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Open in the map ↗330 classified signals in the fourteen-day window. These counts include signals awaiting readable evidence.
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Up to ten sources with readable evidence, ordered by their feed timestamp. These archive sources can be older than the live fourteen-day window. This list is a sample, not a measure of total activity. Dates distinguish paper publication, repository creation, model/dataset activity, Hacker News posts, and KEV catalog additions. “First archived” records when SYMTRI first stored the signal.
- Hacker News · Posted on Hacker News · First archived
Genesis – Real-time atomic and subatomic physics simulator ↗
Hacker News discussion.
- arXiv · Published · First archived
Discovering state-of-the-art quantum circuits with large language models ↗
Significant efforts are currently being directed toward the implementation of large-scale quantum information processors, but realizing useful quantum advantage also requires the development of efficient quantum algorithms. While for many practical problems the dominant resource costs are associated with a small set of computational primitives, optimizing them in the quantum setting presents unique challenges, including a reversibility constraint absent from ordinary classical computation. Here we introduce an evolutionary framework in which large language models (LLMs) propose circuit designs…
- arXiv · Published · First archived
Stability of Quantum LDPC States under Local Pauli Noise ↗
Quantum low-density parity-check (qLDPC) codes have a canonical mixed state---the normalized projector onto the code space---that lies at the intersection of quantum error correction and quantum many-body physics, yet the stability of its information-theoretic structure under local noise remains poorly understood. Recent progress on mixed-state phases of matter has identified the spatial decay of conditional mutual information (CMI) $I(A:C|B)$ as a key diagnostic of such stability, analogous to the role of the spectral gap for quantum ground states. We prove that, for the normalized code-proje…
- arXiv · Published · First archived
Magic in quantum trajectory unravelings of noisy random quantum circuits ↗
The quantum-trajectory description of a noisy quantum circuit is not unique: every Kraus representation of the noise channel defines a different unraveling, i.e., a different ensemble of pure states that averages to the same density matrix. While all unravelings share the same expectation values of observables, they generally differ in the amount of quantum resources carried by the individual trajectories. Here we study non-stabilizerness, or magic, quantified by the stabilizer Rényi entropy, in quantum-trajectory unravelings of Haar-random and $T$-doped random Clifford brickwork circuits subj…
- arXiv · Published · First archived
SynDebug: A Framework to Debug Logic Bugs in Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing Programs ↗
Fault-tolerant quantum computing (FTQC) introduces substantial systems-level complexity through quantum error correction (QEC), making debugging FTQC programs challenging. Existing quantum debugging approaches primarily target logical-level circuits and do not naturally support debugging within realistic FTQC execution flows. We present SynDebug, the first systems-level debugging framework for FTQC programs. SynDebug introduces lightweight assertion-based debugging primitives that operate directly within encoded FTQC infrastructures while avoiding additional logical surface area and minimizing…
- arXiv · Published · First archived
ALMA2040: Mapping the Spatially Resolved Dust and Star Formation Physics Driving High-z Galaxy Assembly ↗
Interstellar dust reprocesses approximately half of the starlight emitted across cosmic history. However, dust temperature, which is essential to convert continuum flux into dust mass, molecular gas mass, and obscured star-formation rates, remains largely unconstrained on sub-galactic scales at high redshift. While single-band ALMA imaging has characterized continuum sizes for hundreds of z>1 galaxies, single-frequency measurements cannot separate the dust mass column from the local dust heating. To date, spatially resolved ( 1, with ongoing programs within a few years adding at most a few doz…
- arXiv · Published · First archived
Constrained dissipation and the lifetime of quantum many-body scars ↗
We investigate the fate of quantum many-body scars in the PXP model subject to Markovian dissipation. We show that when local jump operators respect the same symmetries of the Hamiltonian the full Liouvillian spectrum displays a tower of states with properties analogous to standard quantum scars: large overlaps with Néel states and equally spaced gaps in the imaginary part of the eigenvalues, set by a single frequency. Whether the long-time dynamics is dominated by scars is determined by the real parts of the eigenvalues, which are set by the ratio between the two relaxation rates $γ_{\pm}$ de…
- arXiv · Published · First archived
Efficient quantum simulation of unitary gates based on atomic ensembles ↗
We develop a technique to perform efficient unitary time evolution of a general spin Hamiltonian based on the system with identical qubits, as naturally realized by permutation symmetric atomic ensembles. We employ Cartan decomposition method to the associated Hamiltonian Lie algebra and construct the symmetry adapted generators to implement unitary operator of the ensemble Hamiltonian. This enables the compact circuit representations of the system dynamics in terms of experimentally accessible collective spin operations and exploits the Dicke basis structure of the ensembles as an effective q…
- arXiv · Published · First archived
Classification of bipartite observables III: simplicity, mixtures and quantum error correction ↗
The paradigm of a simple unstable theory in the sense of Shelah is the theory of the random graph, the Fraïssé limit of the finite graphs. Quantum error correction has a paradigm of its own, and we show that it is the counterpart of the random graph: the Pauli group on countably many qubits, taken modulo phases and with commutation as its relation, is the Fraïssé limit of the finite alternating spaces over the two-element field, and its form computes the syndromes of stabilizer codes. Seen through this correspondence, simplicity theory turns out to be a theory of error correction. Clifford enc…
- arXiv · Published · First archived
Energetics of Fault-Tolerant Spin-Qubit Quantum Computation ↗
Semiconductor spin qubits offer a promising route to compact and scalable quantum computers, combining long coherence times in isotopically purified silicon with compatibility with semiconductor manufacturing. Beyond computational speedup, their energy efficiency is an important consideration for future large-scale systems. We evaluate the power and energy requirements of a Loss-DiVincenzo spin-qubit quantum computer by analyzing the Quantum Fourier Transform (QFT) and benchmarking it against the classical Fast Fourier Transform (FFT). We develop a detailed energy budget, identifying cryogenic…
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