Machiel Blok
@machielblok.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @UofR physics-Quantum information - superconducting circuits - Dad - Dutch - Soccer - Ajax, onze club! https://labsites.rochester.edu/bloklab/ Machielblok@qubit-social.xyz @MachielSBlok on X
I'm highly excited to share our new PRX paper on measuring the dynamics of transmon ionization using a ten-level transmon qudit. The work is a collaboration between the Blok Lab at the University of Rochester and the Blais group at Université de Sherbrooke 1/4
“Every hour you spend confused is an hour you spend building the infrastructure inside your own head that will eventually let you do original work. There is no shortcut through that process that doesn't leave you diminished on the other side.”
Minas Karamanis@minaskar.bsky.social · 5mo agoHey, I wrote a thing about AI in astrophysics ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...
John Preskill expressing thanks to quantum pioneers of the past century and wishing good fortune to the audience, the quantum explorers of the future in an inspiring talk at #APSSummit26 #quantum
Announcing the symposium Quantum Thermodynamics and Decoherence! Registration is free and now open. Highlights include a keynote by a physics-inspired novelist and poster-session prizes for students/postdocs. Join us in New York June 3–4! qtd-hub.umd.edu/event/sympos...
Quantum Thermodynamics and Decoherence | Quantum-Thermodynamics Hub
Joint with the Center for Coherence and Quantum Science (CQS).
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The semester is finally over, so it's time for me to post the memes my students made for extra credit on their final (Physics 438b: Quantum Mechanics). As always, good memes are the result of my inspiring teaching, bad memes are the result of kids these days. Let's start it off!
The same quantum tunneling honored by this year’s #NobelPrize is driving #URochesterResearch @machielblok.bsky.social is building quantum systems that do what classical computers can’t—inspired by the same fundamental questions uofr.us/48o7I0K #QuantumPhysics #QuantumComputing
Quantum tunneling: URochester physicist explains a Nobel Prize–winning discovery
Machiel Blok’s research in superconducting circuits builds on the quantum tunneling effects recognized by the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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What it really feels like interacting with your physics heroes! Such a beautiful and fundamental prize 🤩 www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physi...
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In the excitement over today's well-deserved #nobel announcement for Clarke, Devoret and Martinis, I looked up the 2017 symposium in honor of John Clarke's scientific achievements at UC Berkeley that I attended as a postdoc. I was thrilled to find the recordings on YouTube tinyurl.com/mrx6umcr
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Why are so many people so obsessed with “Google Scholar fraud”? Another example of someone creating a few citations — no, you don’t get a job/promotion because you have 132 citations. And the “meta study” found 144 suspected cases out of 1 million (!) profiles.
How easy is it to fudge your scientific rank? Meet Larry, the world’s most cited cat
“Exercise in absurdity” reveals flaws in Google Scholar’s productivity metrics
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Mark Saffman reviews the remarkable recent progress on quantum computing with neutral atoms. podcast.newquantumera.com/57
The New Quantum Era - innovation in quantum computing, science and technology | Neutral Atom Qubits with Mark Saffman
In this episode of The New Quantum Era, host Sebastian Hassinger sits down with Dr. Mark Saffman, a leading expert in atomic physics and quantum information science. As a professor at the Universit...
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What connects The Matrix, to Hilbert Space, to Spins with large angular moment? Our recent PRX on efficient qudit control with large-spin rotations ! www.rochester.edu/newscenter/h... #URQuantum #Rochester #Quantum #Qudits
Researchers discover more efficient way to route information in quantum computers
Using qudits, University of Rochester scientists have solved a notoriously difficult problem involving Hilbert space, or the quantum matrix.
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In Trento for the BeyondQubit workshop. Looking forward to a conference dedicated to Qudits! #quantum #qudits #beyondqubit
Final day of cqs-12 kicked off by Pedram Roushan from Google Quantum AI on simulating lattice gauge theories and condensed matter systems with Willow #cqs2025 #quantum #Rochester
Misha Lukin at cqs-12: We got a preview of these very impressive new results on repeated error correction in neutral atoms, posted on the arxiv today arxiv.org/pdf/2506.20661 #cqs2025 #qec #quantum
🌟 Excited to speak, have played a small advisory board role, and be back here after the last one 6 years ago for the Rochester Conference on Coherence and Quantum Science (CQS-12)! CQS is special, dating back to 1960, bringing together Nobel Laureates & field pioneers #CQS2025
Off to a great start of CQS-12 with a keynote by Donna Strickland about the quantum and coherence properties of lasers and including a tribute to Joe Eberly #cqs12 #quantum #coherence #rochester
New paper out! We resonantly couple a superconducting heavy-fluxonium qubit ⚛️ to a macroscopic membrane 🥁 oscillating at a few MHz. ~300 repeated interactions let us track its quantum motion, observe back-action & probe non-commuting operators. Diósi–Penrose next? (1/8) arxiv.org/abs/2505.21481
Probing the quantum motion of a macroscopic mechanical oscillator with a radio-frequency superconducting qubit
Long-lived mechanical resonators like drums oscillating at MHz frequencies and operating in the quantum regime offer a powerful platform for quantum technologies and tests of fundamental physics. Yet,...
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10 days left for early-bird registration for CQS-12! Hope to see you in Rochester in June for many quantum interactions! If you can not attend yourself, please consider sharing with colleagues or group members. #CQS12 #quantum #QIS
Machiel Blok@machielblok.bsky.social · last yr.🌟 The 12th Rochester Conference on Coherence and Quantum Science (CQS-12) will be held June 23-27, 2025 in Rochester, NY! 🌟 CQS has a rich history dating back to 1960 and brought together Nobel Laureates & field pioneers. www.sas.rochester.edu/quantum/cqs/... #CQS2025 #QuantumScience #Physics
Move over, qubits: Quantum computing based on higher-dimensional 'qudits' (working with a Hilbert space of dimension d>2) offers potential advantages — but the devil could be in the details. A short 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Meet ‘qudits’: more complex cousins of qubits boost quantum computing
Working with multi-dimensional entities could make calculations more efficient and reduce errors.
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"If I could go back in time to my old self, I would tell her: why waste time with qubits" says Christine Muschik in a very nice qudit overview article in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Meet ‘qudits’: more complex cousins of qubits boost quantum computing
Working with multi-dimensional entities could make calculations more efficient and reduce errors.
nature.com
🌟 The 12th Rochester Conference on Coherence and Quantum Science (CQS-12) will be held June 23-27, 2025 in Rochester, NY! 🌟 CQS has a rich history dating back to 1960 and brought together Nobel Laureates & field pioneers. www.sas.rochester.edu/quantum/cqs/... #CQS2025 #QuantumScience #Physics
Another great batch of quantum memes!
Eli LF@elilevensonfalk.bsky.social · 2y agoFor a little bit of light in these trying times, I present to you: quantum memes! These are made by my Physics 438a class for extra credit on their midterm (which they are taking at this moment). As always, I take all credit for good memes and no blame for bad ones.
