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Quantum@SUN Unconference 2023

Posted on Sunday December 17th, 2023 by quantum

Our research group recently held an unconference, which was a great success. We spent a whole day together, and every group member presented some interesting research questions. It was amazing to see the group’s diversity of topics and perspectives and … Continue reading →

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Stellenbosch University to Host National Institute for Theoretical and Computational Sciences

Posted on Thursday September 7th, 2023 by quantum

We are pleased to announce a milestone achievement for both Stellenbosch University and the broader South African scientific community. The Department of Science and Innovation (DSI) and the National Research Foundation (NRF) have accepted Stellenbosch University’s bid to host the … Continue reading →

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Hierarchical quantum circuit representations for neural architecture search

Posted on Monday August 7th, 2023 by quantum

We are thrilled to announce that our latest paper, “Hierarchical Quantum Circuit Representations for Neural Architecture Search,” has just been published in the esteemed npj Quantum Information. Our work introduces an exciting paradigm by borrowing techniques from the field of … Continue reading →

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Italian honour for Prof Petruccione

Posted on Friday June 9th, 2023 by quantum

Prof. Francesco Petruccione was recently awarded the title of Cavaliere della Stella d’Italia, a prestigious Italian honour.. The accolade, presented by the Italian ambassador on Italy’s Republic Day, recognizes Petruccione’s significant global contributions to theoretical physics. For the full press … Continue reading →

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Quantum computing? How about kwantumberekening?

Posted on Monday February 13th, 2023 by quantum

Last week, Gerhard Woithe, who just joined the Group as an MSc student, started a project to translate the Wikipedia page for “Quantum computing” to Afrikaans. The page (still in progress) can be found at https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwantumberekening. In the process of … Continue reading →

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Four new preprints

Posted on Monday February 6th, 2023 by quantum

What a day: 4 preprints in the arXiv! Congratulations to Shivani Pillay, Ian David, Rowan Pellow-Jarman and Shane McFarthing for submitting their first preprints to the arXiv: Hybrid Genetic Optimisation for Quantum Feature Map Design R Pellow-Jarman, A Pillay, I … Continue reading →

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Quantum @SUN welcomes Prof Uwe Jaekel

Posted on Wednesday February 1st, 2023 by quantum

Prof Uwe Jaekel (Hochshule Koblenz, University of Applied Sciences) is visiting Stellenbosch University from 31 January to 5 February 2023. Prof Jaekel is one of the speakers at the 2023 CHPC-NITheCS Summer School on Theoretical and Computational Sciences. On Friday, … Continue reading →

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Quantum Unconference

Posted on Monday December 5th, 2022 by quantum

It was great to have some of my UKZN students visiting in Stellenbosch and join the local team.

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Quantum tunnelling in the context of SARS‐CoV‐2 infection

Posted on Monday October 10th, 2022 by quantum

The latest paper with Betony Adams, Ilya Sinayskiy and Rienk van Grondelle was published in Scientific Reports. Abstract: The SARS‐CoV‐2 pandemic has added new urgency to the study of viral mechanisms of infection. But while vaccines offer a measure of … Continue reading →

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Dr Graeme Pleasance joins Quantum@SUN

Posted on Friday September 16th, 2022 by quantum

We are very happy to welcome Graeme Pleasance as a PostDoc at Stellenbosch University. Graeme joined us on Monday 9 September 2022.

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