Articles, blogs & writing

Substack

I recently started a Substack, where I will be posting thoughts on quantum science and technology, thermodynamics, foundations of physics and science communication. Read posts and subscribe here.

Physics World magazine

As part of the Quantum Student Contributors network from 2021 to 2023, I wrote and peer-reviewed articles on quantum news breakthroughs. See my contributor page. I first wrote a Physics World article during High School, published in the Lateral Thoughts section of the February 2016 print magazine.

Quantum error correction could help astronomers image stars (Jan 2023)

Nanoscale clock hints at universal limits to measuring time (June 2021)

Quantum measurement splits information three ways (April 2022)

D-Wave demonstrates performance advantage in quantum simulation (March 2021)

Physicists achieve fault-tolerant control of an error-corrected qubit (Nov 2021)

A Physics Lab Inside Your Head (Feb 2016)

Constructor Theory blog

Questions, constructors and card games: Recounting the Cocconato Constructor Theory Workshop 2023 (December 2023)

I recount the Constructor Theory research workshop from summer 2023, explaining the key ideas behind the theory and what researchers are currently discussing and working on.

Quantum poem

Alice and Bob: The detectives that don't exist (August 2020)

I wrote a poem from the perspectives of Alice and Bob, the characters that often feature in quantum thought experiments. With an accompanying artwork response from Maria Kostylew, it won the Lifeology Science Poetry Challenge, July 2020.

Quantum on the Clock blog

Quantum on the Clock Schools Video Competition Winners (November 2022)

Article for the Institute of Physics website explaining the results and impact of the IOP QQQ group Quantum on the Clock Schools Video Competition 2022.

Riverlane blog

Match of the Decade: The ultimate game of quantum football (September 2020)

I explain how Riverlane's quantum operating system works, using a football team analogy.

Oxford Quantum Information Society blog

I created, coordinated, edited and wrote for the blog from 2019 to 2020, when I founded and led the society.

A Dip into the Wonders of Quantum Gravity, Many Worlds and Black Holes (Nov 2019)

Cartoon Quantum Spacetime (Feb 2020)

A Tour of Oxford's Ion-trap Quantum Computing Lab – The Technology of the Future? (Nov 2019)

The Ultimate Limits of Privacy (March 2020)

When algorithms, causality and neural networks go quantum (Jan 2020)

The Oxford Scientist magazine

The Oxford Scientist is a science magazine run by students at the University of Oxford. My articles appeared in the print magazine and some are available online here.

Flatlens: A Romance of Many Resolutions (March 2020)

Einstein at the Patent Office (Feb 2020)

The Quantum in Cancer (Jan 2018)