Justin H. Wilson
@jhwilson.com
Assistant Professor at LSU. Doer of topological materials, disorder, and quantum dynamics. Lover of real space methods and entanglement.
Opinions are my own but you’re welcome to take some with you.
Opinions are my own but you’re welcome to take some with you.
New post out on our recent preprint. How to control quantum chaos with random measurements and feedback! With an analogy to boulders and mountaintops
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Controlling Quantum Chaos with Randomness
Randomly controlling a quantum system can lead to control, but the uncertainty principle gets in the way
open.substack.com
June 13, 2025 at 2:43 PM
New post out on our recent preprint. How to control quantum chaos with random measurements and feedback! With an analogy to boulders and mountaintops
open.substack.com/pub/jhwilson...
open.substack.com/pub/jhwilson...
Introducing my colleague, William (Bill) Shelton to our Substack "Quantum Matters"! Here he talks about quantum materials beyond the Silicon Paradigm
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Why Quantum Materials Are Shaping the Future of Electronics
Silicon has been the backbone of the electronics industry for decades.
open.substack.com
June 9, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Introducing my colleague, William (Bill) Shelton to our Substack "Quantum Matters"! Here he talks about quantum materials beyond the Silicon Paradigm
open.substack.com/pub/jhwilson...
open.substack.com/pub/jhwilson...
New post! Science when funding and stability are in doubt open.substack.com/pub/jhwilson...
Science when funding and stability are in doubt
Writing about science feels tone-deaf when the administration is dismantling US research.
open.substack.com
June 6, 2025 at 2:56 PM
New post! Science when funding and stability are in doubt open.substack.com/pub/jhwilson...
I'm starting a Substack!
Why Quantum Matters
A field notebook from the frontiers of physics.
open.substack.com
June 2, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I'm starting a Substack!
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Trying something new:
A 🧵 on a topic I find many students struggle with: "why do their 📊 look more professional than my 📊?"
It's *lots* of tiny decisions that aren't the defaults in many libraries, so let's break down 1 simple graph by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social
🔗 www.ft.com/content/73a1...
A 🧵 on a topic I find many students struggle with: "why do their 📊 look more professional than my 📊?"
It's *lots* of tiny decisions that aren't the defaults in many libraries, so let's break down 1 simple graph by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social
🔗 www.ft.com/content/73a1...
November 20, 2024 at 5:09 PM
Trying something new:
A 🧵 on a topic I find many students struggle with: "why do their 📊 look more professional than my 📊?"
It's *lots* of tiny decisions that aren't the defaults in many libraries, so let's break down 1 simple graph by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social
🔗 www.ft.com/content/73a1...
A 🧵 on a topic I find many students struggle with: "why do their 📊 look more professional than my 📊?"
It's *lots* of tiny decisions that aren't the defaults in many libraries, so let's break down 1 simple graph by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social
🔗 www.ft.com/content/73a1...
Had a blast exploring how collective measurements drive both control and entanglement in chaotic quantum circuits. Collective measurements plus local corrections stabilize an unstable orbit, revealing “superballistic” dynamics—a neat blend of classical automata and quantum randomness.
Concomitant Entanglement and Control Criticality Driven by Collective Measurements
Collective measurements on adaptive quantum circuits drive controllability and entanglement phase transitions, having implications for quantum state preparation and error correction.
journals.aps.org
March 14, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Had a blast exploring how collective measurements drive both control and entanglement in chaotic quantum circuits. Collective measurements plus local corrections stabilize an unstable orbit, revealing “superballistic” dynamics—a neat blend of classical automata and quantum randomness.
With mathematicians, we unveil a breakthrough in bilayer graphene—defect states in the continuum engineered without symmetry protection! Our new method pinpoints non-scattering bound states to a single orbital pair, unlocking possibilities in layered 2D materials. journals.aps.org/prb/abstract...
Defect bound states in the continuum of bilayer electronic materials without symmetry protection
We analyze a class of bound defect states in the continuum electronic spectrum of bilayer materials, which emerge independent of symmetry protection or additional degrees of freedom. Taking graphene a...
journals.aps.org
February 18, 2025 at 4:42 PM
With mathematicians, we unveil a breakthrough in bilayer graphene—defect states in the continuum engineered without symmetry protection! Our new method pinpoints non-scattering bound states to a single orbital pair, unlocking possibilities in layered 2D materials. journals.aps.org/prb/abstract...
The cultural revolution also targeted academics
February 12, 2025 at 3:41 AM
The cultural revolution also targeted academics
I've been working on small scripting projects since grad school but only recently noticed that if I don't create a README, I'll forget what the script does and how it works. Once that's made, there's almost no extra work to put it on GitHub for others to see and tinker with if they care.
January 26, 2025 at 5:55 AM
I've been working on small scripting projects since grad school but only recently noticed that if I don't create a README, I'll forget what the script does and how it works. Once that's made, there's almost no extra work to put it on GitHub for others to see and tinker with if they care.
This was a fun little coding project. I had always wanted an easy way to write my homework assignments in markdown and toggle solutions on and off, so I created a Pandoc/LaTeX template and Python script to automate this process.
