Lane Gunderman

Quantum computing researcher; mostly qecc and Clifford group. Prior chemistry enthusiast. MIT to IQC to Xanadu to HRL to UIC (ECE). Opinions are my own.

[Lane Gunderman @lanegunderman]

@Medhat11950 If that is true that doesn't impress me so much as alarm me

[Lane Gunderman @lanegunderman]

I'm still recruiting PhD students to work on theoretical quantum error-correcting codes and symplectic problems in quantum computing at UIC. Please share and have interested parties email me! Prefer math or physics students, but we are in the ECE department

[Lane Gunderman @lanegunderman]

If interested, find my email on my webpage and send details there. For more details about the work, also see my webpage and my recent publications.

[Lane Gunderman @lanegunderman]

@Isaac__kim While I prefer theoretical, something like an LDPC hypergraph product simulation might be an accessible project. Or a decoding classical LDPC project. Although if I were teaching it, I'd also do basically just theory...

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@quantum_graeme I would just leave and make a show of it if it's particularly egregious. Or do something on my phone while zoning out

[Lane Gunderman @lanegunderman]

@quantum_graeme During my later time at IQC and afterwards there seems to have been an increase in basically sales pitch talks... I think saying that it's not ok would be appreciated by those there for science, and providing an "entrepreneur" talk option. It bothered me...

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@quantum_graeme Holy smokes. This says so much about them... what do you mean they're primarily a prestige and confidence game? :P

[Lane Gunderman @lanegunderman]

Happy to have this shared, especially to prospective graduate students who might want to join my group. See my page for more details.

[Lane Gunderman @lanegunderman]

Happy to announce that this fall I'm starting at the University of Illinois-Chicago (UIC) as an assistant ECE Prof. My research group will focus on quantum error-correction, quantum simulation reductions, and other topics that use similar tools.

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@theeczoo Wow this is really neat! I honestly never would've expected that. But QR codes are totally human inventions those birds are communicating like 5 bits only, pretty low quality... although kind of analog encoding so...

[Lane Gunderman @lanegunderman]

@letonyo @theeczoo "only"? It gets to qudits so that's a perfectly good pausing point for me :P (I'm sure the rest will come in time though--looking forward to some parts that were missing from the hard copy I got)

[Lane Gunderman @lanegunderman]

I think this might particularly interest you: @letonyo . Also the constructive family achieving optimal LDPC GKP-like encodings (symplectic integer lattices) should interest: @Joncyeh and @preskill

[Lane Gunderman @lanegunderman]

After a while of editing, my free-time work is finally out: https://t.co/DwziZxbTLv . In this paper I show how to take known stabilizer codes and use them for more exotic settings creating optimal: CV and GKP-like families, as well as conditions for integral domain local-dims.

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It's odd to me the number of people who say they've seen my work/know of it/almost used it, yet no evidence of that ahead of time (citations, discussions, etc.). Is this normal? Or more normal for "rogue" researchers who don't attend conferences much?

[Lane Gunderman @lanegunderman]

@letonyo You could be that someone! 😃 (I mean others will have to chip in to help still)

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@quantum_graeme It'd be nice to see some of the previous years' accepted extended abstracts. Perhaps something for next year?

[Lane Gunderman @lanegunderman]

@felix_led @quantum_graeme Just be glad that MIT's courses weren't counted. The first intro course is cross-listed in Mech E/Physics/Math, and the follow-up is EECS/Physics/Math. Would've really thrown the graph off

[Lane Gunderman @lanegunderman]

High-fidelity quantum devices are scaling up. In this work we showed a simple technique to optimally shrink the number of qubits needed for quantum simulations, allowing larger problems to be solved on current devices! In some models a factor of 2 savings! https://t.co/zVR21D9OMz

[Lane Gunderman @lanegunderman]

@letonyo Yes that's exactly what I was wondering. Could end up having surprising results there, or just be a rough going without much "new" happening.