Pedro Figueroa-Romero
@pedrofigrom.bsky.social
is a highly inefficient thermal machine 🚂 Amateur mezcal drinker and cyclist 🌶️ QCVVing quantum computers for food 🕵️ pedrofigro.github.io
Pinned
IQM Benchmarks — IQM Benchmarks 2.33 documentation
iqm-finland.github.io
What remains open is IQM Benchmarks, though, a Python package we developed with several standard circuit-level QCVV techniques for easy execution with IQM's hardware and simulators 🧑💻 iqm-finland.github.io/iqm-benchmar...
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It pains me to say this, but if you are not a US citizen, you should not attend scientific conferences in the US, visit US institutions, or otherwise travel to our country.
Right now it's not worth the risk.
Hopefully that will change. If it doesn't, science in the US is sunk anyway.
Right now it's not worth the risk.
Hopefully that will change. If it doesn't, science in the US is sunk anyway.
May 26, 2025 at 1:54 AM
It pains me to say this, but if you are not a US citizen, you should not attend scientific conferences in the US, visit US institutions, or otherwise travel to our country.
Right now it's not worth the risk.
Hopefully that will change. If it doesn't, science in the US is sunk anyway.
Right now it's not worth the risk.
Hopefully that will change. If it doesn't, science in the US is sunk anyway.
Spotted in Sydney – quantum thermo entrepreneurs taking over the local market 🙃🔥
May 16, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Spotted in Sydney – quantum thermo entrepreneurs taking over the local market 🙃🔥
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Very interesting discussion with John Martinis about the challenge of scaling up superconducting quantum processors and the business plan of QoLab.
share.transistor.fm/s/f599d74b
share.transistor.fm/s/f599d74b
Qolab Emerges from Stealth Mode with John Martinis | The New Quantum Era | Episode 48
Welcome to episode 48 of The New Quantum Era podcast! Another episode recorded at the APS Global Summit in March, today's special guest is true quantum pioneer, John Martinis, co-founder and CTO of Qo...
share.transistor.fm
April 16, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Very interesting discussion with John Martinis about the challenge of scaling up superconducting quantum processors and the business plan of QoLab.
share.transistor.fm/s/f599d74b
share.transistor.fm/s/f599d74b
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Modern science wouldn’t exist without the online research repository known as arXiv. Three decades in, its creator still can’t let it go.
Inside arXiv—the Most Transformative Platform in All of Science
Modern science wouldn’t exist without the online research repository known as arXiv. Three decades in, its creator still can’t let it go.
wrd.cm
March 27, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Modern science wouldn’t exist without the online research repository known as arXiv. Three decades in, its creator still can’t let it go.
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“What’s the best question a kid ever asked you?” When the writer Sarah Manguso tweeted this, she received a deluge of responses. See some of the answers, with illustrations by the cartoonist Liana Finck.
Existential Kids
How did I get inside my body?
www.newyorker.com
April 15, 2025 at 8:01 PM
“What’s the best question a kid ever asked you?” When the writer Sarah Manguso tweeted this, she received a deluge of responses. See some of the answers, with illustrations by the cartoonist Liana Finck.
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Everything is bad but birds are good so time to reinstitute BIRD PROTOCOL where a bird is deployed to offset endless evil vibes, please enjoy, birds are good, okay bye
(photo by me)
(photo by me)
April 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Everything is bad but birds are good so time to reinstitute BIRD PROTOCOL where a bird is deployed to offset endless evil vibes, please enjoy, birds are good, okay bye
(photo by me)
(photo by me)
QEC paper with IQM authors the highest Scited (hitherto) for today! 🧐 scirate.com/arxiv/2504.0...
Tile Codes: High-Efficiency Quantum Codes on a Lattice with Boundary
We introduce tile codes, a simple yet powerful way of constructing quantum codes that are local on a planar 2D-lattice. Tile codes generalize the usual surface code by allowing for a bit more flexibil...
scirate.com
April 15, 2025 at 3:55 PM
QEC paper with IQM authors the highest Scited (hitherto) for today! 🧐 scirate.com/arxiv/2504.0...
Weird how different it is finishing on a (quantum computing) job in industry vs academia: it's like suddenly being exiled and missing out ENTIRELY on all the technical tittle-tattle and industry goss 😒
April 15, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Weird how different it is finishing on a (quantum computing) job in industry vs academia: it's like suddenly being exiled and missing out ENTIRELY on all the technical tittle-tattle and industry goss 😒
Reposted by Pedro Figueroa-Romero
Reposted by Pedro Figueroa-Romero
Not bullshit
There is nothing like the feeling you get when you first understand how the Choi–Jamiołkowski isomorphism works.
April 15, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Not bullshit
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Shout out to all the fuckwits who told me, two months ago, that scientists must strive to remain apolitical.
February 1, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Shout out to all the fuckwits who told me, two months ago, that scientists must strive to remain apolitical.
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The deadline for talk submissions at QCTiP 2025 is coming up! Consider submitting a talk until January 10.
January 6, 2025 at 9:59 AM
The deadline for talk submissions at QCTiP 2025 is coming up! Consider submitting a talk until January 10.
