Look, plantar fascitis sucks but I think this guy has bigger issues going on

New paper in New Journal of Physics @ioppublishing.bsky.social @iopp-quantum.bsky.social: We show that the precise way you code your quantum algorithm for quantum annealers can have tremendous thermodynamic consequences. With @reecejrobertson.bsky.social iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Congratulations to Maggie Williams for receiving her Master of Science in Physics from UMBC!! And as perfect timing goes, here is also her first published paper now available in Journal of Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Last chance to sign up for "Natural and Engineered Complex Quantum Systems Workshop at UMBC" forms.gle/qrNbVKFjsUGb...

EPL celebrates its 40th anniversary! 🎉 To celebrate, we launch a series of 40th Anniversary Highlights, written by our Editor-in-Chief Dr Richard Blythe and our three Deputy Editors, and revisiting key papers published in EPL.

Implementing quantum error correction is generally expected to be absolutely crucial in achieving fault tolerance. However, bigger is not always better! And the specific implementation matters a lot! @joseystevens.bsky.social exploring the energy-error tradeoff: arxiv.org/abs/2605.04329

📌 We are thrilled to host Sidney Redner (Santa Fe Institute) for our next klogW seminar on May 12 at 12PM EST on "First-Passage Processes with Applications to Resetting-Driven Optimization, Wealth Sharing, and Forest Fires" 🔥 Register here: engage.aps.org/dsnp/resourc...

New preprint celebrating Amir O. Caldeira's contributions to the understanding of Quantum Brownian Motion: arxiv.org/abs/2604.26524

New preprint: Quantum speed limit for measurement probabilities arxiv.org/abs/2604.23160

When Einstein developed general relativity the closest thing to a practical application that could even be imagined at the time was a slightly more precise description of where to look for the planet Mercury in the sky, and yet now we’d all be literally lost without it. Anyway: fund basic research.

Undergrad researcher Monty presenting his project on solving PDEs on NISQ advised by @reecejrobertson.bsky.social @umbc.edu

New paper: Quantum speed limit for observables from quantum asymmetry @physreva.bsky.social journals.aps.org/pra/abstract...

📣 We’re kicking off the first klogW seminar of the year! Join us on April 21st at 12PM EST for a talk by Douglas Jerolmack (UPenn) — 2026 APS-DSNP Fellow — presenting "Fragility of Soft Earth Materials" 🌎🌍🌏 Registration link: apsphysics.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

New paper in @physreve.bsky.social: Quantum thermodynamics of Gross-Pitaevskii qubits journals.aps.org/pre/abstract...

Congrats to QSI Graduate Fellow @reecejrobertson.bsky.social for winning UMBC's 3MT competition today! Next stop, Regionals! gears.umbc.edu/3mt/

📣 DSNP Early-Career Spotlight: Megan Engel from University of Calgary! Her research focuses on molecular motors' efficiency—and how to apply these principles to bio-nanotechnology. Check out the interview below! Want to suggest who to feature next? Email us at [email protected]

📣 After a fantastic Squishy Sunday event, the APS Global Physics Summit 2026 has officially started! Check out the DSNP session schedule below. Come say hi at the DSNP table and get your members-only T-shirt! #APSSummit2026 #GlobalPhysicsSummit #DSNP #StatisticalPhysics #NonlinearPhysics #APS

🎉 30 years of Statistical & Nonlinear Physics — and we're just getting started! To mark the transition from APS G to D, @physreve.bsky.social have highlighted the most influential papers that drew the map of the field. 📖 journals.aps.org/over-30-years #StatisticalPhysics #DSNP #Physics

Excited for #APSSummit26? We are too! Come join us, we’re looking for volunteers! @apsphysics.bsky.social #StatsPhys #NonlinearPhys Details 👇

We’re delighted to share a new editorial in @physreve.bsky.social (PRE) on the DSNP Dissertation Award in #Statistical & #Nonlinear Physics, marking the inaugural year of PRE sponsorship. Congratulations to the winner, 𝐉𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐬 𝐕𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚, from UvA 🎉 Read more: journals.aps.org/pre/abstract...

