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Machiel Blok @machielblok.bsky.social · Mar 12

🌟 The 12th Rochester Conference on Coherence and Quantum Science (CQS-12) will be held June 23-27, 2025 in Rochester, NY! 🌟

CQS has a rich history dating back to 1960 and brought together Nobel Laureates & field pioneers.

www.sas.rochester.edu/quantum/cqs/...

#CQS2025 #QuantumScience #Physics

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Emmanuel Flurin @manuflurin.bsky.social · 1d

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

a close up of a statue of yoda with the words `` learning you are '' written above him .

ALT: a close up of a statue of yoda with the words `` learning you are '' written above him .

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Machiel Blok @machielblok.bsky.social · 1d

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

Machiel Blok @machielblok.bsky.social · 1d

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

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

PHYSICS 20170110 12b Devoret 012

YouTube video by Cqcs Departmental

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Machiel Blok @machielblok.bsky.social · 1d

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...

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Machiel Blok @machielblok.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Machiel Blok @machielblok.bsky.social · 2d

sc circuits!!

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

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...

www.nobelprize.org

Machiel Blok @machielblok.bsky.social · 13d

"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"

Machiel Blok @machielblok.bsky.social · 13d

We are hiring in theoretical quantum info / complex systems !

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Machiel Blok @machielblok.bsky.social · 19d

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

Machiel Blok @machielblok.bsky.social · 23d

It is for us!

Machiel Blok @machielblok.bsky.social · 27d

Fridge day!
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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · Sep 6

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

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Machiel Blok @machielblok.bsky.social · Aug 17

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

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

Frank Zappa Drummer Hears The Mars Volta For The First Time

YouTube video by Drumeo

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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · Aug 9

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.

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

www.science.org

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John Preskill @preskill.bsky.social · Jul 29

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

podcast.newquantumera.com/57

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...

podcast.newquantumera.com

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Machiel Blok @machielblok.bsky.social · Jul 17

Here is the link to the published article in PRX

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

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...

journals.aps.org

Machiel Blok @machielblok.bsky.social · Jul 17

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

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.

www.rochester.edu

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Machiel Blok @machielblok.bsky.social · Jul 7

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

Machiel Blok @machielblok.bsky.social · Jun 27

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

Machiel Blok @machielblok.bsky.social · Jun 26

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

Machiel Blok @machielblok.bsky.social · Jun 26

Great to welcome you back at the conference Zlatko!

Machiel Blok @machielblok.bsky.social · Jun 26

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

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Zlatko Minev @zlatko-minev.bsky.social · Jun 26

🌟 Excited to speak, have played a small advisory board role, and be back here after the last one 6 years ago for the Rochester Conference on Coherence and Quantum Science (CQS-12)!

CQS is special, dating back to 1960, bringing together Nobel Laureates & field pioneers
#CQS2025

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Creature in the treELIne @elilevensonfalk.bsky.social · Jun 24

You guys my students threw me a surprise tenure party

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Machiel Blok @machielblok.bsky.social · Jun 23

… and a beautiful tutorial talk in the afternoon by Klaus Mølmer reviewing quantum trajectories including illustrations he used in his talk at CQO in Rochester 30 years ago @urochester.bsky.social