NicoleYunger Halpern
@nicoleyh11
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Theoretical quantum physicist @NIST, @JointQuICS, @UMD_IPST, and @UMDPhysics. Author of Quantum Steampunk: The Physics of Yesterday's Tomorrow @JHUPress.
Joined February 2017
I’m publishing a book! Quantum Steampunk: The Physics of Yesterday’s Tomorrow is heading to bookstores, and it’s now available for preordering. @jhupress
https://t.co/TewGf2LVpI
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Feynman was an impressive thinker. Just, I'm saddened by how many people let the one-liner "Nobody understands quantum mechanics" limit their, and humanity's, horizons. @ConorFeehly
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Applying for a postdoc or faculty position this fall? This blog post relates my advice about how to write a research statement.
quantumfrontiers.com
Sunflowers are blooming, stores are trumpeting back-to-school sales, and professors are scrambling to chart out the courses they planned to develop in July. If you’re applying for an academic job t…
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The term "quantum steampunk" is appearing in the wild. 😄 @PhysicsWorld
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Otto engine design uses Bose gas as a working fluid and exchanges particles as well as heat with reservoirs
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"...leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay." ...but at least Quantum Steampunk has made it to a second printing. 🌞 @JHUPress
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"I can hear his French-Canadian accent in my memory, but not without hearing him smile at the ends of most sentences." A blog post for Ray Laflamme. @QuantumIQC @Perimeter
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A common saying goes, you should never meet your heroes, because they’ll disappoint you. But you shouldn’t trust every common saying; some heroes impress you more, the better you know them. Ray Laf…
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Loads of research groups across the world have been studying the Mpemba effect, according to which ice cream freezes more quickly if the mixture begins hot than if it begins cold. But how many groups have a student who *makes* ice cream? 🍦😋🍧 @JointQuICS @UMDPhysics
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FQxI's Nicole Yunger Halpern (@nicoleyh11), a quantum physicist at @NIST and @UMD_IPST @UMDPhysics has been honored with an Early Career Scientist Award, presented every three years by the C3 Commission on Statistical Physics of the International Union for Pure and Applied
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Claude Shannon “must have been an alien from another planet or a time traveler, because no human being could have achieved all that he did.” –At-least-approximate quote from David Wolpert @StatPhys29
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Great to see the winners of the @IUPAP_physics Boltzmann Medal and Early Career Scientists Award recognized at #StatPhys29. Congratulations Mehran Kardar, Yoshiki Kuramoto, @dbusiello1, Lorenzo Caprini, and @nicoleyh11. 👏
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Mehran Kardar: “Let’s be very statistical-physics-y and introduce an order parameter m.” Indeed, one can't get much more statistical-physics-y than that.
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Whimsically, the plots on my collaborator's slide resemble the marble strewn across Florence, where he was presenting. @StatPhys29
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Michele Campisi @michele_campisi at StatPhys29: To prepare many qubits with high fidelity, use collective behaviors, such as spontaneous symmetry breaking.
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StatPhys29 opened amid the splendor of the Palazzo Vecchio, the Florentine seat of government, where the Medici crest flanks the speaker. I have great expectations for the rest of the conference.
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Giorgio Parisi opening StatPhys29: AI resembles the heat engine in that the technology arrived before the theory.
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If you're attending StatPhys, you can catch Jae Dong's talk on Tues., 10:30–11:0, in session 15A, parallel 4, topic 3, in Modulo 2.1. https://t.co/KDAYXqqp75
@JointQuICS @UMD_IPST @UMDscience @UMDPhysics @UMDResearch @RQuantumSim
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If you've messaged me since spring and been waiting for a reply, the reason is this place. Jae Dong Noh wanted to present our latest results at StatPhys in Florence next week, so we've been slaving over this paper. It's out with ~a day to spare! https://t.co/Ka584jWwID
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