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Around 700 BCE ‘January’ and ‘February’ were added to the calendar, initially placed at the end of the year. When these two months were later bumped to the front of the calendar, ‘September,’ ‘October,’ ‘November,’ and ‘December’ found themselves at odds with their roots.
December 2, 2024 at 2:40 PM
Around 700 BCE ‘January’ and ‘February’ were added to the calendar, initially placed at the end of the year. When these two months were later bumped to the front of the calendar, ‘September,’ ‘October,’ ‘November,’ and ‘December’ found themselves at odds with their roots.
Stumbled upon this perspective on QCVV (quantum characterization, verification, and validation), which has an admittedly "overly sensationalized title" 😅 but still quite interesting for the history (which I largely ignored)! buttondown.com/xgranade/arc...
January 2, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Stumbled upon this perspective on QCVV (quantum characterization, verification, and validation), which has an admittedly "overly sensationalized title" 😅 but still quite interesting for the history (which I largely ignored)! buttondown.com/xgranade/arc...
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How better to start off the new year than with a glorious short-eared owl? 🪶
January 2, 2025 at 5:15 AM
How better to start off the new year than with a glorious short-eared owl? 🪶
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Welcome to 2025:
International Year of Quantum Science and Technology
International Year of Quantum Science and Technology
January 1, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Welcome to 2025:
International Year of Quantum Science and Technology
International Year of Quantum Science and Technology
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Time zones are fascinating. Australia is already in 2025, Europe is still 2024, and the USA is currently in 1939.
January 1, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Time zones are fascinating. Australia is already in 2025, Europe is still 2024, and the USA is currently in 1939.
The firework situation in Germany is quite wild, seems even worse to me than what I experienced in Mexico City growing up. Honestly I don't get it. Like, I do, but I don't 😮💨
January 1, 2025 at 7:30 AM
The firework situation in Germany is quite wild, seems even worse to me than what I experienced in Mexico City growing up. Honestly I don't get it. Like, I do, but I don't 😮💨
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Head into next week with the confidence of a crow. 🪶
December 16, 2024 at 4:38 AM
Head into next week with the confidence of a crow. 🪶
You don't say
Concerns are growing about the effects of so-called endocrine disrupters, found in everything from plastic packaging to toys and cosmetics.
As Fertility Rates Fall, Some Scientists Say Everyday Chemicals Are a Factor
Concerns are growing about so-called endocrine disrupters, found in everything from plastic packaging to toys and cosmetics.
on.wsj.com
December 15, 2024 at 7:19 PM
You don't say
Guess I've got a new success margin of ±10% yearly distance 🫣
December 15, 2024 at 7:18 AM
Guess I've got a new success margin of ±10% yearly distance 🫣
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I created a transcript of my talk at the Q2B Conference: "Beyond NISQ: The Megaquop Machine." You can read it here:
quantumfrontiers.com/2024/12/14/b...
quantumfrontiers.com/2024/12/14/b...
Beyond NISQ: The Megaquop Machine
On December 11, I gave a keynote address at the Q2B 2024 Conference in Silicon Valley. This is a transcript of my remarks. The slides I presented are here. NISQ and beyond I’m honored to be back at…
quantumfrontiers.com
December 14, 2024 at 4:25 PM
I created a transcript of my talk at the Q2B Conference: "Beyond NISQ: The Megaquop Machine." You can read it here:
quantumfrontiers.com/2024/12/14/b...
quantumfrontiers.com/2024/12/14/b...
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Thanks to all the atheists out there just doing the right thing without me threatening you with fire and brimstone.
December 8, 2024 at 12:22 AM
Thanks to all the atheists out there just doing the right thing without me threatening you with fire and brimstone.
And now they're all about the Multiverse juicy steak! 🤤
Not bullshit
December 14, 2024 at 10:08 AM
And now they're all about the Multiverse juicy steak! 🤤
New paper with colleagues at IQM 🎉
We introduce Multi-Layer Cycle Benchmarking (MLCB), an enhanced noise characterisation protocol that improves the learnability associated with effective Pauli noise models by jointly analysing multiple layers of Clifford gates:
We introduce Multi-Layer Cycle Benchmarking (MLCB), an enhanced noise characterisation protocol that improves the learnability associated with effective Pauli noise models by jointly analysing multiple layers of Clifford gates:
Alessio Calzona, Miha Papi\v{c}, Pedro Figueroa-Romero, Adrian Auer
Multi-Layer Cycle Benchmarking for high-accuracy error characterization
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.09332
Multi-Layer Cycle Benchmarking for high-accuracy error characterization
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.09332
December 14, 2024 at 10:08 AM
New paper with colleagues at IQM 🎉
We introduce Multi-Layer Cycle Benchmarking (MLCB), an enhanced noise characterisation protocol that improves the learnability associated with effective Pauli noise models by jointly analysing multiple layers of Clifford gates:
We introduce Multi-Layer Cycle Benchmarking (MLCB), an enhanced noise characterisation protocol that improves the learnability associated with effective Pauli noise models by jointly analysing multiple layers of Clifford gates: