Matthew Pocrnic

Theoretical Physics PhD Candidate @UofT | Quantum Algorithms, Open System Dynamics, Quantum Information, Machine Learning | BSc ‘21 @McMasterU |

[Martin Bauer @martinmbauer]

No it isn’t. That’s the whole point

[David Bessis @davidbessis]

How I woke up one day and decided to solve a math conjecture from the 1970s ⤵️

[CQIQC @CQIQC_Toronto]

Today's CQIQC Seminar included two talks: Sophia Simon and Matthew Pocrnic (U of T) presented their #quantum research.

Head over to our YouTube channel to watch the recordings👉https://t.co/PLJQa1k9lg

[Physical Review Research @PhysRevResearch]

Composite Qdrift-product formulas for quantum and classical simulations in real and imaginary time, Matthew Pocrnic, Matthew Hagan, Juan Carrasquilla, Dvira Segal, and Nathan Wiebe @mpocrnic97 @CQIQC_Toronto
#QuantumInformation #StatisticalPhysics https://t.co/5UO8a8C10D

[Lawrence M. Krauss @LKrauss1]

If you feel that the present moment is significant in a cosmic sense, this animation should straighten you out.

[Tzeporah Berman @Tzeporah]

How much of the country has to burn, how many thousands evacuated and choking on smoke before our country takes the climate emergency seriously and stops expanding oil, gas and LNG projects and starts focusing on keeping people safe? #cdnpoli

[Fermat's Library @fermatslibrary]

"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known"

― Carl Sagan

[Andrew Childs @andrewmchilds]

Lively discussion of the future of quantum simulation at the #QSim2023 conference today, in a panel featuring Misha Lukin, Christine Muschik, Umesh Vazirani, Pedram Roushan, and Nathan Wiebe. Main takeaway: this is an exciting time for the field! @RQuantumSim

[Prof. Eliot Jacobson @EliotJacobson]

Apologies in advance for not explaining this in any way, but here are the daily standard deviations for Antarctic sea ice extent for every day, 1989-2023, based on the 1991-2020 mean. Each blue line represents the SD's for a full year. Lighter is more recent.

2023 is in red.

[Juan Miguel Arrazola @ixfoduap]

Our paper on quantum simulation of lithium-excess batteries has been published! Quantum algorithms are still expensive, but we keep improving them and we keep getting better at identifying realistic applications https://t.co/FL3KL5jtV5

[Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll]

Recent JWST images do put pressure on some models of early galaxy formation. That's extremely interesting, we should absolutely talk about that. Claiming that it puts the overall Big Bang model in question is just misinformation.