Mayank Shreshtha

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Allora & Calzadilla (in collaboration with Ted Chiang), The Great Silence Quartz Studio ha il piacere di presentare The Great Silence, un progetto speciale degli artisti, di base a Porto Rico, Jennifer Allora (Philadelphia, USA, 1974)…

A beautiful art installation, doing justice to the prose of Ted Chiang. A commentary on humanity and the arrogance of human uniqueness, delivered with zero bitterness from the perspective of our nonhuman friends, parrots.

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Philip Warren Anderson Philip Warren Anderson was a pioneering theoretical physicist whose work fundamentally shaped our understanding of complex systems. Anderson received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1977 for his groundb...

A profile of Phil Anderson for the Biogr. Mem. FRS.
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Q-Word Explained (Part 1): Ice Cubes, Light Particles, and the Soap Dispenser I know, it is yet another article on quantum physics.

Q-Word Explained (Part 1): Ice Cubes, Light Particles, and the Soap Dispenser
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Indefinite causal order: how quantum physics is challenging our understanding of cause and effect – Physics World Quantum mechanics allows events to occur with indefinite causal order, as Hamish Johnston discovers

In the fourth of our series of truly weird quantum effects we look at the bizarre situation in which the causal order of events are in a quantum superposition. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/zLrQ50WTWmj

4/ In some quantum processes, the order isn’t fixed. Operations can be in a superposition of “A then B” and “B then A.” That’s indefinite causal order—the essence of a quantum switch.

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1/ Kitchen thought experiment (v1): Alice drops a glass → the crash startles Bob → he knocks bowls onto his toe → yelp.

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Kitchen thought experiment (v2): Bob knocks bowls onto his toe → the yelp startles Alice → she drops a glass. Which happened first?

Indefinite causal order: how quantum physics is challenging our understanding of cause and effect – Physics World Quantum mechanics allows events to occur with indefinite causal order, as Hamish Johnston discovers

See the simplified illustration + full caption:

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New @physicsworld.bsky.social illustration: what if quantum superposition applies to time and causality (cause and effect? Indefinite causal order asks whether A causes B, B causes A…or both at once. I made a simplified take for quantum switches.

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... sometimes obscure work quietly laying the groundwork for revolutions that will infiltrate some of the most essential aspects of our lives 50 years from now."

Why basic science deserves our boldest investment The humble inventions that power our modern world wouldn’t have been possible without decades of support for early-stage research.

"If you're reading this on a phone or laptop, you’re holding the result of a gamble someone once made on curiosity. That same curiosity is still alive in university and research labs today—in often unglamorous, ...
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@natcomms.nature.com could you please fix the quality of the illustration? It should look like the pdf version of the paper.

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Note: Article's online version currently has some resolution issues.

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Quantum transport protected by acceleration from nonadiabaticity and dissipation Nature Communications - The authors introduce a novel method (AC-QUDIT) for achieving high-fidelity transport of quantum wavepackets in the presence of dissipation and leakage to the continuum....

PDF article: rdcu.be/eCuKq

How to carry a glass of quantum “drink” through a rowdy crowd without spilling it? We propose a method for fast transport of a quantum particle in a shallow vessel (trap) that ensures faithful delivery of the particle even if it has to cross a randomly fluctuating medium on it...

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My main job was to model Chaplin's (fast-and-slow) gait based on the given brief. The other two subfigures contain technical details; subfigure (C) has some artwork (pink wave packets) given by Dr Arnab Chakrabarti. This work was done more than two years ago, and finally it's here!

Apparently, a similar strategy was adopted by Arnab Chakrabarti, Biswarup Ash, Igor Mazets, Xi Chen and Gershon Kurizki to model how to transport fragile quantum matter before it leaks out of its shallow trap. This study was published last week in @natcomms.nature.com @natureportfolio.nature.com

Unknowingly, especially when we are in a hurry, a general strategy that we all generally follow is to vary our pace: fast, slow, fast, slow . . . destination. This peculiar choreography, quick steps, then slowing down, then quick again, cancels the impending slosh.

Modern life is very difficult these days, especially while walking with a hot drink (filled to the brim). Some of us tiptoe; some walk fast enough to prevent the spilling; others proceed carefully and slowly towards the ultimate destination.

The study reveals the secrets of a mysterious state of matter, the pseudogap, where electrons blur into a diffuse, entangled soup before the material locks into a Mott insulator.

arXiv link: arxiv.org/pdf/2507.17201

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Electrons usually flow freely in metals and stall in insulators, but some “quantum materials” can flip between the two. The schematic was made for a preprint that visualises this transition.
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It was nice to stumble upon my @physicsworld.bsky.social PW's 'Cheshire cat' coverart in the office today :)

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An excellent and nuanced piece of science journalism with fresh analogies, role of entanglement, and strangeness of 'Strange Metals' by @zacksavitsky.bsky.social @science.org

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Curiouser and curiouser: delving into quantum Cheshire cats – Physics World Iulia Georgescu tumbles down the rabbit-hole to explore the curiosity that is a quantum Cheshire cat

Cover story by Iulia Georgescu for @physicsworld.bsky.social :

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Physics World Helgoland post link: [3/3]

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This issue features all three of my illustration projects compiled in 'Quantum Mystery' section.

Quantum Briefing Link: [2/3]

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Recently, a few pictures made me happy:

1. My 'Quantum Cheshire Cat' illustration is on the June 2025 @physicsworld.bsky.social cover.

2. A century after Heisenberg’s Helgoland breakthrough, my work appears near that very spot in Quantum Briefing 2025. Source: Physics World [1/3]

Photo of Physics World Quantum Briefing on the island of Helgoland.

The free-to-read Physics World Quantum Briefing on display on the island of Helgoland, just metres from where Werner Heisenberg did his seminal work on quantum mechanics 100 years ago. It includes a great article on quantum Cheshire cats from Iulia Georgescu.
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Happy (more than happy!) to see my illustrations at this special spot 😊

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