it seems that the QI community has already decided on the new rules: 1) buy the most expensive model of ChatGPT 2) feed it your favorite open research question / conjecture 3) have it find the solution for you and possibly even write the paper 4) post the result to the arXiv with your name on it

APS will charge 1,750$ for authors to publish in APS Open Science (a recently introduced journal expected to have a lower impact than PRA) It's hard to imagine who would be willing to pay so much to publish in such a lower-impact journal, especially as free alternatives exist shorturl.at/LRyF2

"We're all worried," as what it means to do research (in my field, Theoretical CS) seems to be shifting, and shifting fast. What to do? Senior researchers must lead by example, knowing that not everything will pan out. What I'm suggesting below may not work everywhere, but here's my own advice: 1/

Dynamical codes for hardware with noisy readouts We investigate the performance of dynamical stabilizer codes when measurements are noisy, as expected in many quantum computing platforms, with surprising outcomes. quantum-journal.org/papers/q-202...

AI-generated paper starter pack: include your prefered! Starting with a classic. AI-hallucinated references! arxiv.org/pdf/2607.07808

Given that authors are now mass-producing largely AI-generated manuscripts there is the need for: (1) Checking true novelty and previous literature mentioning (2) Mass improvement on current peer-review structure (3) Deeper critical threshold for accepting works for publication

the new reality of QIP: github.com/tobiasosborn...

GitHub - tobiasosborne/QIP-submission: A 100% LLM-generated QIP submission, produced overnight from one prompt. A case study in what frontier agentic models can do — and a warning. Results NOT verifie...

A 100% LLM-generated QIP submission, produced overnight from one prompt. A case study in what frontier agentic models can do — and a warning. Results NOT verified. - tobiasosborne/QIP-submission

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New paper from our team: QESEM on IBM’s Heron processor enabled precise measurements in a regime where leading classical simulations become unreliable. Main results were corroborated on Quantinuum systems. This is a step toward quantum processors as scientific instruments. arxiv.org/abs/2607.24937

Resolving Structure in Prethermal Floquet Dynamics with Precision Quantum Computation

Periodically driven interacting quantum many-body systems can exhibit long-lived prethermal dynamics, where local observables retain coherent structure even as entanglement and operator complexity gro...

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I am delighted to see that our review "Artificial intelligence for representing and characterizing quantum systems" is now published in Nature Reviews Physics. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Last week we posted a super-exciting work, on #DoubleDescent in #QuantumMachineLearning, specifically for usual gradient-trained #ParametrizedQuantumCircuits: arxiv.org/abs/2607.21409 The Germany-Netherlands Academia-Industry collaboration was spear-headed by Marie Kempkes, who is just great!

Cautious optimism for deep parameterized quantum circuits

A central challenge in quantum machine learning is understanding the scaling behavior of parameterized quantum circuits (PQCs). In particular, it remains unclear how their performance on unseen data c...

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I honestly just sincerely hope that we will not enter a (short-lived) era where all papers are somewhat equal. More equal than they were already before AI. An enormous number of papers now have similar looking AI generated figures, AI generated text, squared-boxed AI generated equations...

Some good personal news in these strange and turbulent times: I was just promoted to Associate Professor on indefinite Tenure, effective Aug 16 🥲 Immensely grateful to everyone who helped me get here - I won't list them since they know who they are 😊

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AI hallucination in arxiv.org/abs/2607.24968 I can confirm that this paper does not exist! I've never published in PRE! journals.aps.org/search/resul...

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All the top papers on Scirate saw AI play some role, in some cases a major one. These screenshots are from the top 4 papers, in order. A major role played by AI in at least three of them.

I tend to agree with Tobias. It will be interesting to see near-term changes in the valuation of certain aspects of research. An important problem I see is who can afford access to frontier models and how the scientific community should address this. tjoresearchnotes.wordpress.com/2026/07/28/p...

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I have been thinking a lot about how social dynamics are going to shift in the new era of cognitive abundance. I don’t pretend to have any kind of crystal ball, but there are numerous histori…

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“Universal scaling framework for parameterized quantum evolutions at criticality” Joint work with @tlcris.bsky.social, @agtudela.bsky.social and @lukyluket.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2607.22863 10/10

Universal scaling framework for parameterized quantum evolutions at criticality

Variational ansätze are a cornerstone of quantum many-body physics, providing compact approximations to complex ground states using finite resources. Recent quantum-technology advances have introduced...

