Physicist. Imagining brave new worlds. When not exploring 2D/topological materials, I like writing/travel, capture that fleeting moment or enjoy the best coffee
🌟 Applications are open for the Santiago School of Physics 2026! @DFI_UChile
Join us Jul 27–31 in Santiago 🇨🇱 for a week at the frontiers of physics — from cosmology & quantum mechanics to non-equilibrium physics & more.
Open to advanced undergrad & grad students across Latin America 🌎
Deadline: May 10 👉 https://t.co/jVOJI0M0Xx
#PhysicsEducation #LatinAmerica @UChile_Beauchef
A simulation that refused to match its own analytical solution. Not a typo. Not a bug. We stripped the problem down to a 2×2 matrix (gain, loss, and a precision floor) and the mismatch sharpened. The irreversibility was coming from the arithmetic itself. 🧵
As Borges said: "Pensar es olvidar diferencias" — to think is to forget a difference. Finite dynamic range enforces this forgetting. And what physics cannot distinguish, it cannot reverse. https://t.co/NnOdpHmYrq
Today on arxiv: "Precision's arrow of time." We derive when reversibility breaks, verify it across arbitrary-precision and hardware arithmetic, and propose experiments in photonics and electrical circuits. With G. Pappas, V. Achilleos & D. Bautista Avilés. https://t.co/NnOdpHmYrq
@raizamrtn I've used @gethuxe since day one and it's transformed my morning commute. Audio-only and non-invasive—I get pending emails, calendar conflicts, and personalized news while walking or on the subway. It genuinely turbocharges my day. Thanks for building this!
Our latest research is out in @NanoLetters! Congrats and thanks to @earodriguezmena and @mberdakin for all the work behind this. @ACSPublications
https://t.co/mVgPKxdyRH
Dear Colleague,
We are thrilled to invite you to GRAPHENE 2026 - the 16th edition of the Graphene Conference series and the premier European event on graphene & 2D materials, to be held June 30 – July 3, 2026, in Barcelona, Spain
https://t.co/3Ai6rneO7P
Tomorrow's Nobel may be among the last where humans did all the work. This interview points to an imminent future: prizes awarded to human-AI teams, and Nobel-worth AI discoveries that redefine scientific achievement—prize or not.
Sam Altman talks about GPT-8 with David Deutsch, one of the world's most brilliant physicists
Sam asks him if GPT8 solved quantum gravity, would that convince him that AGI is achieved.
David Deutsch argues the Turing Test is no real measure, LLMs, even "GPT-8" lack true creative inspiration, and AGI won’t fit into fixed-test evaluations.
But if GPT8 can solve quantum gravity that would be AGI for him.
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From 'Deutsch Explains' YT Channel
Researchers extend the Středa formula to periodically driven systems, offering a new way to express #FloquetSystem#topological invariants and providing a physically grounded link between Floquet winding numbers and tractable response functions.
🔗 https://t.co/6KE64OJM0F
🌟 Exciting news! Students from across Latin America are joining the Santiago School of Physics 2025 @DFI_UChile for a week exploring the frontiers of physics! 🔬✨ Building bridges through science 🌎 #PhysicsEducation#LatinAmerica https://t.co/e6CQFvPQhi via @uchile
and this is a podcast (created using @NotebookLM) on two of the articles of this Quanta Magazine issue ("The Strange Physics That Gave Birth to AI" and "Where Do Scientists Think This Is All Going?"): https://t.co/Lvnv9ajT6L
Read "The Strange Physics That Gave Birth to AI" for a nice example of how we cannot untie the applied (most often thought of as useful) from the basic science (Physics in this case).
Breaking of Lorentz invariance caused by the interplay between spin-orbit interaction and transverse phonon modes in quantum wires, D. V. Efremov et al @ictpnews #CondensedMatter https://t.co/oxmI1HLhii