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Another great batch of quantum memes!

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Cool cats. Physicists at UNSW are the first to succeed in creating and manipulating quantum superpositions of a single, large nuclear spin. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/gH2j50UZv88

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

This is the one article to read on contemporary (and future) U.S. politics. Laid out analytically and clearly. There is a hint of optimism (which I do not share but do appreciate).

submitted 17 days ago • 6 comments

As social and traditional media continue to favor "catastrophizing" and "liberal outrage", the growing group of (wannabe) pundits keep upping their dramatic predictions and drowning out the few actual experts with insightful analyses. Trump pays off for both far-right and liberal grifters.

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

First time I am hearing about Quantum Circuit Born Machines. From a brief glance at the paper, this looks like it could be an important result! I’m a little surprised it is not discussed more in the #quantum sphere here. Thoughts?

submitted 37 days ago • 2 comments

Hey, University of Rochester researchers! Did you know there's a starter pack for you?! Check it out, follow your colleagues, and reach out to @urochester.bsky.social to be added to the pack! go.bsky.app/AhmHd8J

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

Beautiful work by the Morello group on creating a Schrödinger cat state in nuclear spin qudits (www.nature.com/articles/s41...) Along with a visually stunning video www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJVM...

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

Rainy weekend project: condense 125 years of quantum physics into 1! The "Quantum Year" calendar is interactive. Feedback welcome. #IYQ2025 #QuantumYear #QuantumComputing

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

It is graduate admission season! Question to colleagues: How do you read/write recommendation letters. I have no issue identifying the best of the best. But between all the 'warm', 'strong', 'enthusiastic' recommendations, how can they be distinguished?

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

If I would be dictator for a day, I would mandate that you are only allowed to published graphs that show the full range of the y-axis.

submitted 61 days ago • 70 comments

I'm teaching quantum again this semester. Midterms are the second weeks of February and March, final is first week of May. Set your meme calendars accordingly

submitted 64 days ago • 1 comment

My take on different interpretations of quantum mechanics is that I will devote serious thought to them as soon as they make one (1) testable prediction

submitted 75 days ago • 2 comments

I was thrilled to hear about the surface code when Alexei Kitaev visited @caltech.edu in April 1997. It's heartening to see the hardware catching up with the theory of quantum error correction. There's still far to go but this is encouraging progress. www.quantamagazine.org/quantum-comp...

submitted 81 days ago • 1 comment

2-dimensional analogies are often used to motivate physical concepts in our 3+1 dimensional world. But a world with 2 space and 1 time dimensions would look *very* different from our world Some crucial differences:🧵 1/10

submitted 84 days ago • 5 comments

Let me know if you want your #quantum tagged posts to be listed in this quantum feed: bsky.app/profile/did:... .

submitted 90 days ago • 82 comments

We had heard about the challenges posed by motherhood within academia, but what about the previous stage? @ecfreewoman.bsky.social & I wrote our story for @science.org on how the academic system makes it almost impossible for women to even plan for a family ❤️‍🩹: www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 92 days ago • 6 comments

Fun feature! Creating a word cloud based on your google scholar scholargoggler.com

submitted 97 days ago • 1 comment

Turns out you can play Bach on an MRI scanner.

submitted 97 days ago • 2 comments