Mainak Bhattacharyya

Prepared the qubits and Lost in the echo 👀

[IGSTC @INDOGSTC]

IGSTC congratulates Mr. Mainak Bhattacharyya, PhD scholar from @iiserbhopal, for commencing the PhD Industrial Exposure Fellowship (PIEF) – 2025 at QC Design GmbH, Germany under the IGSTC Industrial Fellowship Program.
@IndiaDST @bmftr_bund @userMainak

[Arindam Ghosh @ArindamPhysics]

Statement of Prof. David Gross, Nobel Laureate 2004, at the recently concluded Quantum India Bengaluru 2025. This one sentence sums up the conference for me.

[Mainak Bhattacharyya @userMainak]

Every single day!

[sid @immasiddx]

You’re not a real Windows user if you haven’t witnessed the Wi-Fi suddenly vanish. 😭

[Mainak Bhattacharyya @userMainak]

@siddhantphy Hi! Could you loop in our work on trapping set mitigation for BP decoders.

https://t.co/gDInzniEPZ

[Mainak Bhattacharyya @userMainak]

A symbol 🖤

[Mainak Bhattacharyya @userMainak]

If "Mr. Fix it", he did show how to fix it..
#INDvsAUSTest

[Physics In History @PhysInHistory]

Richard Feynman's love letter to his deceased wife, 1946.

October 17, 1946
D’Arline,
I adore you, sweetheart.

I know how much you like to hear that — but I don’t only write it because you like it — I write it because it makes me warm all over inside to write it to you.

It is such a terribly long time since I last wrote to you — almost two years but I know you’ll excuse me because you understand how I am, stubborn and realistic; and I thought there was no sense to writing.

But now I know my darling wife that it is right to do what I have delayed in doing, and that I have done so much in the past. I want to tell you I love you. I want to love you. I always will love you.

I find it hard to understand in my mind what it means to love you after you are dead — but I still want to comfort and take care of you — and I want you to love me and care for me. I want to have problems to discuss with you — I want to do little projects with you. I never thought until just now that we can do that. What should we do. We started to learn to make clothes together — or learn Chinese — or getting a movie projector. Can’t I do something now? No. I am alone without you and you were the “idea-woman” and general instigator of all our wild adventures.

When you were sick you worried because you could not give me something that you wanted to and thought I needed. You needn’t have worried. Just as I told you then there was no real need because I loved you in so many ways so much. And now it is clearly even more true — you can give me nothing now yet I love you so that you stand in my way of loving anyone else — but I want you to stand there. You, dead, are so much better than anyone else alive.

I know you will assure me that I am foolish and that you want me to have full happiness and don’t want to be in my way. I’ll bet you are surprised that I don’t even have a girlfriend (except you, sweetheart) after two years. But you can’t help it, darling, nor can I — I don’t understand it, for I have met many girls and very nice ones and I don’t want to remain alone — but in two or three meetings they all seem ashes. You only are left to me. You are real.

My darling wife, I do adore you.

I love my wife. My wife is dead.

Rich.

PS Please excuse my not mailing this — but I don’t know your new address.

[Ferrari News 🐎 @FanaticsFerrari]

🎙️| Carlos Sainz:

“I know I won't be fighting for podiums and victories in the coming years, but it's not something that worries me because I already have them.”

“People can't imagine how excited I am about what's coming next at Williams. People may find it strange, but it's a project that motivates me a lot."

[Mainak Bhattacharyya @userMainak]

Moon through iphone 16 pro

[Mainak Bhattacharyya @userMainak]

Written in the star
#RCBvsCSK #RCB #ViratKohli

[Mainak Bhattacharyya @userMainak]

Oneday perhaps!

[Jacob Biamonte @JacobBiamonte]

Status of NISQ by @preskill

[NIT JAMSHEDPUR _ OFFICIAL @jamshedpur_nit]

✨राष्ट्रीय प्रौधोगिकी संस्थान जमशेदपुर,✨ में दिनांक 04 नवम्बर 2023 को सम्पन्न✨ #13वेंदीक्षांतसमारोहकार्यक्रम (🎊13th Convocation Programme🎊) की एक झलक।🏆 https://t.co/6b6dRfaUQI समाचार पत्र एवं न्युज चेनल लिंक @EduMinOfIndia @tkp1080 @PMOIndia

[NIT JAMSHEDPUR _ OFFICIAL @jamshedpur_nit]

NITJSR successfully concluded its #13thConvocationCeremony on 4th Nov 2023 for 42 PhD, 158 MTech, 93 MCA, 84 MSc and 663 BTech students.The Chairman BOG @tkp1080 presided over the programme & Prof Goutam Sutradhar Director presented the Institute report. @EduMinOfIndia @PMOIndia

[Mainak Bhattacharyya @userMainak]

This is fun..

