About us
Group Purpose
Colorado Quantum is here to help build a community that includes quantum computing innovators and people who use or plan to use the technology. Our mission is to bring education and understanding about quantum hardware and software to people who want to work in the field and to early adaptors who want to use the technology, to help them evaluate when and how they can incorporate it into their workflow.
Our topics include the science and technology of quantum computing. We also discuss use-cases, state of the quantum ecosystem, when will quantum computers offer value.
Colorado Quantum brings quantum computing innovators together with technology adopters to build an economically thriving community.
What we do
Meet regularly to provide social, networking, and education. When possible, we have scheduled presentations, otherwise we still meet to have an informal gathering.
Who should attend
You! If you are interested in:
- quantum research
- quantum computer development (hardware/software)
- quantum application to business
- networking in the quantum computing community
Join us on Slack: https://join.slack.com/t/coloradoquantum/shared_invite/zt-23dkvgk2u-QVF6dzDCxgAQmjEH0vFvOQ
Upcoming events
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Universal Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation Across Stabilizer Codes
Quantum Incubator, 5555 Central Avenue, Boulder, CO, US🍕 6:00–6:15 PM – Pizza & Social
🧠6:15–7:15 PM – Presentation
🍻 7:15–7:45 PM – SocialDescription
Fault-tolerant quantum computation enables quantum computations to be carried out while resisting unwanted noise, but implementing a universal logical gate set remains a challenge. Stabilizer codes provide robust error protection, but each code supports only a limited family of native fault-tolerant logical gates, requiring additional techniques—such as code concatenation, code switching, or magic state distillation—to access non-native operations. These techniques can be costly, nondeterministic, and often tailored to specific codes or architectures.In this talk, we present a stabilizer code-generic framework for universal fault-tolerant quantum computation based on ancilla mediation: ancillary registers are used strictly for communication and gate transformation without storing data themselves. By leveraging helper codes—most notably the generalized Shor code and its Hadamard dual—along with mid-circuit measurements, the framework enables deterministic implementations of logical Clifford and T gates that do not consume ancilla registers and do not modify the underlying data code or register. We will outline the key constructions (including controlled-flip primitives, stabilizer-generic Hadamards, and Z-rotations), discuss validation and resource overhead considerations, and highlight how stabilizer-generic gates enable communication between heterogeneous stabilizer encodings.
Speaker
Nicholas Papadopoulos grew up in Avon, CT and received a B.A. in computer science at Boston University in 2016. He worked professionally as a software engineer in the fields of bioinformatics, high-security transportation, and quantum computing/networking before pursuing higher education at the University of Colorado Boulder in 2021. He is currently a research assistant in the computer science department at the University of Colorado Boulder with interests in quantum computing algorithms. He is the author of a paper describing a protocol to increase eavesdropping detection during quantum key distribution, increasing cryptography security, as well as a paper describing a family of algorithms containing Ramsey interferometry and Quantum Phase Estimation, bridging the gap between these two seemingly distinct algorithms.13 attendees
Past events
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