physics-samizdat | Marvin Syed
samizdat: From Russian самиздат (samizdát, "self-publishing") refers to "the clandestine or illegal copying and distribution of literature (originally in the Soviet Union); an 'underground press'; a text or texts produced by this" (Oxford English Dictionary, "samizdat (n.)," December 2025).
This is my not-so-underground (but still self-published) personal blog and webpage. I use this space as an aggregator for information about my latest work and research and to occasionally write about physics and related things. You can check out the about page for more information about me and my research.
Latest preprint*
"Soft vector spins with dimensional annealing for combinatorial optimization", M Syed, RZ Wang, NG Berloff, arXiv:2604.01003.
*Last updated 24 Sep 2026.
Selected publications
- "Efficient computation using spatial-photonic Ising machines with low-rank and circulant matrix constraints", RZ Wang, JS Cummins, M Syed, et al., Commun. Phys. 8, 86 (2025).
- "Dynamical quantum phase transition in a bosonic system with long-range interactions", M Syed, T Enss, N Defenu, Phys. Rev. B 103, 064306 (2021).
Links
- For an up-to-date list of all my publications visit my Google Scholar page.
- My Orcid.