[Python Coding @clcoding]

QR code generation in Python

[Karthik Balachandran @karthik2k2]

If you are a brilliant scientist who made an epoch making discovery, but few have heard of you, does that discovery count? Now imagine you make another discovery that changes your field, but then the same sordid story repeats itself and your colleague bags the Nobel prize. No matter how many discoveries you make, how many borders you cross, how high you fly , you realize that your identity matters. This realisation might break a normal man, but Ennackal Chandy George Sudharshan was no normal man.

Born in 1931 in Kottayam, Kerala, ECG Sudharshan was the bright second son of E.I. Chandy. One day, the young Sudharshan chanced upon the physics textbook of his brother. In it were written the words, “ the derivation of this formula is beyond the scope of this book”. Most of us would just turn the page and forget it forever. Sudharshan , in a sign of things to come, wanted to dig deeper. On that fateful day, he entered the rabbit hole of theoretical physics.

His first stop was Madras Christian college. From there he went to TIFR (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research), where he worked on cosmic rays. One day an American professor Dr Marshak from University of Rochester visited TIFR and was impressed by Sudharshan and took him under his wings to USA. His brilliant doctoral work was on the weak interactions between vectors and pseudo vectors (V-A). Enthusiastically, Sudharshan presented it in a conference in 1957. Six months later, the now famous Nobel winning physicist Richard Feynmann published a similar paper along with Murray Gellman. The work caught the attention of Nobel prize committee and while Feynmann got Nobel, Sudharshan was sidelined.

He pulled up his socks and became even more prolific in discoveries. He proposed the presence of superluminous particles called tachyons, which travel faster than light. This postulation, though remains unproven, caused a furore in the physics world - for if it were true, it would prove Einstein wrong. He posulated the quantum Zeno effect : the more frequently we measure a system, the less it changes. In 1963, he made another momentous discovery in quantum optics - the Sudharshan-Glauber representation. It was a Nobel prize winning discovery - but Nobel prize only for Glauber, even though Dr Sudharshan did all the foundational work. It came as a rude shock to him. Even when many scientists wrote to the Nobel committee, the committee stuck to its white male bias. Perhaps it’s like the Quantum Zeno effect - the more letters they got, the more brazen they became.

He never relinquished his Indian citizenship and served as Director of Institute of Mathematical Sciences in Chennai. He taught at Harvard, Rochester and Switzerland. With age, he became deeply interested in Malayalam literature and philosophy. Born in a Syrian Christian family, he couldn’t reconcile religion and physics. He gave up religion in favour of Vedantic philosophy. Ironically religion is the only thing he gave up on, in his life.

Dr Sudharshan was given PadmaBushan and various other awards in India, but the Nobel prize would remain elusive, even though he was nominated for the Nobel prize a whopping nine times. His life is a stark reminder that while science is profound, scientists can be er..skin deep. When JC Bose lost out to Marconi for recognition, when Satyendranath Bose’s contribution got shared as Bose-Einstein condensate, the same thing happened. Yet these men never let recognition (or the lack of it) drown out their scientific creativity.

Not being recognised by the Nobel committee is one thing, not being celebrated by your own people is quite another. At least when I was a student, my physics textbook didn’t have Dr ECG Sudharshan’s name. I suspect nothing much has changed.

[Mainak Bhattacharyya @userMainak]

@PhysInHistory Dumbledore ❤️

[Mainak Bhattacharyya @userMainak]

@ResearchSchola6 IISER BHOPAL, Bhopal

[Pradeep Reddy, Raamana @Raamana_]

@Penn @NobelPrize This got community noted, rightly!

@Penn should stop making these misleading celebrations

[All India Research Scholars Association @AIRSAIndia]

Indian research scholars are the backbone of innovation, striving to contribute to our nation's progress. However, for over a year now, the @IndiaDST has not implemented our crucial fellowship hike, i.e., 60%, leaving us with just a 19.4% increase. Scholars feel betrayed. If this is due to negligence, we demand answers! 🧐 @rajesh_gokhale @guptaakhilesh63 #OMFellowshiphike60 #JAI-ANUSANDHAN

[Mainak Bhattacharyya @userMainak]

@ESPNFC There is noone else in the race, only the🐐