Nilotpal Chakraborty
@nilotpal-chak.bsky.social
Quantum condensed matter postdoc @ Cambridge. Previously at MPIPKS (Dresden), Oxford and Yale-NUS
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You may take associative memory for granted, but it’s what allows you to remember a moment from a specific scent, or a full melody from a few lines of lyrics. Physics helped bring a form of this memory to computers.
The Strange Physics That Gave Birth to AI | Quanta Magazine
Modern thinking machines owe their existence to insights from the physics of complex materials.
www.quantamagazine.org
May 2, 2025 at 3:46 PM
You may take associative memory for granted, but it’s what allows you to remember a moment from a specific scent, or a full melody from a few lines of lyrics. Physics helped bring a form of this memory to computers.
How did physicists convince people to have conferences at such pretty locations?Had a great time presenting our latest work (arxiv.org/abs/2409.13019) on a new kind of protected qubit formulation- entanglemon-at the Fault-tolerant #QuantumComputing computing workshop in Les Houches.
April 22, 2025 at 8:34 PM
How did physicists convince people to have conferences at such pretty locations?Had a great time presenting our latest work (arxiv.org/abs/2409.13019) on a new kind of protected qubit formulation- entanglemon-at the Fault-tolerant #QuantumComputing computing workshop in Les Houches.
New paper🚨the last work from my PhD thesis.We find an extremely rich phenomenology for dynamical defects(charges) in emergent gauge theories in 2d.Static effects of such emergence has greatly enriched research-we’ve only started to uncover its dynamical consequence. arxiv.org/abs/2504.00074
Fractional diffusion without disorder in two dimensions
We analyse how simple local constraints in two dimensions lead a defect to exhibit robust, non-transient, and tunable, subdiffusion. We uncover a rich dynamical phenomenology realised in ice- and dime...
arxiv.org
April 2, 2025 at 3:20 PM
New paper🚨the last work from my PhD thesis.We find an extremely rich phenomenology for dynamical defects(charges) in emergent gauge theories in 2d.Static effects of such emergence has greatly enriched research-we’ve only started to uncover its dynamical consequence. arxiv.org/abs/2504.00074
Given the recent Dwave announcement and the two follow-up classical simulation papers, i think it’s fair to say that the best use case for quantum computers in their present form is to improve classical computation 😅 which to be fair is quite useful , wonder if any startup has used this pitch 🧐
March 13, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Given the recent Dwave announcement and the two follow-up classical simulation papers, i think it’s fair to say that the best use case for quantum computers in their present form is to improve classical computation 😅 which to be fair is quite useful , wonder if any startup has used this pitch 🧐
Reposted by Nilotpal Chakraborty
Exactly! Bell Labs invented the goddamn transistor and discovered the goddamn Cosmic Microwave Background! Now "innovation" means adding a chatbot that tells what sports bets you might like to make based on the brand of toilet paper you buy.
February 10, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Exactly! Bell Labs invented the goddamn transistor and discovered the goddamn Cosmic Microwave Background! Now "innovation" means adding a chatbot that tells what sports bets you might like to make based on the brand of toilet paper you buy.
First post on Bluesky with a life update. I defended my PhD thesis in Dec @mpipks.bsky.social and am now a postdoc at the TCM department in Cambridge. Looking forward to this new journey and this new platform!
February 2, 2025 at 1:11 PM
First post on Bluesky with a life update. I defended my PhD thesis in Dec @mpipks.bsky.social and am now a postdoc at the TCM department in Cambridge. Looking forward to this new journey and this new platform!