Quantum Information & Computing

P1. Dynamics of disordered quantum systems with two- and three-dimensional tensor networks

AuthorsJoseph Tindall, Antonio Francesco Mello, Matthew Fishman, E. Miles Stoudenmire, Dries Sels
VenueScience 392, 868 (2026) · arXiv:2503.05693
TagsTensor networks Belief propagation Quantum annealing Quantum advantage

P2. A digitally controlled silicon quantum processing unit

AuthorsHRL Quantum Team — Jacob Z. Blumoff, Thaddeus D. Ladd, Matthew D. Reed (corresponding authors), et al.
VenueNature (2026) · arXiv:2604.16216
TagsSilicon spin qubits QEC Quantum computing

P3. Experimental Realization of Thermal Reservoirs with Tunable Temperature in a Trapped-Ion Spin-Boson Simulator

AuthorsVisal So, Mingjian Zhu, Midhuna Duraisamy Suganthi, Abhishek Menon, George Tomaras, Roman Zhuravel, Han Pu, Guido Pagano
VenuePhysical Review Letters 137, 050604 (2026) · arXiv:2511.08689
TagsTrapped-ion qubits Quantum simulation Open quantum systems

ML/AI

P1. Emotion Concepts and their Function in a Large Language Model

AuthorsNicholas Sofroniew, Isaac Kauvar, William Saunders, Runjin Chen, Tom Henighan, Sasha Hydrie, Craig Citro, Adam Pearce, Julius Tarng, Wes Gurnee, Joshua Batson, Sam Zimmerman, Kelley Rivoire, Kyle Fish, Chris Olah, Jack Lindsey
VenueTransformer Circuits Thread, Anthropic (2026) · arXiv:2604.07729
TagsMechanistic interpretability Activation steering AI alignment

P2. Training Agents Inside of Scalable World Models

AuthorsDanijar Hafner, Wilson Yan, Timothy Lillicrap
VenuearXiv:2509.24527 (2025)
TagsRL World models Offline RL

P3. Functional alignment of protein language models via reinforcement learning

AuthorsNathaniel Blalock, Srinath Seshadri, Kensuke Nakamura, Agrim Babbar, Sarah A. Fahlberg, Ameya Kulkarni, Philip A. Romero
VenuebioRxiv preprint, v2 (2026) · preliminary NeurIPS 2024 workshop version
TagsRL Protein language models Reward modeling