Posted in cake, learnin' stuff, research blogging, superconductors on December 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
So here is an update on the mask I was designing to do some qubit experiments:
This mask should allow us to do various things. There are some coplanar resonator structures and some time-domain coherence chips here.
I’ve had to put anodisation bridges and anod-layer cuts all over the place. This is because the entire bottom layer [...]
Posted in cake, quantum computing on November 26, 2009 | 3 Comments »
In case anyone noticed the blog-tumbleweed accumulation, I should explain where I’ve been: I spent the last 3 weeks in Vancouver at D-Wave hanging out with those awesome pioneers of adiabatic quantum optimization.
I love working with these guys, they are really good at what they do. Thanks go to all the guys there for making [...]
Posted in cake, expt vs theory showdown, feeling dumb, quantum computing, quantum spookiness, superconductors on October 20, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Two interesting arXiv papers this week:
Adiabatic quantum computation along quasienergies
A potentially new model of Quantum Computation, which is a discretized variant of Adiabatic Quantum Computation (AQC). Is it equivalent to the standard model? Is it useful? No-one knows.
This paper also got me thinking:
Electronic structure of superposition states in flux qubits.
How do you measure the cattiness [...]
Posted in cake, cool physics, humour on July 16, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Here are some pictures of our Liquid Nitrogen Ice cream endeavours… mmm. Disclaimer: Don’t try this at home unless you have had training in handling cryogenic liquids
Ingredients: Cream, milk or that strange stuff we don’t have over here, sugar, crushed fruit, and liquid nitrogen. Recipe: Stir the sugar into the cream until it [...]
Posted in cake, experimental insights, quantum computing, research blogging on July 7, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Here is a picture of the new experimental setup:
In this picture we are testing that the apparatus cools down OK. This type of fridge is an Oxford Instruments Heliox, which is a He-3 based cooling system. The principle of operation is that you cool a ‘plate’ of metal to 1.5K by pumping a small amount [...]
Posted in BCI, cake, quantum computing on May 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I just attended a coffee and cake morning (yes I have a radar for cake) at the Centre for Systems Biology with a theme of HPC. The general topic of the meeting was to discuss the use of the BlueBEAR cluster (1500 core Birmingham cluster) and other HPC centres for biological, microbiological, molecular and genetic [...]
Posted in cake on March 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I have dedicated a Condensed Matter Research page to cake.
Well, cake club to be precise (See this previous post for explanation)
LINK TO CAKE CLUB PAGE
Photographs of all the cakes baked so far can be seen there. I couldn’t be bothered reposting them all here. However, I will highlight my own contribution to the cake club [...]
Posted in cake, fun and games, humour, links on December 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Merry Christmas from Aperture Science
I love Portal. And not just for the cake
Posted in cake, fun and games on December 2, 2008 | 4 Comments »
At some point in the dim past I promised CAKE. Last year we had a cake club in the Condensed Matter group. It was a fun and carefree affair, with the affectionate donation of a cake from a member of cake club each week after the group meeting, keeping to a predetermined rota. EVERYONE WAS [...]
