A. A. Rakhubovsky

Things to do on a fresh Linux installation

Sat, 14 Jun 2025 12:08:56 +0200

My primary work laptop died recently which forced me to set up a working environment on a few new laptops. In practice, this means installing Linux on each of them, and, crucially, making quite a few adjustments. Most of these adjustments mean simply copying the config files (“dotfiles”) to the new machine, but there are things that I don’t know how to reproduce automatically. I decided to write this note for my future reference to document the list of things I need to do when setting a new machine.

Public calendar with my travels

Thu, 24 Apr 2025 09:49:05 +0200

I have added a page that contains my public calendar with planned travels. The page can be found from the navigation menu or at this address.

The calendar looks like this

Making Zotero work with git and bibtex

Mon, 03 Feb 2025 16:38:34 +0100

I have developed a very convenient approach to the bibtex bibliographies in git repos. In brief, it relies on setting the $BIBINPUTS environment variable, then using jabref.

First, the problem that I wanted to solve.

My library in Zotero has a few thousands of entries, and it is not practical to keep it in the git repo. One of the reasons is that I feel ashamed of my reference hoarding. Previously, I would create a folder in Zotero to get automatically exported to a bib in the project folder (this is possible using better bibtex addon). To have a new reference in this project bib file I’d need to manually drag this reference into the proper Zotero folder. Writing introductions was particularly unpleasant: it required searching for references online, adding them to the Zotero library, then moving to the project folder. Most references just migrated from one project to another, but the remaining few were still a pain in the neck.

Dark mode in Mathematica

Mon, 09 Dec 2024 11:05:41 +0100

I occasionally work at low light environment (after the kids fall asleep), so I want to be able to reduce the brightness of my display. I use dark themes in the terminal and in vim. Most GUI apps I use are also set to use dark themes, at least after sunset. With Mathematica, it was a bit more difficult to achieve satisfactory results, but recently I learned a few tricks, and I’d call the result quite good. In fact, I am quite impressed by the result, so I decided I should summarize it here.

AIP Oral History Interviews Index

Fri, 23 Feb 2024 23:53:24 +0100

This page provides only a list of the links to the AIP’s oral history interviews. The interviews themselves are on the AIP’s website.

The interviews were supposed to be ordered by the interviewees’ last names, but errors are possible, as this list was generated automatically.

Known issues:

Links to some of the sessions of multipart interviews may be wrong. This should not be too bad, as, once at www.aip.org, there are links to navigate to other parts of the transcript. Thus, once at least one link per interviewee works, we’re safe.

American Institute of Physics: Oral History Index

Fri, 23 Feb 2024 23:36:50 +0100

AIP has conducted a lot of interviews with prominent scientists. I wanted to see the links to all of the interviews at one page to be able to search. However, such page does not seem to exist, so using some command-line magic, curl, sed and pandoc in about 15 minutes I made it.

AIP Oral History: Index of the interviews

AIP writes that no content of the interviews can be reproduced or redistributed, and I truly hope that posting links is not redistribution.

How To: Moving to Olomouc

Thu, 24 Aug 2023 22:18:47 +0200

Here are my notes summarizing answers to some questions regarding visiting and/or moving to Olomouc that I had myself, and got asked by other people. Hopefully, someone finds it useful! There are lots of tourist guides around, I focus here on the points that I found particularly important for myself. Note that everything on this page is provided “as is” for the information purpose only: use it at your own risk!

Updated publications

Tue, 07 Mar 2023 23:02:52 +0100

There have been no updates since 2020, which is now fixed.

Thermally-Induced Qubit Coherence in Quantum Electromechanics

Tue, 01 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000

High-Precision Multiparameter Estimation of Mechanical Force by Quantum Optomechanics

Mon, 26 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Atom-Mechanical Hong-Ou-Mandel Interference

Wed, 13 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Peer Reviewer Recognition

Wed, 24 Nov 2021 06:00:00 +0100

Here are some links that certify my engagement in peer review over time.

2021: Trusted Reviewer status by IOP. My certificate is here
2023: Trusted Reviewer by IOP (again). The other certificate is here
2023: Outstanding Reviewer for J. Phys. B. Certificate, List of other fellow outstanding reviewers
2024: Optica Publishing Group Recognition. Certificate. The URL of this one allows awarding equivalent recognitions to your friends, here’s one I made for my daughter. I really wonder how long it will take these links to rot.
2025:
- Optica Publishing Group Recognition. Certificate.
- Wiley’s recognition for review contributions to Annalen der Physik.

Stroboscopic High-Order Nonlinearity for Quantum Optomechanics

Thu, 29 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Detecting Nonclassical Correlations in Levitated Cavity Optomechanics

Fri, 20 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Optimal Non-Classical Correlations of Light with a Levitated Nano-Sphere

Fri, 02 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Pulsed Atom-Mechanical Quantum Non-Demolition Gate

Wed, 08 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Andrey's public calendar

Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:01:00 +0200

Below is a public calendar with my planned travels. Might be useful for scheduling.

Estimation of Squeezing in a Nonlinear Quadrature of a Mechanical Oscillator

Tue, 26 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Nonclassical States of Levitated Macroscopic Objects beyond the Ground State

Tue, 05 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Quantum Optomechanical Transducer with Ultrashort Pulses

Thu, 30 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Initial Commit

Fri, 18 Aug 2017 23:58:47 +0200

For already some time I wanted to create a business-card-type website to better promote my activities related to research.

Ideally, it should give an overview of our running projects, published papers and the talks given. Honestly, I have no idea how long will it take to fill it with the information, but I will try my best.

About Me

Fri, 18 Aug 2017 23:20:52 +0200

On the web:

Few words about my education and experience

Experience

2013–now: Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Optics, Palacký University, Olomouc (Czech Rep.)
2012–2013: Junior Researcher, Department of Physics, Lomonosov MSU (Russia)

Education

2009–2013: Kandidat (Ph. D. equivalent), Department of Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russia)
2003–2009: Diploma (M. Sc. equivalent), MSU

Pulsed Quantum Continuous-Variable Optoelectromechanical Transducer

Mon, 07 Aug 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Photon-Phonon-Photon Transfer in Optomechanics

Mon, 24 Apr 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Pulsed Quantum Interaction between Two Distant Mechanical Oscillators

Thu, 01 Dec 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Squeezer-Based Pulsed Optomechanical Interface

Wed, 09 Mar 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Transfer of Non-Gaussian Quantum States of Mechanical Oscillator to Light

Tue, 03 Nov 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Robust Entanglement with a Thermal Mechanical Oscillator

Mon, 15 Jun 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Squeezing of Optomechanical Modes in Detuned Fabry-Perot Interferometer

Thu, 01 Aug 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Sensitivity of Laser Gravitational-Wave Detectors with Stable Double-Pumped Optical Spring

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Stable Double-Resonance Optical Spring in Laser Gravitational-Wave Detectors

Tue, 06 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0000

Displacement-Noise-Free Gravitational-Wave Detection with Two Fabry-Perot Cavities

Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0000