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Happy New Year
to you, dear reader. Let peace and harmony prevail every aspect of your life!
Today seems a good day to restart my business blog. Since I’m alive, it must go on too. Let me outline my main challenges for 2015 and wish you to confront your challenges as well.
In education, I restart the course on Advanced Quantum Mechanics after five-something year break. That used to be a success, yet the students have changed ever since – so I feel a thrill. The course will be based on my book with Jeroen Danon. Albert Gonzales and Michael Wimmer will help me this year with exercises, so I hope we’ll do it fine.
In research, I need to complete to the papers the ideas of 2014 that came to me and my co-authors – some of them are quite striking and eye-opening. I will apply for a relatively big grant of European Research Council which hopefully gives me some means to work on novel topological effects in multi-terminal Josephson junctions.
As to organization, my role would be modest – conform to my age, I will try to resist most if not all (bureaucratic)changes in the group and the department 🙂 The idea is that the changes that you cannot resist are really useful and necessary 😉 while the others …
In addition, have to confront a way more personal challenge: to cope with a long-standing emotional disbalance that, among other things, seriously affects my business efficiency. 2014 has brought the idea of solving this problem, and hopefully the solution can be implemented in 2015.
Actually, my promotion is pending now: I don’t know if or when it happens. In case it will, I’d get a very useful emotional boost.
News about entropy
New submission: http://lanl.arxiv.org/abs/1408.3910
Rényi entropy flows from quantum heat engines
Mohammad H. Ansari, Yuli V. Nazarov
We evaluate Renyi entropy flows from generic quantum heat engines (QHE) to a weakly-coupled probe environment kept in thermal equilibrium. We show the flows are determined by two quantities: heat flow and fictitious disspation that manifest the quantum coherence in the engine. This pertains also the common Shanon entropy flow. The results appeal for revision of the concept of entropy flows in quantum non-equlibrium thermodynamics.
Resurrection?
I suddenly get an urge to galvanize my old business blog. It looks like the significance I assign to work life has recently increased. If the galvanization attempt is successful, I’ll post about most important events of two last months – all back-dated. Wish me some luck.
PhD opening in NanoFront
I’m looking for a PhD student to work on linear quantum measurements with delays. Many thanks to NanoFront initiative!
More info:
Title
PhD position in quantum theory of dissipative measuring environments.
Research
Can we predict quantum jumps? A common opinion is that we cannot. Is this opinion correct? Full project description can be found here .
Job description
4 years phd position
Location
Kavli institute of Nanoscience, department of quantum nanoscience
Requirements
The applicant should bear MSc title in theoretical physics or its equivalent. Experience in condensed matter physics and quantum information theory is appreciated.
Conditions of Employment
When fulfilling a PhD position , you will get the status of junior scientist.
You will get a contract for 4 years. Your salary will be up to a maximum of 2,636 euro gross per month.The salary is supplemented with a holiday allowance of 8% and an end-of-year bonus of 8.33%.
You are supposed to have a thesis finished at the end of your four year term.
Contact
Yuli V. Nazarov
y.v.nazarov@tudelft.nl
Please send your CV and recommendation letters
E-mail
y.v.nazarov@tudelft.nl
PhD opening
I’m looking for a PhD student to work on Majorana states in superconductors.
More info:
Title
PhD position in theory of superconductivity
Research
Theoretical study of properties of Majorana states in superconducting nanostructures in the presence of Coulomb interaction and its time-dependent dynamics. Close collaboration with experimental group of prof. L.P. Kouvenhoven. Full project description can be found here .
Job description
4 years phd position
Location
Kavli institute of Nanoscience, department of quantum nanoscience
Requirements
The applicant should bear MSc title in theoretical physics or its equivalent. Experience in condensed matter physics, superconductivity and quantum information theory is appreciated.
Conditions of Employment
When fulfilling a PhD position at the FOM foundation, you will get the status of junior scientist.
You will have an employee status and can participate in all the employee benefits FOM offers. You will get a contract for 4 years. Your salary will be up to a maximum of 2,636 euro gross per month.The salary is supplemented with a holiday allowance of 8% and an end-of-year bonus of 8.33%.
You are supposed to have a thesis finished at the end of your four year term with FOM.
A training programme is part of the agreement. You and your supervisor will make up a plan for the additional education and supervising that you specifically need. This plan also defines which teaching activities you will be responsible (up to a maximum of 10% of your time). The conditions of employment of the FOM-foundation are laid down in the Collective Labour Agreement for Research Centres (Cao-Onderzoekinstellingen), more exclusive information is available at this website under Personeelsinformatie (in Dutch) or under Personnel (in English).
General information about working at FOM can be found in the English part of this website under Personnel. The ‘FOM job interview code’ applies to this position.
Contact
Yuli V. Nazarov
y.v.nazarov@tudelft.nl
Please send your CV and recommendation letters
E-mail
y.v.nazarov@tudelft.nl
Blackboard
apparently it is possible to make Blackboard not working without interrupting its services. I’m waiting for a page to load for more than 10 minutes. It must be tricky to get it running like this. I’m afraid that since this invention this mode will be made default. Which would increase time required to graduate from this University 🙂
Forgiveness Sunday
This year, the Orthodox schedules differ significantly from more common ones. As matter of fact, I’ve just started with Great Lent. To start with this, there is a rite not to miss: ask forgiveness of everybody, and forgive as well.
So please forgive me, dear reader.
Fifth Lecture Quantum Transport 2013
We have started and finished spin transport and departed to quite a different world of Coulomb blockade. I think we had a good discussion of Coulomb blockade in the beginning, yet there is much more to say on next week.
Fifth Lecture Advanced Statistical Mechanics 2013
We finally get to the real stuff: we have discussed non-ideal gases, talked a lot about perturbation theory, in general and in the context of the non-ideal gas. I did not have time to talk about critical point, yet this comes twice in the course of problem-solving sessions.
Fourth Lecture Quantum Transport 2013
A peculiarity of the lecture was that I had to give it in the state of harsh flu. I just cannot afford to skip any lecture this semester. Despite my state, the lecture went reasonably smooth. The material was perhaps most abstract in the course: we have started with classical circuit theory and developed a quantum generalisation of it with virtually no formulas. It went good with respect to tempo. If healthly, I would even attempted to talk about spin transport as well. Yet this topics remains for the next lecture.