NicoleYunger Halpern

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 quantumsteampunk.umiacs.io/book/

Quantum pistons pumping, entangled gears grinding: great session at Rochester with Nicole Yunger Halpern, Pedram Roushan, and Jiheng Duan! #QuantumOptics #quantum #physics

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

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…

With local applied physicist @UffiziGalleries

For all my friends who took AP English Literature. @UffiziGalleries

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

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. 👏

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.

Whimsically, the plots on my collaborator's slide resemble the marble strewn across Florence, where he was presenting. @StatPhys29

Michele Campisi @michele_campisi at StatPhys29: To prepare many qubits with high fidelity, use collective behaviors, such as spontaneous symmetry breaking.

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.

Giorgio Parisi opening StatPhys29: AI resembles the heat engine in that the technology arrived before the theory.

Ran across a colleague in Florence this morning. @UffiziGalleries

The International Year of Quantum is only half gone. Party on! quantumfrontiers.com/2025/06/22/a-q…

Group dinner/leaving party @TheBoardAndBrew. We’ve loved having Aleks Lasek and Jade LeSchack in the Quantum-Steampunk Laboratory, but we can’t begrudge them the new adventures they have lined up!

Jun Ye pays homage to his former postdoc advisor, Jeff Kimble @Caltech, at the Conference on Coherence and Quantum Science @UofR. We've lost some good quantum opticians recently...

Join us today for the free public lecture by @nicoleyh11 at @UofR (7-8 PM) #CQS12

Chris Monroe on trapped ions for quantum computing, at the Conference on Coherence and Quantum Science: “Don’t ask me how you trap them. There’s a lot of black magic.” @UofR @IonQ_Inc @DukeU