The first time I gave a talk in Peter Zoller’s presence, he was on his phone. I was disappointed that my talk seemed not to interest him. Later, he said he’d been looking up my work. He was on his phone during Steve Girvin’s colloquium, too, so I feel reassured!

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Excited to share two new results on making bivariate bicycle codes more practical. First: we extend our Nature 2024 memory work to show ~10x fewer qubits still holds during computation. arxiv.org/abs/2506.03094 Second: we remove the need for two-stage decoders. Relay-BP

Hidden modes in fluxonium’s Josephson-junction array can hijack the readout process, causing unexpected state transitions and dephasing that challenge high-fidelity measurement. Shraddha Singh go.aps.org/4gYpgD0