Machiel Blok

We waren groen als gras 💚

Geniet er maar van, voordat je het weet zijn de rollen weer omgedraaid ;)

Ik heb toch 17 minuten overachieven gezien vandaag 🙈

Ik ben het grotendeels met je eens, maar na de zoveelste Farioli lofzang stoort het me wel dat het einde van vorig seizoen, waarin we met knikkende knieen en vreselijk voetbal een historische voorsprong weggaven, steevast wordt weggelaten van de analyse

With every round of memes I become more curious about your Clebsch-Gordan lecture(s). Are they recorded :)

What is the way out that you have most faith in will actually happen?

My first jersey when I was 10, now framed above my son’s bed

Quantum tunneling: URochester physicist explains a Nobel Prize–winning discovery Machiel Blok’s research in superconducting circuits builds on the quantum tunneling effects recognized by the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics.

The same quantum tunneling honored by this year’s #NobelPrize is driving #URochesterResearch

@machielblok.bsky.social is building quantum systems that do what classical computers can’t—inspired by the same fundamental questions

uofr.us/48o7I0K

#QuantumPhysics #QuantumComputing

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What it really feels like interacting with your physics heroes!
Such a beautiful and fundamental prize 🤩
www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physi...

... and many other great talks by pioneers in the field. Highly recommend this channel by the Center for Quantum Coherent Science at Berkeley

YouTube video by Cqcs Departmental PHYSICS 20170110 12b Devoret 012

Michel Devoret reflected on his time in the Clarke lab at Berkeley

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYHN...

John Clarke talked about the experiment that defined his career, including the origin-story of the SLUG (Superconducting Low-Inductance Undulatory Galvanometer)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ef0...

In the excitement over today's well-deserved #nobel announcement for Clarke, Devoret and Martinis, I looked up the 2017 symposium in honor of John Clarke's scientific achievements at UC Berkeley that I attended as a postdoc.

I was thrilled to find the recordings on YouTube
tinyurl.com/mrx6umcr

Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 The Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 was awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electri...

sc circuits!!

www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physi...

"The Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Rochester invites applications for a junior (tenure-track) professorship in theoretical physics. We are particularly interested in candidates who work on the physics of complex systems and/or on quantum information science"

We are hiring in theoretical quantum info / complex systems !

apply.interfolio.com/173432

Awesome! I enjoyed earlier episodes of this series, looking forward to hearing yours!

It is for us!

Fridge day!
@bluefors.com @urochester.bsky.social

This is what democracy looks like! A people united will never be defeated. We want federal forces out of DC NOW! #WeAreAllDC #FreeDC

YouTube video by Drumeo Frank Zappa Drummer Hears The Mars Volta For The First Time

My favourite is ‘frank zappa drummer hears (and plays along with) The Mars Volta for the first time’

m.youtube.com/watch?v=ExNX...

How easy is it to fudge your scientific rank? Meet Larry, the world’s most cited cat “Exercise in absurdity” reveals flaws in Google Scholar’s productivity metrics

Why are so many people so obsessed with “Google Scholar fraud”?

Another example of someone creating a few citations — no, you don’t get a job/promotion because you have 132 citations.

And the “meta study” found 144 suspected cases out of 1 million (!) profiles.

The New Quantum Era - innovation in quantum computing, science and technology | Neutral Atom Qubits with Mark Saffman In this episode of The New Quantum Era, host Sebastian Hassinger sits down with Dr. Mark Saffman, a leading expert in atomic physics and quantum information science. As a professor at the Universit...

Mark Saffman reviews the remarkable recent progress on quantum computing with neutral atoms.

podcast.newquantumera.com/57

Efficient Control of a Transmon Qudit Using Effective Spin-$7/2$ Rotations A superconducting quantum processor uses transmon qudits with up to eight levels, achieving 98.9% control fidelity via simultaneous spinlike transitions and demonstrating high-performance quantum Four...

Here is the link to the published article in PRX

journals.aps.org/prx/abstract...

Researchers discover more efficient way to route information in quantum computers Using qudits, University of Rochester scientists have solved a notoriously difficult problem involving Hilbert space, or the quantum matrix.

What connects The Matrix, to Hilbert Space, to Spins with large angular moment?

Our recent PRX on efficient qudit control with large-spin rotations !
www.rochester.edu/newscenter/h...

#URQuantum #Rochester #Quantum #Qudits

In Trento for the BeyondQubit workshop. Looking forward to a conference dedicated to Qudits!
#quantum #qudits #beyondqubit

Ended cqs-12 with an amazing public talk by Nicole Yunger Halpern on quantum steampunk
#cqs2025

Final day of cqs-12 kicked off by Pedram Roushan from Google Quantum AI on simulating lattice gauge theories and condensed matter systems with Willow
#cqs2025 #quantum #Rochester

Great to welcome you back at the conference Zlatko!

Misha Lukin at cqs-12:
We got a preview of these very impressive new results on repeated error correction in neutral atoms, posted on the arxiv today

arxiv.org/pdf/2506.20661
#cqs2025 #qec #quantum