Yaroslav Blanter

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Emmylou steamboat on the Murray River, Echuca, Victoria, Australia.

Voting for 200 options is not really realistic. Somebody needs to make a preselection, either you or the students.

Appoint 2-3 editors, let everybody know who they are, and let them do the job.

Polarization Controlled Supercurrent in Ferroelectric Josephson Junction Josephson junctions are essential devices in superconducting electronics and quantum computing hardware. Here we predict electrical control of the supercurrent in composite superconductor-insulator-fe...

Yaozu Tang put today on arXiv our article (also with Maz Ali @SolidStChemist and Gerrit Bauer) on how the critical current of a Josephson junction with a ferroelectric central barrier can depend on the polarization direction: arxiv.org/abs/2511.08492

I have seen the Emperor today.

It looks like this time we at least have a chance for a (partially) competent government, but it should really concentrate on solving the problems and not just endlessly talking about them without solving them as the past governments did.

I did not go to vote in person, but I gave my vote to my son and instructed him how to use it. Let us see tomorrow what comes out.

A bimonthly reminder: The war against Ukraine is still ongoing, and Ukraine still needs our support, especially since the US is not our strategic ally anymore. For those of us who are not policymakers, this support can be financial or information.

Matteo Arfini's and Alvaro Bermejillo-Seco's (plus Clinton Potts, Artem Bondarenko, Herre van der Zant, Gary Steele and me) article on non-linear effects in a YIG disk on a MW resonator caused by the Suhl instabilities is published by Phys. Rev. Lett.: journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...

Congratulations to Minxing Xu and his promoters Richard Norte, Sander Otte, and Peter Steeneken, with the successful PhD defense. The STM measurements of the Casimir force are really impressive. The defense was interrupted by an evacuation because of a fire alarm.

I read (in translation) the Sátántangó by Krasznahorkai, I was impressed, and I felt like I belong, along with a few others, to a secret society. Now it will probably pretend to become mainstream. Good luck with that.

Als je tijd zou hebben, probeer Shah-i-Zinda te bezoeken, dat is 20 minuten of zo lopen van Registan. Zeer indrukwekend.

I started working at Delft University of Technology exactly 25 years ago, 1 October 2000.

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More Marken.

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Marken Lighthouse ("het Paard van Marken"), Marken, Waterland, North Holland, the Netherlands.

Isofrequency spin-wave imaging using color center magnetometry for magnon spintronics Magnon spintronics aims to harness spin waves in magnetic films for information technologies. Color center magnetometry is a promising tool for imaging spin waves, using electronic spins associated wi...

Samuel Mañas-Valero put on arXiv the recent manuscript by him, Yasmin Doedes, and Toeno van der Sar Lab, with our theoretical contribution, on imaging spin waves in thin-film permalloy using various color centers (not only NV centers in diamond): arxiv.org/abs/2508.18775

A bimonthly reminder: The war against Ukraine is still ongoing, and Ukraine still needs our support, especially since the US is not our strategic ally anymore. For those of us who are not policymakers, this support can be financial or information.

It took me 22 years in NL to figure out that there are boats functioning as regular public transportation, and 3 more years to take one. Line 20, Rotterdam - Dordrecht, roughly 1 hour and 6 Eur.

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Bryant House (1939, architect Emil Sodersten), Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Congratulations to Milan Lacassin and his other promotor Greg Bokinsky with the successful PhD defense today. For me, it was also fun to be, for the first time, a promotor of a thesis in biology.

A bimonthly reminder: The war against Ukraine is still ongoing, and Ukraine still needs our support, especially since the US is not our strategic ally anymore. For those of us who are not policymakers, this support can be financial or information.

After retirement, I will write a book "Collection of irrelevant trivia". This is one trivium from this book. The top 10 countries which photographs I uploaded on Wikimedia Commons as of now: the Netherlands (5245) - Germany (1231) - Ecuador (1093) - Canada (874) - the UK (683).

Magnon-magnon interaction induced by nonlinear spin wave dynamics We experimentally and theoretically demonstrate that nonlinear spin-wave dynamics can induce an effective resonant interaction between non-resonant magnon modes in a yttrium iron garnet disk. Under st...

Matteo Arfini and Alvaro Bermejillo-Seco put on arXiv their (plus Clinton Potts, Artem Bondarenko, Herre van der Zant, Gary Steele and me) experimental article about non-linear effects in a YIG disk on a MW resonator caused by the Suhl instabilities: arxiv.org/abs/2506.11527

Just two days ago we had to postpone the student presentation in the (scheduled) class because the slides were online and not available because of the irregular internet connection (or the site was down, or both).

well, have an easily accessible backup of the presentation in case a laptop/ whatever device dies or some unexpected difficulties occur?

The article by Alvaro Bermejillo-Seco and Xiang Zhang (I am the last author) on the anisotropic thermoelastic damping in suspended magnetic membranes has now been published in Phys. Rev. B: journals.aps.org/prb/abstract...