Timo Hillmann
@timohillmann.bsky.social
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PhD student @ Chalmers University of Technology
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Thanks for this collaboration @lucasberent.bsky.social, Armanda Quintavalle, @jenseisert.bsky.social, Robert Wille, and @qec.codes (Joschka Roffe)
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All of this is made possible through a novel parallel matrix factorization strategy, which we call on the-fly elimination, to identify, validate, and solve local decoding regions on the decoding graph.
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arnesemsrott.bsky.social
Der Polizist behält seinen Job, denn: "Aus den Nachrichten ergebe sich noch keine eindeutig verfassungsfeindliche Gesinnung."
reikopinkert.bsky.social
Während seines Einsatzes als Leibwächter für Charlotte Knobloch, Präsidentin der israelitischen Kultusgemeinde - schrieb er: "Ich scheiß ihr vor die Tür, schön braun, mit Fähnchen". Er wünsche sich, seine Schutzperson würde vergast bzw in ein Konzentrationslager verbracht (…).

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"Fahrziel Auschwitz": Polizist behält Job trotz menschenverachtender Chat-Nachrichten
Die Chats eines Polizisten waren fremdenfeindlich, geschmacklos und durchzogen von rechtsradikaler Rhetorik. Nicht genug für eine Suspendierung, meint der VGH München.
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timohillmann.bsky.social
I think I’m missing :)
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vasmer.bsky.social
Paul Hilaire and I are recruiting a PhD student to work on demonstrations of fault-tolerant protocols for near-term quantum hardware (photonics & cold atoms). The focus is on quantum error correction, low-overhead schemes, and actual implementation on hardware
timohillmann.bsky.social
Since even for surface codes Relay-BP (Fig. 2) competes with matching-based decoders, it would be interesting to see whether Relay-BP outperforms known color code decoders, relevant, for example, to the performance of magic state cultivation.
timohillmann.bsky.social
As Gallager already noted, BP is often more art than science, justified “only by the fact that it works.” But it does work in many cases, and I think it’s worth exploring how far we can push it with careful heuristics and structured approaches.
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Another thing I noticed: there has been only limited effort to combine different strategies to mitigate trapping sets. I had actually written this down as a future project idea but didn't get to it, so I’m glad to see that the IBM Quantum team has already shown that this direction is viable.
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While writing my thesis, I revisited a lot of the BP literature and dug into the basics. One thing that stood out is that heuristics for trapping sets are rarely tested under circuit-level noise, even though decoding in that setting is significantly different from code capacity.
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seokhyung-lee.bsky.social
I recently created a simple Python wrapper for the Tesseract decoder for personal use, but I’ve decided to make it public in case others find it useful. Feel free to let me know if you encounter any issues!

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GitHub - seokhyung-lee/tesseract-python: Python Wrapper for Tesseract Decoder
Python Wrapper for Tesseract Decoder. Contribute to seokhyung-lee/tesseract-python development by creating an account on GitHub.
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timohillmann.bsky.social
Did the text change significantly? If I recall correctly the previous ones then they read very similar. Only the word „exceptional“ didn’t appear every time if my mind is not lying to me
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ohdearz.bsky.social
New AIP report discusses impact of funding cuts in physics & astro depts: “No one can be productive in a climate like this—it is the end of the US scientific and technical dominance in the world—we will not recover from this in a decade...”. ⚛️🔭 physics.aps.org/articles/v18...
Excerpt from APS article on the new AIP report on impact of funding cuts in physics & astro departments: "One cannot work like this - all energy goes in thinking how to survive and not in physics - it is like being in the war," another department chair wrote. "No one can be productive in a climate like this - it is the end of the US scientific and technical dominance in the world - we will not recover from this in a decade," they added.
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maxczollek.bsky.social
Ok, heute ARD-Brennpunkt zur AfD, auf einen der Gäste kommt ihr nie. Richtig, Tino Chrupalla. Vor 80 Jahren hätte der zumindest auf der Anklagebank gesessen. Woher diese unbändige Lust, weiter mit Nazis zu reden? Ist es Masochismus? Erinnerungskultur tm? Oder vermisst ihr einfach eure Omas und Opas?
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qctip2025.bsky.social
Next up in session A is Lucas Berent telling us about LSD, a popular topic in Berlin.
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markwilde.bsky.social
This past week, I received a second stop work order on one of my grants. This now means that we can no longer spend on *two* of my major grants. Several of my group members will now graduate earlier than expected, I am looking into being a consultant for the summer, and students will do internships
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ingwarpero.bsky.social
Dass ausgerechnet die CSU-Politikerin Doro Bär, die noch vor wenigen Jahren den menschengemachten Klimawandel leugnete, jetzt neue Forschungsministerin werden soll - ein Job, bei dem es ganz besonders darauf ankommt, der Kraft der Wissenschaft zu vertrauen, ist m.E. hochproblematisch.
timohillmann.bsky.social
If now for subsystem codes we are measuring non-commuting gauge operators and combining them to get stabilizers, there is a way to look at the problem in the same way as for the ordering of operations in ordinary syndrome extraction circuits. Probably with even fewer constraints though. 2/2
timohillmann.bsky.social
I wonder if with hindsight we are just coming back to realize that the order of operations in the syndrome extraction circuit matters for the effective fault distance of ordinary codes. There we all agree that the order of operations matters. 1/2
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Section 3 of the Extractor paper is a very good overview I find as a non-expert. arxiv.org/abs/2503.10390
Extractors: QLDPC Architectures for Efficient Pauli-Based Computation
In pursuit of large-scale fault-tolerant quantum computation, quantum low-density parity-check (LPDC) codes have been established as promising candidates for low-overhead memory when compared to conventional approaches based on surface codes. Performing fault-tolerant logical computation on QLDPC memory, however, has been a long standing challenge in theory and in practice. In this work, we propose a new primitive, which we call an $\textit{extractor system}$, that can augment any QLDPC memory into a computational block well-suited for Pauli-based computation. In particular, any logical Pauli operator supported on the memory can be fault-tolerantly measured in one logical cycle, consisting of $O(d)$ physical syndrome measurement cycles, without rearranging qubit connectivity. We further propose a fixed-connectivity, LDPC architecture built by connecting many extractor-augmented computational (EAC) blocks with bridge systems. When combined with any user-defined source of high fidelity $|T\rangle$ states, our architecture can implement universal quantum circuits via parallel logical measurements, such that all single-block Clifford gates are compiled away. The size of an extractor on an $n$ qubit code is $\tilde{O}(n)$, where the precise overhead has immense room for practical optimizations.
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Typing away on my PhD thesis - no matter where I go next, the views from my office will be hard to beat, unfortunately.
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@arrr.de is working on something related.