Or, forgive the double-pun, maybe it’s nontrivial (product space) after all 😆

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+Professionalizing dissident scientist networks within scientific self-governance is essential for legitimizing similar career paths, as such last-resort has often been assumed to reflect unprofessional conduct rather than raise concerns re. institutionalized authoritarianism. Fingers crossed, U.S.

*apparent height in a scanning tennisball microscope #STM #SurfaceScience #CondensedMatter xkcd!

💯—Except that Research is not an Industry, is a resource. Without regulation, Journals do what anyone would do with a free resource: Profit. It’s time to stop holding journals/editors accountable whose jobs are to be profitable, and begin making policy makers accountable—whose jobs are to regulate.

“Imagine if a book publisher demanded that authors write books for free and, instead of employing in-house editors, relied on other authors to edit those books, also for free. And not only that: The final product was then sold at prohibitively expensive prices”

The corresp. 1969 piece is a brilliant account of experimental physics & highlights tenacity as a key quality for scientists iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1... (Though I ignore whether being laughed at by teachers is a rite of passage for all scientists or just those in sci. underdev. environments)

Curious how this graph will look like in 4 years www.nature.com/articles/d41...

My heartfelt condolences to family and friends

What about experiments? We haven't been able to fund experiments in this direction, so progress is slow, but we hope to catch a break! If you liked this story stayed tuned for more spin-chain logic arxiv.org/abs/2407.20996 & (super)conductivity www.nature.com/articles/s41... stories next year! 7/7

Bc single ligands in axial-coordination lattices can be manipulated by STM to pattern circuitry, our next step is to simulate fully-atomistic phonon circuitry together with the thermal memory and a logic gate. Logic operations will be holonomic arxiv.org/abs/2411.15038, a story for another time...

Experimentally, we introduced similar (axial-coordination) chiral lattices on metal surfaces in 2020, with the aim to decouple substrate phonons from the molecular phonons at low temperatures. On-going experiments appears to confirm this. 5/n pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Our latest work strengthens the evidence that chiral lattices are platforms for the realisation of atomic-scale thermal diodes #thermodiode. It also argues that not all phonon modes express thermal nonreciprocity, hinting at the poss. of topological origins 4/n www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A thermal diode would let heat flow from A–>B but not B–>A. It'd allow reading thermal memories at specific temperatures. In 2019 we simulated the thermal excitation of a single molecule on a #chiral supramolecular lattice, evidencing transient thermal unidirectionality pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1...

A specific device element is needed to leverage such thermal memory for thermodynamic circuitry–The thermal diode. The boundary states of topological vibrational phases of matter offer a strategy for the realisation of phonon diodes 2/n journals.aps.org/prb/abstract... pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1...