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Nominations for the 2026 #BellPrize are being accepted through September 30th, 2025 – please consider nominating the work from the past 6 yrs which you believe has done the most to advance #Quantum science.

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Sorry to hear this! Hopefully this isn’t due to a damaged disc. I had similar problems several years ago, and after I had the pain and numbness under control, I worked to strengthen my core. The numbness gradually faded and hasn’t returned for multiple years. Hope you recover soon!

Who would’ve thought the Ukrainian Journal of Physical Optics would be right in between PRL and Optica?

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Great band! Saw them several times in various LA venues in early 90s, most memorable time at Raji’s on NYE, 1992 or so

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So far so good on this feed, but over on the “Quantum Computing & Co.” feed there’s the usual social media pump-and-dump on quantum stocks

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2022 The Nobel Prize in Physics 2022 was awarded jointly to Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger "for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and p...

The 2022 Nobel Prize in physics was given for the follow on experiments to this Bell paper. There’s good references in this write up: www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physi.... In particular, ref 9 outlines CHSH inequality, 12-14 are the spectacular expts of Aspect, and 35-38 are the loophole free expts

Excellent choice! This landmark paper led to 5 decades of experimental work to perform a loophole-free Bell experiment

I’m a big fan of the rubber mallet myself. Have you tried venting your XPS with a glovebag? I have a III-V MBE system that is full of arsenic, so venting to air is usually followed by a 3 week bake. When we vent with a nitrogen purged glove bag we are back growing high quality films in a few days

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But your diagram shows that metals (like Aluminum) don’t have a band gap, yet here you say its band gap is 1.68 eV, which corresponds to 738 nm. Are you saying that Al is transparent to light with longer wavelengths?