GitHub - jhwilson/homework_builder: A python script and pandoc template for converting markdown homeworks to pdfs with toggle-able solutions
A python script and pandoc template for converting markdown homeworks to pdfs with toggle-able solutions - jhwilson/homework_builder
github.com
January 26, 2025 at 5:25 AM
This was a fun little coding project. I had always wanted an easy way to write my homework assignments in markdown and toggle solutions on and off, so I created a Pandoc/LaTeX template and Python script to automate this process.
I am perpetually intrigued by the idea of taking real space seriously. In this work, we explore real-space multifractal wavefunctions in a quasiperiodic version of TBG, which can both emulate the surface of topological superconductors and enhance superconductivity.
journals.aps.org/prb/abstract...
journals.aps.org/prb/abstract...
Critical filaments and superconductivity in quasiperiodic twisted bilayer graphene
Multilayer moir\'e materials can exhibit topological electronic features yet are inherently quasiperiodic---leading to wave-function interference whose Anderson-localizing tendency can be mitigated by...
journals.aps.org
January 17, 2025 at 7:05 PM
I am perpetually intrigued by the idea of taking real space seriously. In this work, we explore real-space multifractal wavefunctions in a quasiperiodic version of TBG, which can both emulate the surface of topological superconductors and enhance superconductivity.
journals.aps.org/prb/abstract...
journals.aps.org/prb/abstract...
Information wants to be scrambled! ΔS>0
January 15, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Information wants to be scrambled! ΔS>0
Free Speech (noun): Speech that an algorithm filters out to keep your attention on the platform longer and makes companies the most money, regardless of the consequences.
Antonym: Bummer speech (noun): Speech that doesn't get clicks.
Antonym: Bummer speech (noun): Speech that doesn't get clicks.
January 14, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Free Speech (noun): Speech that an algorithm filters out to keep your attention on the platform longer and makes companies the most money, regardless of the consequences.
Antonym: Bummer speech (noun): Speech that doesn't get clicks.
Antonym: Bummer speech (noun): Speech that doesn't get clicks.
You can’t find me on the quantum Erasure channel.
January 13, 2025 at 10:10 PM
You can’t find me on the quantum Erasure channel.
Reposted by Justin H. Wilson
news.rice.edu
January 12, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Imagine an illness who's ability to kill is directly proportional to the person's ability to contribute to its eradication. It would take out all Kwisatz Haderachs and is probably why Leto II gave up his humanity to be the God Emperor.
Smallpox was a devastating illness, but it was also vulnerable to human ingenuity because:
1. It only infected people...it couldn't hide in animals.
2. It's a DNA virus, which makes its genome much more stable, and its mutation rate slower.
3. It was very clear when someone had smallpox.
1. It only infected people...it couldn't hide in animals.
2. It's a DNA virus, which makes its genome much more stable, and its mutation rate slower.
3. It was very clear when someone had smallpox.
January 4, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Imagine an illness who's ability to kill is directly proportional to the person's ability to contribute to its eradication. It would take out all Kwisatz Haderachs and is probably why Leto II gave up his humanity to be the God Emperor.
Reposted by Justin H. Wilson
We gotta reject “Well, RFK jr. is right about some things” and accept “if we don’t confront the real problems with our systems, it becomes much easier for con artists like this guy to manipulate people.”
January 2, 2025 at 4:23 PM
We gotta reject “Well, RFK jr. is right about some things” and accept “if we don’t confront the real problems with our systems, it becomes much easier for con artists like this guy to manipulate people.”
Reposted by Justin H. Wilson
Wow, I hadn’t appreciated this whole story. For-profit scientific publishers have various problems, but Elsevier manages to consistently be the worst.
"In 2023 Elsevier began using AI during production without informing the board, resulting in many style and formatting errors, as well as reversing versions of papers that had already been accepted and formatted by the editors."
very innovative, very cool
very innovative, very cool
Evolution journal editors resign en masse
Board members expressed concerns over high fees, editorial independence, and use of AI in editorial processes.
arstechnica.com
December 31, 2024 at 4:18 PM
Wow, I hadn’t appreciated this whole story. For-profit scientific publishers have various problems, but Elsevier manages to consistently be the worst.
Open source woes: LaTeX-mode isn't activating; a new bug broke it. Latexmk is no longer running; the option is silently disabled, and the fix is buried in an old git commit.
I love Emacs, but sometimes jumping ship would save me so much debugging time.
I love Emacs, but sometimes jumping ship would save me so much debugging time.
December 31, 2024 at 8:28 AM
Open source woes: LaTeX-mode isn't activating; a new bug broke it. Latexmk is no longer running; the option is silently disabled, and the fix is buried in an old git commit.
I love Emacs, but sometimes jumping ship would save me so much debugging time.
I love Emacs, but sometimes jumping ship would save me so much debugging time.
It's A Wonderful Life - Merry Christmas!
YouTube video by Phil Edwards
youtu.be
December 26, 2024 at 3:32 AM
Reposted by Justin H. Wilson
