Yaroslav Blanter
@ymblanter.bsky.social
Professor at Kavli Institute of Nanoscience at TU Delft and also a long-term editor of Wikimedia projects. Views my own.
Emmylou steamboat on the Murray River, Echuca, Victoria, Australia.
November 14, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Emmylou steamboat on the Murray River, Echuca, Victoria, Australia.
Yaozu Tang put today on arXiv our article (also with Maz Ali @SolidStChemist and Gerrit Bauer) on how the critical current of a Josephson junction with a ferroelectric central barrier can depend on the polarization direction: arxiv.org/abs/2511.08492
Polarization Controlled Supercurrent in Ferroelectric Josephson Junction
Josephson junctions are essential devices in superconducting electronics and quantum computing hardware. Here we predict electrical control of the supercurrent in composite superconductor-insulator-fe...
arxiv.org
November 12, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Yaozu Tang put today on arXiv our article (also with Maz Ali @SolidStChemist and Gerrit Bauer) on how the critical current of a Josephson junction with a ferroelectric central barrier can depend on the polarization direction: arxiv.org/abs/2511.08492
I have seen the Emperor today.
November 6, 2025 at 10:58 AM
I have seen the Emperor today.
It looks like this time we at least have a chance for a (partially) competent government, but it should really concentrate on solving the problems and not just endlessly talking about them without solving them as the past governments did.
October 30, 2025 at 11:05 AM
It looks like this time we at least have a chance for a (partially) competent government, but it should really concentrate on solving the problems and not just endlessly talking about them without solving them as the past governments did.
I did not go to vote in person, but I gave my vote to my son and instructed him how to use it. Let us see tomorrow what comes out.
October 29, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I did not go to vote in person, but I gave my vote to my son and instructed him how to use it. Let us see tomorrow what comes out.
A bimonthly reminder: The war against Ukraine is still ongoing, and Ukraine still needs our support, especially since the US is not our strategic ally anymore. For those of us who are not policymakers, this support can be financial or information.
October 24, 2025 at 7:09 AM
A bimonthly reminder: The war against Ukraine is still ongoing, and Ukraine still needs our support, especially since the US is not our strategic ally anymore. For those of us who are not policymakers, this support can be financial or information.
Matteo Arfini's and Alvaro Bermejillo-Seco's (plus Clinton Potts, Artem Bondarenko, Herre van der Zant, Gary Steele and me) article on non-linear effects in a YIG disk on a MW resonator caused by the Suhl instabilities is published by Phys. Rev. Lett.: journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...
Magnon-Magnon Interaction Induced by Nonlinear Spin-Wave Dynamics
We experimentally and theoretically demonstrate that nonlinear spin-wave dynamics can induce an effective resonant interaction between nonresonant magnon modes in a yttrium iron garnet disk. Under str...
journals.aps.org
October 23, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Matteo Arfini's and Alvaro Bermejillo-Seco's (plus Clinton Potts, Artem Bondarenko, Herre van der Zant, Gary Steele and me) article on non-linear effects in a YIG disk on a MW resonator caused by the Suhl instabilities is published by Phys. Rev. Lett.: journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...
Congratulations to Minxing Xu and his promoters Richard Norte, Sander Otte, and Peter Steeneken, with the successful PhD defense. The STM measurements of the Casimir force are really impressive. The defense was interrupted by an evacuation because of a fire alarm.
October 22, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Congratulations to Minxing Xu and his promoters Richard Norte, Sander Otte, and Peter Steeneken, with the successful PhD defense. The STM measurements of the Casimir force are really impressive. The defense was interrupted by an evacuation because of a fire alarm.
I read (in translation) the Sátántangó by Krasznahorkai, I was impressed, and I felt like I belong, along with a few others, to a secret society. Now it will probably pretend to become mainstream. Good luck with that.
October 9, 2025 at 11:09 AM
I read (in translation) the Sátántangó by Krasznahorkai, I was impressed, and I felt like I belong, along with a few others, to a secret society. Now it will probably pretend to become mainstream. Good luck with that.
I started working at Delft University of Technology exactly 25 years ago, 1 October 2000.
October 1, 2025 at 6:55 AM
I started working at Delft University of Technology exactly 25 years ago, 1 October 2000.
Marken Lighthouse ("het Paard van Marken"), Marken, Waterland, North Holland, the Netherlands.
September 5, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Marken Lighthouse ("het Paard van Marken"), Marken, Waterland, North Holland, the Netherlands.
Samuel Mañas-Valero put on arXiv the recent manuscript by him, Yasmin Doedes, and Toeno van der Sar Lab, with our theoretical contribution, on imaging spin waves in thin-film permalloy using various color centers (not only NV centers in diamond): arxiv.org/abs/2508.18775
Isofrequency spin-wave imaging using color center magnetometry for magnon spintronics
Magnon spintronics aims to harness spin waves in magnetic films for information technologies. Color center magnetometry is a promising tool for imaging spin waves, using electronic spins associated wi...
arxiv.org
August 29, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Samuel Mañas-Valero put on arXiv the recent manuscript by him, Yasmin Doedes, and Toeno van der Sar Lab, with our theoretical contribution, on imaging spin waves in thin-film permalloy using various color centers (not only NV centers in diamond): arxiv.org/abs/2508.18775
A bimonthly reminder: The war against Ukraine is still ongoing, and Ukraine still needs our support, especially since the US is not our strategic ally anymore. For those of us who are not policymakers, this support can be financial or information.
