In computational physics, the devil is often in the scales. This post explores how normalisation—when grounded in sound physical principles—can transform unstable simulations into elegant, interpretable models. From wave equations to diffraction integrals, it’s a practical workflow I’ve relied on for years, now distilled into a new paper and shared for the wider community.
This article by Christian Tomás Schmiegelow first appeared in Physics APS on February 7, 2022. You can see the original here. Two separate teams have demonstrated a way to couple two ions through a metal… Read More »“Tin-Can Telephone” Connects Two Ions – APS Reblog
The Institute of Physics is holding Council Elections and I am proud to announce that I am standing for election as President-Elect. It is an honour to be standing alongside three other candidates, including one… Read More »Standing for IoP Council Elections
Bosons — especially photons — have a natural tendency to clump together. In 1987, three physicists conducted a remarkable experiment demonstrating this clustering property, known as the Hong-Ou-Mandel effect. Recently, researchers at ULB’s Centre for… Read More »Quantum interference in time
This is s a reblog of an article in ScienceDaily. See the original here. A newly-designed atomic clock uses entangled atoms to keep time even more precisely than its state-of-the-art counterparts. The design could help… Read More »Sci-Advent – New type of atomic clock keeps time even more precisely
This is a reblog of an article in ScienceDaily. See the original here. Quantum computers have already managed to surpass ordinary computers in solving certain tasks — unfortunately, totally useless ones. The next milestone is… Read More »Sci-Advent – Tiny quantum computer solves real optimization problem
In a recent paper published in the ArXiV, researchers have highlighted the advantages that artificial intelligence techniques bring to the research of fields such as astrophysics. They are making their models available and that is… Read More »Sci-Advent – Artificial Intelligence, High Performance Computing and Gravitational Waves
This is a reblog of the post by Hayley Dunning in the Imperial College website. See the original here. Researchers have used AI to control beams for the next generation of smaller, cheaper accelerators for… Read More »Sci-Advent – Artificial intelligence improves control of powerful plasma accelerators
Researchers have discovered a new superhighway network to travel through the Solar System much faster than was previously possible. Such routes can drive comets and asteroids near Jupiter to Neptune’s distance in under a decade… Read More »Sci-Advent – New superhighway system discovered in the Solar System
