Please don't tell that joke about being pulled over by a cop for speeding and protesting that you didn't know how quickly you were driving because you knew where you were.

Want a primer on recent developments in quantum complexity? Physics Reports has just published our multidisciplinary review! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Don't worry. We're all physicists here. 👇Amit Te'eni presenting about mutually unbiased bases @oxfordphysics.bsky.social.

What’s working with an artist, as opposed to a physicist, like? Thanks to Hamish Johnston for interviewing steampunk artist Bruce Rosenbaum and me on the Physics World podcast. @physicsworld.bsky.social @ioppublishing.bsky.social physicsworld.com/a/quantum-st...

If you’re a student at the University of Maryland, you can (or will soon be able to) sign up for the quantum-steampunk creative-writing course offered during spring 2026. Seats are limited, so reserve yours ASAP!

What happens when you blend the art of steampunk with the science of quantum physics? Find out in this podcast with Nicole Yunger Halpern and Bruce Rosenbaum. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/sjrR50Xkgxg

The Quantum-Steampunk Laboratory goes out for a group lunch at Bagels ’n Grinds. Verdict: the everything bagels are worth trying. @umdscience.bsky.social

Toured the beautiful Brin Mathematics Research Center at the University of Maryland for the first time today. Its structure deftly reflects an important priority of mathematicians'.

Author Philip Pullman published a long-awaited sequel last week. Less excitingly to most people—but, I’d argue, as excitingly for physics enthusiasts!—the Maryland Quantum-Thermodynamics Hub embarked on the sequel to its first 3 years around the same time. quantumfrontiers.com/2025/10/26/t...

Matthias Christandl: Want to build a quantum network, perform a distributed quantum computation, communicate quantum information, etc.? Don’t forget to extend fault tolerance to quantum inputs and outputs. @QuICS @christandl.bsky.social

Approximately as thrilling as the Nobel Prize for superconductor physics. #publicationday

2025 UMD Quantum postdoc job thread. We start with the Quantum Optics Fellowship, intended for AMO and QI. Anyone who would have applied for the JQI Fellowship should apply to this one. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/fellowsh...

As it turns out, a sphere does model a cow remarkably accurately.

Our measuring devices report on quantities different from the quantities we actually want to learn about. Mapping the reported-on quantities to the desired quantities requires “cool physics.” –Amir Yacoby presenting the UMD physics colloquium

Happy physics Nobel Prize to all my superconducting-qubit friends!

About a decade ago, I was presenting about majorization at the University of Maryland as a PhD student. Now, a PhD student of mine is. arxiv.org/abs/2507.22986 @umdscience.bsky.social

Grateful to belong to this cohort. When the QuICS Fellows hold a retreat, one can expect ideas mentioned there to reverberate across the globe over the next few years… @umdscience.bsky.social

Most quantum information scientists detest the noise that erodes the performance of quantum computers. QuICS postdoctoral fellow Yuxin Wang sees the glass as half-full: noise is a fascinating subject to study. From this week's JQI Seminar.

The world needs more of the creativity, humor, and warmth of Diana Wynne Jones’s novels. quantumfrontiers.com/2025/09/21/b...

I had fun speaking today at the Quantum World Congress panel on Demystifying Quantum: How to Communicate Cutting Edge Science to Diverse Audiences. Alongside the fantastic moderator @csrday.bsky.social and esteemed panelists @nicoleyh11.bsky.social and Ben Stein #QWC2025

Until today, I've managed to stick to scientific quantum conferences. Seeing so many suits at a quantum gathering is bizarre. #qwc2025

Summer REU students investigating Captain Okoli's Magnificent Steampunk Quantum Engine. (Mine's the one in the back, on the right.) @umdscience.bsky.social

David Gross (at an excellent QuICS Seminar): “I don’t know if you’ve realized it, but there’s quite a lot of hype about quantum computation.”

How many miles to Babylon? You'll get there sometime after ten...

