@pramodhyapa
Physicist with too many hobbies and not enough (imaginary?) time. Currently: NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow @ Uppsala Universitet. Formerly: Universität Innsbruck 🇦🇹, University of Alberta 🇨🇦, and even more formerly, 🇱🇰. https://www.pramodhyapa.com/
The following quote in the preface of my PhD thesis is from my favourite essay by him:
"Sometimes what one does not know is as important as what one does!"
-Matchmaking Between Condensed Matter and Quantum Foundations, and Other Stories
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
A picture of some notes on the Bogoliubov-de Gennes and Andreev equations by the late great Anthony Leggett.
Just this past Friday I printed out some notes by the great Anthony Leggett and was struck (for the umpteenth time) by his effortless writing style and the lucidity of his thoughts.
Unfortunately I learned today that this great voice of condensed matter passed away over the weekend: RIP Sir Tony 💐
I started watching this treatise on AI and music creation as a break from research, but I think there's a huge parallel here with the use of AI in scientific research.
(I have no moral conclusions about this yet, but just something to chew on)
youtu.be/U8dcFhF0Dlk?...
"I would give like a 50% chance that in two or three years, theoretical physicists will mostly be replaced with AI. Brilliant people like Nima Arkani-Hamed or Ed Witten, AI will be generating papers that are as good as their papers pretty autonomously."
Ominous, but I can believe it 🫠
Making some animations for a talk about superfluids and collective modes! Here's what happens when you give 'er a little twist:
By contrast, I tried to do this with my paid version of ChatGPT earlier this year, and it just could not get it right, no matter how much I tried to nudge it in the right direction.
I'm not even paying for Antigravity, and it got everything right pretty much the first time!
Picture of my laptop screen, using the Antigravity IDE by Google.
I've been using Antigravity, Google's AI powered IDE, for the last week and I'm blown away by how much it has sped up my research. 🤯
I'm using it to do some tedious Bogoliubov-de Gennes calculations on a 2D lattice, and I've only had to make small corrections to its code so far.
Photo of the Angströmlaboratoriet at Uppsala University
Photo of me on my first day as a postdoc at Uppsala!
Hello Bluesky, I just started a new position so I thought I'd break my looong hiatus: in November, I started working as an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow at Uppsala University in Sweden 🇸🇪
You can find me in Prof. Annica Black-Schaffer's group, working on theories of unconventional superconductivity!
An illustration of some dipolar atoms in a lattice. The text is about open position in Prof. Ferlaino's team at the university of Innsbruck and IQOQI Innsbruck. There are openings for an Academy scientist position and for postdocs. Link to the website: https://www.erbium.at/FF/join-us/
🔬 Exciting opportunities at IQOQI-INNSBRUCK!🌟
We are looking for an Academy Scientist + Post-docs to join Prof. Ferlaino's team to work on cutting-edge research in dipolar quantum gases! ⚛️
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#QuantumScience #ResearchJobs #Physics
A bunch of physics paper titles containing the word 'Hell' mashed up with the 'This is fine' meme of a dog sitting surrounded by flames. I'm the second panel of the comic, the dog is now saying 'I wonder what the nature of the electric activity is here?'. The joke here is that 'Hell' should actually be read 'He-II' or "Helium 2", an old name for superfluid Helium-4.
My current hobby is finding papers where (presumably devil-worshipping 😈) physicists investigate the material properties of Hell.
I hope this will be the beginning of what I am sure needs to be a long discussion in our community:
arxiv.org/abs/2501.18631
Check out this amazing speaker list at YAO2025!
I now have a research website! 🥳
Granted, it's a quick and dirty port over from my old UAlberta site, but it's functional. I have grand visions for putting a bunch of resources on there (templates for CV, thesis, papers etc) but we'll see when I get around to that 😅
www.pramodhyapa.com
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Don’t miss out! 🌍⚛
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The Ferlaino Group is now on Bluesky! Stay tuned for exciting updates from the labs and theory team! 😸
I just sat down in a chair, and was supported because of trillions of quantum-mechanical interactions between the particles in my butt and the particles in the seat. This lends credence to the notion that quantum computation occurs in many parallel universes, an idea first propo
Me standing in front of my slides titled 'What type of solid is a dipolar Supersolid?
And I followed up by asking 'What type of solid is a dipolar supersolid?' based on our recent paper about supersonic shear waves (arxiv.org/abs/2410.16060).
I'll make a thread about this paper very soon!
Thomas Bland standing in front of his slides about the 'Superfluid and Solid properties of a dipolar Supersolid'
@thomas-bland.bsky.social gave a comprehensive account of all the superfluid properties of the dipolar supersolids, including the newly published work on vortices in the supersolid! (www.nature.com/articles/s41...)
Photo of the courtyard at Schloss Heidelberg.
Hello bluesky from beautiful Heidelberg! 🏰 @thomas-bland.bsky.social and I were invited to give a couple of talks at the Center for Quantum Dynamics this week, and it was jam-packed with discussions about supersolids and ultracold quantum gases! 🔬⚛️
