Dr Nikolas Breuckmann
BSc, BSc, MSc, PhD
Current positions
Senior Lecturer
School of Mathematics
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Research interests
I work mostly in quantum information, in particular quantum fault-tolerance and quantum complexity theory. I enjoy problems involving the interplay between combinatorial and geometric ideas.
Recent work of mine includes the construction of a class of quantum codes that have optimal asymptotic properties in terms of information storage density and error correction capabilities (joint work with J. Eberhardt), the proof of the NLTS conjecture (joint work with A. Anshu and C. Nirkhe), which demonstrates robustness of quantum mechanical entanglement, and the discovery of a new phase of matter called "topological quantum spin glass" (joint work with B. Placke, T. Rakovszky and V. Khemani).
Publications
Selected publications
02/06/2023NLTS Hamiltonians from Good Quantum Codes: 55th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing, STOC 2023 - Proceedings of the Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing
STOC 2023
Balanced Product Quantum Codes
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
Topological Quantum Spin Glass Order and its realization in qLDPC codes
Topological Quantum Spin Glass Order and its realization in qLDPC codes
Random-bond Ising model and its dual in hyperbolic spaces
Physical Review E
Fault-tolerant connection of error-corrected qubits with noisy links
npj Quantum Information
Recent publications
28/07/2026Bottlenecks in Quantum Channels and Finite Temperature Phases of Matter
Physical Review Letters
Cups and Gates I: Cohomology Invariants and Logical Quantum Operations
Communications in Mathematical Physics
NLTS Hamiltonians from Good Quantum Codes
SIAM Journal on Computing
Classical Adversarial Fault-Tolerance and PCPs
Classical Adversarial Fault-Tolerance and PCPs
Copy-cup Gates in Tensor Products of Group Algebra Codes
Copy-cup Gates in Tensor Products of Group Algebra Codes