EPiQC work with Argonne National Laboratory using their supercomputers and data compression to simulate up to 61 qubit computations. phys.org/news/2020-01-s…

Recently I am working on the topological physics of quasiperiodic systems. Two seminal papers are great: journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/1… and journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/1…. Moving on!

Reading about strongly interacting photons based on Rydberg polaritons. A recent advance is the so-called Floquet polaritons. nature.com/articles/s4158… This work paves the way for quantum simulation of driven interacting systems using photons!

Thank you for the invitation to speak at the META2020 META Conference, but I do not attend conferences with male-only plenary speakers (6 in total!). You miss so many opportunities by ignoring the female metamaterials talent in our research field!

I don’t want to be dramatic but if my friends don’t acknowledge me in their thesis then they’re dead to me.

Rejoice-The Higgs Potential as a function of temperature (T) •In QFT, temperature changes the vacuum •Nature chooses the vacuum that is (1) a global min. & (2) stable •At high T (e.g. Big Bang), the Higgs will want to be at h=0 at which point all particles become massless!

Q-learning is difficult to apply when the number of available actions is large. We show that a simple extension based on amortized stochastic search allows Q-learning to scale to high-dimensional discrete, continuous or hybrid action spaces: arxiv.org/abs/2001.08116

Prof. Federico Capasso showing us Politecnico di Milano the incredible list of topics he is on now. Please note the "laser radios"... That's so cool! #laser #nanophotonics #THz

Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough!

Join us FOSDEM @[email protected] on Feb 1st to get the download of the newest developments in the quantum open source space! Meet with developers, contributors and maintainers of popular QC projects. Check out the schedule here: fosdem.org/2020/schedule/…

#PhysicsFactlet (199) A (continuous) wavelet transform is given by the overlap integral of the signal s with the kernel (wavelet) w, where the kernel is both shifted and stretched, allowing to extract information at different scales.

A PhD student in another country wrote humbling words to me and said she thought of quiting her PhD in engineering because she was treated like she was nothing. Sexism in academia is pandemic and a disaster for science. We need to stop it. Universities ought to really act.

Our latest paper, ☢️ Radioactive data: tracing through training, is now on arXiv. arxiv.org/abs/2002.00937 TL;DR: you can modify your data in an imperceptible way so that any model trained on it will have an identifiable mark. (1/7)

Observation of multifractality of light - goo.gl/scholar/72eUWM #ScholarAlerts Interesting paper!

When you are dead, you don't know you are dead. It's pain only for others. It's the same thing when you are stupid.

His contributions to science were myriad, including defining an entire class of technosignatures: Dyson Spheres. RIP Freeman Dyson nyti.ms/2I30zFA

Freeman Dyson has died at 96. Dyson helped construct the standard model of particle physics, and he envisioned the Singularity decades before that term was adopted. A tribute, by John Horgan. ow.ly/lUJu50yz3a2

Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.

#PhysicsFactlet (239) Optical memory effect: A scattering screen scrambles the incident light producing a speckle pattern. But if the incident beam is tilted, to a first order also the resulting speckle is tilted by the same amount, and change slowly with the angle.

While the popular press obviously has an interest in using the drumbeat of Google versus Microsoft in discussing the #quantum, it is a stupid dichotomy. Quantum supremacy is a made-up terminology for publications in prestigious glossy magazines, it is not a baby quantum computer