Event time:
Friday, March 27, 2026 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Audience:
YQI Researchers
Location:
YQI Seminar Room
Event description:
The unreasonable effectiveness of (classical) decoding in (quantum) computing
Coding theory has found unexpectedly broad applications in quantum information and computation, even in fields that have nothing to do with error correction on the surface. Why is it so useful? In this talk I will survey the unreasonably broad applications of decoding, from cryptography to quantum algorithms and quantum advantage. I will focus in particular on our new algorithm that can prepare quantum Gibbs states without ever running a Lindbladian, but by solving a decoding problem.
Livestream on Zoom (Yale login required)