Victor V. Albert
@victorvalbert
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Theoretical physicist @NIST, Fellow @JointQuICS, Zookeeper @theeczoo. Views my own.
University of Maryland
Joined November 2015
"Quantum hardware platforms are advancing steadily, but no one knows when quantum computers will run applications that broadly benefit society."
When and how will quantum computing broadly benefit humanity? Despite exhilarating recent progress, we still don’t know. Here my friend Jens Eisert and I assess the current status and the challenges ahead. We are optimistic about the quantum future, but there’s a lot of work to
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仁科記念財団から、今年度の(第71回)仁科記念賞を「量子スピン系の数理的研究」に対し田崎さん @Hal_Tasaki と私の共同で受賞させて頂けるとの発表がありました。 大変名誉な賞で、私が量子スピン系の研究を始めるきっかけを与えて下さった田崎さんとの共同受賞ということもあり非常に嬉しく思います。
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『量子スピン系の数理的研究』の業績に対して押川正毅さん @MasakiOshikawa と共に 2025 年度仁科記念賞をいただくことになりました。 https://t.co/zRNKKzmPeH たいへん光栄に思います。 140 字では書ききれないので、よろしければ、下記のページをご覧ください。 https://t.co/8EY2SZ6QUp
nishina-mf.or.jp
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G. H. Hardy cuts through the noise to get the bottom of most people's inner motivations.
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"Even for the fastest qubit modalities, such as superconducting qubits, it will be challenging to achieve the required logical clock speeds. ...in the long term, the best quantum computer may be the one that runs the fastest."
arxiv.org
We evaluate strategies for reducing the run time of fault-tolerant quantum computations, targeting practical utility in scientific or industrial workflows. Delivering a technology with broad...
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QuICS Hartree fellowship application is out! A competitive and completely free-range postdoc. Anyone interested in quantum science and technology topics is encouraged to apply, preferably by Dec. 1.
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QuICS Hartree fellowship application is out! A competitive and completely free-range postdoc. Anyone interested in quantum science and technology topics is encouraged to apply, preferably by Dec. 1.
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2025 UMD Quantum postdoc job thread @UMDPhysics @umdcs. We start with the Quantum Optics Fellowship, intended for AMO and QI. Anyone who would have applied for the JQI Fellowship should apply to this one.
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Impressive span of group theory here, covering Schur-Weyl, Peter-Weyl, bosonic systems, modular qudits, Galois qudits, designs, MUBs, and more.
link.springer.com
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Every time I interact with Michel, he has some deep insight that I understand only years later. Maybe it is not completely fleshed out technically but it is always on point. It reminded me of other winners in the past. Well deserved!
Warm congratulations to John Clarke, Michel Devoret, and John M. Martinis for the much deserved #NobelPrize in physics. Their work was revolutionary to make #superconducting #quantumcomputers work.
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A new proposal imposes significant restrictions on F-1 and J-1 visas, which would sharply curtail foreign talent flow to US grad schools. Both @UMDPhysics and @umiacs are urging faculty to comment, so please consider. Comment period expires Sept 29.
federalregister.gov
Unlike most nonimmigrant classifications, which are admitted for a fixed time period, aliens in the F (academic student), J (exchange visitor), and most I (representatives of foreign information...
.@realDonaldTrump on granting automatic Green Cards to college graduates: "... What I want to do and what I will do is, you graduate from a college, I think you should get automatically, as part of your diploma, a Green Card to be able to stay in this country." "And that
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David Gross (Cologne) talks about SDP based quantum algorithms. Take home: hidden constants matter. Even if there is an asymptotic speedup in your favorite use case, it may still not be in the parameter regime that is relevant to the problem size you're interested in.
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Jacob Taylor joined Daniel Carney (@four_form) & Manthos Karydas of @BerkeleyLab to rethink gravity. In a paper published in @PhysRevX, they propose new “toy models” where gravity emerges from quantum particles—no gravitons needed. Learn more: https://t.co/CY1dh8tJx3
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Here are some slides on our recent work “A complete theory of the Clifford commutant” ( https://t.co/qN4fgVpYyw), with Lennart Bittel, @jenseisert, @lorenzo_leone_ , and Salvatore (SFE) Oliviero. 📑 Link slides:
arxiv.org
The Clifford group plays a central role in quantum information science. It is the building block for many error-correcting schemes and matches the first three moments of the Haar measure over the...
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I had another fun opportunity to talk about our quantum formulation of the space of molecular orientations at Sorbonne University. Great workshop! Organized by Ugo Boscain, Christiane Koch, Mario Sigalotti, and Dominique Sugny.
zenodo.org
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Reminiscing with @victorvalbert, the keeper of the #quantum error correction zoo @theeczoo, on our time at @Yale and the @Yale_QI by visiting the gryphon’s pub ( https://t.co/770zHjQ5vl) of the Yale Graduate School as part of our trip to the QEC25 conference at Yale
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📚 I’m excited to be in Copenhagen today giving a 3-lecture crash course on representation theory for the QMATH Masterclass. I put together lecture notes and uploaded them on my website for the occasion to share with students — here they are: https://t.co/uxb2VCY64E
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"Every American taxpayer is a silent shareholder in that success. If we walk away now, we lose not just future breakthroughs but also what we have already earned."
thehill.com
Virtually every smartphone on the planet runs on a chip paid for by American taxpayers — a chip that I helped invent. Now Congress is moving to cut funding for the National Science Foundation that …
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We are now at 999 codes. What should be our 1000th? If we pick yours, we will feature you in a post about the code. Comment, reply, message, and spread the word.
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