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
Integrability of Goldilocks quantum cellular automata
, , Quantum Science and Technology, Volume 11, Number 2, 11, (2026)Complexity-constrained quantum thermodynamics
, , PRX Quantum, 6, (2025)Quantum Thermodynamics of Nonequilibrium Processes in Lattice Gauge Theories
, , arXiv, 133, (2025)
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Yunger Halpern Research Group
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