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Jake Xuereb @curlyqubit.bsky.social · 2d

Is one way to think about Axiom 2, the idea that the classical world continuously monitors the quantum world, which back-reacts onto it?

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Jake Xuereb @curlyqubit.bsky.social · 6d

I am learning so much about learning

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Jake Xuereb @curlyqubit.bsky.social · 6d

105 new submission in 1 day.

"2 arxiv submissions a year, those are rookie numbers in this racket"

Still waiting for an argument for how this rate of production benefits us or science at large.

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Jake Xuereb @curlyqubit.bsky.social · 7d

Quite cool to see this error correction angle! Nice workl

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Jake Xuereb @curlyqubit.bsky.social · 14d

Amazing to see the work of @itsmealeale.bsky.social and Partyk L Bartosik highlighted like this.

Having followed it as it was written and knowing the hard work that was poured into it, really brings a smile to one's face to see it highlighted.

Yes to detecting entanglement using thermodynamics!

A Thermometer for Measuring Quantumness | Quanta Magazine

“Anomalous” heat flow, which at first appears to violate the second law of thermodynamics, gives physicists a way to detect quantum entanglement without destroying it.

www.quantamagazine.org

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Jake Xuereb @curlyqubit.bsky.social · 14d

How long do we have to keep pretending that studying random unitaries teaches us about black holes?

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Jake Xuereb @curlyqubit.bsky.social · 21d

Good first Q (what part of community do you identify with)

I wanna know what the community expects of different author positions and also from people in different roles PIs, post docs, etc

+ what do people want ideally

Ofc these are fluid and vary project to project but maybe there are trends!

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Jake Xuereb @curlyqubit.bsky.social · 21d

Considering creating an anonymous google form survey for researcher in QInfo with questions on what roles collaborators have in projects.

E.g. What roles does a last author have in a project vs What roles does a first author have

Would you fill it out? What questions would be interested in?

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Jake Xuereb @curlyqubit.bsky.social · 24d

In this sense we agree because the probability of which outcome is "actualised" is due to the Born rule. And how to get that out of your theory is i think the hard part.

Shout out to the great Tony Short who gave this a go

quantum-journal.org/papers/q-202...

Probability in many-worlds theories

Anthony J. Short, Quantum 7, 971 (2023). We consider how to define a natural probability distribution over worlds within a simple class of deterministic many-worlds theories. This can help us understa...

quantum-journal.org

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Jake Xuereb @curlyqubit.bsky.social · 24d

I think any process that makes the information on the diagonal of a quantum states "easier to access" requires decoherence. One could then ask where does this decoherence stem from, randomness or some entropically motived argument.

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Jake Xuereb @curlyqubit.bsky.social · 24d

Why? Measurement is the dynamical objectification of the classical information of quantum states into larger and larger systems.

One can get this dynamics randomly a la Zurek or thermodynamically arxiv.org/abs/2302.11253

I think explaining why we observe the Born rule is the hard part.

Quantum measurements and equilibration: the emergence of objective reality via entropy maximisation

Textbook quantum physics features two types of dynamics, reversible unitary dynamics and irreversible measurements. The latter stands in conflict with the laws of thermodynamics and has evoked debate ...

arxiv.org

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Jake Xuereb @curlyqubit.bsky.social · 28d

More collage art about Quantun Information please

nate @loglog.wtf · 29d

I made a zine about quantum gates and distributed it at @unitary.foundation's unitaryCON this two weeks ago.

check it out :) and lemme know what you think

nates.place/static/ng01....

cover of zine called nates gates created on a typewriter

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Jake Xuereb @curlyqubit.bsky.social · 28d

This is sick ❤️

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Jake Xuereb @curlyqubit.bsky.social · Sep 15

Please do add this to the scirate comment thread to reinvigorate the discussion over there.

And thanks for the patience for actually going through a paper and thinking through its core assumptions and reporting back.

I think this is really lacking in our scientific culture

🙌

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Jake Xuereb @curlyqubit.bsky.social · Sep 15

Erratum : Poster 55 ☺️

Jake Xuereb @curlyqubit.bsky.social · Sep 15

Good morning from TQC 2025 in Bengalore IISC 🇮🇳

I'm here spreading some Quantum Thermo propaganda to the Algo, Crypto people - pass by poster 72 if interested in (arxiv.org/abs/2505.15887)

Bengalore has been overwhelming, awesome, beautiful and tasty so far

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Jake Xuereb @curlyqubit.bsky.social · Sep 9

Congratulations @perp-waterfall.bsky.social ! Your PhD journey and the results you've obtained during that journey are definitely inspiring.

All the best for what's to come ✌️

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Jake Xuereb @curlyqubit.bsky.social · Sep 8

I think the number of single author arXiv postings on quant-ph is steadily increasing. E.g. today 7/48 postings were single author.

Has anyone else been noticing this?

Surely it's due to GPTs being good paper writing assitants, right?

Jake Xuereb @curlyqubit.bsky.social · Aug 22

Anyone else headed to TQC in Bengaluru and hanging out a bit the week after?

Do send a message if yes and you're up for hanging out after the conference. 😄

tqc-conference.org

TQC Conference 2025 | Theory of Quantum Computation, Communication and Cryptography

tqc-conference.org

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