Eric Aspling
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Eric Aspling
@ericaspling.bsky.social
Physicist, Father, Husband, Postdoc at the AFRL studying microwave-to-optical transduction, quantum Shannon theory, and QFT in communication channels of condensed matter systems.
Thank you!
November 21, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Clarification: you can choose who gets rights to your designs during the patent process. It's easy and often textbook, to allow access to everyone not-for-profit. Science continues and corporations aren't allowed to claim rights without compensation.
November 21, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Unfortunately, IBM will be celebrated for the partnership, despite making the wrong decisions along the way.

I just hope y'all patent your designs. Patents don't limit science, they protect scientists.
November 21, 2025 at 8:56 PM
With all this in mind, Cisco decides to partner with IBM for networking. 🤯

The story will go: some small group, academic or otherwise, will likely fix M2O transduction. Cryogenic tubing will disappear from industry, Cisco will do Cisco things and small/medium range quantum networking will develop.
November 21, 2025 at 8:56 PM
I know, I know, IBM has had "partnerships" in the M2O community but one can't overlook that IBM still plans to scale up production with cryogenic tubing. Such endeavors are excruciatingly impractical.
November 21, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Thanks Mark! As soon as I can confidently speak intelligibly I'll reach out 😅.
October 29, 2025 at 1:53 PM
I'm Beyond disappointed in our government, and incredibly thankful for notable scientists pushing back publicly.
October 29, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Congress is a disaster. Republicans and Democrats alike are so invested in self serving agendas and don't realize the damage being done to scientific progress.

Let alone the health of the american people. 🫩
October 29, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Perhaps what I should say is that I'm a huge fan of your efforts pushing back against Congress. We see it and it's so important!

The past 8-9 months have been challenging. In such close proximity to government employees, watching years of hard work be stripped out from underneath them.
October 29, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Thank you Henry. Huge fan of your work in Congress. Please let me know if my experience in M2O transduction can help. Please steady the course.
October 29, 2025 at 1:35 AM
After surgery I may not look or sound like my old self. Regardless, I'll be passionate about understanding the nature of quantum computing and quantum information. This... I can live with.
October 29, 2025 at 1:15 AM
I can't thank my mentors and motivators enough that I could come out the other side as a PhD researcher, passionate about my work. @bgreene.bsky.social, @seanmcarroll.bsky.social, Erick Weinberg, Chuck Nelson, @markwilde.bsky.social, Michael Lawler, and so, so many more.
October 29, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Recovery will take weeks and even months but I am thankful for modern medicine and the decades of cancer research that will ultimately lead to my longevity.

More than a decade ago I sat in an alley, disgusting and distraught with my life as a cook/chef wanting for something more.
October 29, 2025 at 1:15 AM
It will either get there one day, or someone will win a major prize demonstrating the physical limitations make it useless. Either way it will win something 😅
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October 7, 2025 at 11:49 AM
ML will have it's day. No doubt about that.
October 7, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Climbed Mt. Marcy!
September 29, 2025 at 8:25 PM
While the scientifically useless rhetoric of the press statement causes every working physicist to roll their eyes, I am truly excited to see more companies focus on this step of realistic and sustainable scalability. Moreover, I'm excited to see the AFRL be a part of this.
September 23, 2025 at 3:17 PM
One might think that to be obvious (as it should be), but up until very recently there has been no financial incentive for companies to invest in transduction enabled scalability.

In some circles they still don't believe but let's be real cryogenic tubing just ain't it folks...
September 23, 2025 at 3:17 PM
The significance of this article isn't that we've done this with trapped ion systems specific to IonQ, it's that there has been demonstrated commercial interest in transduction efforts.

Similar to that of Google's recent expressed interest as well
research.google/programs-and...
Quantum transduction and networking for scalable computing applications
Overview
research.google
September 23, 2025 at 3:17 PM