Author Archives: sflammia

El Naschie works on entanglement now

Posted on 4/24/2013 by sflammia

The Journal of Quantum Information Science will not be getting any of my papers starting today, because today is when I learned that they recently published the following gem: A Resolution of Cosmic Dark Energy via a Quantum Entanglement Relativity Theory, by … Continue reading →

Posted in Funny Ha Ha, Open Science, Physics Bastardizations, Quantum Basterdizations, Scientific Publishing | 10 Comments

Test your intuition

Posted on 4/20/2013 by sflammia

The name of this post was shamelessly stolen from Gil Kalai’s popular series Test Your Intuition. But today’s post will be testing our physics intuition, rather than our mathematical intuition. Although this is a quantum blog, we’ll look at the … Continue reading →

Posted in Physics, Puzzle, Science | 1 Comment

Sydney Postdoctoral Fellowships

Posted on 4/16/2013 by sflammia

The University of Sydney is now accepting applications for the Sydney Postdoctoral Fellowships. These are very competitive and prestigious university-wide fellowships, with terrific salary and benefits: a 3 year appointment with a A$99,000 annual salary and a A$25,000 discretionary research … Continue reading →

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Q-Tube

Posted on 4/11/2013 by sflammia

This is a rare gem: Four lectures on quantum mechanics by Paul Dirac… on YouTube! Here’s the first one. Also, the Q+ online lecture series continues to go strong, bringing in a steady stream of high-quality speakers. This month constitutes … Continue reading →

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Reflections on the Discord Bubble

Posted on 4/8/2013 by sflammia

The following is a guest post by Marco Piani. A couple of months ago Steve wrote a post on “the discord bubble“. Let me try to provide a summary of his post and of his thoughts. There have been too … Continue reading →

Posted in Bubbles, Quantum, Quantum Computing | 4 Comments

Viacheslav Belavkin

Posted on 1/12/2013 by sflammia

I am sad to report that Viacheslav Belavkin recently passed away. One of the rarified few who made important contributions to quantum information in the 1970′s, Belavkin’s work was and is very significant in both physics and mathematics. Belavkin won … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcement, Obituary | 7 Comments

Who should blog in 2013?

Posted on 1/9/2013 by sflammia

The quantum theory blogosphere has seen some great new additions this year: The Caltech IQIM blog, Quantum Frontiers Thomas Vidick, MyCQstate Miguel Navascues, Schoedinger’s Rat But this is not enough! Our researchers are legion. And so must it be with … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging, Quantum | 5 Comments

Cirac and Zoller win the Wolf Prize for physics

Posted on 1/2/2013 by sflammia

Ignacio Cirac and Peter Zoller were just announced as winners of the 2013 Wolf Prize for physics. I’m not sure if this is the official citation, but the Jerusalem Post is saying the prize is: for groundbreaking theoretical contributions to quantum … Continue reading →

Posted in Announcement, Prize, Quantum | 3 Comments