Coffeebreak links 190808

Some fun links to check out over a coffee
News:
This month’s Physics World has an article about current progress of qubit fabrication, entanglement and readout: Remapping the quantum frontier – the website has a summary, full version in the magazine.
Arxiv:
Heat capacity as a witness of entanglement
Quantum algorithm design using dynamic learning
Schroedinger-like PageRank [...]

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Graphene Quantum Computing

Via the arxiv blog:

Quantum computation with graphene nanoribbon
Everyone is going graphene crazy at the moment! This scheme suggests using a Graphene nanoribbon in a zigzag shape such that electrons (or holes) are localized at the two corners of the zigzag, and the interaction between the spins can then be used to demonstrate coherent [...]

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LT25

I’m back from the LT25 conference in Amsterdam. It was very good, very nicely organised. There were over 1400 people there, with 200+ posters each day for 4 of the days (the conference was 7 days in total). On Sunday there was an excursion to Leiden to see the equipment used by Heike Kamerlingh Onnes [...]

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Social Notebook

I’ve been playing with Social Notebook which is rather fun. I quite like the idea of open notebook science, it’s a different way of thinking which actually allows you to organise and structure your research (or at least the way you think about it) rather than having all the concepts sitting in a big cloud [...]

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Graduation

I thought it would be nice to include a pic from my PhD graduation (a couple of weeks ago), if just to show that I do occasionally leave the lab I had a thoroughly enjoyable day, and unlike my undergraduate ceremony it didn’t rain. I might put an electronic copy of my thesis [...]

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