Hey everybody, This blog’s been a little neglected for a while (again), but this time it’s because I’ve been focusing on developing a new one. I was getting a bit tired of WordPress, which for all its features is a bit of a bloated platform, with lots of things that were starting to annoy me.… Continue reading Bye Bye WordPress
It’s been a while since I last blogged – again – but today I’m back with a quick update on some research progress. A while back, I posted about a new preprint that we’d just uploaded to arXiv, the repository where physicists routinely post drafts of their new papers before they go through peer review… Continue reading Research Update: Many-Body Localisation in 2 Dimensions
This feature-length article was originally written for the September-October 2017 issue of Popular Astronomy magazine. Through a modest 4-inch telescope on a clear night, you might be able to see the rings of Saturn and the moons of Jupiter. Through a meter-wide telescope, you might just be able to make out the characteristic blips in… Continue reading Bring Me The Event Horizon
This is just a short post to advertise our new pre-print that appeared on arXiv this morning: “Time Evolution in Many-Body Localized Phases with the Flow Equation Approach”. I’ll save the full write-up of it until the paper is properly published: for my non-academic readers, let me just be clear up front that this is… Continue reading New Paper: Time Evolution in Many-Body Localized Phases
Another week, another conference log! This is probably my last one for the foreseeable future – I’m a bit conferenced out at this point… Last week I was at Condensed Matter Physics in the City (CMP) in London. I received an ICAM funding award to attend, so before I go much further I should tip… Continue reading Conference Log: CMP In The City 2017
When I moved to St Andrews as a long-haired, clean-shaven 17-year-old, it wasn’t to embark on a career as a quantum theorist – my degree was originally to be in astrophysics. For two years, I was an astrophysics student, before eventually ditching space in favour of quantum physics. There were two main reasons for this.… Continue reading Seeing Into The Quantum Heart of Matter
I’m just back from a 4-day conference in Bad Honnef, just south of Bonn. It’s a beautiful place! My last workshop log went down fairly well, at least within the research community, so I figured I’d do another as a summary of what was discussed at the conference. Despite the length of this post, there’s… Continue reading Conference Log: Bad Honnef
In 1960, Theodore Maiman and co-workers created the world’s first laser. Working on the principle of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation, the beam produced by a laser is unique in that all the photons in the beam have both the same wavelength and the same phase. Because of this innocuous-sounding property, the humble… Continue reading Where Randomness Meets Subatomic Precision
I’ve just spent a really fun few days at King’s College London, at the PhD-student-run Workshop on Localisation in Quantum Systems, and since I blogged last week about the general research area I work in, I thought I’d do a little write-up of the workshop for anyone interested who couldn’t attend. Apologies that this is… Continue reading Workshop Log: King’s College London
Broken Symmetry 