François Damanet

Our work on 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 #𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐨𝐧𝐞-𝐝𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐬 has just been published in 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐝𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬! It presents the development of a programmable platform capable of generating chiral phenomena at the nanoscale
Paper: www.science.org/doi/full/10....
Press: www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

The video shows the Husimi function of the system accross different phases, showing that the spontaneous breaking of the very same weak symmetry in phases (I) and (III) is realized along different 'directions' in each phase.
Movie by John Martin

📣New preprint! With our PhD student and quantum champion Baptiste Debecker as the main driving force, we provide new insights on the role of dissipation on the emergence of phase transitions, notably by introducing the concept of directional symmetry breaking
👉https://arxiv.org/pdf/2504.11317

Just got a new quantum board game from LevyLab from Pittsburgh! Looking forward to playing with colleagues and students 🎲♟️🥳
More info here: www.blochcubes.org

While Microsoft still needs to provide more convincing evidence to bridge the gap between their bold press release and their much more cautious and most recent scientific publication in Nature, I find it quite encouraging that such news sparks public interest in quantum physics!

... the articles in the journal @lesoir.be (in French) can be found here:
- lnkd.in/eJ-n77Nj
- lnkd.in/eeyXZ7jH

Last week, I was interviewed by @thomascasa.bsky.social (thanks for reaching out!) for @lesoir.be about Microsoft's recent press release on their advances in creating a new type of quantum bits that are more resilient to noise.

So glad to see that quantum information sciences such as quantum computing are gradually gaining more attention from the general public in Belgium!

I really like this perspective paper that provides some (as neutral as possible) consensus on timely questions in the field of quantum computing, as well as debunking myths. We need more of this. Thanks for the initiative!

Myths around quantum computation before full fault tolerance: What no-go theorems rule out and what they don't In this perspective article, we revisit and critically evaluate prevailing viewpoints on the capabilities and limitations of near-term quantum computing and its potential transition toward fully fault...

To reach some consensus about the prospects of near-term (late nisq and early fault tolerant) quantum computing, we had a 3-day discussion event (“Quantum Now”) in Lapland with both optimists and pessimists. This continued at SeeQA 2024 in Oxford. See our conclusions here arxiv.org/abs/2501.05694

Happy New Year ! 🎉 📣To start the year, let me highlight our recent work on phase transitions led by our strong postdoc Lukas Pausch during his time at @universitedeliege.bsky.social. In this work, we ask the question what happens when going from qubits to qudits. More info here 👉 shorturl.at/I0COu

Home - QPlayLearn

Inspiring seminar today by Caterina Foti from Algorithmiq/Qplaylearn! She shared insights on how to make quantum physics accessible to the private sector and general public (including kids!).
👉Explore their free teaching and outreach materials here:
qplaylearn.com

Second amazing guest we had at @universitedeliege.bsky.social last week: Mattia Moroder from
Goold group at Trinity College Dublin, who gave a great lecture on the Mpemba effect and his recent work about it:
journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...

Fantastic visit of a great man of culture this week, Fabrizio Minganti, from Alice and Bob, who gave an extremely nice lecture on quantum computing to the master students of my course in this context at the University of Liège. Please come back whenever you want!