Nicole Yunger Halpern
National Institute of Standards and Technology & University of Maryland
RQS Senior Investigator
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Nicole Yunger Halpern is a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Maryland. She is also a Fellow of the Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science and an affiliate of the Joint Quantum Institute. Yunger Halpern re-envisions 19th-century thermodynamics for the 21st century, using the mathematical toolkit of quantum information theory. She received her doctorate in physics from Caltech in 2018.
Recent Publications
Complexity-constrained quantum thermodynamics
, , PRX Quantum, 6, (2025)Quantum Thermodynamics of Nonequilibrium Processes in Lattice Gauge Theories
, , arXiv, 133, (2025)Thermally driven quantum refrigerator autonomously resets superconducting qubit
, , Nature Physics, 21, 318-323, (2025)
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Yunger Halpern Research Group
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JQI
