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Hari Padmanabhan
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Dec 19, 2022

Electron pairs in superconductors: A surprisingly classical connection

When a duck decides to go for a swim with her ducklings, she possibly has a lot on her mind, but the one thing she doesn’t have to worry about is her ducklings keeping up with her. If you’ve ever watched a family of ducks in a pond, you’ll know…

Physics

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Electron pairs in superconductors: A surprisingly classical connection
Electron pairs in superconductors: A surprisingly classical connection
Physics

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Jul 30, 2022

How electrons break into pieces inside one-dimensional matter

What makes a cow a cow? A cow has four limbs, a pair of horns, a tail, and eats grass (among other things). What makes an electron an electron? An electron is arguably defined by two traits — its charge (the stuff that makes up electricity), and its spin (the…

Electron

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How electrons break into pieces inside one-dimensional matter
How electrons break into pieces inside one-dimensional matter
Electron

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Mar 20, 2022

The human view of the arrow of time

On why we need to think beyond entropy to understand our experience of the arrow of time. In Kurt Vonnegut’s classic war novel, Slaughterhouse-Five, we follow the journey of Billy Pilgrim, a poorly trained, fatalistic soldier in the United States army in World War II. On the night of his…

Time

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The human view of the arrow of time
The human view of the arrow of time
Time

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Mar 21, 2021

Reflections on science and the human endeavor

In the pandemic summer of 2020 I found myself introspecting about something important to me — why do I do science? In an attempt to answer this question, I dove into the history of science, science funding, and my childhood, and wrote this essay. A version of this article first…

Science

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Reflections on science and the human endeavor
Reflections on science and the human endeavor
Science

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Feb 14, 2021

Making carbon magnetic

The story of my first scientific paper. Rummaging through some old notebooks, I found notes from my first ever research project, done as an undergraduate researcher. Once I recovered from the burst of nostalgia, with the added perspective of six years of graduate school, I realized that I was then…

Chemistry

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Making carbon magnetic
Making carbon magnetic
Chemistry

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Hari Padmanabhan

Hari Padmanabhan

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Postdoctoral researcher at Harvard, studying the physics of materials.

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