Yaroslav M. Blanter
@ymblanter
Professor at Kavli Institute of Nanoscience at TU Delft and also a long-term editor of Wikimedia projects. Views my own.
The article by Alvaro Bermejillo-Seco and Xiang Zhang (I am the last author) on the anisotropic thermoelastic damping in suspended magnetic membranes has now been published in Phys. Rev. B: journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/1…
Ritesh Das put our latest manuscript on spin wave spectra in a 2D van der Waals antiferromagnet NiPS3 on arXiv today, arxiv.org/abs/2504.20540
It took me 22 years in NL to figure out that there are boats functioning as regular public transportation, and 3 more years to take one. Line 20, Rotterdam - Dordrecht, roughly 1 hour and 6 Eur.
Congratulations to Milan Lacassin and his other promotor Greg Bokinsky with the successful PhD defense today. For me, it was also fun to be, for the first time, a promotor of a thesis in biology.
A bimonthly reminder: The war against Ukraine is still ongoing, and Ukraine still needs our support, especially since the US is not our strategic ally anymore. For those of us who are not policymakers, this support can be financial or information.
After retirement, I will write a book "Collection of irrelevant trivia". This is one trivium from this book. The top 10 countries which photographs I uploaded on Wikimedia Commons as of now: the Netherlands (5245) - Germany (1231) - Ecuador (1093) - Canada (874) - the UK (683).
Matteo Arfini and Alvaro Bermejillo-Seco put on arXiv their (plus Clinton Potts, Artem Bondarenko, Herre van der Zant, Gary Steele and me) experimental article about non-linear effects in a YIG disk on a MW resonator caused by the Suhl instabilities: arxiv.org/abs/2506.11527
Just discovered that @iifufrn recorded my one hour talk on cavity and quantum magnonics on the Quantum Magnonics workshop two weeks ago: youtube.com/watch?v=2qU_vv…
It is a great idea to have the Quantum Magnonics workshop in Natal @iifufrn, and thanks the organizers, particularly Carlos, Michael, and @RG_VKusminskiy for organizing. I am really enjoying the talks and interaction, it is a pity I could only come for one week.
A bimonthly reminder: The war against Ukraine is still ongoing, and Ukraine still needs our support, especially since the US is not our strategic ally anymore. For those of us who are not policymakers, this support can be financial or information.
As an exception, this news item (in Spanish) needs to be commented on in Russian: Что же зеркальце в ответ? "Ты прекрасна, спору нет; Но царевна всех милее, Всех румяней и белее". (Alexander Pushkin, 1833) elsalvador.com/noticias/nacio…
Apparently, we got to media last week with the paper on non-linear mechanical effects in 2D magnets (Makars is the first author, and Farbod is the last one, I am somewhere in the middle): scitechdaily.com/vibrations-at-…
