Monthly Archives: February 2025

Quantum Computing Skepticism, Part 2: My View and Responses to Skeptical Claims—Featuring John Preskill, Scott Aaronson, Dave Bacon, Aram Harrow, and Boaz Barak

Posted on February 26, 2025 by Gil Kalai

In a previous post I presented the skeptical views toward quantum computing of Robert Alicki, Michel Dyakonov, Leonid Levin, Oded Goldreich, Liam McGuinness, Moshe Vardi and a few others. As I mentioned there, I am quite interested in understanding the … Continue reading →

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Majorana Zero Modes and Topological Qubits

Posted on February 21, 2025 by Gil Kalai

This post contains the first item, devoted to Majorana zero modes, from an ambitious planned post on some quantum physics mysteries, related to quantum information and computation. (Some items are also related to noise sensitivity and associated Fourier analysis.)   Majorana … Continue reading →

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Robert Alicki, Michel Dyakonov, Leonid Levin, Oded Goldreich, and Others – A Summary of Some Skeptical Views On Quantum Computing.

Posted on February 17, 2025 by Gil Kalai

In this post, I provide links, references, and a brief discussion of the skeptical views regarding quantum computing held by Robert Alicki, Michel Dyakonov, Leonid Levin, Oded Goldreich, and a few others. In the next post I will briefly describe … Continue reading →

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Roadmap for the Debate about Quantum Computers

Posted on February 11, 2025 by Gil Kalai

Here is a roadmap for the debate about quantum computers from my perspective. Skeptical claims are in blue, responses to these claims are in purple. Points 1-8 represent skeptical claims made over the years, while points a-p are replies to … Continue reading →

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Seven Assertions about Quantum Computing.

Posted on February 5, 2025 by Gil Kalai

The purpose of this post is to present seven assertions about quantum computing that arose in my research. I welcome questions and remarks and will gladly clarify or elaborate on them. Continue reading →

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More Annotated Pictures from Fall/Winter 2024

Posted on February 3, 2025 by Gil Kalai

Pictures from Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, and Athens (!) and Rehovot. The new Google‘s 10,000,000,000,000,00,000,000,000,000 supremacy announcement;  Sarnak’s lectures; the “A-Bass note”  and, fullerences, 3-polytopes with hexagonal and pentagonal faces (answer to TYI58); What was the music in the ancient Jewish Temple? … Continue reading →

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