Our work on 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 #𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐨𝐧𝐞-𝐝𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐬 has just been published in 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐝𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬! It presents the development of a programmable platform capable of generating chiral phenomena at the nanoscale
Paper: www.science.org/doi/full/10....
Press: www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

📣New preprint! With our PhD student and quantum champion Baptiste Debecker as the main driving force, we provide new insights on the role of dissipation on the emergence of phase transitions, notably by introducing the concept of directional symmetry breaking
👉https://arxiv.org/pdf/2504.11317

Just got a new quantum board game from LevyLab from Pittsburgh! Looking forward to playing with colleagues and students 🎲♟️🥳
More info here: www.blochcubes.org

So glad to see that quantum information sciences such as quantum computing are gradually gaining more attention from the general public in Belgium!

I really like this perspective paper that provides some (as neutral as possible) consensus on timely questions in the field of quantum computing, as well as debunking myths. We need more of this. Thanks for the initiative!

To reach some consensus about the prospects of near-term (late nisq and early fault tolerant) quantum computing, we had a 3-day discussion event (“Quantum Now”) in Lapland with both optimists and pessimists. This continued at SeeQA 2024 in Oxford. See our conclusions here arxiv.org/abs/2501.05694

Happy New Year ! 🎉 📣To start the year, let me highlight our recent work on phase transitions led by our strong postdoc Lukas Pausch during his time at @universitedeliege.bsky.social. In this work, we ask the question what happens when going from qubits to qudits. More info here 👉 shorturl.at/I0COu

Inspiring seminar today by Caterina Foti from Algorithmiq/Qplaylearn! She shared insights on how to make quantum physics accessible to the private sector and general public (including kids!).
👉Explore their free teaching and outreach materials here:
qplaylearn.com

Second amazing guest we had at @universitedeliege.bsky.social last week: Mattia Moroder from
Goold group at Trinity College Dublin, who gave a great lecture on the Mpemba effect and his recent work about it:
journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...

Fantastic visit of a great man of culture this week, Fabrizio Minganti, from Alice and Bob, who gave an extremely nice lecture on quantum computing to the master students of my course in this context at the University of Liège. Please come back whenever you want!