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Of mice and men: this month's faux-magazine cover.

Mice gut microbes 'humanized' —‌ the inhumanity of animal testing aside —‌ then low and behold, some types naturally vacuum up the cell-corrupting #PFAS to then be pooped away.

Magic states enable error detection in low-qubit quantum computing: which #cryptocurrency will fall first?

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Of mice and men: this month's faux-magazine cover.

Mice gut microbes 'humanized' —‌ the inhumanity of animal testing aside —‌ then low and behold, some types naturally vacuum up the cell-corrupting #PFAS to then be pooped away.

Magic states enable error detection in low-qubit quantum computing: which #cryptocurrency will fall first?

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https://phys.org/news/2025-06-species-microbe-human-gut-absorb.html
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bacterial species were introduced into the guts of mice to 'humanize' the mouse #microbiome, the #bacteria rapidly accumulated PFAS eaten by the mice, which were then excreted in feces.
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…as the mice were exposed to increasing levels of PFAS, the #microbes worked harder, consistently removing the same percentage of the #toxicchemicals. Within minutes of exposure, the bacterial species tested soaked up between 25% and 74% of the #PFAS.
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Efficient Magic State Distillation by Zero-Level Distillation

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.03991
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https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024arXiv240303991I/abstract
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Here we propose zero-level distillation, which prepares a high-fidelity logical magic state at the physical level, namely zero level, using physical qubits and nearest-neighbor two-qubit gates on a square lattice. We develop a zero-level distillation circuit and show that distillation can be made even more efficient than the conventional sophisticated approaches with logical level distillations. The key idea involves the Knill et al.-type distillation using the Steane code and its careful mapping to the square-lattice architecture with error detection. The distilled magic state on the Steane-code state is then teleported or converted to surface codes. We numerically find that the error rate of the logical magic state scales...