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A view of avdecidious tree (mostly oaks) covered valley with mountain ridges in the distance off the Blue Ridge Parkway. Above the mountains is a blue sky dotted with fluffy white clouds (cumulus clouds).
A picture of fire pit surrouned by fallen logs in a deciduous forest.
2026 graduates from the Brown Lab (1 BS, 2 MS, 2 PhD) and Dr. Brown pose for a photo.
A view from a hotel window on downtown Los Angeles at sunrise. The iconic LA city hall is seen on the left. The hotel pool takes up the foreground.
View from a hotel window showing a parking lot with an American flag and a church across the street. Green oak trees in the background and a gray sky.
A view from a hotel window at Monte Verita of Lago Maggiore and the surrounding mountains with trees in the foreground.
Kenneth Brown talking about quantum error correction tools developed in the Brown Lab at the Monte Verita Quantum Codes conference
View of downtown denver from a high-level hotel room
A picture of the computer science building, Morgridge Hall, at the University of Wosconsin Madison at night from a hotel room in South Union.
Four former Brown lab members smiling at the camera with a ski mountain behind them.
Cover of the Portishead album Dummy. The cover is a deep blues. It shows a mysterious woman in blue lights (Beth Gibbons lead singer of Portishead) with the word PORTISHEAD in the upper right corner in white and the word DUMMY in the lower left.
Top: The Internet, depicted as an octopus, helping a human lift a barbell with the caption "INTERNET makes your job easier". Bottom: Octopus helping a robot lift the same weight with the caption while pushing the human away"INTERNET gives your job to ROBOT"
Sunrise reflected off highrises in Busan Korea.
A modern professor in the traditional Korean garb of a scholar in the Joseon dynasty. In front of the backdrop of a traditional Korean palace building.
Two ion trapping professors in an ion trap lab not touching any optics.
Three professors and Dr. Quantum, a large cartoon character, by an example of the inside of a cryogenic chamber at SKKU
Picture from a hotel.window showing the side of the building with an open air staircase and a narrow row of windows.
Two professors in winter coats at the bottom of a deep staircase between two buildings that rise up like canyon walls.
View from a hotel window of a parking lot, trees with a few last colorful leaves, and a cloudy sky. The clouds are almost a lattice of small clouds with blue sky peaking through.
Advisor and student smiling after a successful thesis defense
View from a high floor hotel showing a parking lot, a small construction zone, w railroad track and a tall gray building in the distance.
A smiling man in a floppy hat holding a small fish in one hand and a fly rod in the other on a lawn of grass.
A light house and the sea near sunset taken from a hotel window in Egmond aan Zee.
A view of one part of a hotel from the other part of the hotel across a flat roof at sunset.
Snail on a cut plant by a fence in Ridgefield, WA
Arm with temporary tattoo of a prickly pear cactus pulling Nielsen and Chuang's Quantum Computation and Quantum Information book off a shelf of QM books
2025 picture of DC landscape showing the Optica building from a hotel window.
Scientists and government officials outside of the Optica building in 2019.
Friederike Butt presenting her work on quantum computation.
Bushes and trees outside a hotel window in New Haven, CT
Me with EPiqC hat
Andreas Wallraff in a Duke Quantum Center 1/4-zip with Ken Brown in an ETH Zurich Quantum hoodie in front of a giant fish fossil.
Quantum Department of Transportation sticker from Meow Wolf on a gray suitcase.
Black suitcase covered in stickers of quantum computer and laser companies and a dog holding an 8-ball in the form of a maneki-neko
Neon sign that says "THIS PRESENT MOMENT USED TO BE THE UNIMAGINABLE FUTURE."
A political sign that says "Politicians are temporary. Wu-Tang is forever" stapled to a wooden wall.
Dr. Qiang Miao gives a thumbs up in front of his poster about measuring entanglement at a phase transition using a MERA ansatz and a quantum computer. His co-author Prof. Kenneth Brown in robust quantum simulation t-shirt invites conference attendees to engage with the poster.
A scientist describing their poster to two onlookers is making the scare-quote hand signal
Two multi-story building of a bland color. Some windows have shades others have AC units. The building on the left has a slightly more decorative facade.
High-rises in New York as seen from the 10th floor terrace of the IBM NY building.
Snail using the sidewalk in Mainz, Germany. The sidewalk is made of bowtie-shaped tiles. The snail is moving diagonally relative to the tile work.
Benasque Fault Tolerant Quantum Technologies Workshop group photo. About 100 scientist in outdoor clothing sit and stand in front of the Centro de Ciencias de Benasque Pedro Pascual
A dark brown snail crawls on a purple cauliflower sitting on a teal Japanese cermaic dish on top of polished wood.
On a dark stage with purple lights a duet prepares to sing ABBA's dancing queen at karaoke night at a hard rock bar in Stockholm. One singer checks with the DJ what key the song is in.
A view from a hotel window showing an open air space in the center of the hotel. The floor/roof has ground cover and skylights. The other side of th courtyard are more hotel windows.
A rainbow ending at the old Chesterfield cigarette factory which houses the Duke Quantum Center
A cloudy sky at dusk over a parking lot, a Wendy's sign, and an electrical pole. Red light on the horizon indicates that the sun has just set..
Evan Reed representing IonQ in an IonQ t-shirt talks about two-qubit gates at the DAMOP conference in Portland Oregon. The chair of the session Brian McMahon checks the time and prepares questions.
Peter Love, Akimasa Miyake, and Emily Edwards enjoy a drink at the Crank Arm taphouse in Durham after a day at the STAQ Summer School.
A book shelf of quantum mechanics, quantum computing, and quantum field theory books featuring Quantum Mechanics by Cohen-Tannoudhi, Due, and Laloe. A campfire style song plays singing about the book. The song is a joke saying the book is a communist satanic plot.
A lone physicist powering a laptop in a large convention center hallway.
A swimming pool area in disuse and under construction in a hotel courtyard.
Duke quantum center mug next to a crocheted version of the toric code with one X error, two eyes, and a smile.
Quantum circuits showing how to encode logical qubtis for the Bacon-Shor code and how to perform syndrome extraction. These circuits are implemented on a chain of 23 ions and a mapping from the qubits to the ions is also presented.
Eren Guttentag standing in front of poster describing robust syndrome extraction at the QEC23 conference.