Blog of the Isotopes

All about nuclear physics - research, news and comment. The author is Prof Paul Stevenson - a researcher in nuclear physics in the UK. Sometimes the posts are a little tangential to nuclear physics.

Tuesday, 16 July 2024

What Englishman?

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In older scientific journals, you get the situation where one paper would end half way down a page and the next article would start on the ...

Tuesday, 9 July 2024

Oh Vienna

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I'm making my first trip to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), my first trip to Vienna, and my first trip to Austria. I...

Wednesday, 3 July 2024

Proceedings from COMEX

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Last year, I attended COMEX7 in Catania, Italy. This week, I spied a big brown envelope for me in the post room at work, and saw that it ...

Friday, 21 June 2024

2023 Journal Impact Factors

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I see that the 2023 Journal Impact Factors (JIFs) have been announced. While I take them with a pinch of salt, as I am able to judge qualit...

Friday, 14 June 2024

Hackathon wrap-up

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As mentioned in a previous post , we (me, postdoc Abhishek, and student Grant) were in Edinburgh attending a hackathon run by DiRAC, the com...

Thursday, 13 June 2024

Developing quantum computing algorithms for the nuclear shell model

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Today our new paper appeared (as an "in press" draft) in the New Journal of Physics . In it, we develop quantum computing circui...

Tuesday, 11 June 2024

Hackathon in Edinburgh

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I had an early start today (alarm set for 4:10 am) for a three-day trip to Edinburgh, where I'm attending a hackathon with my colleague...

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