“Every hour you spend confused is an hour you spend building the infrastructure inside your own head that will eventually let you do original work. There is no shortcut through that process that doesn't leave you diminished on the other side.”

John Preskill expressing thanks to quantum pioneers of the past century and wishing good fortune to the audience, the quantum explorers of the future in an inspiring talk at
#APSSummit26 #quantum

Quantum Thermodynamics and Decoherence | Quantum-Thermodynamics Hub Joint with the Center for Coherence and Quantum Science (CQS).

Announcing the symposium Quantum Thermodynamics and Decoherence! Registration is free and now open. Highlights include a keynote by a physics-inspired novelist and poster-session prizes for students/postdocs. Join us in New York June 3–4! qtd-hub.umd.edu/event/sympos...

als dit zo doorgaat staan we over 24 dagen allemaal in groenland😱

Alignment chart with Pauli matrices "Looks like a cinnamon roll" / "is actually a cinnamon roll", SWAP "looks like a cinnamon roll" / "could actually kill you", generalized CPhase (D) "looks like they could kill you" / "is actually a cinnamon roll", CCNOT "looks like they could kill you" / "could actually kill you"

The semester is finally over, so it's time for me to post the memes my students made for extra credit on their final (Physics 438b: Quantum Mechanics). As always, good memes are the result of my inspiring teaching, bad memes are the result of kids these days. Let's start it off!

Also: comparing a candidate with other *recently mentored students* who went to grad school. With a precision of ~ 1 %. How many students do you think I mentor?

Strongly agree

We waren groen als gras 💚

Geniet er maar van, voordat je het weet zijn de rollen weer omgedraaid ;)

Ik heb toch 17 minuten overachieven gezien vandaag 🙈

Ik ben het grotendeels met je eens, maar na de zoveelste Farioli lofzang stoort het me wel dat het einde van vorig seizoen, waarin we met knikkende knieen en vreselijk voetbal een historische voorsprong weggaven, steevast wordt weggelaten van de analyse

With every round of memes I become more curious about your Clebsch-Gordan lecture(s). Are they recorded :)

What is the way out that you have most faith in will actually happen?

My first jersey when I was 10, now framed above my son’s bed

Quantum tunneling: URochester physicist explains a Nobel Prize–winning discovery Machiel Blok’s research in superconducting circuits builds on the quantum tunneling effects recognized by the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics.

The same quantum tunneling honored by this year’s #NobelPrize is driving #URochesterResearch

@machielblok.bsky.social is building quantum systems that do what classical computers can’t—inspired by the same fundamental questions

uofr.us/48o7I0K

#QuantumPhysics #QuantumComputing

a close up of a statue of yoda with the words `` learning you are '' written above him . ALT: a close up of a statue of yoda with the words `` learning you are '' written above him .

What it really feels like interacting with your physics heroes!
Such a beautiful and fundamental prize 🤩
www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physi...

... and many other great talks by pioneers in the field. Highly recommend this channel by the Center for Quantum Coherent Science at Berkeley

PHYSICS 20170110 12b Devoret 012 YouTube video by Cqcs Departmental

Michel Devoret reflected on his time in the Clarke lab at Berkeley

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYHN...

John Clarke talked about the experiment that defined his career, including the origin-story of the SLUG (Superconducting Low-Inductance Undulatory Galvanometer)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ef0...

In the excitement over today's well-deserved #nobel announcement for Clarke, Devoret and Martinis, I looked up the 2017 symposium in honor of John Clarke's scientific achievements at UC Berkeley that I attended as a postdoc.

I was thrilled to find the recordings on YouTube
tinyurl.com/mrx6umcr

Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 The Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 was awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electri...

sc circuits!!

www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physi...

"The Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Rochester invites applications for a junior (tenure-track) professorship in theoretical physics. We are particularly interested in candidates who work on the physics of complex systems and/or on quantum information science"

We are hiring in theoretical quantum info / complex systems !

apply.interfolio.com/173432

Awesome! I enjoyed earlier episodes of this series, looking forward to hearing yours!

It is for us!

Fridge day!
@bluefors.com @urochester.bsky.social

This is what democracy looks like! A people united will never be defeated. We want federal forces out of DC NOW! #WeAreAllDC #FreeDC

Frank Zappa Drummer Hears The Mars Volta For The First Time YouTube video by Drumeo

My favourite is ‘frank zappa drummer hears (and plays along with) The Mars Volta for the first time’

m.youtube.com/watch?v=ExNX...

How easy is it to fudge your scientific rank? Meet Larry, the world’s most cited cat “Exercise in absurdity” reveals flaws in Google Scholar’s productivity metrics

Why are so many people so obsessed with “Google Scholar fraud”?

Another example of someone creating a few citations — no, you don’t get a job/promotion because you have 132 citations.

And the “meta study” found 144 suspected cases out of 1 million (!) profiles.

The New Quantum Era - innovation in quantum computing, science and technology | Neutral Atom Qubits with Mark Saffman In this episode of The New Quantum Era, host Sebastian Hassinger sits down with Dr. Mark Saffman, a leading expert in atomic physics and quantum information science. As a professor at the Universit...

Mark Saffman reviews the remarkable recent progress on quantum computing with neutral atoms.

podcast.newquantumera.com/57