Gotta celebrate the few good things going on right now. Like our good friend & filmmaker Dehanza Rogers earning tenure at Emory. Celebrated at a Dodger game & got ourselves on the Jumbotron! #AcademicSky

Bismuth strontium calcium copper oxide, BSCCO, or “bisko,” either way it sounds and looks delicious! Measured recently in our scanning tunneling microscope at #UCLA.

Solid state physics is pretttttty. This is an image of the momentum-distribution of electrons inside of a crystal measured using the photoelectric effect.

From a recent trip to @als-lbnl.bsky.social.

4. On Thursday, Kuan-Yu will show our Current-Tuned STM experiments that use an external in-plane driving current to tune the CDW phase coherence in a protoypical quasi-1D Peierls system: Either enhancing CDW phase coherence or lowering it through phase dislocations.

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3. On Tuesday, I will give a talk demonstrating the capabilities of our open-source software PyAtoms for quickly simulating scanning probe images of 2D materials, charge density waves, & moire systems. I'll also discuss how I use it in my Solid State courses.

summit.aps.org/events/MAR-F...

Laplace's equation to solve for incompressible fluid flow around a sphere for my Math Methods class. This exact problem was on my PhD qualifying exam. I had never done a fluid mechanics problem in my life! What saved my ass was the analogy to a conducting sphere in a constant E-field. 🧪 #AcademicSky

My former student (and big Harry Styles fan) included a fun, harmless prank for beta-testers of PyAtoms: After prolonged use, a pop-up asked if you'd like to listen to his music on Spotify.

Now that PyAtoms is out of beta, this feature is discontinued. Farewell, Harry!
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Working on a paper describing our open-source software PyAtoms (github.com/asariprado/P...) & how it's used both in the lab & in the classroom!

Fun fact: I *hated* coding as a young PhD student...until I realized how fun it was & got really good.

#STM #graphene #AcademicSky #STEM #Python

(4) #Graphene tight-binding widget:

colab.research.google.com/drive/13Ntea...

(3) Fourier-sum (Laue condition) widget:

colab.research.google.com/drive/1afKoj...

(2) Plane-wave widget:

colab.research.google.com/drive/1nXADT...

(1) Fermi-Dirac distribution:

colab.research.google.com/drive/1clV7q...

(0) I've created the following interactive widgets for my undergrad course, Intro to Solid State Physics. I've found these extremely useful for teaching & inspiring students to learn to code.

Feel free to share, copy & edit to create your own widgets!
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Hello Bluesky! I'm a scientist, professor & artist based in Los Angeles, CA. I post about science, education, art & music. My research group at #UCLA — the Quantum Matter Design Studio— uses special #quantum microscopes to image the strange & beautiful "mob behavior" of electrons in materials.