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Jun 20, 2022

Apple silicon M1 for the many-body physicist

UPDATE JANUARY 13: conda install numpy still does not install the veclib numpy and it’s unlikely this will happen in the future. I updated the below instruction using the more current package versions. Apple silicon has started to revolutionize computing. However, software incompatibilities are an issue, especially for programmes which…

Apple Silicon

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Apple silicon M1 for the quantum physicist
Apple silicon M1 for the quantum physicist
Apple Silicon

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Nov 26, 2020

Will COVID provoke generation “I” to finally self-reflect?

Two generations ago, people in Europe fought for survival, an endeavour which is almost impossible when not followed together with other people. …

Covid-19

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Will COVID provoke generation “I” to finally self-reflect?
Will COVID provoke generation “I” to finally self-reflect?
Covid-19

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Many Body Physics

·Aug 26, 2020

Gender and unconscious bias in quantum science

As the start of our new series on humans in physics, I would like to give a personal opinion on the lack of (gender) diversity in the natural sciences and its connection to the very human phenomenon of “unconscious bias”. …

Diversity

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Gender and unconscious bias in quantum science
Gender and unconscious bias in quantum science
Diversity

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Aug 21, 2020

The social impostor

It’s a sociable creature, seeking the attention of others, always in the quest to climb up the ladders of a social group, only to move on to the next when the top is reached. By getting to know many different paradigms of social interaction they learn the essential tools of…

Psychology

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Psychology

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Many Body Physics

·Dec 13, 2018

How quantum physics may save Earth from global warming

Transporting renewable energy to where it’s needed lies at the heart of the human endeavour to get rid of the need for fossil fuels. Superconductors can do so without loosing any of the precious electricity on the way, seemingly defying physical intuition. …

Science

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How quantum physics may save Earth from global warming
How quantum physics may save Earth from global warming
Science

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Many Body Physics

·Aug 25, 2018

Quantum cryptography

How quantum technologies enable uncrackably secure communication. — In our modern computer world, being able to encrypt messages is not only necessary to keep some information secret from others, but is a key part of technologies such as cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. Furthermore, the scandals around widespread eavesdropping of intelligence agencies has shown the world that in fact none…

Science

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Quantum cryptography
Quantum cryptography
Science

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Many Body Physics

·Aug 7, 2018

Scotty — Quantum beam me up!

How information can be teleported through the two most counter-intuitive properties of quantum mechanics. We all know the quantum world is weird, but in no place does it become as weird as in the protocol allowing almost instant transportation of information from one place to the other termed “quantum teleportation”. That may sound like it’s impossible — but what if I tell you that…

Science

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Scotty — Quantum beam me up!
Scotty — Quantum beam me up!
Science

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Aug 1, 2018

Stop telling yourself to stop doing bad things

How changes in life only come through positive self-motivation. In the past year, I put a lot of effort into constraining myself, watching my habits to then find the ones which stand in the way of me becoming a more happy and balanced person. The second step was to trying…

Productivity

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Stop telling yourself to stop doing bad things
Stop telling yourself to stop doing bad things
Productivity

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Many Body Physics

·Jun 5, 2018

How chaos drives the arrow of time

Time only moves forward — this is what we experience in our everyday lives. Often, people connect this to the fact that there are clearly processes in nature which cannot be undone: when you boil an egg you can not make the egg-white transparent again, your coffee is very unlikely…

Science

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How chaos drives the arrow of time
How chaos drives the arrow of time
Science

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Many Body Physics

·Apr 20, 2018

Quasiparticles

Most people know that the concept of a “particle” is a pretty important in quantum physics (the latest success being the discovery of the “Higgs” particle in 2012) — but have you ever heard of QUASIparticles before? If you haven’t, that’s okay, because you are in the right place to…

Physics

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Quasiparticles
Quasiparticles
Physics

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