Steven Herbert

Head of Quantum Algorithms (Quantum Software) at Quantinuum (Cambridge Quantum); Lecturer in Quantum Computing at Cambridge University (views my own)

[Steven Herbert @steveh227]

@elonmusk @IBM @grok @elonmusk if you want to learn more about quantum computing you may appreciate my OUP book https://t.co/eUFwTcWlux which is aimed at interested and enthusiastic engineers (but not necessarily with a quantum background) like yourself.

[Steven Herbert @steveh227]

Delighted @QZeitgeist has reviewed my book-positively! https://t.co/XaZLqCvenh
"This could end up being part of the new canon... It's also the kind of book that earns a spot on the shelf as a reference. Recommended if you’re working in this area, or if you’re totally new to it."

[Steven Herbert @steveh227]

Beyond excited that Quantum Computing: Foundations and Practice hits the shelves today, and is already featuring strongly in bestseller lists. Thanks to everybody who has bought a copy already, and plenty of time for those who haven't yet. https://t.co/OtlgluaBPT

[Steven Herbert @steveh227]

This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date course in quantum computing including classic results such as Shor’s and Grover’s algorithms through to recent breakthroughs including HHL and the quantum singular value transformation as well as key results in quantum information

[Steven Herbert @steveh227]

I’m delighted to share that Quantum Computing: Foundations and Practice has been published. The textbook is available to order, and the e-book is available now, with the first chapter free for a limited period! https://t.co/DKTVfj7NxP

[Steven Herbert @steveh227]

I’ll be appearing on a panel on the topic ‘quantum entanglement fabric: enabling the modular and scalable quantum data centre’ at this tomorrow. 3.15pm

[Quantinuum @QuantinuumQC]

The Quantinuum team is looking forward to @TheEconomist's Commercialising Quantum event.

Stop by our booth to discover how we are advancing quantum technologies, and join us at the below sessions to hear some exciting updates: https://t.co/zTZ8LRfJPl

[Steven Herbert @steveh227]

@DulwichQuantum It’s pretty easy to identify the person this is from the information you’ve left unblurred. I’d suggest blanking a bit more out to avoid crossing the line from satirising an industry to bullying an individual

[Steven Herbert @steveh227]

Super excited to see my esteemed @QuantinuumQC colleagues Ifan and Adam with our quantum Monte Carlo integration poster (no. 580) at #QIP2023

[Steven Herbert @steveh227]

Quantum is the most exciting emerging computational paradigm, but many of todays challenges concern the sheer volume of data rather than raw computational hardness. Can quantum still help? I give my answer in this perspective. @QuantinuumQC @cambridgecqc https://t.co/8nGHGz2v9S

[Steven Herbert @steveh227]

Very happy to announce that our Fourier Quantum Monte Carlo Integration algorithm is published in Quantum. ⁦@QuantinuumQC⁩ https://t.co/hMqgMy51k6

[Steven Herbert @steveh227]

Love Cliffords, hate the stabiliser formalism? ⁦@NieldeBeaudrap⁩ and I have the paper for you - and it provides faster simulation for certain problems of practical interest ⁦@QuantinuumQC⁩ https://t.co/BRWaCxSLSD

[Steven Herbert @steveh227]

Quantinuum - Research Software Engineer, Quantum Algorithms (Cambridge) a great opportunity to join our growing team, as we aim to reach genuine useful quantum advantage as soon as possible https://t.co/9ciSIP0zN2

[Steven Herbert @steveh227]

More great work from the hardware side - can’t wait to see what experiments we can now run with 20 of the finest qubits Quantinuum Completes Hardware Upgrade; Achieves 20 Fully Connected Qubits https://t.co/MbYTilUlfg

[Steven Herbert @steveh227]

Interested in a career in quantum algorithms research? We are looking for a research scientist to join our fast-growing team https://t.co/whY0IMliy4

[Steven Herbert @steveh227]

When it comes to Hamiltonians, ‘local’ means sparse. When it comes to elections, ‘local’ means dense: thousands of council seats to be decided today, time to vote.

[Steven Herbert @steveh227]

Another rigorously researched piece from my brilliant colleagues, which will be of huge help as we inch toward useful quantum advantage for real-world applications

[Steven Herbert @steveh227]

Also on the paper front, proud to see my esteemed colleagues in chemistry exploring the potential for QC to tackle some of the problems associated with the climate crisis

[Cambridge Quantum @cambridgecqc]

We are proud today to share a major accomplishment by our quantum chemistry team with our partner @TotalEnergies. The joint team presents a paper on a potential use of quantum computers in mitigating climate change: https://t.co/yrGKnYDIBS #climatechange #quantumcomputing

[Steven Herbert @steveh227]

We propose that qubit routing, the problem of inserting swap gates to build a functionality equivalent circuit that runs on something target hardware, can naturally be posed as a RL problem and show such an approach outperforms the existing SOTA https://t.co/gkBupJcMX0

[Steven Herbert @steveh227]

Improving hardware is key to running real-world applications with useful quantum advantage. Great to see our colleagues are continuing to drive standards up. Quantinuum announces a world record in fidelity for quantum computing qubits https://t.co/FCQ4ASsdWy

[Steven Herbert @steveh227]

Fluid dynamics is one of the computationally-intensive fields expected to be impacted by the advent of quantum computing. In May I’ll be speaking as part of the VKI lecture series about some of the benefits of QC to fluid dynamics. https://t.co/uInU9S5yq2