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We're at a strange, specific moment. Takes range from "publications are dead by fall" to "I tried LLMs in November, they were bad." If you have an LLM-assisted paper, take full responsibility as usual. Do everything: arXiv, GitHub, website, and integrate with databases if appropriate.

And if you have an EC or QEC paper, consider getting an agent to push to the Zoo!

Victor V. Albert@vva.bsky.social · 2w ago

We're at a strange, specific moment. Takes range from "publications are dead by fall" to "I tried LLMs in November, they were bad." If you have an LLM-assisted paper, take full responsibility as usual. Do everything: arXiv, GitHub, website, and integrate with databases if appropriate.

New preprint out! Joint work with Som Kanjilal (INL) and @quantumrw.bsky.social (Ulm). We show pre- and post-selection paradoxes in quantum mechanics require both weak value anomaly and coherence to happen. Examples: 3-box, pidgeonhole paradoxes. Thanks Som and Rafael! arxiv.org/abs/2607.24282

Much of today's arxiv is deep in one specific dialog: its super useful to use AI tools for doing research! But also, how should we adapt to that? See e.g. the statement under the abstract of this paper here arxiv.org/abs/2607.23450 The abstract here: arxiv.org/abs/2607.24687

A strong converse for stabilizer codes over Pauli channels via the blowing-up lemma

We prove a strong converse for quantum communication over Pauli channels within the class of stabilizer codes. If a code whose code space is a full joint eigenspace of a stabilizer group transmits abo...

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"We live in strange times .... " indeed arxiv.org/abs/2607.23450

A strong converse for stabilizer codes over Pauli channels via the blowing-up lemma

We prove a strong converse for quantum communication over Pauli channels within the class of stabilizer codes. If a code whose code space is a full joint eigenspace of a stabilizer group transmits abo...

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It is very hard for women in science to remain productive, competitive with male peers and colleagues, etc... It is *especially hard* for Mothers in Science. For that, check out this initiative for researchers in STEMM! www.mothersinscience.com Share it! Make it visible!

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Scirate is kind of working badly this week for me...

Back from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Annual Meeting in Berlin—where networking was as heated as the weather (>40°C, pun intended)! ☀️🔥 The three of us - Me, Yenni P. Acero Ortiz and Gabriela Wojtowicz - represented the ITP-Ulm's long-standing tradition of Humboldians. #Quantum #AvH #Ulm

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This whole list of things is full of great advices...here is another one.

Nicolai Friis@improbabilitydrive.bsky.social · 3w ago

I would also encourage using full first names in addition to last names. This gives more visibility to underrepresented groups and also makes it easier to distinguish authors with the same last name. Saving space on a printed page really is not a concern anymore today. (11/16)

Urgent! This is a super duper useful thing to have in mind!

Nicolai Friis@improbabilitydrive.bsky.social · 3w ago

Now comes the advice that goes along with setting up a bib file: The most important thing first, and I am not sure who needs to hear this, but DO NOT LET LLMs TOUCH YOUR BIB FILE! Once the not so intelligent AI has gotten its grubby digital fingers on your carefully curated .bib file... (7/16)

It is super interesting how AI is obviously shaping the way (quantum) physics papers are written. To me, some words like "setting" or "sector" are just populating the literature in a way that was not really there a couple of years ago.

We are on a roll! Yet another paper from the group. Learn how biomolecular switches may profit from operating in a correlated manner, e.g. by being in contact with the same environment in a work by Rudi, Daniel and Giovanni. journals.aps.org/pra/abstract... #Quantum @quantumbiology.bsky.social

I'm happy to share that our paper "Symmetry-Accelerated Classical Simulation of Clifford-Dominated Circuits" is now published in PRX Quantum! Many thanks to Giulio, Filipa, and Juani for the great collaboration! journals.aps.org/prxquantum/a...

Symmetry-Accelerated Classical Simulation of Clifford-Dominated Circuits

Strong and weak symmetry reductions render optimal stabilizer decompositions tractable for multiqubit unitaries beyond previous limits.

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