Comments on: Mingling stat mech with quantum info in Maryland

By: Happy 200th birthday, Carnot’s theorem! | Quantum Frontiers

Happy 200th birthday, Carnot’s theorem! | Quantum Frontiers — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 17:32:34 +0000

[…] the engine operates at the Carnot efficiency? The engine mustn’t waste heat. One wastes heat by roiling up the gas unnecessarily—by expanding or compressing it too quickly. The gas must stay in equilibrium, a […]

By: We’re founding a quantum-thermodynamics hub! | Quantum Frontiers

We’re founding a quantum-thermodynamics hub! | Quantum Frontiers — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 00:01:18 +0000

[…] a critical mass of quantum thermodynamicists: Chris Jarzynski reigns as a king of the field of fluctuation relations, equalities that help us understand why time flows in only one direction. Sebastian Deffner, I […]

By: One equation to rule them all? | Quantum Frontiers

One equation to rule them all? | Quantum Frontiers — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 18:11:11 +0000

[…] to the broad introduction there, check out earlier Quantum Frontiers posts here, here, here, here, and […]

By: Seven reasons why I chose to do science in the government |

Seven reasons why I chose to do science in the government | — Mon, 26 Oct 2020 06:43:40 +0000

[…] affair with the University of Maryland. But I’ve found myself visiting every few years (sometimes blogging about the experience). Why? Much of the quantum community passes through Maryland. Seminars fill […]

By: Seven reasons why I chose to do science in the government | Quantum Frontiers

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By: Up we go! or From abstract theory to experimental proposal | Quantum Frontiers

Mon, 01 Jun 2020 00:22:17 +0000

[…] paper that I published last month with Michael Beverland of Microsoft Research and Amir Kalev of the Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science (now of the Information Sciences Institute at the University of Southern California). We […]

By: What’s the worst that could happen? | Quantum Frontiers

What’s the worst that could happen? | Quantum Frontiers — Mon, 25 Jun 2018 06:06:24 +0000

[…] Imagine that Carter found one million sets of these matryoshka dolls. Lifting a given set’s innermost coffin would require an amount of work that would vary from set of coffins to set of coffins. would satisfy fluctuation relations, equalities I’ve blogged about many times. […]

By: Gently yoking yin to yang | Quantum Frontiers

Gently yoking yin to yang | Quantum Frontiers — Mon, 27 Nov 2017 04:05:15 +0000

[…] activities light me up more than bouncing from quantum group to info-theory group to stat-mech group, hunting commonalities. I was honored to bounce from group to group at Berkeley this […]

By: It’s CHAOS! | Quantum Frontiers

It’s CHAOS! | Quantum Frontiers — Mon, 20 Feb 2017 04:25:40 +0000

[…] relations are equations derived in nonequilibrium statistical mechanics. They describe systems driven far from equilibrium, like a DNA strand whose ends you’ve yanked […]

By: What matters to me, and why? | Quantum Frontiers

What matters to me, and why? | Quantum Frontiers — Mon, 27 Jun 2016 03:50:46 +0000

[…] to me, as Quantum Frontiers regulars know. Why? Because I’ve written enough fluctuation-theorem articles to test even a statistical mechanic’s patience. More seriously, why do fluctuation theorems matter […]