A few minutes before the announcement, let me go with my wish list/prediction for the Nobel Prize in Physics. First, the prediction 1) Martinis, Devore, Clarke, for the discovery of quantum behaviour of the relative phase in Josephson junctions. This makes superconducting quantum hardware possible.

Today is John Bardeen birthday. I wrote this piece to celebrate inl.int/john-bardeen...

Check out our paper "One-dimensional CrI3 encapsulated within multi-walled carbon nanotubes", in collaboration with the group of L. Francis at INL and Manuel Valvidares at ALBA. We are reporting the first observation and characterization of a new type of nanostructure, a CrI3 nanotube.

It was supposed to be impossible, but a group of researchers say they can generate electricity from Earth's magnetic field. I've had a look. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qod2...

The conference Condensed Matter in the City, held every other year in London, is accepting abstracts now. Focus topic: quantum materials. Very good list of invited speakers. I participated in 2023 and I loved it. research.kent.ac.uk/pqm/cmpcity2...

Happy Quantum day to everyone !

How did it take 14 years for me to find out this great talk by Don Eigler about one of my favorite topics? www.youtube.com/watch?v=rd2d...

Check out our work on olympicene spin chains, featured in phys.org @rfasel.bsky.social phys.org/news/2025-03...

Today our paper "Spin excitations in nanographene-based antiferromagnetic spin-1/2 Heisenberg chains" has been published in Nature Materials. www.nature.com/articles/s41... This is a collaboration with the groups of @rfasel.bsky.social at EMPA, Xingliang Feng at MPI and TUD, and my group at INL.

Now online: Article by X Fu, L Huang, K Liu, J Ma, J Fernández-Rossier & co-workers Building spin-1/2 antiferromagnetic Heisenberg chains with diaza-nanographenes www.nature.com/articles/s44... ($) #ChemSky

Can you use (Scanning Tunnel Microscopy) STM to determine the energy dispersion of spin excitations in spin chains? Well, in our latest preprint (arxiv.org/abs/2502.13770) we give the answer: it depends. Some context: excitations in crystals have energy E and momentum, k. 👇

I wish days had 48 hours to be able to catch up with so many exciting things going on in Science these days. This paper got my eye (I was going to say attention, but that would be misleading, check the title): arxiv.org/abs/2502.05383.

Hi bsky, I have just created my account here, to discuss about science (mostly condensed matter theory, quantum sensing, quantum computing) with colleagues and friends.