Sergey Frolov🇺🇦
@spinespresso.bsky.social
Quantum Computing boffin, Condensed Matter Physics, Reproducibility.
Professor of Experimental Physics, University of Pittsburgh
Blog: https://espressospin.org/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@spinespresso
Lab: http://frolovlab.org/
Professor of Experimental Physics, University of Pittsburgh
Blog: https://espressospin.org/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@spinespresso
Lab: http://frolovlab.org/
I had their picture fixed... a little.
November 20, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I had their picture fixed... a little.
Laser is no more in use
November 13, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Laser is no more in use
This is not it, is it?
November 12, 2025 at 4:25 AM
This is not it, is it?
NSF pumpkin not doing so well 😭
November 10, 2025 at 1:07 PM
NSF pumpkin not doing so well 😭
Here is the data charge jumps due to spurious quantum dots
November 8, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Here is the data charge jumps due to spurious quantum dots
Please send it to all current and pending colleagues at the NSF. We support you!!!
October 25, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Please send it to all current and pending colleagues at the NSF. We support you!!!
Or a gal claiming she can build a skyscraper
(she also says her qubits are 10,000 more powerful - citing a retracted article)
gizmodo.com/how-will-mic...
(she also says her qubits are 10,000 more powerful - citing a retracted article)
gizmodo.com/how-will-mic...
October 24, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Or a gal claiming she can build a skyscraper
(she also says her qubits are 10,000 more powerful - citing a retracted article)
gizmodo.com/how-will-mic...
(she also says her qubits are 10,000 more powerful - citing a retracted article)
gizmodo.com/how-will-mic...
I bet they are popping champagne at Microsoft now:
YES! We are on par with Google Quantum!
(as in both claim some breakthrough while researchers are "sceptical")
Very creative titles by the way, Nature News.
YES! We are on par with Google Quantum!
(as in both claim some breakthrough while researchers are "sceptical")
Very creative titles by the way, Nature News.
October 23, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I bet they are popping champagne at Microsoft now:
YES! We are on par with Google Quantum!
(as in both claim some breakthrough while researchers are "sceptical")
Very creative titles by the way, Nature News.
YES! We are on par with Google Quantum!
(as in both claim some breakthrough while researchers are "sceptical")
Very creative titles by the way, Nature News.
Real slide from my real talk
October 17, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Real slide from my real talk
Pitt: you cannot share data!
Also Pitt: if you don't share, this is evidence of Research Misconduct
(I tried to correct the first policy for 2 years... Alas, it is still in place)
Also Pitt: if you don't share, this is evidence of Research Misconduct
(I tried to correct the first policy for 2 years... Alas, it is still in place)
October 17, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Pitt: you cannot share data!
Also Pitt: if you don't share, this is evidence of Research Misconduct
(I tried to correct the first policy for 2 years... Alas, it is still in place)
Also Pitt: if you don't share, this is evidence of Research Misconduct
(I tried to correct the first policy for 2 years... Alas, it is still in place)
Archival photo from 1979, a steel mill in Zaporizhzhia.
The sign in the back says "Ukraine and Russia - became relatives forever"
The sign in the back says "Ukraine and Russia - became relatives forever"
October 17, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Archival photo from 1979, a steel mill in Zaporizhzhia.
The sign in the back says "Ukraine and Russia - became relatives forever"
The sign in the back says "Ukraine and Russia - became relatives forever"
Nobel prize is a corrupting influence on science. Unrelated to that, the three people who got it can be celebrated anytime.
I know Dale would have been raising a glass today.
I know Dale would have been raising a glass today.
October 7, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Nobel prize is a corrupting influence on science. Unrelated to that, the three people who got it can be celebrated anytime.
I know Dale would have been raising a glass today.
I know Dale would have been raising a glass today.
Please please please call it Karl!
October 5, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Please please please call it Karl!
If you call in the next 30 minutes, we will throw in this chip - a billion dollar value!
October 4, 2025 at 9:41 AM
If you call in the next 30 minutes, we will throw in this chip - a billion dollar value!
So grateful for Slack's trademark purplish-wine-stain color which helps me rapidly know that I am talking to PhDs and not to chatGPT
September 30, 2025 at 11:03 PM
So grateful for Slack's trademark purplish-wine-stain color which helps me rapidly know that I am talking to PhDs and not to chatGPT
So there is no coffee in Canada yet America is the center of the Apocalypse? We have coffee...
September 30, 2025 at 2:01 PM
So there is no coffee in Canada yet America is the center of the Apocalypse? We have coffee...
If you are in Pittsburgh, join us on Thursday for the opening of Scientists in Exile
pi.tt/StandingFree...
pi.tt/StandingFree...
September 29, 2025 at 6:37 PM
If you are in Pittsburgh, join us on Thursday for the opening of Scientists in Exile
pi.tt/StandingFree...
pi.tt/StandingFree...
Here is the website of this important project www.standingforfreedom.eu
September 23, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Here is the website of this important project www.standingforfreedom.eu
Professor Pascale Laborier, from the University of Paris-Nanterre, the creator of the project, will be in Pittsburgh to introduce the exhibition and talk about her research into the paths that academics are forced to take into exile.
September 23, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Professor Pascale Laborier, from the University of Paris-Nanterre, the creator of the project, will be in Pittsburgh to introduce the exhibition and talk about her research into the paths that academics are forced to take into exile.
Opening of the exhibit "Standing for Freedom" at Hillman Library of Pitt, October 2nd! Join us.
pi.tt/StandingFree...
pi.tt/StandingFree...
September 23, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Opening of the exhibit "Standing for Freedom" at Hillman Library of Pitt, October 2nd! Join us.
pi.tt/StandingFree...
pi.tt/StandingFree...
Empowered by the anti-AI movement, we are launching the Bene Gesserit University
September 23, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Empowered by the anti-AI movement, we are launching the Bene Gesserit University
This is what is going to actually happen, BluFors need to study their Finnish cultural heritage closer
September 22, 2025 at 12:57 PM
This is what is going to actually happen, BluFors need to study their Finnish cultural heritage closer