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
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
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
It’s always exciting in science when a surprise comes along and something you thought you knew turns out to be wrong. In the last decade, spurred on by recent experimental advances, condensed matter theorists have turned back to an old problem with renewed enthusiasm, and have discovered an enigmatic phase of matter that behaves unlike… Continue reading My Current Research Topic: Many Body Localisation
So. Hi. Here we are again. Remember me? It’s been a while, I admit. Somewhere back in the mists of time, I launched this new blog with the promise of more frequent posts and in the time since then, I’ve barely posted anything and it’s been over six months since the last thing I wrote.… Continue reading It’s a bit quiet in here
Today is exactly one month since one of the best days of my PhD: the viva. Having had a month to come to terms with real life after 8 years of being a student, I wanted to write something about my viva experience. This isn’t a how-to or a guide or anything of the sort… Continue reading The Best Defence Is…
[This post originally appeared on 21stcentury.co.uk] The paradox of perfection is a philosophical idea that for something to be perfect, it must be imperfect. By making something less perfect in form, it can often be made more perfect in function. Whatever the deeper philosophical implications of this statement, it’s almost a literal truth in the… Continue reading The Paradox of Perfection
[This post originally appeared on 21stcentury.co.uk] You might not realise it, but we are currently in the midst of what some are calling the second quantum revolution. From quantum computers to spintronics, from exotic superconductors to unbreakable encryption, we’re moving from the age of passively understanding and using quantum mechanics to the age of actively… Continue reading The Rise of the Quantum
Broken Symmetry 