Apparently German real estate company Quantum has successfully sued the Dutch national quantum computing initiative Quantum Delta NL for trademark infringement on their use of "quantum". blog.galalaw.com/post/102mp68... www.boek9.nl/system/files...

Use of ‘House of Quantum’ and ‘Quantum Delta NL’ infringes Quantum trademark (via Passle)

Quantum is a real estate specialist that develops and manages real estate projects and provides asset management services. Quantum carries out these act...

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I'm happy this talk attracted a lot of interest from a whole bunch of folks! Featuring the double-quantum sequences that I invented ~3-4 years ago, and worked on with Malcolm's excellent PhD student Urvashi Heramun (who just passed her PhD defense with flying colors) 😎 #nmrchat

Global NMR Discussion Meetings@globalnmr.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Join us on Tuesday, April 28, at 5 PM Paris/ 11 AM Boston/ 8:30 PM Delhi for a talk by Prof. Malcolm Levitt: Double-quantum excitation in solution NMR, using weird quantum properties #NMR #NMRchat #ChemSky

I was also shocked to hear about Rob Schurko's passing. I didn't know him well, but the NMR community is small, and we had many mutual colleagues. He seemed like a genuinely great guy. He had a sort of quiet ambition that I really admired. Worked hard, built community & lifted others up. #NMRchat

Bryan Lucier@bryanlucier.bsky.social · 5mo ago

On the passing of Prof. Rob Schurko:

Heramun, Sabba, Yamano, Bengs, Legrady, Pileio, Thompson, Levitt: Spinor Double-Quantum Excitation in the Solution NMR of Near-Equivalent Spin-1/2 Pairs https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.08157 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.08157 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.08157

I am pretty glad to have invented the cSLIC sequence: a solution to a fundamental defect of pulse sequences that are sensitive to RF mismatch and gateway to better hyperpolarization performance in PHIP (and perhaps even DNP). #nmrchat

Mohamed Sabba@sabba.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Just dropped these new preprints! 1. Error compensation without a time penalty: robust spin-lock-induced crossing in solution NMR (arxiv.org/abs/2602.08883) 2. Spinor Double-Quantum Excitation in the Solution NMR of Near-Equivalent Spin-1/2 Pairs (arxiv.org/abs/2602.08157) #nmrchat

Just dropped these new preprints! 1. Error compensation without a time penalty: robust spin-lock-induced crossing in solution NMR (arxiv.org/abs/2602.08883) 2. Spinor Double-Quantum Excitation in the Solution NMR of Near-Equivalent Spin-1/2 Pairs (arxiv.org/abs/2602.08157) #nmrchat

Error compensation without a time penalty: robust spin-lock-induced crossing in solution NMR

A modification of the widely-used spin-lock-induced crossing (SLIC) procedure is proposed for the solution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) of strongly coupled nuclear spin systems, including singlet ...

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New preprint just dropped: arxiv.org/abs/2506.20594 Geometry and quantum control are deeply connected and these connections can manifest in weird (but also fun) ways. It was an absolute pleasure to work on this with @michael-tayler.bsky.social

Cyclicity of interaction frame transformations

We identify a cyclic property of rotation sequences involving piecewise displacements $β$ about arbitrary axes in three dimensions. Specifically, when transformation to the toggling frame is applied s...

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From a historical perspective - what is incredible (to me) reading quantum literature from the 50s-60s, is that authors would often emphasize how *similar* QM/CM are. To this end, introductions to PhD theses would have thoughtful, intuitive analogies. … but I guess Weird™ woos the funding agencies.

Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · 2y ago

A lot of the science communication about quantum mechanics leans hard on it being "weird" and "fuzzy" and "spooky." I think a better framing is that it's counter-intuitive: things on the subatomic scale don't act like the physics of everyday life, but none of it is arbitrary or unconstrained. 🧵

Happy new year! I want to draw attention to an exciting postdoc fellowship opportunity on quantum sensing + microfluidic technology: zintellect.com/Opportunity/... We have active projects in this area (as featured recently in Sci. Adv. tinyurl.com/yfukhbtw). Please reach out if interested.

This is a misconception. 2D NMR originated in lectures given at a summer school in Yugoslavia by Jean Jeener in 1971 (doi.org/10.1016/j.pn...). The exercise confused most students but not Richard Ernst's grad student Thomas Baumann who brought back its wisdom (doi.org/10.1002/9780...).

Ash Jogalekar@ashjogalekar.bsky.social · 2y ago

2D NMR is now so ubiquitous that it can be easy to forget it needed to be invented (in 1986!). www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

"Alongside ‘AI‘, the word ‘quantum’ has become the latest buzzword in tech marketing, and Samsung has decided to jump on the bandwagon with the launch of Galaxy Quantum 5. [...] Galaxy A55 that’s been given a dose of supposed quantum enhancement." techhq.com/2024/09/sams...

Galaxy Quantum 5: do the claims really add up?

The Galaxy Quantum 5 boasts a QRNG chip for enhanced security, but it's real-world benefits for average users remain questionable.

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Abraham Asfaw@abrahamasfaw.bsky.social · 2y ago

On the other platform, immigration is the hot topic. On this one, my feed looks like a mix of "in a promising new research avenue, quantum computers will be used to test the quantumness of consciousness" and "the new samsung galaxy will be quantum"

Fun fact: the "Knill pulse"; perhaps the most well-known composite pulse in quantum information science - popularized by Ryan, Hodges & Cory¹ in 2010, attributed to Emanuel Knill - was actually first described by Tycko & Pines² in 1984. #nmrchat ¹ doi.org/10.1103/Phys... ² doi.org/10.1016/0009...

Signs of the endtimes: for the first time in the 7 years that I've been here at Southampton, they actually gave me card access to fill the magnets over Christmas (instead of having to call security to let me in as usual.)

2025 ISMAR awards The ISMAR Prize recipient is Dame Clare Grey of the University of Cambridge The Abragam Prize recipient is Dr. Irene Marco-Rius from the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia, Barcelona Prof Sami Jannin of the University of Lyon is the 2025 Paul Callaghan Lecturer #NMRchat

Merry Christmas/happy holidays to my buddies in magnetic resonance, quantum, and everything else!

Early Morning Lecture Series @enc-conference.org Monday - Thursday, 7:00 - 7:50 am, by Malcolm Levitt, Professor in Physical Chemistry, University of Southampton www.enc-conference.org/ENC-ISMAR-Ea... #NMRchat #NMR 🧲

In other news: today I was granted indefinite leave to remain in the UK aka job freedom. I am looking for a UK-based (or remote) job after a looong stint in the Levitt group. You might find me useful if you want a pulse sequence guru. #nmrchat My CV: sabba.me/nmr/cv/

Hello lovely folks of Bluesky! Nice to see old and new faces here, particularly from the NMR community. There's a good bit of healthy noise here now, and I'll try to be more active on this platform.

Follow @globalnmr.bsky.social for online tutorials, conferences and magnetic resonance events and networking! #NMRchat #chemsky

Nikita Rao@nikitarao97.bsky.social · 2y ago

Global NMR Discussion Meetings is all set on Bluesky. Please follow @globalnmr.bsky.social for regular updates from Global NMR.

Another fascinating talk by Malcolm Levitt today at @chimieens.bsky.social. Thank you for stopping by in between two trains. With some great work by @sabba.bsky.social inside!