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Jeff Kimble has passed away. For decades, Jeff did extraordinary things with light and atoms, and making them interact in ways never before done, sometimes with a precision almost unfathomable

Today in "Awww, Dammit..." A huge chunk of what we know about the quantum nature of photons and their interactions with the world can be directly traced to experiments involving Jeff Kimble.

Caltech mourns the passing of Harry Jeffrey Kimble, a giant in the field of physics, who died on September 2. caltech.edu/about/news/cal…

Occasional reminder: We're hiring a condensed-matter physicist into a tenure-track faculty position. If you've got a relevant Ph.D. and think "college professor" seems like a sweet gig, give us a look: unioncollege.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UnionCol…

On a whim I uploaded another lecture. This one explains how all of the major distributions in statistical physics -- Boltzmann, Fermi-Dirac, and Bose-Einstein -- arise from simple entropy maximization. youtube.com/watch?v=oVG5IP…

A surprising number of people have asked me versions of "Is the Physics Nobel Prize today really for Physics?" What counts as a field is surprisingly complicated. As a rough and incomplete classification, a field can be: 1. Based on exploration of and development of a set of

This is a bizarre headline from the The New York Times , given that the nature paper published today does not make this bold claim at all. If a topological qubit were ever actually demonstrated, it would be a pinnacle of human achievement. But today is apparently not the day.

Read about Microsoft 's work on topological qubits in this nature article. It is available open access on their website nature.com/articles/s4158… or as a pdf here rdcu.be/eazc8. Read Scott Aaronson's Q&A for some context scottaaronson.blog/?p=8669 . This should be

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You’re looking at a cloud of atoms as it's manipulated into a bubble at 1-millionth of a degree above absolute zero in space. These bubbles could help advance the future of quantum science! Learn more: go.nasa.gov/4kra3f6

Julian Fried Coherent 899 tunable ring laser. It made a lot of Nobel Prizes.

Although rocket launches and lunar landings are often what NASA is known for, NASA’s fundamental research into areas like quantum science and combustion enabling humanity to thrive in space and on Earth. 🔬 go.nasa.gov/4h3fJJ3

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You’re looking at a cloud of atoms as it's manipulated into a bubble at 1-millionth of a degree above absolute zero in space. These bubbles could help advance the future of quantum science! Learn more: go.nasa.gov/4kra3f6

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John Clarke, UC Berkeley emeritus professor, awarded the 2025 #NobelPrize in #Physics. The Nobel Prize committee honored Clarke "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunneling and energy quantization in an electric circuit." bit.ly/46WFHeg

Congratulations to John Clarke, Michael Devoret, & John Martinis The Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunneling & energy quantization in an electric circuit" in 3 PRLs journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/1… journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/1… journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/1…