Feynman was an impressive thinker. Just, I'm saddened by how many people let the one-liner "Nobody understands quantum mechanics" limit their, and humanity's, horizons. @conorfeehly.bsky.social

Useful advice from @nicoleyh11.bsky.social. quantumfrontiers.com/2025/08/10/n...

Applying for a postdoc or faculty position this fall? This blog post relates my advice about how to write a research statement. quantumfrontiers.com/2025/08/10/n...

The term "quantum steampunk" is appearing in the wild. 😄 @physicsworld.bsky.social physicsworld.com/a/quantum-th...

"...leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay." ...but at least Quantum Steampunk has made it to a second printing. 🌞 @JHUPress

"I can hear his French-Canadian accent in my memory, but not without hearing him smile at the ends of most sentences." A blog post for Ray Laflamme. @quantumiqc.bsky.social @perimeterinstitute.ca @majidy.bsky.social quantumfrontiers.com/2025/07/27/l...

Loads of research groups across the world have been studying the Mpemba effect, according to which ice cream freezes more quickly if the mixture begins hot than if it begins cold. But how many groups have a student who *makes* ice cream? 🍦😋🍧

With local applied physicist @uffizi

For all my friends who took AP English Literature. @uffizi

Claude Shannon “must have been an alien from another planet or a time traveler, because no human being could have achieved all that he did.” –At-least-approximate quote from David Wolpert @StatPhys29

Mehran Kardar: “Let’s be very statistical-physics-y and introduce an order parameter m.” Indeed, one can't get much more statistical-physics-y than that.

Whimsically, the plots on my collaborator's slide resemble the marble strewn across Florence, where he was presenting. @StatPhys29

Michele Campisi @StatPhys29: To prepare many qubits with high fidelity, use collective behaviors, such as spontaneous symmetry breaking.

Giorgio Parisi opening StatPhys29: AI resembles the heat engine in that the technology arrived before the theory.

Ran across a colleague in Florence this morning.

If you've messaged me since spring and been waiting for a reply, the reason is this place. Jae Dong Noh wanted to present our latest results at StatPhys in Florence next week, so we've been slaving over this paper. It's out with ~a day to spare! arxiv.org/abs/2507.07249

Group dinner/leaving party @TheBoardAndBrew. We’ve loved having Aleks Lasek and Jade LeSchack in the Quantum-Steampunk Laboratory, but we can’t begrudge them the new adventures they have lined up!

Jun Ye pays homage to his former postdoc advisor, Jeff Kimble @caltech.edu, at the Conference on Coherence and Quantum Science. We've lost some good quantum opticians recently...

Chris Monroe on trapped ions for quantum computing, at the Conference on Coherence and Quantum Science: “Don’t ask me how you trap them. There’s a lot of black magic.”

Kirkwood–Dirac quasiprobabilities have flooded quantum information science over just the past few years. Yet already, ~100 attendees are expected at QuiDiQua! (Granted, QuiDiQua covers Wigner functions, too. But still.) quidiqua3.sciencesconf.org

Ten points if you can guess which buddy requested that an MIT postdoc association, when its leaders asked how they could improve his life, throw more parties. quantumfrontiers.com/2025/06/22/a...

The quantum-information community has lost something rare and valuable: a great theorist, experimentalist, and human being, plus a founder of our community. Co-supervising a PhD student with Ray Laflamme, as an early-career PI, was like sharing a kitchen with Julia Child.

So pleased to see this correct use of semicolons in a list. Well done, National Postal Museum.

No, squares are quadratic, actually.

My PhD student Twesh proposed that his article about quantum fluctuations be entitled "What the fluc?!" I can understand why his suggestion may have been voted down, but I'm still partial to it. ;) rqs.umd.edu/news/student...

My undergrad gave a speech at this year’s commencement ceremonies at the University of Maryland @univofmaryland.bsky.social! @umdphysics.bsky.social quantumfrontiers.com/2025/06/09/c...