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Yaroslav Blanter

@ymblanter.bsky.social
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Professor at Kavli Institute of Nanoscience at TU Delft and also a long-term editor of Wikimedia projects. Views my own.

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Yaroslav Blanter @ymblanter.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Anne Carson was too predictable.
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Yaroslav Blanter @ymblanter.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Today is an appropriate day to reiterate that I fully support the population of Israel against Palestinian terrorists. This is my personal opinion which unfortunately does not seem to reflect the views of my employer.
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Yaroslav Blanter @ymblanter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The story of Christa Gail Pike is totally crazy - her execution was stayed, then the stay lifted, she survives two lethal injections and is taken to the hospital, where they are treating her so that she could be executed next year - unless she gets clemency, which looks unlikely.
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Yaroslav Blanter @ymblanter.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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Yaroslav Blanter @ymblanter.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Stairway in Stadskasteel Oudaen seen from the top, Utrecht, the Netherlands. European Heritage Days 2026.
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Yaroslav Blanter @ymblanter.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
My son, the last of the four kids, graduated yesterday from Leiden University. He got 9.4 (out of 10) for his final thesis. Now he is unemployed.
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Yaroslav Blanter @ymblanter.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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Yaroslav Blanter @ymblanter.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I look every day at the Picture of the Day on Wikimedia Commons; once in a few years I share it here. The picture for 1 September is below: The ship wreck of Cabo de Santa Maria in Boa Vista, Cape Verde, by Ximonic (Simo Räsänen): commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wr...
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Yaroslav Blanter @ymblanter.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
A week ago, Vegacervera, Castile and León, Spain
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Yaroslav Blanter @ymblanter.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The full eclipse, the second one I have ever watched, was great. I will make the pictures next week when I am at home.
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Yaroslav Blanter @ymblanter.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
At this point, I made 300K edits in the English Wikipedia from my current account.
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Yaroslav Blanter @ymblanter.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
And central Australia in winter was absolutely fantastic, even with a non-4WD car.
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Yaroslav Blanter @ymblanter.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Visited country/territory #80: Hong Kong
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Yaroslav Blanter @ymblanter.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Country/territory #79: New Zealand
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Yaroslav Blanter @ymblanter.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Yaozu Tang posted on arXiv his article (with Nienke ten Haaf - this started as her master thesis, Artem Bondarenko, @SolidStChemist and me) on how current in a ferroelectric Josephson junction can switch the polarization and cause the diode-like behavior: arxiv.org/abs/2607.04398
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Pseudo-superconducting-diode effect in ferroelectric Josephson junctions
The superconducting diode effect (SDE), characterized by unequal critical supercurrents in opposite current directions, enables supercurrent rectification. We propose a magnetic-field-free pseudo-supe...
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Yaroslav Blanter @ymblanter.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Ritesh Das put yesterday an article on arXiv by Ilia Moghayer, himself and me, based on the master thesis by Ilia. We show how altermagnetic order can be detected in spin transport experiments and what are the relevant signatures to look at: arxiv.org/abs/2607.00993
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Magnon-polaron mediated spin Seebeck effect in altermagnets
Altermagnets, distinguished by compensated antiparallel spins yet nondegenerate magnon spectra, bridge the gap between ferromagnets and antiferromagnets. Although several probes such as anisotropic tr...
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Yaroslav Blanter @ymblanter.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
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Yaroslav Blanter @ymblanter.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Female greater kudu, Pilanesberg National Park, North West, South Africa
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Yaroslav Blanter @ymblanter.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
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.
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Yaroslav Blanter @ymblanter.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Last week, Fabian Engelhardt put on arXiv his manuscript with @RG_VKusminskiy and a bit of my participation on the efficiency of quantum two-stage transduction and how it can be used to entangle microwave and optical photons: arxiv.org/abs/2605.21754
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Optics-microwave entanglement and state teleportation mediated by a cavity magnomechanical system
Generating usable output-entanglement in continuous variable systems can serve as a viable resource for improving applications in quantum information science. In this work, we show how to generate ste...
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Yaroslav Blanter @ymblanter.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Rob den Teuling put his paper on arXiv today (with Ping Tang, Gerrit Bauer, and myself). He shows how soft magnon modes are manifested as peaks in the spin Seebeck effect, using mono- and bilayer of CrSBr as an example: arxiv.org/abs/2605.18478
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Spin-caloritronic signatures of soft magnons in bilayer CrSBr
Spin transport in magnetic insulators is often treated by assuming that magnons carry a fixed spin angular momentum of $\hbar$, which does not hold in general, however. Here we calculate the magnon sp...
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Yaroslav Blanter @ymblanter.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Alvaro Bermejillo-Seco put yesterday on arXiv his paper (with my minor participation) reporting the experiments on generating magnon-polaritons with a piece of 2D vdW magnet CGT on a superconducting resonator: arxiv.org/abs/2605.12298 It opens a new direction in cavity magnonics.
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Magnon polaritons in a van der Waals ferromagnet coupled to a superconducting resonator
Achieving magnon-photon hybridization in the microwave regime is essential for integrating magnetic excitations with superconducting circuits. While this has been extensively demonstrated in bulk magn...
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Yaroslav Blanter @ymblanter.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Ritesh Das uploaded today on arXiv our new theory article (with Álvaro Bermejillo Seco, Peter Steeneken, Herre van der Zant and me) on how one can achieve very strong coupling between magnons and phonons in suspended magnetic membranes. arxiv.org/abs/2604.25588
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Magnomechanical Coupling in Suspended 2D van der Waals Ferromagnets
Magnomechanical systems provide a promising route for exploring coherent hybrid magnon-phonon interactions and hybrid information processing, but their realization has so far been limited by weak magn...
