Felix Thomsen
@felix_thomsen
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into fault-tolerant quantum computing @IcebergQuantum
Sydney, Australia
Joined December 2016
proud of the team. more to come!
excited to share some of what we’ve been cooking up at Iceberg. we introduce fast surgery, a method for performing logic in qldpc codes quicker. check out our blog post. https://t.co/UiatdvZl2i
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another one! thrilled to be working with the team at @diraqQC. already a super productive collab
We're working with Diraq to accelerate the path to useful quantum computing with spin qubits. https://t.co/1WuPStX0t9
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god i love startups. i love the momentum. i love the chaos. i love how productivity compounds in a group and how the clock speed of the org builds with the right people. it’s delicious.
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Excited about this collaboration with Oxford Ionics. LDPC + trapped ions is a very promising path to fault tolerance!
Oxford Ionics and @IcebergQuantum have partnered together as part of our participation in Stage A of the United States' DARPA Quantum Benchmarking Initiative. Follow the link to our website to learn more: https://t.co/UKolFzAQP4
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the goal of life is to be excited to go to work and excited to go home
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Thrilled to have you onboard Evan! Big things coming
Excited to announce that I’ve started a new position as a Member of Technical Staff @IcebergQuantum!
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One of the key contributors to this project was actually ChatGPT (model O3). I asked it to become a coauthor but it refused (very politely actually), so I just ended up acknowledging its help.
I've been sitting on this result for some time because it seemed too crazy to be true. I really hope I didn't make any stupid mistakes! https://t.co/OwlAAlCwKA A 🧵 on why I think this is a rather strange result.
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the surface code is officially on notice.
Iceberg Quantum is designing the next generation of fault-tolerant quantum computing architectures. We’ve raised a $2M pre-seed round from Blackbird and LocalGlobe, and are partnering with PsiQuantum. Read our launch blog: https://t.co/nHLKqpi1XA
https://t.co/MLgQF4w7p8
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I recently served as an external examiner for Larry Cohen's PhD thesis at U of Sydney. Here is a snippet from my review: 'It includes some of the most exciting and inspiring work I read over the past few years on the topics of QLDPC codes and simulation of quantum circuits.'
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Why accept a quantum computation if you have evidence that it's wrong? And why should this change just because the circuit is big, not small? Check out our work applying post selection at scale, with an exclusive decoder ft. a threshold for aborts! https://t.co/NWoWeR4oeS
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Great to see Australia sending shockwaves through the international quantum computing world. Watch this space… the next few years are going to very exciting for #Quantum
https://t.co/D5HUbqCQ2e
ft.com
Australia’s $620mn deal with US start-up signals new hope for building commercially viable quantum computer
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Very smart move for Australia. We’ve got great talent and an amazing quantum ecosystem. Photonic QC was born in Oz, we should build it here too!
afr.com
Australia will invest $940 million in Silicon Valley start-up PsiQuantum in a major bet that it will build the world’s first commercially useful quantum computer.
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Sweet! Who‘s going to finish the job?
I wrote an open source mobius decoder, and used it to benchmark some new color code circuits by me and Cody Jones: https://t.co/ExmBhMF3oy We're getting very close to color codes beating surface codes in a straight fight. One more improvement to circuits or decoders could do it.
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Amazing experiment from Harvard… logical qubits have arrived in force! https://t.co/iiGcrLDsH5 You can watch Dolev talk about this experiment at #QEC23 at the link below.
Recorded talks for #QEC23 the Sixth International Conference on Quantum Error Correction are now freely available. Thanks everyone!! https://t.co/gxNYUQSzsl
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Just as I said to myself when we put this paper out https://t.co/SpQEpnHuRP four years ago, now our new paper is finished there is now nothing else that remains to be said about the color code. And anything that hasn't been said about the 2D color code already isn't worth saying.
arxiv.org
The color code is both an interesting example of an exactly solved topologically ordered phase of matter and also among the most promising candidate models to realize fault-tolerant quantum...
After years of work, we are very happy to see our manuscript out that shows how fault-tolerant logical operations in #quantumcomputing based on #topologically-ordered phases of matter can be usefully interpreted as instances of #anyoncondensation. https://t.co/aGi23e90Xe
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After years of work, we are very happy to see our manuscript out that shows how fault-tolerant logical operations in #quantumcomputing based on #topologically-ordered phases of matter can be usefully interpreted as instances of #anyoncondensation. https://t.co/aGi23e90Xe
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