Noah Shutty

I’m a research scientist at Google Quantum AI, where I focus on quantum algorithms, error-correcting codes, and decoding.

Noah Shutty

Publications

Published papers use the version-of-record year; unpublished preprints use their first arXiv submission year.

2026

  1. Reinforcement Learning Control of Quantum Error Correction V. Sivak, A. Morvan, M. Broughton, R. Cortiñas, J. Bausch, A. Senior, M. Neeley, A. Eickbusch, N. Shutty, L. Aghababaie Beni, J. Spencer, et al. Nature 655, 879–884.
  2. Affine Filtering Measurements and Their Applications to Quantum Decoding A. Mandal, N. Shutty, H. D. Pfister, S. P. Jordan. arXiv:2606.07852.
  3. Optimization Using Locally-Quantum Decoders N. Shutty, A. Mandal, S. Ragavan, Q. Buzet, A. Chailloux, N. C. Rubin, A. Khan, S. Boulebnane, R. Shaydulin, J. Azariah, S. P. Jordan. arXiv:2604.24633.
  4. Efficient Near-Optimal Decoding of the Surface Code through Ensembling N. Shutty, M. Newman, B. Villalonga. Physical Review Letters 136, 070603. [preprint]
  5. Accelerating the Tesseract Decoder for Quantum Error Correction D. Grbic, L. Aghababaie Beni, N. Shutty. arXiv:2602.02985.

2025

  1. A Scalable and Real-Time Neural Decoder for Topological Quantum Codes A. W. Senior, T. Edlich, F. J. H. Heras, L. M. Zhang, O. Higgott, J. S. Spencer, T. Applebaum, S. Blackwell, J. Ledford, A. Žemgulytė, A. Žídek, N. Shutty, et al. QEC 2026 (contributed talk).
  2. Optimization by Decoded Quantum Interferometry S. P. Jordan, N. Shutty, M. Wootters, A. Zalcman, A. Schmidhuber, R. King, S. V. Isakov, T. Khattar, R. Babbush. Nature 646, 831–836.
  3. Verifiable Quantum Advantage via Optimized DQI Circuits T. Khattar, N. Shutty, C. Gidney, A. Zalcman, N. Yosri, D. Maslov, R. Babbush, S. P. Jordan. TQC 2026 (accepted talk).
  4. Hamiltonian Decoded Quantum Interferometry A. Schmidhuber, J. Z. Lu, N. Shutty, S. P. Jordan, A. Poremba, Y. Quek. QIP 2026 (regular talk). [IPAM video]
  5. Tesseract: A Search-Based Decoder for Quantum Error Correction L. Aghababaie Beni, O. Higgott, N. Shutty. TQC 2025 (talk); QEC 2025 (talk). [TQC video] [QEC video] [code]
  6. LUCI in the Surface Code with Dropouts D. Debroy, M. McEwen, C. Gidney, N. Shutty, A. Zalcman. Quantum 9, 1936. [preprint]
  7. Scaling and Logic in the Colour Code on a Superconducting Quantum Processor N. Lacroix, A. Bourassa, F. J. H. Heras, L. M. Zhang, J. Bausch, A. W. Senior, T. Edlich, N. Shutty, et al. Nature 645, 614–619.
  8. Quantum Error Correction Below the Surface Code Threshold Google Quantum AI and collaborators, including N. Shutty. Nature 638, 920–926. [preprint]
  9. Magic State Cultivation on a Superconducting Quantum Processor Google Quantum AI collaboration, including N. Shutty. QEC 2026 (contributed talk). [Coogee video]

2024

  1. Magic State Cultivation: Growing T States as Cheap as CNOT Gates C. Gidney, N. Shutty, C. Jones. QIP 2025 (talk). [video]
  2. Repairing Reed–Solomon Codes over Prime Fields via Exponential Sums R. Con, N. Shutty, I. Tamo, M. Wootters. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 70(12), 8587–8594.

2023

  1. Computing Representations for Lie Algebraic Networks N. Shutty, C. Wierzynski. PMLR 197, 1–21 (2023); Best Proceedings Paper, NeurReps 2022. [video]
  2. Overcoming Leakage in Quantum Error Correction K. Miao, M. McEwen, et al., including N. Shutty. Nature Physics 19, 1780–1786.

2022–2020

  1. Decoding Merged Color-Surface Codes and Finding Fault-Tolerant Clifford Circuits Using Solvers for Satisfiability Modulo Theories N. Shutty, C. Chamberland. Physical Review Applied 18, 014072 (2022).
  2. Low-Bandwidth Recovery of Linear Functions of Reed–Solomon-Encoded Data N. Shutty, M. Wootters. ITCS 2022, Article 117. [proceedings]
  3. Fault-Tolerant Qubit from a Constant Number of Components K. Wan, S. Choi, I. H. Kim, N. Shutty, P. Hayden. PRX Quantum 2, 040345 (2021).
  4. Tight Limits on Nonlocality from Nontrivial Communication Complexity N. Shutty, M. Wootters, P. Hayden. FOCS 2020, 206–217.

Earlier

  1. Node2Motif: Hierarchical Invariant Embeddings of Structured Graphs Using the Bispectrum S. Sanborn, R. Mehta, N. Shutty, C. Hillar. NeurIPS Graph Representation Learning Workshop (2019).
  2. Explicit Bounds from the Alon–Boppana Theorem J. Richey, N. Shutty, M. Stover. Experimental Mathematics 27(4), 444–453 (2018).
  3. Polynomial Identities on Eigenforms J. Richey, N. Shutty. Journal of Number Theory 158, 333–347 (2016).
  4. MiX: A Position Sensitive Dual-Phase Liquid Xenon Detector S. Stephenson, J. Haefner, Q. Lin, K. Ni, K. Pushkin, R. Raymond, M. Schubnell, N. Shutty, G. Tarlé, C. Weaverdyck, W. Lorenzon. Journal of Instrumentation 10, P10040 (2015).

Additional Google Quantum AI collaborations

  1. Observation of Disorder-Free Localization Using a (2+1)D Lattice Gauge Theory on a Quantum Processor Science 393, 71–75 (2026).
  2. Quantum Computation of Molecular Geometry via Many-Body Nuclear Spin Echoes APS Global Physics Summit 2026 (oral presentation).
  3. Demonstration of Dynamic Surface Codes Nature Physics 21, 1994–2001 (2025). [preprint]
  4. Observation of Constructive Interference at the Edge of Quantum Ergodicity Nature 646, 825–830 (2025).
  5. Visualizing Dynamics of Charges and Strings in (2+1)D Lattice Gauge Theories Nature 642, 315–320 (2025).
  6. Thermalization and Criticality on an Analogue–Digital Quantum Simulator Nature 638, 79–85 (2025).
  7. Phase Transitions in Random Circuit Sampling Nature 634, 328–333 (2024).
  8. Dynamics of Magnetization at Infinite Temperature in a Heisenberg Spin Chain Science 384, 48–53 (2024).
  9. Stable Quantum-Correlated Many-Body States through Engineered Dissipation Science 383, 1332–1337 (2024).
  10. Measurement-Induced Entanglement and Teleportation on a Noisy Quantum Processor Nature 622, 481–486 (2023).
  11. Purification-Based Quantum Error Mitigation of Pair-Correlated Electron Simulations Nature Physics 19, 1787–1792 (2023).
  12. Non-Abelian Braiding of Graph Vertices in a Superconducting Processor Nature 618, 264–269 (2023).

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