Beautiful aurora last night just above ISTAustria campus. This night there may be a possibility to see it again. It's lucky that Stadt Klosterneuburg has less light pollution compared to Vienna.

Interesting 2022 disclosures from American Physical Society projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/dis… Revenues =$70M dominated ($50M) by journals. 2 top APS execs make about $1.5M & top dozen $4.5M. Which is ~20%-25% of all salaries paid by APS toEditors & staff doing all the work. Typical Editorial salaries

since high dimensions are all the hype now, what is your favorite and most counter-intuitive high-dim phenomenon? this is still my favorite one:

Neuer Stundenplan: jeweils zwei Stunden Musik, Kunst und Werken aber nur eine Stunde Physik und drei Stunden Mathe. Wäre es angesichts der Nachfrage nach MINT Jobs nicht sinnvoller andersrum?

"Was macht ein Top-Quanteninformatiker ausgerechnet in Linz?" - JKU Forscher Richard Kueng zeigt im DER STANDARD, wie attraktiv der Forschungsstandort Österreich - und natürlich auch die #JKULinz ist - und wie dieser noch attraktiver werden könnte💡 go.jku.at/e24e7

Do Rydberg atoms have good memory? In our preprint arxiv.org/abs/2410.18913 with A. Kerschbaumer, Marko Ljubotina and Maks Serbyn at ISTAustria, we show that these systems hold many new trajectories that evade thermalization, preventing the scrambling of quantum information. 🧵

New preprint from the group at ISTAustria about quantum scars by Jean-Yves Desaules Marko Ljubotina and Aron at arXiv arxiv.org/abs/2410.18913. Infographics credit goes to Jean-Yves Desaules, for more details see his original thread here x.com/JDesaules/stat…

Sun, forest, and white #mushroom in Vienna Woods from last Sunday.

ISTAustria welcomes renowned scientist, inventor, and entrepreneur Alex Bronstein as a faculty member! After a year as a Visiting Professor, he joins us to advance machine vision, #MachineLearning in life sciences—and even #AI in music! Read more 🔗 bit.ly/48uOcgX

Excited to welcome Assistant Professor Julian Léonard to our faculty! With a passion for making quantum mechanics visible and tangible, he brings a novel approach to exploring the quantum properties of matter. Join us in welcoming Julian and read more 🔗 bit.ly/3O3UjzB

1 view (from the ESI windows), 4 seasons, 12 months of scientific activities at Erwin Schrödinger Institute: check out the Annual Report 2023 of the Erwin Schrödinger Institute for Mathematics and Physics in Vienna. esi.ac.at/material/scien… Universität Wien

Today the original QAOA paper has been under review for exactly one decade! 🎂 arxiv.org/abs/1411.4028

Preprint by Serafim Babkin & myself ISTAustria in collaboration with Benjamin Joecker Karsten Flensberg and Jeroen Danon. Check arxiv.org/abs/2412.04084 for theory of proximity effect in germanium, useful for germanium-based devices for #QuantumInformation processing.

Physics is a point of view. Wise words from John Hopfield's Nobel lecture. #NobelPrize The Nobel Prize

Prof. on website vs Prof. in person

Did you know that painted lady butterflies are true world travelers? The ones we encounter in Europe come a long way. Every year, they embark on a 10,000 km journey and fly from Africa to Sweden and back.

Preprint by Dmytro Kolisnyk, Raimel A. Medina & myself ISTAustria in collaboration with Romain Vasseur Faculty of Science | UNIGE. In arxiv.org/abs/2503.17230 we use tensor cross interpolations for interpolation of purities. Thanks to Flatiron Institute workshop for the idea.

Check out this lovely article featuring some of our research 👩‍🔬🦋🗺️scientificamerican.com/article/this-b…

Meet ScarFinder --our new algorithm for detecting initial conditions that defy thermalization in general chaotic models. arxiv.org/abs/2504.12383 A complementary algorithm by our colleagues Maks Serbyn is also on arXiv today arxiv.org/abs/2504.12472 The Leverhulme Trust

Latest preprint with E. Petrova, M. Ljubotina and G. Yalniz ISTAustria on finding periodic orbits inside MPS manifold arxiv.org/abs/2504.12472 (see also arxiv.org/abs/2504.12383 for alternative approach from Quantum Many-Body Physics @ Leeds). Image shows a 3d projection of 4-dimensional KAM torus.