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Stephen Bartlett @bartlettquantum.bsky.social · Sep 2

Congratulations Seok-Hyung, we will miss you too!

Stephen Bartlett @bartlettquantum.bsky.social · Aug 12

Very exciting announcement, the next Quantum Error Correction conference QEC26 will be hosted by Google 7-12 June 2026 in Santa Barbara. See you there! @dripto.bsky.social @mattmcewen.bsky.social

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School of Computer Science, University of Sydney @sydneycompsci.bsky.social · Jul 17

📢 We are hiring! The School of #ComputerScience of #USyd 🇦🇺 is seeking outstanding women academics, at all seniority levels, for continuing (equivalent tenure system) positions.

Deadline to apply: ⏰ August 25 #AcademicJobs #WomenInCS

usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/USYD_E...

Women in Engineering: Continuing (Tenure-Track) Academic Positions for Women, Faculty of Engineering, The University of Sydney

Join a growing Faculty and be part of a University that places amongst the world’s best teaching and research institutions Located in the heart of Sydney’s bustling inner west quarter, close to beache...

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The Schrodinger cat's Post @schrodcatpost.bsky.social · Jul 14

Adapting maximum likelihood decoders using just 1% of efficiently learned Pauli error rates via Cycle Error Reconstruction boosts quantum error correction performance up to 10×, helping lower the overhead for fault-tolerant quantum computing. @bartlettquantum.bsky.social
arxiv.org/abs/2507.08536

Enhancing Decoding Performance using Efficient Error Learning

Lowering the resource overhead needed to achieve fault-tolerant quantum computation is crucial to building scalable quantum computers. We show that adapting conventional maximum likelihood (ML) decode...

arxiv.org

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Stephen Bartlett @bartlettquantum.bsky.social · Jul 13

Field trip! We had this week’s reading group on qLDPC codes at the Sydney offices of Iceberg Quantum. Thanks Felix Larry and Sam for hosting, and @universal-soup.bsky.social for organizing

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only1djreilly.bsky.social @only1djreilly.bsky.social · Jun 27

Happy to see our paper published today demonstrating spin qubit control with integrated milli-kelvin CMOS. Much more of this coming from emergencequantum.com

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

Spin-qubit control with a milli-kelvin CMOS chip - Nature

CMOS-based circuits can be integrated with silicon-based spin qubits and can be controlled at milli-kelvin temperatures, which can potentially help scale up these systems.

www.nature.com

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Stephen Bartlett @bartlettquantum.bsky.social · Jun 17

Terry Rudolph @psiquantum.bsky.social is writing about ‘blocklets’! I got a sneak preview of these from Daniel Litinski and they are very cool.

www.psiquantum.com/featured-new...

Blocklets — PsiQuantum

www.psiquantum.com

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University of Sydney (USYD) @sydney.edu.au · May 27

A first-of-its-kind research and development company has been launched by the @sydney.edu.au quantum technology team that worked closely with Microsoft Quantum for the best part of a decade.

Emergence Quantum is delivering quantum technology’s “missing link”.

Emergence Quantum: a commercial 'special ops' team for research and development

Professor David Reilly and Dr Thomas Ohki have launched Emergence Quantum, a spinout from the University of Sydney, building on their work at Microsoft Quantum, they are delivering a new type of comme...

go.sydney.edu.au

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Stephen Bartlett @bartlettquantum.bsky.social · Apr 11

Our suite of efficient and scalable characterisation tools provide a wealth of data on these 156-qubit devices - simultaneous randomised benchmarking, *including* mid-circuit measurements, temporal constency, cross-talk, etc. It's like Christmas for QCVV tragics.

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Stephen Bartlett @bartlettquantum.bsky.social · Apr 11

As a bonus, Robin Harper has benchmarked these latest IBM devices (Heron r2) to within an inch of their lives! Check out the Methods section...

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Stephen Bartlett @bartlettquantum.bsky.social · Apr 11

We've pushed the limits of the latest IBM devices to see the many ways that quantum logic can fail. We've performed a complementary pair of experiments on a quantum code - one testing memory, the other testing stability - highlighting the key role of mid-circuit measurements in fault-tolerant logic.

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Stephen Bartlett @bartlettquantum.bsky.social · Apr 11

Excited to share our first major result from our IARPA Entangled Logical Qubits team!

arxiv.org/abs/2504.07258

@benbrown.bsky.social @universal-soup.bsky.social @evanhockings.bsky.social @georgianixon.bsky.social

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Stephen Bartlett @bartlettquantum.bsky.social · Apr 4

I work in the incredible Sydney Nanoscience Hub: a purpose built facility for exploring the frontiers of new technologies such as quantum. And I love showing it off to visitors!

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Steve Flammia @sflammia.bsky.social · Mar 21

Only one week left to submit a contributed talk to QEC 25!
qec25.yalepages.org
August 11 - 15, 2025, hosted at Yale University.

This promises to be the best QEC yet!

Please repost!

QEC25

qec25.yalepages.org

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Stephen Bartlett @bartlettquantum.bsky.social · Mar 12

At PRX Quantum, we are very excited to launch a collection of papers celebrating the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology!
Have a look… and for those at the APS Global Physics Summit 2025 please come to our session on Tuesday to hear more! prxquantumcollection.org

IYQ Collection – Impacting the Next DecadeIYQ Collection – Impacting the Next Decade

prxquantumcollection.org

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Tara Murphy @taramurphy.bsky.social · Mar 5

We're advertising a continuing position in the School of Physics at Sydney!

Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Theoretical Optics & Photonics

Deadline April 3rd

usyd.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/USYD_EXTERNA...

Base Salary Level B/C, $122,830 - $173,492 p.a + 17% superannuation

#Physics #AcademicSky

Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Theoretical Optics & Photonics

Full time, continuing position. Located on the Camperdown Campus at the School of Physics Exciting opportunity to join the leading physics department in the country, with outstanding staff and student...

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Stephen Bartlett @bartlettquantum.bsky.social · Feb 28

Spotted in the wild! ❤️

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Stephen Bartlett @bartlettquantum.bsky.social · Feb 9

Now with a cool logo! #Coogee2025

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Stephen Bartlett @bartlettquantum.bsky.social · Feb 9

February in Sydney means quantum at the beach! Looking forward to another fantastic Sydney Quantum Information Theory workshop at Coogee. #Coogee2025

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Steve Flammia @sflammia.bsky.social · Jan 11

Submissions for QEC 2025 are now open through March 28.

This will easily be the most exciting conference on quantum error correction yet!

Conference homepage:
qec25.yalepages.org

EasyChair submission page:
easychair.org/my/conferenc...

QEC25

qec25.yalepages.org

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qctip2025.bsky.social @qctip2025.bsky.social · Jan 6

The deadline for talk submissions at QCTiP 2025 is coming up! Consider submitting a talk until January 10.

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Stephen Bartlett @bartlettquantum.bsky.social · Dec 20

If you’ve sent me an email this year and I haven’t responded, interpret that as you like 🤣

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Stephen Bartlett @bartlettquantum.bsky.social · Dec 20

Last day of work before the holidays and I’ve accomplished the impossible!

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Stephen Bartlett @bartlettquantum.bsky.social · Dec 16

Yeah, what @ccanonne.bsky.social said!

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Stephen Bartlett @bartlettquantum.bsky.social · Dec 11

Roadtrip! Heading from @equscoe.bsky.social EQUS workshop in Noosa to the @psiquantum.bsky.social Brisbane office opening, with Tom Stace and Andrew Doherty. In Gerard Milburn’s car! Going to be a very #quantum drive

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