August 24, 2025 at 11:12 AM
A bimonthly reminder: The war against Ukraine is still ongoing, and Ukraine still needs our support, especially since the US is not our strategic ally anymore. For those of us who are not policymakers, this support can be financial or information.
It took me 22 years in NL to figure out that there are boats functioning as regular public transportation, and 3 more years to take one. Line 20, Rotterdam - Dordrecht, roughly 1 hour and 6 Eur.
July 19, 2025 at 6:51 PM
It took me 22 years in NL to figure out that there are boats functioning as regular public transportation, and 3 more years to take one. Line 20, Rotterdam - Dordrecht, roughly 1 hour and 6 Eur.
Bryant House (1939, architect Emil Sodersten), Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
July 4, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Bryant House (1939, architect Emil Sodersten), Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Congratulations to Milan Lacassin and his other promotor Greg Bokinsky with the successful PhD defense today. For me, it was also fun to be, for the first time, a promotor of a thesis in biology.
July 3, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Congratulations to Milan Lacassin and his other promotor Greg Bokinsky with the successful PhD defense today. For me, it was also fun to be, for the first time, a promotor of a thesis in biology.
A bimonthly reminder: The war against Ukraine is still ongoing, and Ukraine still needs our support, especially since the US is not our strategic ally anymore. For those of us who are not policymakers, this support can be financial or information.
June 24, 2025 at 5:29 AM
A bimonthly reminder: The war against Ukraine is still ongoing, and Ukraine still needs our support, especially since the US is not our strategic ally anymore. For those of us who are not policymakers, this support can be financial or information.
After retirement, I will write a book "Collection of irrelevant trivia". This is one trivium from this book. The top 10 countries which photographs I uploaded on Wikimedia Commons as of now: the Netherlands (5245) - Germany (1231) - Ecuador (1093) - Canada (874) - the UK (683).
June 19, 2025 at 3:36 PM
After retirement, I will write a book "Collection of irrelevant trivia". This is one trivium from this book. The top 10 countries which photographs I uploaded on Wikimedia Commons as of now: the Netherlands (5245) - Germany (1231) - Ecuador (1093) - Canada (874) - the UK (683).
Matteo Arfini and Alvaro Bermejillo-Seco put on arXiv their (plus Clinton Potts, Artem Bondarenko, Herre van der Zant, Gary Steele and me) experimental article about non-linear effects in a YIG disk on a MW resonator caused by the Suhl instabilities: arxiv.org/abs/2506.11527
Magnon-magnon interaction induced by nonlinear spin wave dynamics
We experimentally and theoretically demonstrate that nonlinear spin-wave dynamics can induce an effective resonant interaction between non-resonant magnon modes in a yttrium iron garnet disk. Under st...
arxiv.org
June 17, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Matteo Arfini and Alvaro Bermejillo-Seco put on arXiv their (plus Clinton Potts, Artem Bondarenko, Herre van der Zant, Gary Steele and me) experimental article about non-linear effects in a YIG disk on a MW resonator caused by the Suhl instabilities: arxiv.org/abs/2506.11527
The article by Alvaro Bermejillo-Seco and Xiang Zhang (I am the last author) on the anisotropic thermoelastic damping in suspended magnetic membranes has now been published in Phys. Rev. B: journals.aps.org/prb/abstract...
Thermoelastic damping across the phase transition in van der Waals magnets
A quantitative understanding of the microscopic mechanisms responsible for damping in van der Waals nanomechanical resonators remains elusive. In this work, we investigate van der Waals magnets, where...
journals.aps.org
June 10, 2025 at 2:53 PM
The article by Alvaro Bermejillo-Seco and Xiang Zhang (I am the last author) on the anisotropic thermoelastic damping in suspended magnetic membranes has now been published in Phys. Rev. B: journals.aps.org/prb/abstract...
Ceiling of Baltimore Penn Station, Baltimore, Maryland, the United States
May 29, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Ceiling of Baltimore Penn Station, Baltimore, Maryland, the United States
Just discovered that IIFUFRN recorded my one hour talk on cavity and quantum magnonics on Quantum Magnonics workshop two weeks ago: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qU_...
Yaroslav Blanter - Interaction of magnons with qubits and with microwave radiation
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May 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Just discovered that IIFUFRN recorded my one hour talk on cavity and quantum magnonics on Quantum Magnonics workshop two weeks ago: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qU_...
It is a great idea to have the Quantum Magnonics workshop at IIFURFN Natal, and thanks the organizers, particularly Carlos, Michael, and Silvia for organizing. I am really enjoying the talks and interaction, it is a pity I could only come for one week.
May 15, 2025 at 11:05 AM
It is a great idea to have the Quantum Magnonics workshop at IIFURFN Natal, and thanks the organizers, particularly Carlos, Michael, and Silvia for organizing. I am really enjoying the talks and interaction, it is a pity I could only come for one week.
Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, South Holland, the Netherlands
May 1, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, South Holland, the Netherlands