA https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.06663

It's Juneteenth. As one possible observation - especially for my fellow white Americans - I suggest reading this. gift link www.nytimes.com/2024/06/19/o...

Opinion | End Legal Slavery in the United States

Compulsory labor with little or no compensation should be unthinkable.

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You don’t call it a “hallucination” when a person just makes stuff up, seems fair to me to assign the same term you would for a person doing it

Belinda Barnet@manjusrii.bsky.social · 2y ago

Can we just admire the title (and sentiment) of this new journal article for a minute link.springer.com/article/10.1...

What's kind of amazing is that we're actually living through a huge technology revolution where our entire power grid is being replaced by solar panels and battery storage and you hear less about it in the press than you did about the totally fake "tech" of NFTs

Idk if any of my followers are in North East England, but for anyone who might be, a quick reminder that today is election day for the regional mayor

New paper published: link.springer.com/article/10.1... showing how much noise reduction is needed in IBM quantum chips to run a simple simulation of a quantum walk. Vivek Wadhia's work with @quantumchancellor.bsky.social and myself.

Cycle discrete-time quantum walks on a noisy quantum computer - The European Physical Journal D

Abstract The rapid development of quantum computing has led to increasing interest in quantum algorithms for a variety of different applications. Quantum walks have also experienced a surge in interes...

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This, as long as you can explain why a self citation is relevant than it is 100% justified

Kevin Elliott@kjephd.bsky.social · 2y ago

Yeah, juniors should not be shy here. You're an expert, your work is relevant, and it should get noticed where it's making contributions others haven't