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Luis E F Foà Torres retweeted
📢 LAST CALL FOR ORAL PRESENTATIONS — SLAFES 2027
📅 SLAFES 2027: January 11–15, 2027
📍 Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Valparaíso, Chile
⏳ Oral presentation abstract deadline: this weekend
🌐 More information and submissions:
fisica.usm.cl/slafes2026/
#SLAFES2027
🌟 Applications are open for the Santiago School of Physics 2026! @DFI_UChile
Join us Jul 27–31 in Santiago 🇨🇱 for a week at the frontiers of physics — from cosmology & quantum mechanics to non-equilibrium physics & more.
Open to advanced undergrad & grad students across Latin America 🌎
Deadline: May 10 👉 dfi.uchile.cl/santiago-schoo…
#PhysicsEducation #LatinAmerica @UChile_Beauchef
A simulation that refused to match its own analytical solution. Not a typo. Not a bug. We stripped the problem down to a 2×2 matrix (gain, loss, and a precision floor) and the mismatch sharpened. The irreversibility was coming from the arithmetic itself. 🧵
Today on arxiv: "Precision's arrow of time." We derive when reversibility breaks, verify it across arbitrary-precision and hardware arithmetic, and propose experiments in photonics and electrical circuits. With G. Pappas, V. Achilleos & D. Bautista Avilés. arxiv.org/abs/2603.22284
As Borges said: "Pensar es olvidar diferencias" — to think is to forget a difference. Finite dynamic range enforces this forgetting. And what physics cannot distinguish, it cannot reverse. arxiv.org/abs/2603.22284
Our colleague Diana Dulić passed away recently. We are remembering her today at the FCFM dfi.uchile.cl/noticias/23731…
Our latest research is out in @NanoLetters! Congrats and thanks to @earodriguezmena and @mberdakin for all the work behind this. @ACSPublications
pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.102…
Luis E F Foà Torres retweeted
Dear Colleague,
We are thrilled to invite you to GRAPHENE 2026 - the 16th edition of the Graphene Conference series and the premier European event on graphene & 2D materials, to be held June 30 – July 3, 2026, in Barcelona, Spain
grapheneconf.com/2026/
Tomorrow's Nobel may be among the last where humans did all the work. This interview points to an imminent future: prizes awarded to human-AI teams, and Nobel-worth AI discoveries that redefine scientific achievement—prize or not.
Sam Altman talks about GPT-8 with David Deutsch, one of the world's most brilliant physicists
Sam asks him if GPT8 solved quantum gravity, would that convince him that AGI is achieved.
David Deutsch argues the Turing Test is no real measure, LLMs, even "GPT-8" lack true creative inspiration, and AGI won’t fit into fixed-test evaluations.
But if GPT8 can solve quantum gravity that would be AGI for him.
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From 'Deutsch Explains' YT Channel
Luis E F Foà Torres retweeted
#Nota Lograron un aporte clave para comprender un extraño tipo de material / Link a la nota: bit.ly/noticiabalseiro348
@CNEA_Arg @UNCUYO @INNcneaconicet @GavenskyLucila @CONICETDialoga
Luis E F Foà Torres retweeted
Researchers extend the Středa formula to periodically driven systems, offering a new way to express #FloquetSystem #topological invariants and providing a physically grounded link between Floquet winding numbers and tractable response functions.
🔗 go.aps.org/4gel8OK
![On the top is an illustration of the study’s driving protocol, shown as black and white circles arranged in a lattice pattern. The width and color of the lines connecting each lattice site represent the strength of the hopping amplitudes for different times, labeled from left to right t0, t0+T/3 and t0+2T/3. Below are three graphs showing the quasienergy spectrum of a zigzag ribbon as a function of the quasimomentum along the translationally invariant direction, with kx[1/√3a] on the x axis and ε/Ω on the y axis. The parameters are such that Ω/J = 20, ∆/J =
0.5 and from left to right F = 1.0, F = 2.0 and F = 2.75.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G0fcJOtWAAExa8L.jpg?name=orig)
ALT On the top is an illustration of the study’s driving protocol, shown as black and white circles arranged in a lattice pattern. The width and color of the lines connecting each lattice site represent the strength of the hopping amplitudes for different times, labeled from left to right t0, t0+T/3 and t0+2T/3. Below are three graphs showing the quasienergy spectrum of a zigzag ribbon as a function of the quasimomentum along the translationally invariant direction, with kx[1/√3a] on the x axis and ε/Ω on the y axis. The parameters are such that Ω/J = 20, ∆/J = 0.5 and from left to right F = 1.0, F = 2.0 and F = 2.75.
🌟 Exciting news! Students from across Latin America are joining the Santiago School of Physics 2025 @DFI_UChile for a week exploring the frontiers of physics! 🔬✨ Building bridges through science 🌎 #PhysicsEducation #LatinAmerica uchile.cl/u230625 via @uchile
"𝘈 𝘯𝘰𝘯-𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘱 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘢 𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘶𝘮 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵" is finally published! @StephanSroche iopscience.iop.org/article/1…
Read "The Strange Physics That Gave Birth to AI" for a nice example of how we cannot untie the applied (most often thought of as useful) from the basic science (Physics in this case).
Generative AI owes part of its success to a peculiar physical material that was once thought to be useless.
quantamagazine.org/the-stran…
and this is a podcast (created using @NotebookLM) on two of the articles of this Quanta Magazine issue ("The Strange Physics That Gave Birth to AI" and "Where Do Scientists Think This Is All Going?"): notebooklm.google.com/notebo…
Our latest paper is out! @PhysRevResearch
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Nonsymmetric evanescent coupling in photonics is out! journals.aps.org/pra/abstrac…
There is a competitive call for postdoctoral grants from ANID - Chile - deadline May 7th - (anid.cl/concursos/). If you're interested in joining our research group at the University of Chile, please contact me directly.
