
The SciencesMay 1, 2020
Quantum Steampunk: 19th-Century Science Meets Technology of Today
Just as fictional steampunk unites Victorian style with sci-fi tech, a new branch of physics is updating thermodynamics for modern quantum systems
Nicole Yunger Halpern is a theoretical physicist and an ITAMP Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University. She writes monthly stories for Quantum Frontiers, the blog of the California Institute of Technology's Institute for Quantum Information and Matter. Follow her on Twitter at @nicoleyh11

Quantum Steampunk: 19th-Century Science Meets Technology of Today
Just as fictional steampunk unites Victorian style with sci-fi tech, a new branch of physics is updating thermodynamics for modern quantum systems