Mohamed Sabba
An acolyte of quantum control and a dealer of designer pulse sequences. PhD in the NMR of nuclear singlet states from the Levitt group. www.sabba.me/nmr
- New preprint just dropped: arxiv.org/abs/2506.20594 Geometry and quantum control are deeply connected and these connections can manifest in weird (but also fun) ways. It was an absolute pleasure to work on this with @michael-tayler.bsky.social
- From a historical perspective - what is incredible (to me) reading quantum literature from the 50s-60s, is that authors would often emphasize how *similar* QM/CM are. To this end, introductions to PhD theses would have thoughtful, intuitive analogies. … but I guess Weird™ woos the funding agencies.
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- This is a misconception. 2D NMR originated in lectures given at a summer school in Yugoslavia by Jean Jeener in 1971 (doi.org/10.1016/j.pn...). The exercise confused most students but not Richard Ernst's grad student Thomas Baumann who brought back its wisdom (doi.org/10.1002/9780...).
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- Fun fact: the "Knill pulse"; perhaps the most well-known composite pulse in quantum information science - popularized by Ryan, Hodges & Cory¹ in 2010, attributed to Emanuel Knill - was actually first described by Tycko & Pines² in 1984. #nmrchat ¹ doi.org/10.1103/Phys... ² doi.org/10.1016/0009...
- Signs of the endtimes: for the first time in the 7 years that I've been here at Southampton, they actually gave me card access to fill the magnets over Christmas (instead of having to call security to let me in as usual.)
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- Merry Christmas/happy holidays to my buddies in magnetic resonance, quantum, and everything else!
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- In other news: today I was granted indefinite leave to remain in the UK aka job freedom. I am looking for a UK-based (or remote) job after a looong stint in the Levitt group. You might find me useful if you want a pulse sequence guru. #nmrchat My CV: sabba.me/nmr/cv/
- Hello lovely folks of Bluesky! Nice to see old and new faces here, particularly from the NMR community. There's a good bit of healthy noise here now, and I'll try to be more active on this platform.
