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Marco Cerezo @mvscerezo.bsky.social · 16d

No payment, no waiving of fees, it's like getting a sticker on your CV I guess 🤷‍♂️

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Marco Cerezo @mvscerezo.bsky.social · 16d

I got an invitation for this, but seems like a ton of work 😅

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Marco Cerezo @mvscerezo.bsky.social · 16d

Hey quantum bsky!

Does any have any experience with becoming a Trusted Reviewer for Springer? Seems like the commitment is quite high for getting that title; you need to review one paper a month for them.

Interested in hearing anyone's thoughts on this.

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Marco Cerezo @mvscerezo.bsky.social · Aug 28

I find myself in a barren plateaud landscape.

I've used Monument Valley so much as an analogy for BPs, that I figured I should finally pay this beautiful place a visit!

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Marco Cerezo @mvscerezo.bsky.social · Aug 26

Thanks again to my wonderful co-authors Martin Larocca, @dgarciamartin.bsky.social, @nahuelldiaz.bsky.social, Paolo Braccia, Enrico Fontana, @quantummanuel.bsky.social, Pablo Bermejo, @aroosaijaz.bsky.social @supanut-thanasilp.bsky.social, Eric Anschuetz and @qzoeholmes.bsky.social

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Marco Cerezo @mvscerezo.bsky.social · Aug 26

As always, the works is not meant to be a strict statement (only a Sith deals in absolutes), but we want to engage our community in an open discussions regarding the (many) limitations of variational methods and how to solve these issues!

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Marco Cerezo @mvscerezo.bsky.social · Aug 26

I am so, so happy to see this article published as a perspective in Nature Communications:

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

More than the paper itself, I thoroughly enjoyed chatting with all my co-authors on the implications of the absence of BPs ~ classical simulability connection

Does provable absence of barren plateaus imply classical simulability? - Nature Communications

There has been growing evidence that strategies to circumvent the barren plateau problem in variational quantum computing might also kill potential quantum advantages. In this Perspective, the authors...

www.nature.com

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Marco Cerezo @mvscerezo.bsky.social · Jul 21

This week is my 10 year anniversary of my first paper posted to arxiv, holy xow, how time flies!!

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Marco Cerezo @mvscerezo.bsky.social · Jul 17

forgot @nahuelldiaz.bsky.social on the list above #Shame

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Marco Cerezo @mvscerezo.bsky.social · Jul 17

Hey Mark! Great question, we jump from local unitaries to SLOCC, as those are based on underlying Lie groups.

To be honest I have always found LOCC extremely confusion (separable a little less so), but making the leap of faith straight to SLOCC was the saving grace for us.

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Marco Cerezo @mvscerezo.bsky.social · Jul 17

Huge propos to my co-authors Andy Deneris, Paolo Braccia, Pablo Bermejo and @antonioannamele.bsky.social !

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Marco Cerezo @mvscerezo.bsky.social · Jul 17

We only scratched the surface of a cross-examination of a state’s resourcefulness, but our work revealed that resource is truly in the eye of the (QRT) beholder!

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Marco Cerezo @mvscerezo.bsky.social · Jul 17

I can't really elaborate more than what the title already says, we take free states of one theory, we see how resourceful they are in another one.

Its a simple idea which leads to cool results, and the paper is packed with Haar integrals and numerics!

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Marco Cerezo @mvscerezo.bsky.social · Jul 17

We recently posted 2 works on quantum resource theories: arxiv.org/abs/2506.19696, arxiv.org/abs/2507.10851

👂Huh? Yall want more? We got you covered with a NEW work

Analyzing the free states of one quantum resource theory as resource states of another

arxiv.org/abs/2507.11793

Characterizing quantum resourcefulness via group-Fourier decompositions

In this work we present a general framework for studying the resourcefulness in pure states for quantum resource theories (QRTs) whose free operations arise from the unitary representation of a group....

arxiv.org

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Marco Cerezo @mvscerezo.bsky.social · Jul 16

Also, pretty pictures are pretty

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Marco Cerezo @mvscerezo.bsky.social · Jul 16

I am incredibly excited by this paper!

We believe it opens up some interesting new directions to study resource non-increasing channels in quantum resource theories!

Nahuel L Diaz @nahuelldiaz.bsky.social · Jul 16

New work on Quantum resource theories!
arxiv.org/abs/2507.10851

A big thanks to my collaborators @antonioannamele.bsky.social Pablo Bermejo Paolo Braccia Andrew Deneris @martinlaroo.bsky.social and [email protected]

We provide a unifying framework leading to new free operations 🧵⬇️

A unified approach to quantum resource theories and a new class of free operations

In quantum resource theories (QRTs) certain quantum states and operations are deemed more valuable than others. While the determination of the ``free'' elements is usually guided by the constraints of...

arxiv.org

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Reposted by Marco Cerezo

Dulwich Quantum Computing @dulwichquantum.bsky.social · Jun 29

So What Do We Know QC To Be Good For?
- Simulating quantum physics and chemistry
- Breaking current public-key encryption (RSA, DH, ECC)
- Eventually, modest (square-root) speedups from Grover
- We’ll have to get lucky for most other applications!
(The world has been systemically lied to about this)

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