Moritz Emersberger

Signatures of Majorana Fermions in Hybrid Superconductor-Semiconductor Nanowire Devices Theoretically predicted particles that double as their own antiparticles emerge in a superconductor-coupled indium antimonide nanowire.

For newcomers, I and @vincentmourik.bsky.social wrote the 2012 Science article that literally started the Microsoft technical effort to build topological qubits.

The paper is okay, and it includes a lot of negative evidence in the supplement (i made sure of it), 🧵

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

20.02.2025 15:07 — 👍 63    🔁 20    💬 2    📌 11

I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers

Can a headline alone be eligible for a Pulitzer?

17.01.2025 21:08 — 👍 78491    🔁 17137    💬 755    📌 550

Unter Kickl droht ein Land ohne freien Journalismus Die FPÖ zeigt bereits, was sie unter Pressefreiheit versteht. Ihr Medienverständnis folgt dem Beispiel von Viktor Orbáns Ungarn

Wiederholung aus Gründen. Mein Leitartikel vom Wochenende. Vier Tage später attackiert ein FPÖ-Politiker den STANDARD. www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

14.01.2025 21:04 — 👍 704    🔁 165    💬 21    📌 7

Today I was asked in an interview about folks who use the weirdness of ✨quantum✨ to hawk pseudoscience junk. I think that kind of grift proliferates because of a big misunderstanding a lot of folks have about quantum mechanics, which is not really their fault!
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06.01.2025 15:58 — 👍 1768    🔁 351    💬 49    📌 38

Servus Österreich 🇦🇹
Eine freundliche Erinnerung.

#Kickl #Justiz #Medien #ORF

06.01.2025 21:15 — 👍 399    🔁 98    💬 12    📌 1

A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #2.020.228, Moritz Emersberger ‪@balkono.bsky.social‬, joined on 16. Nov. 2023"

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #2.020.228!

21.11.2024 18:30 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0