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SFU Physics

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The Official Bluesky account for SFU Physics! Follow us for updates on events, experiments, and everyday examples of the exhilarating world of physics!

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SFU Physics
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Last chance to register! Registration closes noon tomorrow Oct. 21.

SFU Physics@sfuphysics.bsky.social

A reminder of our Discover Physics event coming up next Friday Oct 23! www.eventbrite.ca/e/discover-p...

SFU Physics
@sfuphysics.bsky.social

A reminder of our Discover Physics event coming up next Friday Oct 23! www.eventbrite.ca/e/discover-p...

SFU Physics@sfuphysics.bsky.social

Attn High School Students in Greater Vancouver! Discover Physics @ SFU Fall 2026 is on Friday, Oct. 23. Registration is FREE and there will be FREE pizza. Come learn all about studying physics and hear exciting talks in particle physics and quantum materials. www.eventbrite.ca/e/discover-p...

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SFU Faculty of Science
@sfuscience.bsky.social

Congratulations to @sfubiosciences.bsky.social prof Tanya Brown, @sfuphysics.bsky.social profs @quantumdan.bsky.social and Thomas Jennewein, chemistry prof Daniel Leznoff and earth sciences prof Xinyue Xu on receiving support through the John R. Evans Leaders Fund!

Simon Fraser University@sfu.ca

SFU faculty are conducting diverse, world-class research that contributes to social, economic and environmental well-being of communities in B.C., Canada and across the globe. 12 researchers from SFU share more than $1.86 million in CFI funding, announced today.

sfu.caClimate innovation, wildfire science and quantum technology among SFU projects awarded $1.86 million in JELF funding

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SFU Faculty of Science
@sfuscience.bsky.social

Conventional computing aims to reduce the impact of noise, but what if these random fluctuations can be harnessed to do the computing itself? @sfuphysics.bsky.social professor @davidasivak.bsky.social weighs in: ⚛️🧪

Quanta Magazine@quantamagazine.org

“I think thermodynamic computing was developed with the thought that it was piggybacking on the computation that ‘already happens out there’ in the rest of the world but [is] not explicitly labeled as such.” — David Sivak, a statistical physicist.

quantamagazine.orgThermodynamic Computers Go With the (Energy) Flow | Quanta MagazineToday’s computers need safeguards against random energy fluctuations. Thermodynamic computers would put those fluctuations to use.

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Simon Fraser University
@sfu.ca

SFU is taking a leading role in one of the most significant international scientific efforts in history. The large Hadron Collider in Switzerland recently shut down for upgrades. And when it comes back online in 2030, it will have components made right here in BC.

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Daniel Higginbottom
@quantumdan.bsky.social

Farewell to our delightful postdoc Simon Meynell, who is off to work with Patrice Bertet's group at CEA Paris-Saclay! It has been a pleasure working with him on T centre spectral diffusion and optical cluster states. Read Simon's paper on T centre spectral diffusion here: doi.org/10.1103/9dxr...

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Simon Fraser University
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SFU scientists are hard at work building powerful detectors for the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider. Take a look at their high-tech lab at SFU’s Burnaby campus at the link below.

sfu.caSearching for the next Higgs boson: SFU team drives global effort to boost science experiment at Large Hadron ColliderSimon Fraser University researchers are driving Canada’s involvement on a major upgrade of the renowned ATLAS experiment as scientists seek to enhance our understanding of the universe. Deep within a...

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SFU Faculty of Science
@sfuscience.bsky.social

Researchers at @sfuphysics.bsky.social and @triumflab.bsky.social have been hard at work developing and fabricating the parts that will be critical to the next run of @cern.bsky.social's Large Hadron Collider. Take a peek behind the scenes with @ivansemeniuk.bsky.social: 🧪⚛️

The Globe and Mail@theglobeandmail.com

theglobeandmail.comAs Large Hadron Collider shuts down, B.C. scientists work toward its next iterationCanadian researchers are helping to upgrade the world’s biggest physics experiment

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SFU Faculty of Science
@sfuscience.bsky.social

Postdoc opportunity at @sfuphysics.bsky.social! Apply by May 31 for full consideration. 🧪⚛️

davidasivak.bsky.social@davidasivak.bsky.social

Hiring a postdoc! Join us in heavenly Vancouver to develop nonequilibrium statistical mechanics, thermodynamics, and information theory to understand free-energy transduction in biomolecular machines, in close collaboration with experimentalists. Details: sfu.ca/physics/siva...