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Yaroslav Blanter @ymblanter.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Funny that it picks up this screen, it is not the beginning and not the end.
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Yaroslav Blanter @ymblanter.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Elianna Kraan made a short publicity video of my research, it is now available at LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
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"My calculations help to figure out which effects are at play", says theoretical physicist Yaroslav Blanter about his research. In the Quantum Nanoscience department at TU Delft, he explores...
"My calculations help to figure out which effects are at play", says theoretical physicist Yaroslav Blanter about his research. In the Quantum Nanoscience department at TU Delft, he explores the intri...
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Yaroslav Blanter @ymblanter.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
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.
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Yaroslav Blanter @ymblanter.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
The paper by Ritesh Das on magnon spectra in mono-and bilayers of a van der Waals zigzag antiferromagnet NiPS3 is now published by Journal of Applied Physics: pubs.aip.org/aip/jap/arti...
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Spin wave dispersion of the van der Waals antiferromagnet NiPS3
We calculate the magnon dispersion spectra of the two-dimensional zigzag van der Waals antiferromagnet NiPS 3 for monolayer, bilayer, and bulk systems as a func
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Yaroslav Blanter @ymblanter.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Kat Pitton put on Friday on arXiv the minireview article written by many people from Maz Ali's Lab, and also by Yaozu Tang and myself, on Josephson junctions with quantum materials: arxiv.org/abs/2603.17921
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Quantum-Material Josephson Junctions: Unconventional Barriers, Emerging Functionality
Josephson junctions translate quantum phase coherence into an electrical response and underpin superconducting sensors and quantum circuits. In conventional junctions, the barrier acts primarily as a ...
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Yaroslav Blanter @ymblanter.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
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Yaroslav Blanter @ymblanter.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Cherry blossom on campus today.
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Yaroslav Blanter @ymblanter.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Last week, Artem Bondarenko put on arXiv our manuscript on magnetoelastic coupling in YIG microstructures, where we showed that the coupling can be optimized and reach the strong coupling regime: arxiv.org/abs/2602.20458
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Magnetoelastic conversion in integrated YIG nanostructures
Motivated by the recent proposal of two-step transduction from microwave to optical domain using magnetic and elastic intermediate stages arXiv:2205.05088, we consider the coupling between resonant ma...
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Yaroslav Blanter @ymblanter.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Since today, the following current non-royal heads of states/governments are in the top ten in terms of their continuous tenure (descending order): Cameroon; Equatorial Guinea; Uganda; Eritrea; Tajikistan; Belarus; Rep. of the Congo; Djibouti; Russia; Rwanda.
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Yaroslav Blanter @ymblanter.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Yesterday, KLM forcibly took my hand luggage at the gate claiming the flight was full (incorrect) and then did not load it on the plane (plus an hour lost at arrival). Every single time I fly with them smth happens, but this unprofessional behavior is simply unacceptable.
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Yaroslav Blanter @ymblanter.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
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.
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Yaroslav Blanter @ymblanter.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
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Yaroslav Blanter @ymblanter.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Museumpark Landgoed Oranjewoud, Heerenveen, Friesland, the Netherlands
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Yaroslav Blanter @ymblanter.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Right now, 400 employees of the Washington Post are being laid off, many of them from the international coverage. WaPo was one of the few newspapers to operate foreign bureaus. Many of the reporters being laid off are highly qualified professionals respected in the community.
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Yaroslav Blanter @ymblanter.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Still on Sunday, I could not imagine that today I would be in South Korea, and, well, here I am.
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Yaroslav Blanter @ymblanter.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
I spent yesterday the whole day at the airport, including four hours inside the plane, and the flight was canceled, I had to go home without my checked luggage. They rebooked me for tomorrow, but I still can not check in because of a technical error. Not really looking forward.
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Yaroslav Blanter @ymblanter.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Country/territory #78: Egypt
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Yaroslav Blanter @ymblanter.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
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.
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Yaroslav Blanter @ymblanter.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
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Yaroslav Blanter @ymblanter.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Tanthofkade at the level of Aziëlaan, Delft, South Holland, the Netherlands. Testing the new camera (Nikon Nikon Z 7 II).
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Yaroslav Blanter @ymblanter.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
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Yaroslav Blanter @ymblanter.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Emmylou steamboat on the Murray River, Echuca, Victoria, Australia.
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Yaroslav Blanter @ymblanter.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Voting for 200 options is not really realistic. Somebody needs to make a preselection, either you or the students.
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Yaroslav Blanter @ymblanter.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Appoint 2-3 editors, let everybody know who they are, and let them do the job.
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Yaroslav Blanter @ymblanter.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Yaozu Tang put today on arXiv our article (also with Maz Ali @SolidStChemist and Gerrit Bauer) on how the critical current of a Josephson junction with a ferroelectric central barrier can depend on the polarization direction: arxiv.org/abs/2511.08492
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Polarization Controlled Supercurrent in Ferroelectric Josephson Junction
Josephson junctions are essential devices in superconducting electronics and quantum computing hardware. Here we predict electrical control of the supercurrent in composite superconductor-insulator-fe...
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Yaroslav Blanter @ymblanter.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
I have seen the Emperor today.
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Yaroslav Blanter @ymblanter.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
It looks like this time we at least have a chance for a (partially) competent government, but it should really concentrate on solving the problems and not just endlessly talking about them without solving them as the past governments did.
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