Time crystal coupling to mechanical surface waves could have potential for quantum memory. But "the most interesting part," for study co-author Jere Mäkinen is that you can "harness the inherent robustness of time crystals." www.livescience.com/technology/c... #timecrystals #quantumcomputing

In any case researchers @ox.ac.uk and @ethz.ch have now squared the circle explaining how even at the quantum level, as Natalia Ares puts it “There’s no such thing as a free lunch.”
physicsworld.com/a/researcher...
Thanks Ares, Florian Meier and Vivek Wadhia for taking the time to explain it to me.

Clocks like everything are limited by the 2nd law of thermodynamics – the more precise they are the more entropy they produce in dissipated heat etc. So what about quantum fluctuations? they produce no entropy but can still count as “ticks” (although not the best in the lab for time keeping, yet…)

Gröblacher and his team demonstrated a directional phonon coupler, which can help different quantum tech talk to each other so you can exploit, for instance quantum spins for storing data, while enjoying the perks superconducting circuits offer for processing it...
physicsworld.com/a/single-pho...

Huge thanks to the team at Quanta for all their support with this article, and to @pflenne.bsky.social @shamtlili.bsky.social Alexandre Kabla, Alan Rodrigues and Konstantin Doubrovinski for taking the time to share their ideas with me.

*blubbing - I guess autocorrect can't believe how easily I cry 🫣

I stumbled upon another article you wrote about your nan - that had me clubbing too. Lovely.

...I spoke to Prof Han @salkinstitute.bsky.social Prof Kuwaki at Kagoshima Uni and Prof Josselyn at the Hospital for Sick who are working to extend our understanding of the chemistry of fear and the impact of stress on how memories form.
www.chemistryworld.com/features/the... @chemistryworld.com

...Whether a situation arousing fear and anxiety is imagined, misconceived or a genuine hazard, the physical symptoms are very real as Paul describes. What is more, for many of these physical responses to situations that prompt fear, the physiological chemistry is now being pinned down....

...Huge thanks to @salzmannlab.bsky.social for talking to me about this research and Alex Shluger for the thoughtful insights.