Mayank Shreshtha

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

#CondMatt #QuantumMaterials #MetalInsulatorTransition #MottInsulator #ArXiv

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.
#Science #Physics #MaterialsScience #ResearchHighlight #quantum #entanglement #SciArt

It was nice to stumble upon my @physicsworld.bsky.social PW's 'Cheshire cat' coverart in the office today :)

#sciart #physics #Quantum

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

#quantum #quantummatter #condmat #scicomm #physics

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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#IYQ2025 #Quantum #Cats

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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Physics World Quantum Briefing as seen at the very spot in Helgoland where Werner Heisenberg had his pioneering insights into quantum mechanics 100 years ago in June 1925. Check the issue out here.

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Finally, a book that does justice to the hidden heroes of #quantum physics: Landau, Anderson, Wilson i.e., cond. mat. physics community. Symmetry breaking & renormalization, concepts which unite #physics. It includes key papers from many-body physics (see timeline). Looking forward to reading it!!

DNA-guided transcription factor interactions extend human gene regulatory code - Nature A large-scale analysis of DNA-bound transcription factors (TFs) shows how the presence of DNA markedly affects the landscape of TF interactions, and identifies composite motifs that are recognized by ...

It's an interesting phenomenon that some of the deepest questions about how life works have become what looks like impossibly obscure molecular biology stuck right at the back of Nature, which will never get covered by the science media. Like this. /1
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Hand drawn portrait of Karen Uhlenbeck outlined in deep navy against a yellow background. Art by Cliò Agrapidis

#WomenOfQuantum is back! I took a long break from this series due to life circumstances and having chosen to feature none other than the only women to have won the Abel Prize for her contributions to mathematics: Karen Uhlenbeck 🧪👩🏻‍🔬⚛️🧵
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My feature article about the delayed-choice quantum eraser is out now in @physicsworld.bsky.social!

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New illustrations ALERT: @physicsworld.bsky.social article by @mariaviolaris.bsky.social
Had fun representing the #physics behind 'Quantum Eraser' from #quantum information POV- a challenging topic. New elements (photon hits) were introduced for visual clarity.

#IYQ2025 #SciArt

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A free 64-page digital magazine on quantum from @physicsworld.bsky.social? Yes please!
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The @physicsworld.bsky.social Quantum Briefing 2025 is out now — your essential guide to the latest breakthroughs, big ideas, and bold questions shaping the quantum frontier.

🔗 physicsworld.com/p/magazine/a...

#QuantumPhysics #QuantumTech #PhysicsWorld #ScienceReading

These schematics depict oddest phenomena in the quantum world: (Quantum Eraser, with special thanks to @mariaviolaris.bsky.social for her invaluable feedback), Quantum Cheshire cat (Iulia Georgescu) and Quantum Zeno effect (@drmlharris.bsky.social ).

#Quantum #SciArt #Physics

Five illustrations: 3 schematics + 2 frontispieces—exploring the quirkiest quantum effects, published in @physicsworld.bsky.social (Quantum Briefing 2025)! [@ioppublishing.bsky.social, @iopp-quantum.bsky.social]

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#Quantum #SciArt #IYQ2025

Edit: The missing final slide:

#quantumphysics #quantum #sciart #physics

I made a new illustration for an article in Physics World magazine.

It captures another weird and non-trivial effect from quantum physics — the #quantum Cheshire Cat.

Science dictates the design, and the images show brief summary and design choices.

#SciArt #Quantum #Physics #illustration

“‘Well! I’ve often seen a cat without a grin,’ thought Alice, ‘but a grin without a cat! It’s the most curious thing I ever saw in my life!’” wrote Lewis Carroll.

For humans, this is as weird as separating the smile and accompanying dimples from a person’s body. [3]

Quantum Cheshire Cat. Yes, the famous Cheshire Cat from Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, whose body disappears first, leaving the grin behind:
“which remained sometime after the rest of it had gone.” [2]

No no, your genuine comment about the article made my day!

Mayank Shreshtha

The attached illustration was made by me, it is wonderful to see your comment :)

The HD version, with clean colour palette can be found here :)

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Talk about "The Direct Democracy of Matter" The Scientia Institute at Rice sponsors series of public lectures annually, centered around a theme.  The intent is to get a wide variety o...

🧪⚛️ Now shared in blog post form, my public talk about "the direct democracy of matter". nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/04/talk...

YouTube video by Scientia Institute Rice University Rice University Scientia Institute "Democracy" talk - April 8th

🧪⚛️ Video is now available for the talks from last week's Rice Scientia lectures about democracy. First up, my colleague Rodrigo Ferreira talking about "Does AI have politics?" and second (starting around 27:00), me speaking on "The Direct Democracy of Matter". Fun! www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbuV...

The quantum Zeno effect: how the ‘measurement problem’ went from philosophers’ paradox to physicists’ toolbox – Physics World A stand-out example of quantum weirdness is turning out to be surprisingly useful, as Margaret Harris explains

To celebrate the International Year of #Quantum, we're doing a series of articles about quantum effects that are so weird, they make superposition and entanglement seem almost ordinary. First up, for #WorldQuantumDay, is the quantum Zeno effect: physicsworld.com/a/the-quantu... 🧪⚛️

Excellent summary!