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SFU Faculty of Science
@sfuscience.bsky.social

This recent collaboration between @sfuphysics.bsky.social and @sfubiosciences.bsky.social researchers is a great example of how interdisciplinary collaborations can lead to new insights and useful tools for understanding the natural world. 🧪⚛️ #bio

Simon Fraser University@sfu.ca

What happens when the elegant logic of physics meets the messy reality of biology? Interdisciplinary research has provided new and more effective models to understand how biological communities disperse: @sfuscience.bsky.social @davidasivak.bsky.social @eric-w-jones.bsky.social

sfu.caElegant new ways to measure movement in ecological communities
SFU Physics
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Reminder of the upcoming Saturday Morning Lectures! Happening this Saturday, March 7 at the Surrey Library, City Centre Branch (Rm 401). Presentations by Ziliang Ye (UBC) and Greg Hackman (TRIUMF)

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Simon Fraser University
@sfu.ca

An SFU cosmologist believes his team’s new research may bring them a step closer to cracking one of science’s biggest questions – the Hubble tension. “This is an exciting moment for us and the wider cosmology community,” says Levon Pogosian, SFU professor. Find out more below. 💫

sfu.caHubble tension – SFU researcher potentially one step closer to answering the universe’s biggest questionA Simon Fraser University cosmologist believes his team’s new research may bring them a step closer to cracking one of science’s biggest questions – the Hubble tension.
SFU Physics
@sfuphysics.bsky.social

Come hear about how the "Music of the Universe" and how the Big Bang relates to biology! Happening this Saturday Feb 7 at the Surrey Library, City Centre Branch (Rm 401). Presentations by Mark Van Raamsdonk (UBC) and Peter Unrau (SFU)

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SFU Faculty of Science
@sfuscience.bsky.social

Join @sfuphysics.bsky.social and the Faculty of Science this Monday for a dialogue led by @ucirvine.bsky.social Prof Mu-Chun Chen to explore challenges and barriers to fostering belonging in science and opportunities to cultivate inclusive excellence. www.eventbrite.ca/e/fostering-...

eventbrite.caFostering Belonging in the Natural SciencesExploring challenges, barriers and opportunities in community engagement and inclusivity in STEM, with Professor Mu-Chun Chen, UC-Irvine.

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davidasivak.bsky.social
@davidasivak.bsky.social

Out in @physrevresearch.bsky.social: beautiful and fundamental theory from @sfuphysics.bsky.social PhD student @jrsawchuk.bsky.social doi.org/10.1103/j59j...

doi.orgGlobal thermodynamic manifold for conservative control of stochastic systemsOptimal control of stochastic systems plays a central role in nonequilibrium physics, with applications in the study of biological molecular motors and the design of single-molecule experiments. While...

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SFU Faculty of Science
@sfuscience.bsky.social

Congratulations to @sfuphysics.bsky.social prof Matthias Danninger, whose Canada Research Chair in Experimental Particle Physics has been renewed.

Simon Fraser University@sfu.ca

Congratulations to six #SFU scholars named new and renewed Canada Research Chairs! Our newest CRCs advance Canadian research excellence across fields including health equity, experimental particle physics, and Indigenous economic wellbeing and freedom.

sfu.caSFU scholars advancing innovation and equity named Canada Research ChairsSix SFU researchers have been named among the country’s new and renewed Canada Research Chairs (CRC).

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davidasivak.bsky.social
@davidasivak.bsky.social

Is it more efficient to push a molecular motor with a constant force, or at a constant velocity? See our collaborative paper in @physrevlett.bsky.social doi.org/10.1103/b24h... and the Focus article physics.aps.org/articles/v18... to learn the winner and the why (it’s all about the fluctuations).

doi.orgEfficiently Driving ${\mathrm{F}}_{1}$ Molecular Motor in Experiment by Suppressing Nonequilibrium VariationTurning a biologically important molecular motor at a constant rate saves energy, according to experiments.

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Daniel Higginbottom
@quantumdan.bsky.social

You can read more about this work in a blog post by lead author Camille Bowness written for our industry partner Photonic Inc. photonic.com/blog/the-t-c... @photonicinc.bsky.social @sfuphysics.bsky.social

photonic.comThe T Centre Tango: Understanding how laser light couples to both the T centre and its environment - PhotonicThe T centre and silicon are the ultimate quantum power-couple: combining telecom-band optical emission with established fabrication infrastructure. However, to truly unlock this pair’s potential, we ...
Daniel Higginbottom@quantumdan.bsky.social

In our new PRX Quantum paper, PhD student Camille Bowness & postdoc Simon Meynell study spectral wandering of single colour centres in silicon nanocavities. We show wandering is mainly laser-induced, and narrow the effective excitation linewidth using a resonance-check scheme. go.aps.org/3IjO63h

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Daniel Higginbottom
@quantumdan.bsky.social

Excited to share our new paper by PhD student Michael Dobinson in Nature Photonics: rdcu.be/eFFQf We show single-photon emission + spin initialization by electrical injection in cavity-enhanced, single-defect silicon diodes. Much more to come on these devices! #SFU #QuantumTech

rdcu.beElectrically triggered spin–photon devices in siliconNature Photonics - Two types of on-chip silicon device utilizing silicon T centres are developed: an O-band light-emitting diode and an electrically triggered single-photon source. Further, a new...