
Physicist & Computer Scientist - Quantum Computing @GeorgiaTech @UT_Dallas | Go player 6p
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Gul Filiz AKINALP retweeted
Alice & Bob put breaking RSA-2048 at 23,000 cat qubits and three days
In 1994, mathematician Peter Shor showed that a sufficiently large quantum computer could break RSA and the elliptic-curve cryptography behind Bitcoin.
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Gul Filiz AKINALP retweeted
On the cat qubit factoring paper: as with most of Élie's estimates, it comes down to whether you buy the insane upfront assumption. This time the assumption is LITERALLY ZERO bit flip errors. The algorithmic work looks good, the conclusion follows, but brother what a premise.
Gul Filiz AKINALP retweeted
Breaking RSA-2048 with 23,000 cat qubits. 🐈 In 3.14 days
This is the finding of our new paper, the latest resource estimate for Shor’s algorithm, the benchmark the whole field uses to compare quantum hardware 📄
The results are a record low for total quantum resources at this speed of execution, about 40 times fewer physical qubits than @GoogleQuantumAI 's Craig Gidney 2025 estimate. 🏁
RSA-2048 is the lock behind secure websites, banking and software updates 🔐 Shor's algorithm has been able to break it, on paper since 1994. Nobody has built the machine yet, but every year the estimate of how big it needs to be gets a little smaller.
In 2019, the best estimate was 20 million qubits. In 2024, ours was just under 100,000. Now 22,593, in 3.14 days. Yes, pi 🥧
Small isn't enough. Fast isn't enough. The new study optimizes for both. 😼
Bitcoin, Ethereum and most blockchains aren't secure either, about 30,000 qubits would be needed to crack a Bitcoin key in about an hour ₿ ⏳
How we got here, what it means for cryptography, and when it all converges, our CEO Théau Peronnin talks about it in the blog 👇
📝 Blog - alice-bob.com/blog/our-estim…
📄 Paper - eprint.iacr.org/2026/2665
Stay curious, more info coming soon 👀
#QuantumComputing #CatQubits #ShorsAlgorithm #PostQuantumCryptography #Cryptography #FaultTolerance #DeepTech
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In 1953, Enrico Fermi, John Pasta, Stanislaw Ulam and a young programmer named Mary Tsingou used one of the first computers, the MANIAC at Los Alamos, to watch a vibrating chain of weights share its energy out evenly, just as everyone expected.
One day, the run was accidentally left going long past its cutoff, and when they came back the energy had flowed almost entirely back into the original wave, as if the chain remembered where it started.
That surprise helped launch the modern science of Nonlinear Waves, and for decades Tsingou, who wrote the code, was left out of the problem's name.
Gul Filiz AKINALP retweeted
İyi İnsan Sendromu nedir?
Araştırmalara göre;
Fazla iyi olan insanlar çok yaşamıyor. Daha fazla üzülüyor, daha fazla ihanete uğruyor, daha fazla stres altına giriyor ve daha fazla hasta oluyorlar. Buna "İyi İnsan Sendromu" deniyor.
Gul Filiz AKINALP retweeted
Lithium's electron draws a flower
The gold blob is Lithium's outer electron. Every lap, it brushes past the inner electrons and gets nudged. So, its orbit slowly turns and draws a rosette.
The nudge comes from energy shifts predicted by the Schrödinger equation, and the fabric's height shows where the electron is likely to be.
Gul Filiz AKINALP retweeted
PsiQuantum was founded on a simple premise: useful quantum computing requires a million-qubit, fault-tolerant system.
We chose photonics for its scaling advantages and spent nearly a decade building an ultra-low-loss silicon photonics platform to make that path possible.
That platform is foundational to our path to useful quantum computers. Now, beginning with Optical Circuit Switching, it can help power the next generation of AI infrastructure.
Yes! Ghost particles have a lot to tell.
“Without understanding neutrinos, we’ll never understand the universe.”
Physics laureate Francis Halzen has laid the foundation for a new type of astronomy. His idea was to use naturally occurring ice, rather than water, to capture the secretive elementary particles called neutrinos. The result was the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, which can track neutrinos that originate in the distant cosmos.
So, why is it interesting to capture neutrinos? These elusive particles carry with them information about their sources. Since neutrinos have no electrical charge, they’re not deflected by the magnetic field between the earth and their distant cosmic sources. When these particles are detected and captured, we can learn more about where they are produced, for example the environment around a black hole. This knowledge about cosmic sources would otherwise not be accessible to us.
When a neutrino collides with an atomic nucleus, a charged particle can be produced which emits a blue light. This flash of light can be tracked by sensors in the clear glacial ice of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. The South Pole’s ice has many advantages, as it is free from various types of interference and the area is geologically stable, with no earthquakes. Still, it was not an easy project.
During the press conference, Francis Halzen commented on this:
”When I reflect on this at this moment, I have to emphasise how lucky I was. Because when we started this project, everybody realised it was a good idea, but very few thought it would work, including myself. This was kind of an adventure where success was not guaranteed. We were lucky to overcome the various challenges, partly because the talent of our collaborators and partly because of luck. It was a long journey but it finally worked.”
Learn more at nobelprize.org/prizes/physic…
Gul Filiz AKINALP retweeted
Slides from today’s talk at the CWI QEC workshop in Amsterdam are now online!
Ultra-High-Rate Quantum LDPC Codes
Slides: kasai.ict.eng.isct.ac.jp/fil…



























