George Monbiot has published an excellent article on deniers of man-made climate-change, “The Unpersuadables“. I myself like to occasionally spend some time in my local newspaper forums to convince people that climate change is both real and—at least partly—man-made. Maybe this exercise is futile; someone will always be wrong on the internet. But in the […]
Read MoreYesterday, I watched the second part of the BBC‘s “The race for absolute zero”, a 2007 documentary on the quest to reach zero temperature. I’m a big fan of the BBC and it’s documentaries and can thoroughly recommend “Absolute Zero”, which features eminent scientists such as Eric Cornell, Carl Wieman and Wolfgang Ketterle, who shared […]
Read MoreWe have just added a paper to the growing collection of experimental implementations of quantum walks. Quantum walks are the quantum analogue of random walks in the classical world. The theory of quantum walks has long been established, but only last year saw a number of decent experimental realizations, with neutral atoms, ions (here and […]
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