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Nicole Yunger Halpern

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Beyond the Second Law

By Nicole Yunger Halpern
March 31, 2022
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Thanks to the power of fluctuation relations, physicists are taking the second law of thermodynamics to settings once thought impossible.

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Nicole Yunger Halpern is a theoretical physicist at the Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science at the University of Maryland and the author of the forthcoming book Quantum Steampunk: The Physics of Yesterday’s Tomorrow. Follow her @nicoleyh11 and on the blog Quantum Frontiers.

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