Loose Canon
I'm a theoretical physicist. My work covers quantum dynamics, open systems, and the curious regularity that every quantitative theory built by throwing away irrelevant detail ends up looking thermodynamic. I also write unbearably wordy essays, and compose music that makes people wince.
Playing chess in Carrollton
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Sketch by Toni Carlone
Showed how tailored laser pulses can make one quantum material mimic the observable properties of another — featured in Quanta Magazine.
Phys. Rev. Lett. (2020)Demonstrated that superoscillating waveforms can deliver 100-fold enhancement in spectroscopic contrast, enabling new sensing capabilities.
Phys. Rev. Lett. (2023)Developing minimal architectures for quantum and photonic reservoir computing — exploring where quantum advantage resides in machine learning.
Chaos (2025)Wordy essays on physics, machine intelligence, and the occasionally unbearable nature of modern theory.
Essays