Weakly Abstract: A tale of ambition and tragedy

Once upon a time there was a weekly blog series here at Brissie to Brizzle entitled “Weakly Abstract“. In this series I ranted about whatever paper on the arXiv caught my attention in a given week. Unfortunately, it died.
(Who would have thought that keeping a regular schedule while jetting around the world would be hard?)
Well, [...]

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Weakly Abstract: March 10 – March 14

Sorry everyone, I dropped the ball and didn’t manage to get out the Weakly Abstract on time this week. My excuse is kinda lame, yesterday I was giving a talk at the Quantum Information Processing Spring School and with one thing and another I didn’t get time to crank out a blog post. What’s doubly [...]

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Weakly Abstract: March 3 – March 7

This week’s Weakly Abstract is going to be highly controversial. You see, over the last month or so that I’ve been doing this I’ve followed a pretty tried-and-true pattern of picking either the most, or second most, scited paper on SciRate from any given week.
This week I’m going to dip waaayyyy down into the [...]

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Weakly Abstract: February 25 – February 29

Checking out SciRate there’s been a fair bit of good quant-ph action over the last week. For instance you might want to check out the following papers:

Guillaume Aubrun, A remark on the paper “Randomizing quantum states: Constructions and applications”. (10 scites)
Huw Price, Toy Models for Retrocausality. (7 scites)
Keisuke Fujii, Katsuji Yamamoto, Fault-tolerant quantum computation in [...]

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Weakly Abstract: February 18 – February 22

Another Monday, another Weakly Abstract. This week’s Weakly Abstract is "Creation, manipulation, and detection of anyons in optical lattices" by Aguado et al:

Creation, manipulation, and detection of anyons in optical latticesAuthors: M. Aguado, G. K. Brennen, F. Verstraete, J. I. Cirac
Anyons are particle-like excitations of strongly correlated phases of matter with very exotic physical properties. [...]

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Weakly Abstract: February 11 – February 15

It’s time for the second installment of the Weakly Abstract and I can already tell that this is going to be a hell of a job to get through every week. The last week saw some fantastic papers hit the quant-ph arXiv, here’s the Weakly Abstract shortlist:

Stephen Jordan and Edward Farhi, Perturbative Gadgets at Arbitrary [...]

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Weakly Abstract: February 4 – February 8

An idea that I’ve been toying with for a while now is to write a weekly post on my favourite quant-ph arXiv paper which has been released in the last week. I’ve decided after literally minutes of consultation with my office mates that this new regular post should be called "Weakly Abstract".
I expect that the [...]

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