At the upcoming Global Physics Summit in Denver, @aps-dsnp.bsky.social will be celebrating our advancement from Topical Group to Division! To kick the party off, here is a collection of highlights published in @physreve.bsky.social: journals.aps.org/over-30-years

A variational quantum algorithm is implemented on IonQ hardware to prepare Gibbs states of the transverse-field Ising model, with fidelities evaluated via state tomography. @reecejrobertson.bsky.social, @quthermo.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2603.03801

What are NISQ computers good for? Well, possibly many things. But definitely for the preparation of Gibbs states: arxiv.org/abs/2603.03801

The Qalypso School on Quantum Science in Malta returns for its 3rd edition Aug 31 - Sep 4 this year! 🏖️ We have a great line up of lecturers covering Quantum Optimisation, Quantum Thermodynamics and Quantum Gibbs Sampling. Pre-registrations opens today at forms.gle/3NkMJ3Br9V8b... Do Share!

The amazing Prof. Nakalembe taking the TED stage: www.ted.com/talks/cather...

New paper on #QuantumComputing emulation just posted to @ieeexplore.bsky.social! I was thrilled to share this work at the @ieeeorg.bsky.social #CASCON2025 conference last November. The project @github.com was awarded an IEEE Research Object Reviewed Badge. ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/113...

New preprint: employing NISQ to verify the tenets of Quantum Darwinism arxiv.org/abs/2601.05350

Does it matter thermodynamically how to code your algorithm? On quantum annealers it matters a lot: arxiv.org/abs/2601.04402

To what extent can noisy quantum circuits be classically simulated? And at what point is this no longer true, so that one can hope for a quantum advantage? This is a compelling research question. Here, we suggest frames to do so, extending known Monte Carlo methods. scirate.com/arxiv/2601.0...

Do Bose-Hubbard type systems have a speed of sound for particle propagation? scirate.com/arxiv/2601.001… Yes. This work proves a strikingly simple bound of this kind for particle propagation for generalized Bose–Hubbard models defined on general lattices.

Happy 40th Birthday @epljournal.bsky.social iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Fluctuation theorems for autonomous work | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

We’re hiring! The Department of Physics @sfuphysics.bsky.social at Simon Fraser U (in beautiful and vibrant Vancouver) seeks applications for an Assistant or Associate Professor in Experimental Biophysics, encompassing all scales of life from molecules to ecosystems. @sfuscience.bsky.social

Do you wonder what Shortcuts to Adiabaticity are really good for? How about correcting quantum gate errors? New publication in @epljournal.bsky.social iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Have you ever wondered if Maxwell's demon could get dementia? And if so, how would you model it? Wonder no further! Here is the very first manuscript of my grad student Maggie Williams together with Emery Doucet. arxiv.org/abs/2511.15691

The Trump administration’s crackdown on legal immigration is making it tougher for doctors, engineers, professors and artists to get permission to work and live in the U.S. For foreign professionals, the crackdown has meant new levels of anguish and fear.

Yup! 75% of us are considering leaving (/made plans to leave/already left) 😢 🧪 www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Quantum Science Institute @umbc.bsky.social representation at the Quantum Leap Career Nexus!

This is a manuscript I am particularly happy with. It concerns topics I have been working on for my PhD, entanglement theory, going back to the work of Bennett et al. Yet it still has a fresh flavour, relating the subject to modern developments in quantum computing. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Train scheduling goes quantum feat. Dr. Emery Doucet and Reece Robertson: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWKR... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Do you want to do a postdoc with me? 10 days left to apply! apply.interfolio.com/172719

Couldn’t agree more!

New preprint: Metrological approach to the emergence of classical objectivity Anthony Kiely, Diana A. Chisholm, Akram Touil, Sebastian Deffner, Gabriel Landi, and Steve Campbell arxiv.org/abs/2510.12313

New preprint: Quantum thermodynamics of Gross-Pitaevskii qubits arxiv.org/abs/2510.12599

New letter in Quantum Science and Technology @iopp-quantum.bsky.social with Josey Stevens: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Pauses to some US graduate programmes have led universities in several countries to launch initiatives to entice would-be PhD students go.nature.com/46AqorN

Suppressing excitations in the nonlinear Landau-Zener model doi.org/10.1209/0295... via @ioppublishing.bsky.social